Building a Killer Conference App with Appery.io

Mastering the art of building a conference app opens a realm of engagement and efficiency in event planning. A well-crafted app can fundamentally transform how attendees experience an event. Appery.io, known for its robust app development capabilities, offers a comprehensive platform for constructing impactful conference apps.

Well, this article draws insights from a detailed video that walks through leveraging Appery.io, presenting strategies and features to elevate your conference planning.

Getting Started with Appery.io

To embark on your journey with Appery.io, begin by creating an account—a gateway to a myriad of development tools. Navigate the intuitive user interface, which provides seamless access to various features and templates. Among these options, you’ll find the specialized Conference template, setting a solid foundation for your project.

Crafting the Perfect Conference Schedule

A dynamic conference schedule is the cornerstone of any successful event. Customize features like renaming the app, changing the template color themes, launch icons and screens, customizing app pages to match your event’s branding and facilitate easy attendee navigation. A well-organized schedule ensures participants can effortlessly engage with relevant sessions.

If interested, check out the instructions in the Customizing App section or watch watch our YouTube video to learn how to use our template:

Elevating the Speaker Experience

Distinguish your app by featuring detailed speaker profiles. These provide attendees with speakers’ backgrounds and related works, enriching their experience. Additionally, maintaining real-time updates ensures attendees have the most current information at their fingertips.

Engaging the Audience through the App

Interactive features within the app foster attendee engagement, transforming passive participation into active involvement. By integrating social media, you extend the event’s reach and facilitate broader interaction. A thoughtful user interface design further enhances this engagement, ensuring the app is both intuitive and visually appealing.

Customization Features at Your Fingertips

Tailor the app to meet specific audience preferences through features like language settings and dark mode. Customizing the app’s aesthetic not only enhances the user experience but also subtly reinforces brand identity.

Seamless Offline Functionality

In the digital age, providing offline functionality is a strategic advantage. Proper data caching allows users to access schedules and speaker details without internet connectivity, maintaining engagement and utility in various situations.

Tailoring Your App’s Branding

Strengthen your app’s impact by personalizing elements such as the name and icon. Aligning the app with your brand’s digital presence ensures consistency and recognition across different platforms.

Expanding Language Options

Broaden your reach by incorporating multiple languages. Appery.io facilitates this through tools like Angular and TypeScript for translations.

Comprehensive localization caters to diverse audiences, adding a layer of inclusivity to your event.

Simplifying Content Management

Efficient content management is essential for a streamlined user experience. Leverage the conference database to manage speaker details and agenda items effectively, ensuring all content is readily accessible and easily editable.

 

Final Preparations for Launch

Once your app is polished and ready, export it for publication. Whether you choose the Google Play Store, the App Store, or a web application, ensure you select platforms that best serve your audience. Consider Progressive Web App (PWA) options for extended functionality and reach.


Ultimately, crafting a conference app with Appery.io is about more than just technology. It’s about creating a holistic experience that caters to the needs of organizers, speakers, and attendees alike. For those seeking a deeper exploration, the video provides a comprehensive walkthrough, rich in insights and practical tips to enhance your app development journey.

New Milestone, New Release, New Features – Find Out More about Our July 2015 Release

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We just announced some great news for Appery. We’ve passed the 250,000-user mark, we’ve updated our tester app so users don’t need to have an Appery.io account, and we’ve rolled out a new release of  the platform that includes these key features (among others):

  • Simplified implementation of social login and LDAP sign-on for apps
  • Extended offline capability in apps to use the internal database or an external one
  • New Bootstrap and Ionic components
  • Outline page component view for enhanced developer productivity

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Webinar Recording: Building a Barcode Scanner App Integrated with Backend Services

In case you missed our webinar, watch this recording to learn how to use Appery.io to build a barcode scanner mobile app. (At the end of this post is some of the coding used in the webinar.)

Check out many other videos on the Appery.io YouTube channel.

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Appery.io’s April News

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  • Appery.io at the Mid-Market CIO Forum
  • New Appery.io & MetaCert Security API for Mobile Apps
  • Appery.io & Responsive Mobile Development
  • The M6 Mobility xChange Summit
  • How to Keep BYOT (Bring Your Own Tool) out of your Bimodal IT Strategy
  • SD Times Covers Appery.io’s Debut as the First Low-code Platform for Rapid Development of Omni-channel Applications
  • Upcoming Webinar

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Video: Using Native Device Features in Cross-Platform Apps

If you missed our webinar, watch this recording to learn how to use Cordova APIs in a mobile app. The webinar shows:

  • Building a hybrid app in Appery.io
  • Using Apache Cordova APIs:
    • Alert
    • Geolocation
    • Barcode scanner
    • Camera
    • FileTransfer –  use plugin for quick file upload to Appery.io database
  • Fast testing with Appery.io Tester app

Check out many other videos on the Appery.io YouTube channel.

How to Build Mobile Apps Fast with Appery.io and Instant API

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Instant API is a true API-as-a-Service which makes it easy and cost-effective to build an API. Instant API has simplified all of the key areas of an API’s lifecycle, covering API creation, hosting, management, discovery, monetization, and documentation.

For example, let’s say you have information and services or data and services you want to expose through an API that can be used internally for BYOD initiatives or externally by developers or your business partners. With the API deployed, you still don’t have a mobile app. That’s where the Appery.io platform comes in. Appery.io makes it very easy to build mobile apps with any API. Combine the Instant API exposed APIs with the Appery.io cloud-based development platform, and you get a fast way to build a complete solution and deploy the mobile app.

In this post, we are going to show you an example of how to do that, but first here’s the info for an upcoming webinar in which Appery.io and Instant API will demo this process in action. Read the rest of this entry »

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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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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Video: Building Enterprise Mobile Apps Fast with the Orchestrate Database and Appery.io Development Platform

Video: Appery.io Complete Feature Overview

This video shows all the major and minor Appery.io features. The video covers:

  • App Builder
  • Database
  • Push
  • Server Code
  • Creating mobile app UI
  • Setting up a REST service
  • Binding REST service to a page
  • Packaging for iOS, Android, or Windows Phone
  • Publishing as HTML5
  • Creating plugins
  • and much more