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This Cyber Monday 🙂 release from Appery.io brings several new features that will be available for all Ionic 5 apps. These functional improvements are designed to make your development experience even better and the results of your work almost perfect.

What is really great about this release: all the features below are not something you will need to learn to use but are very intuitive and simple to apply.

So, let’s go:

1. The first and most impressive is that from now on our users have the ability to quickly create Appery.io components from any HTML code copied from 3rd party resources. No need to explain that creating such a page takes some development time:

The great news is that getting this page with Appery.io is now a matter of a couple of minutes. Actually, all you need to do is use the Parse HTML property and enjoy the result:

2. The second improvement will be the holy grail for those users who have been struggling to figure out how to sort out the certificates for publishing their apps to the Apple Store. Now, to get your app’s release version and publish it, you only need to take several simple steps: select the Release and Publish build type, provide your Apple Id, and add the generated app-specific password. To learn more, go to this page:

3. We also added the ability to modify properties for an impressive list of Appery.io UI components in a popup which allows convenient editing of long text strings:

4. Another helpful improvement: we now offer an integrated solution from Ionic that allows specifying responsive display attributes​ depending on what device your app is supposed to run. It has been made possible with the Class property of the needed component and is simple to apply:

5. Next. Two popular Appery.io components, HTML and Text, now have an increased arsenal of Containers:

6. Also, Height and Width styles groups have been added for the Button and Input components which makes styling them more versatile:

7. Lastly, the Content, HTML, and Grid Cell components now allow uploading and managing background images under their PROPERTIES > Styles tab:

All of these new features are already available so please feel free to try them out.

Thank you for using Appery.io and Happy Developing!

Your Appery.io Team

The spring of 2022 is very special for all of us and we, at Appery.io, would like to make this spring release (rolled out last weekend) enjoyable for all of you as well.

With this mission in heart, we are excited to offer you some very special improvements to our Visual App Builder that we believe will make things significantly easier and more elegant developing your mobile apps with Appery.io:

• the first and the most asked feature will be definitely appreciated by those who prefer working with the OUTLINE view: from now on, you will be able to use the old yet simple and reliable “Drag & Drop” to arrange the components on the screen of your mobile app:

What is more: you will be even warned if trying to do something that cannot be implemented for this particular component:

• also, the Appery.io UI Components family now has one more member, Divider, that can be used to to separate other screen items:

• yet another improvement was introduced for more UI components like Card, Checkbox, Datetime, etc.: they can now also be easily styled from under the PROPERTIES > Styles tab. (You might have already had a chance to evaluate the similar functionality for some UI components introduced with our Christmas release).
• two more events were added to the Form component: Form value change and Form status change:

• the next minor but hopefully useful feature is added to the Input component to make login procedure for your app users simpler and less stressfull. Just set the input Type property to Password and select the option to show the password being typed in (set it to True):

• and the last but not least: you can now make good use of quite a few predefined Push Notification services: when in the visual App Builder, simply click the CREATE NEW button and selct the needed Appery.io backend push service(s) to import it (them) from under the Backend Services section:

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The holiday season has already started, and we’re all busy with preparing gifts for people we love.

We, at Appery.io, have always worked hard to deliver the best service value to our users, and we are here to say that we have a Christmas gift to give to you!

Last Sunday, we delivered a new release that included these great new features to help you save time on app development:

• Try adding our ready-to-go screen layouts (CREATE NEW > Page) that will help you instantly get the UI you want:

• The no-code approach now works for mapping as well. For your convenience, we created an easy-to-use transformation editor where the user can add transformation, choose a type, and then edit it:

• We’ve also added Is invalid and Is valid properties to the Form component with the option to use them in mappings
• The Appery.io Team also implemented new property types for some UI components (Button, Html, Input, Text, etc.), like Color-picker, with grouping them under the separate PROPERTIES > Styles tab so that you can enjoy the no-code CSS approach when you’re styling your mobile app UI:

• Previously, only CanActivate Guard could be used to determine if a particular action can be taken against a route. From now on, all angular guards are implemented so that working with routing will be easier and more powerful:

• As always, we’ve fixed some minor bugs to keep your Appery.io experience running smoothly.

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Hi everyone!

We are thrilled to announce that last weekend, another Appery.io release successfully went live!

Let’s take a minute and look at the introduced features and check out how useful they are.

These include:

• Updated Disabled, Visible and Validation properties for the Ionic 5 UI components set;
• Improvements to working with variables;
• SendGrid and Mailgun Server Code plugins updates. We have also provided you with sample apps instructions for both SendGrid and Mailgun as well as with other relating documents so that you could start testing them yourself;
• Encoding to base64 is widely used for Basic authentication and it is now added to the Appery.io system libraries along with decoding, just in case. Check them out here for more details;
• Downloading file(s) from Media Manager;
• An extension on the set of icons that can be applied for iOS Apps binary:

• A modification to the Reorder component, so it is now easy to move and interact with components immediately after adding them:

That’s all for now, but stay tuned! We have more ideas on how to fulfill all of your Appery.io wish lists!

A new release from the Appery.io team arrived last Sunday, and we’ve introduced quite a few useful features to add to the functionality and versatility of working with our Visual App Builder.

Let’s check out the changes you need to know about!

From now on:

• Our new users will be welcomed with our branded easy-to-start wizard to assist them with creating their first-ever Appery.io mobile application:

• Customers who are confident with configuring config.xml in the app source files will be able to do so right from under the App settings tab;
• The option of validating that the Hot Code Push plug-in will be enabled when running the autoupdate task that will ensure that your app will be auto-updated as expected;
• Working with our sample apps has become as easy as it could possibly be; there’s no need to download the app backup and further install it – just click the needed link and the app is ready to start!
• The ability to work with custom back end has been added through our AppClient library;
• New themes now come with default colors:

• The possibility to create Models from json and/or service response as well as several new actions and plug-ins have been added to make development even more versatile

As a bonus, we have fixed several bugs and made some cosmetic improvements so that you can enjoy your development experience with Appery.io even more!