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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

Last Sunday, the Appery.io Team came out with a new, midsummer, release packed with the following useful features:

• The JQM lib version updated to 5.4 that includes the latest version of jquery (3.6.0), so that you can now make sure your JQM projects are published to app stores without any security warnings.
• All you need to do is simply update your app lib version by selecting it under App settings > Resources > Libraries version:

Please note that the .size() method has been removed in jQuery 3.0. So, if your JQM project uses this method, you will need to replace it with the .length property to refer to the number of elements in the jQuery object.

• A new, simplified look for the Templates tab. Now, creating new app from our ready-to-go-with and fully functioning Appery.io app templates is even simpler:

• The improved Internationalization feature:

• A new option for customizing the showed modal, On dismiss, that allows executing any code on modal dismiss. You are also free to select the needed snippet from the snippets drop-down:

• Another new option that allows setting the default values for app storages:

Also, this release traditionally introduces some extra updates and minor bugfixes that will hopefully make your development routine even more user-friendlier.

Well, this is it for now but please stay tuned – we have more exciting features in store!

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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