Appery.io Tops List for Building Mobile Apps

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Mashable recently compiled a list of the best mobile app builders, and Appery.io topped the list of 10 contenders. While we’re quite pleased to be considered #1 as just an app builder, we like to remind people that we are a full mobile app platform with a great suite of seamlessly integrable back-end services. So, with Appery.io, you get the best building tool—and much more.

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Complete the New Developer Economics Survey for a Chance at Great Devices (and great data)

We’re partnering with VisionMobile for their new Developer Economics survey to help them extend their reach and make sure more developers have a chance to make their voice heard. The survey reaches across thousands of app developers and provides the data for VisionMobile’s well-known reports on the state of the developer nation.

The new Developer Economics survey examines some of the hottest issues of mobile development, such as top mobile platforms, most widely used revenue models, and web vs. native development.

The report will be available for free to the entire mobile community January.

If you’re an app developer, take the 10-minute survey for a chance at some  great prizes.  Prizes include an iPhone, a Galaxy S4, two Nokia Lumia 925 handsets, a $500 USD in-app advertising coupon, and some cool gadgets.

Take the survey now!

Appery.io Adds Salesforce Integration and Much More – Check Out the Details

The latest Appery.io update packs some really awesome updates and features. Check them out here.

Fast

Everything now runs much faster. You will see major speed improvements when you open pages, services or any other editors in the app builder. It’s simply much faster. And, we are not done. We have plans to make the platform a lot more faster. Read the rest of this entry »

Maintenance Window on Sunday November 3rd at 1 AM Pacific

Please note that we will be upgrading Appery.io with new features on Sunday November 3rd, starting at 1 AM PDT (8 AM UTC).  The following services will be temporarily unavailable:

  • The development environment will be unavailable for about 4 hours (until about 3 AM PST or 12 PM UTC).  Note that the clock in the USA will change from PDT to PST during this time.
  • The Push Notifications service will be unavailable for about 30 minutes (until about 1:30 AM PDT or 8:30 AM UTC)

Neither the Cloud Database nor the Server Code services will be affected.

Please plan accordingly.  If you have questions, please contact us at support@appery.io

Win a $1,000,000 Hackathon Prize (I like spelling out the zeroes.)

Largest Single Hackathon Prize Ever

Our partner, Salesforce.com, certainly knows how to get your attention. They certainly got mine! This is a really great opportunity for mobile app developers. (The runner-up prizes aren’t too shabby either.)

What is this? Salesforce.com hosts a big annual uber-conference called Dreamforce. This year’s runs November 13-17 in San Francisco. As part of the conference, there’s a Developer Zone that focuses more on the technical side. If you have a bunch of developers together, you’re going to have a hackathon. The difference this time is that the prize is so amazing. Read the rest of this entry »

Looking Back at MobileCON 2013

Fima Katz, Francisco Kattan, and Max Katz were all at MobileCON this year to promote Appery.io. Appery.io was a finalist for the Application Development & Platforms MobITS award, Francisco Kattan presented on “Is Your IT Department a Bottleneck for Mobile Innovation?”, Max Katz demoed Appery.io, and we made two announcements. Read the rest of this entry »

Appery.io Gets Even Better

We recently updated Appery.io in a number of ways, adding up to a big step forward for the platform. At the same time, RESTXpress, an important part of the overall mobile solution provided by Appery.io, has been enhanced. We’ve discussed most of the improvements in Appery.io in a previous blog post, so I’ll just provide a summary of these before moving on to a discussion of the changes in RESTXpress.
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Mobile is Causing a Shift in the Enterprise

CIO Magazine recently wrote a thought-provoking article about the power shift in the enterprise between IT and the Lines of Business (LOB) when it comes to mobile and I’d like to provide our perspective. The editor used the news of our partnership with Salesforce.com (see page 2 of article) to show evidence that mobile development, traditionally an IT function, is moving to the LOBs.  As you may have heard, Salesforce.com launched the “Mobile Pack for Appery.io” and positioned it as a way to reach out to a much broader base of developers, including business users, to innovate on the on the Salesforce Platform.  We’re quite excited about this partnership and believe there is a very large opportunity to enable developers in the LOBs to innovate. Read the rest of this entry »

Webinar on Wednesday: What’s New in the Latest Appery.io

We are looking forward to our next webinar with Max Katz, Head of Product Management and Developer Relations for Appery.io. This time, he will be explaining how you can get the most out of Appery.io using its newest features, like advanced collaboration, Heroku integration (for publishing apps), and new UI components. You can see all of these new features demonstrated in this hands-on webinar. And, if there’s time, we might be able to squeeze in a little bit of the latest on RESTXpress, our secure web integration product … maybe.

What’s New in Appery.io
Wednesday, October 2nd, 10am Pacific time

Register now for the webinar.