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Today, many companies looking to enter the world of enterprise mobile app development seemingly face a difficult development strategy choice: DIY tools vs. traditional enterprise mobile app development platforms (MEAPs). Choosing the right strategy for your enterprise can be a daunting task, especially when complicated by the influx of many business users within enterprises that want to participate in mobile development. In that case,  the lowered skills barrier would make DIY tools an attractive choice, but the results of such tools are not typically enterprise grade, due to their lack of flexibility.

With that in mind, let’s take a look at the two options. It’s important to remember that both options have pros and cons, and either choice requires compromise. The options become largely a choice between flexibility and efficiency.

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Virtually any mobile app needs to store data. The Appery.io platform offers an integrated cloud-based database for storing any app data. Every database that you create comes with a number of collections predefined. The collections are:

• Users – for user management.
• Files – for storing binary data such as images and other files.
• Devices – for sending targeted push messages.
• Customer collection – any number of custom collections that you need in your app.

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Most popular modern apps require an internet connection to a server to operate fully. Sometimes, though, devices are going  to be disconnected, so an app needs to be able to “catch up” with the server when it’s reconnected. Incorporating this synchronization into your app is important for attracting more users. With the help of Appery.io API Express and its offline mode, you can do exactly that! As part of this feature, there are a variety of different methods available to handle all the details like switching between online and offline modes, triggering the synchronization, and resetting data that fails to synchronize.

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Appery.io is now 250k Developers Strong!

As you may have heard, Appery.io has hit another milestone! We’re thrilled that our platform now has over a quarter of a million developers.

Check out these two articles to learn more about this important milestone (and more!):

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When you create a new Ionic/AngularJS app in Appery.io, every app has two pages out-of-the-box. index is the main template page and Screen1 is a page that uses the template. Any other pages that you create will use the index template page. Most pages in your app will have a header. If you open Screen1 or any other page, you will see that it doesn’t have a header area. That’s how it supposed to be since the index template has the common header. You can set a static page title in the index page but then you will have the same page header on all other pages. Most likely you want to the page header to change on different pages. We are going to show you how to do that in an AngularJS app.

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Slowness is the ultimate user experience killer for apps. A good way to make your apps faster is to boost screen loading speed. “Minification” helps this by removing all unnecessary characters from screen code without changing the functionality. You can easily add minification to your AngularJS apps in Appery.io with the Grunt JS Task Runner. Then, you can easily customize the minification process through configuration or by adding third-party modules.

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The Current State of the Mobile Landscape

If someone stepped forward a decade or two ago and claimed that, in the near future, we would all have pocket-sized touchscreen devices that acted as gateways to multiple technological feats such as browsing the internet at high speeds, playing graphics intensive games, hailing cabs, booking flights, scheduling restaurant reservations, and purchasing products, you probably would have thought it nothing more than a creative mind’s wishful thinking. And who would have blamed you? At a time when these devices existed only in the realm of science fiction, no one would have believed, much less predicted, that one day, these incredibly high tech, hand-held gadgets would have such a huge impact on our day to day lives.

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Appery’s Max Katz and Charles Cowens will be hosting a twitter chat for discussion about the Appery.io mobile app platform. We’ll be there to answer your questions, and we’ll have some questions for you, too.

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With the Appery.io Mobile Tester App, (available for iOS or Android) anyone can test and run your mobile app as if it had been installed as a binary for their platform. The person you want to share with doesn’t even need an Appery.io account! Just ask the person you are going to share the app with to install the Appery.io Tester app (iOS or Android). Then, generate a code on the app page in Appery.io and send it to this person. When this code is entered into the tester app, your app gets loaded and launched on the device.

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User login/registration is one of the most common features in a mobile app. Permitting login with existing credentials that users have from social networks can significantly simplify the authentication process and improve the user experience.

User Login Registration Examples for all project types (jQuery Mobile, Ionic, and Bootstrap) has just been updated with social authentication functionality. You can use those examples to quickly set up your app with the social login feature or see how it’s built to implement your own.

To create an app from an example, click Create new app > From example and choose the example you want from the list of available examples.

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