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Dear Appery.io users,

We are pleased to let you know that a new plug-in from Appery.io, Credit Card Component, has just been released and is already available for use.

This plug-in makes creating UI for inputting credit card information really easy and allows adding credit cards to your app in no time at all.

You can find more details on our YouTube channel:

You can easily update your PWA application by installing the “PWA Create and Update” plug-in. Once published, your app will automatically be updated on users’ devices with new UI components. For more details about the process and benefits of updating PWA applications, check out the latest video tutorial on our YouTube channel.

Today we had a small but very important release. We added the auto-update feature for our most progressive framework – Ionic 4. Also, we fixed a few important and annoying bugs.

docs.appery.io/docs/ionic-4-overview

From now on, you can quickly add the built-in Stripe plug-in to your Appery.io web or PWA application. The plug-in integrates the Stripe payment method to your application and enables users to make purchases. This plug-in works through Appery.io API Express, which ensures the security of your Stripe API key.

In our latest tutorial, we explain how to resize images in your Appery.io app. It’s really simple – find the Resize Image plug-in in the catalog, configure it, and start modifying images’ widths, heights, and sizes according to your needs.

In October 2020, the Appery.io platform was selected as the primary technology stack for the Reimagining Black Futures virtual hackathon organized by Black Girls CODE(BGC) and General Motors (GM).

The hackathon’s theme revolved around Afrofuturism — a concept that merges African culture and history with elements of science fiction. Several high-profile guests attended the event, including renowned historian Tyree Boyd-Pates and New York Times Magazine culture writers Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew.

Over the course of three days, #futuretechbosses from the Bay Area, Detroit, and New York City developed social justice-focused application concepts and software platforms. 

Prior to the hackathon, Alexander Ancipov from the Appery.io team held a series of workshops to teach the participants how to use the app builder. During the event, Alexander answered the girls’ questions via email, Slack, and the hackathon forum and helped them solve technical challenges.

When the pitch day arrived, the students presented their ideas to a panel of judges from several IT companies. The winning project was Rooted — a mobile application that connects Black professionals with HR specialists from technology companies in Silicon Valley. Apps like Rooted could potentially help Black youth fill the 1.4 million computing jobs created in the United States in 2020.

Appery.io is thrilled to have been part of the hackathon and is looking forward to collaborating with BGC in the future. We strongly encourage our colleagues from the IT industry to take a leadership role in gender and racial equity.

From now on, you can read CSV files and display their content on both web and mobile applications created in Appery.io. Watch our new tutorial to learn more about the CSV Reader plug-in that does all the work for you.

If you need a secure application with an HTTPS-only protocol, then you’re in the right spot. Check out our new video and learn how to redirect your application from an HTTP to HTTPS protocol by installing the HttpToHttps plug-in from the Appery.io development team.

If you’ve ever wondered how to add a validation functionality to your Appery.io app, you’re in the right place. In our new video tutorial, we demonstrate how to install and configure a new validation plug-in to your app in 10 minutes!