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Dave Carroll (Director of Developer Evangelism, Salesforce.com) and Max Katz (Head of Appery.io Developer Relations) explain how the Appery.io Mobile Pack enables you to rapidly create mobile apps integrated with the Salesforce Platform and show how you can build your own apps like this.

What:
Rapid Mobile App Development Using the Appery.io Mobile Pack and Salesforce.com

When:
Tuesday, September 10, 11:00AM Pacific Time

Register
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6003395412672898816

In order to perform required database changes, we will be taking the Appery.io service down this Sunday for up to 8 hours. This update will lay the foundation for improved performance as we continue to grow the service.

Down time begins:

September 1st, Sunday
1:30 am US Pacific Time

System up by:

September 1st, Sunday
9:30 am US Pacific Time

We apologize for the inconvenience. If you have questions, please e-mail us at support@appery.io.

Update: we have completed the upgrade. Stay tuned for a blog post on new features. 

We’re excited to be releasing some key enhancements to Appery.io tomorrow and want you to be aware of the required down time.  The new features include:

• New collaboration features
• Automatic publishing to Heroku
• Improved performance
• PhoneGap update
• One project type – to simplify development
• Simplified and unified platform UI updates

Please stay tuned for a new post with more detail on these.

Please Note:

Because of a required emergency database upgrade, this update will require a longer than usual downtime.   We anticipate that the system will be unavailable for 3 to 4 hours starting at 01:30 Pacific Time, August 22, 2013.  We apologize in advance for this unplanned outage.

If you have any questions, as usual, please contact us at support@appery.io

Coming on the heels of a very successful DevLab by AT&T in Seattle, we will be heading to Palo Alto on August 15th for a repeat performance. Are you looking to integrate speech into your apps? Would SMS, In App Messaging From Mobile Number (IMMN), or MMS give you a competitive advantage? Then DevLab is the event for you!

In addition to learning about these APIs, we will use Appery.io cloud-based rapid development platform to build an HTML5/jQuery Mobile/PhoneGap mobile app connected to AT&T APIs.

You will work through highly customized lab exercises, see a detailed breakdown of end-to-end app examples, and then build an application incorporating the AT&T APIs and using the Appery.io app builder. These lessons will help you understand the power of the APIs and tools, and greatly simplify the addition of these enhancements to your own apps.

We bring our best subject matter experts to DevLab and limit the number of attendees to ensure you have a highly interactive and personalized full day of training. Whether you are seriously considering adding these technologies to your apps or are well on your way to doing so, DevLab is the place you want to be.

So, if you are in the Bay Area on August 15th and are interested in attending DevLab, please let us know by emailing us at developer.program@att.com. This event has limited availability, so contact us about it today!

We just made it incredibly easy and fast to build enterprise mobile apps connected to Salesforce API with the Salesforce Mobile Pack for Appery.io. Appery.io has two plug-ins that make it super easy to connect to Salesforce:

• Salesforce OAuth API – this plug-is includes everything you need to connect to the Salesforce API via OAuth 2. Examples include Salesforce API, SOQL, and Chatter API
• Salesforce Contacts API Sample App – this plug-in includes the OAuth 2 implementation plus a Contacts sample app. The mobile web app allows you to view, edit and create new contacts on Salesforce using the REST API.

A step by step tutorial shows how to import and use the plug-ins.

Adding Salesforce plug-in

The Salesforce Contacts API Sample App has a complete app that allows to view and edit contacts in your Salesforce account. Use this app to learn how to use Salesforce API or as a starting for your app.

The Salesforce OAuth API has everything you need to get started. It includes a number of examples to get you started: using Salesforce API, using SOQL, and use Chatter API.

The Appery.io drag and drop visual app builder makes it incredibly easy to build or modify the app UI. You simply drag and drop components into the phone area. For example, editing the edit contact page from Contacts app:

Visual drag and drop editor

You are not limited to what the plug-in provides. You can build any app UI using the visual editor and connect to any Salesforce APIs. Here is an example defining a service that connects to Salesforce:

Salesforce API

Our guide shows in detail how to setup any Salesforce API service.

By combining the power of Salesforce and Appery.io dev. tools – we just made it super easy to build enterprise mobile apps entirely in the cloud. Visit https://appery.io/saleforce for a special promo code for Salesforce developers.

Originally posted on Maxa blog. 

As a result of our conversations with our customers, we can tell that the biggest issues in enterprise mobility are:

• Time to market
• Backend integration
• Security of mobile applications

Read the rest of this entry »

We just released a number of really awesome features. Check them out!

Server Code

The new Server Code is being added to Appery.io integrated backend services that already includes a cloud Database and Push Notifications. The Server Code allows to write any custom app business logic using JavaScript without the need to build and maintain server infrastructure. The custom code is instantly exposed via REST API and can be quickly invoked from the app.

Source Code Editing

Ever since we launched Appery.io our users have been asking if the generated app source can be edited without leaving the platform. Now the answer is yes. Any app files can be edited in the cloud without leaving the platform. Simple switch to the Source tab to start using this new features. We are planning to add more features to source editing. For now, once you start editing the source files, the changes will not be reflected in the visual view yet.

Visual editor:

Source code editor for the same page:

App Versioning

Did you ever want to save a particular app version or roll back to a previous working version?? Now you can. We have introduced a new version feature. At any point you can quickly create an app version and continue development. At any point you can quickly roll back to any previous version of your app.

Salesforce API Plug-ins

We made it very simple to build mobile apps with Salesforce API with two new plug-ins:

• Salesforce Contacts API Sample App
• Salesforce oAuth API

Both plug-ins take care of connecting to Salesforce via oAuth2 so you can start using the API immediately. . The Contacts API Sample plug-in includes a ready-to-run app that allows viewing, and editing Salesforce contacts. Use the plug-ins to learn how to use Salesforce API or a starting point for your mobile app. View detailed documentation on how to import  and use the plug-ins.

Many of you know about our monthly webinars that provide a broad overview of Appery.io (next one: July 1oth). On July 2nd, we’ll be doing a webinar with a different focus. Because we’ll be rolling out new features next week, we’ve decided to offer a webinar highlighting just these new features. Save the date or go ahead and register now:

If you are building a mobile web app in Appery.io, you can instantly host the app (give it a URL). Here is how. When you create an app, the default type is Mobile App (hybrid app with Apache Cordova). To host the app, first switch its type to Mobile Web by clicking on Hosting tab:

Click Change project type to mobile web button. You will now be able to use an Appery.io domain (app_name.app.appery.io) or a custom domain that you already registered.

Click Publish and your app will be published on the URL specified in 2-4 minutes. It’s that simple.