New Videos: New UI Themes, Page Templates, Using The Customer Console, and Farmers Market Search App

Get New UI Themes For Your App

We just published a bunch of new UI themes. We took all our existing themes and updated them to look modern and flat.

Example of one of the new themes

Example of one of the new themes

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Fast Dynamic Image Processing in Your Appery.io Mobile App with Sirv

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Images are an integral part of any mobile app UI. A frequent requirement is to process these images (for example, making the image smaller for a particular device screen size). Such processing could be done on the client, but requires additional code and likely will effect app performance. A better solution is usually to process the images on the server where it is much faster and also gives you more options and flexibility. Sirv is a cloud service that does just that. Sirv and Appery.io have joined forces to show you how easy it is to use advanced image processing when building your app in Appery.io. Read the rest of this entry »

Students Learn Important Technology Skills and How to Build Mobile Apps

“I must say thank you to Appery.io,” said Charles Fergins, a High School educator and graduate student in Southern California. “Teaching application development has been tough, but also very rewarding, and is something that could not have been done without the team at Appery.io.”

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Building a MusicShop App Using Model and Storage

Recently, the Appery.io App Builder was updated with several significant features. One of the most important and fundamental changes was the introduction of Model and Storage notions. To show the best practices of using these features, we created a MusicShop app and step-by-step tutorial which describes in detail how to build such an app from scratch. This tutorial also has a MusicShop app backup attached to allow you to pay more attention to Model and Storage usage (you shouldn’t create the app step-by-step in this case, just create it from the backup).

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Turning Off Support for SSLv3 – POODLE Security Vulnerability

As you probably know, a new attack called POODLE security vulnerability breaks SSLv3 secure browsing. To protect your information from being intercepted, spied upon or modified by attackers in between you and the service provider, we have stopped using the unsecured SSLv3 protocol and now only use the more secured TLS protocol.

Video: New Features in Appery.io – Model and Storage

This video shows:

  • Understanding the new Model and Storage feature
  • We create a model for Wine object
  • We define storage (local storage) to store the wine list
  • Build a mobile app that shows a list of wines loaded from a database. Clicking on a wine takes you to that wine details
  • We also show a finished Todo-like app that runs entirely on the client

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Video: Building a Mobile App With Database in 5 Minutes

This 5-minute video shows how to create a simple, yet real mobile app that talks to an API backend.

Exposing Relational Database, Web Service via REST API Using RESTXpress [Video]

This webinar shows how to expose legacy enterprise systems via REST APIs using RESTXpress. The video covers:

  • How to expose a relational database via REST API
  • How to expose a web service via REST API
  • How to build a mobile app in Appery.io with the exposed REST APIs

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Big Upgrade: Brand New App Builder UI, New Model and Storage Feature, Improved Editors for REST Service and Mapping

The Appery.io platform was upgraded with a number of new features. This is a quick overview of what’s new.

First, we got a new splash screen…!

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