Appery.io June News
- Appery Acquires Verivo
- Appery.io Receives Red Herring Award
- New SendGrid API Plug-in
- Appery.io Featured in CodeCondo’s “21 Useful Workflow Tools for AngularJS Developers”
- Upcoming NYC Apps Meetup in NYC
- Recent Webinars
Tip: Using Native Device Features in AngularJS Apps
The benefits are obvious for using native device features like geolocation and the camera. When you build your AngularJS (Ionic or Bootstrap) app with Appery.io, you can easily take advantage of these features. You import the services to access these features via plug-ins. Just go to CREATE NEW > From Plug-in and select the service you want to use. There are tutorials available for the plug-ins, so check them out if you’re feeling lost.
Quickly Add Custom Business Logic to Your App with Server Code
Appey.io Server Code is a powerful tool that allows you to write custom server-side business logic for your app. These are the benefits you get when you use Server Code:
- Write and implement any business logic for an app. For example, you can write a script that checks inventory (Database), then sends a push notification, and then sends an e-mail using the SendGrid API
- Quickly test the script during development
- JavaScript is the language used to write the script
- Server Code is based on the popular V8 JavaScript engine. This means you can use any APIs supported by V8
- A Server Code script is instantly exposed via a REST API. This means you can quickly build a custom API
3 Tips for Increasing Mobile Conversions
What’s a mobile conversion?
Simply put, a mobile conversion is an instance of a user taking a desired action within your mobile app. This could be completing a sale for example, or even just filling out and submitting a form. They differ from download conversions in that they are accomplished in-app, after the initial download of the app has already occurred.
Not everyone needs to worry about mobile conversions in their applications, but if you’re building an app where conversions are key, few things are more important than increasing that rate.
Mobile traffic now accounts for over 16% of all web traffic, and in general, businesses have done well in acquiring users for their apps: by 2016, there will be 2 billion smartphones in use worldwide, with an average of 27 apps per phone.
Tip: Save Snapshots of Your App Easily
Saving a version of your app to revert back to, if necessary, before you make significant changes is a good (anxiety-reducing) practice. Appery.io provides a convenient way to make snapshots of your app. Just use the Versions feature. You only need to type in an informative note like “Changing the authentication mechanism” and then click “New Version”. Using this, you can painlessly revert any changes you made.
Learn How to Create a Server Code Script to Invoke a REST API in 5 Minutes
In this 5-minute video you will learn how to invoke a REST API from the server (instead of directly from the client. There are a number of benefits to invoke an API from the server:
- JavaScript is the language used to write the script (and you already know JavaScript!)
- Additional business logic can be added around the API. For example, in addition to sending an SMS, you can also send an email (SendGrid API)
- The API keys and tokens are secure
- Script is exposed via REST API (to be invoked from the app)
- Script has API to access Appery.io Database, Push
- A script can be saved as a library and used in other scripts
- Script changes can be made without updating the client (app)
- It’s tool to write code 🙂
Check out all the other Build in 5 Minutes videos.
How to Add Barcode Scanner with Database Search to Your App
We know that developers love examples. One of the most requested example is how to build an app with barcode scanner and search the database. We created an app example that does exactly that.
Appery.io plugins
How to Query a Database by Date
Selecting a date via a Datepicker component and querying a database by date is one of the most common tasks a mobile app will do. With Appery.io’s out-of-the-box cloud database and auto-generated APIs, querying the database is fast and simple.
User Registration Example App for Bootstrap and Ionic with AngularJS
User login/registration is one of the most common features in a mobile app. With Appery.io Database’s built-in user management feature, adding a login and registration capability to an app is very fast and simple. We know that developers love examples and so we created a ready-to-run app available in the App Builder that shows how to do that. In fact, we created two examples: one example uses Bootstrap and another example uses Ionic, both based on AngularJS.
Tip: Take Advantage of Bootstrap Themes inside Appery.io
There is a rich assortment of themes available for the Bootstrap UI framework. By adding one or more of them, you can quickly change your Bootstrap-based app’s appearance and add cool animation effects! Luckily, adding these themes to your Bootstrap projects in Appery.io is really easy.