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Learn how to quickly debug mobile and web applications with Appery.io! In our new hands-on YouTube tutorial, we show you real-world methods to troubleshoot apps — using browser developer tools, console logging, remote debugging on real devices, and even debugging custom Cordova plugins.

Whether you’re facing invisible UI errors, unexpected variable behavior, or plugin crashes, this video walks you through solving them step-by-step. You’ll also discover how Appery.io’s “Device View,” “Live Debug” build, and real-time variable inspection make debugging faster and easier.

🚀 What you’ll learn in this video:

• How to inspect errors using developer consoles

• Debugging inside mobile iframe previews

• Setting breakpoints and using the debugger

• Remote debugging with Appery Tester

• Handling custom Cordova plugins with Live Debug

• Smart console logging for production apps

Appery.io gives you powerful low-code tools for building and debugging professional apps faster. If you want fewer bugs and faster launches, you need these debugging strategies!

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Debugging your JavaScript apps that are made with Appery.io can be performed in a several ways, but today we would like to share with you another method. This approach has been available before, but for a some reason not many people know about it. The flow is looks really simple:

1. Connect the device to a PC with a cable.
2. Export the Appery.io app as an Android binary (.apk).
3. Scan the QR code to install the app.
4. Launch Chrome and open the app on the device.
5. That’s all! Now you have a really quick debugging tool to test your app with.

You should do a few steps to makes it work, but luckily they are not complicated and you can be ready-to-go in a few minutes.  A detailed guide about this feature and how to set it up you can found here.

This short video shows how to run and test your hybrid app without going through the app store.

In this video you will learn:

• How to extend your app with plugins
• How to add a plugin that uploads a photo to a database
• How to run and test the app using the Appery.io Tester app for iOS or Android
• How to do remote debugging with Weinre
• How to share your app with anyone without the app store — even if they don’t have an Appery.io account

If you like this, start building apps fast with Appery.io, it’s free.

When you are building a mobile app in Appery.io, you are starting with HTML/JavaScript app which then can be packaged as a Cordova (PhoneGap) app, published and installed on a device. You can also use any Cordova APIs in your app and add any 3rd party Cordova plugins.

Everyone knows that testing is one of the most important steps when building a mobile app and also the part that usually takes the most time. Luckily there is a very fast way you can test your app, and I’ll show you how to do it.

When you are working on an app inside the Appery.io App Builder, you are seconds away from testing your app. Simply click the “Test” button in the toolbar:

App Builder for Ionic

When you click the “Test” button, a new browser tab will open where the app will be loaded. It looks like this:

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Appery.io provides a number of ways to test your mobile app. For mobile web apps, you can quickly test your app in the browser (mobile or desktop). If your app uses native APIs, you can use the Appery.io Mobile Tester App to test native features without installing the app on the device. We want to show you another quick way to test your iOS apps.

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