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Geolocation is one of the most widely used APIs in mobile apps today. From weather to Uber and Lyft, the device location is crucial information and many APIs use it to determine what services and products are available in a given location. When building a mobile app in Appery.io, using the Geolocation API is simple. Apache Cordova library is built-in in every new Appery.io app. Invoking Geolocation will return the latitude, longitude (and other) information which can then be passed to any REST API. The following two short videos show how to use and invoke Geolocation in an Ionic and jQuery Mobile apps:

• A Quick Guide to Using Geolocation API (Ionic App) 
• A Quick Guide to Using Geolocation API (jQuery Mobile App)

Looking for more videos like that? Check out our YouTube channel for many more videos.

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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In this 5-minute video you will learn how to invoke a REST API from the server (instead of directly from the client. There are a number of benefits to invoke an API from the server:

1. JavaScript is the language used to write the script (and you already know JavaScript!)
2. Additional business logic can be added around the API. For example, in addition to sending an SMS, you can also send an email (SendGrid API)
3. The API keys and tokens are secure
4. Script is exposed via REST API (to be invoked from the app)
5. Script has API to access Appery.io Database, Push
6. A script can be saved as a library and used in other scripts
7. Script changes can be made without updating the client (app)
8. It’s tool to write code 🙂

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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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This video shows how to connect to a SQL database using API Express and expose the database via REST APIs. The video then shows how to build a mobile app with the exposed APIs.

This video shows how to build an Ionic mobile app connected to the cloud database.

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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.

To show Appery.io’s new support for Bootstrap and AngularJS frameworks, we recorded a video that demonstrates how fast it is to build a responsive app using Bootstrap and AngularJS.

We recently published a number of new videos:

• Building a Mobile App with User Login and Registration (using the Appery.io Database user management feature and a Server Code script)
• Creating Translator Mobile App with Local Storage (using the  Translated API and local storage)
• Creating a Mobile App with Geolocation  (using the Cordova Geolocation API)

Happy Thanksgiving from the Appery.io Team to everyone who is celebrating!

Check out some of the new videos we recently posted on our Youtube channel:

• Using new UI themes
• Using page templates and the Panel component
• Using the Customer Console: Editing backend database data, Sending push notifications
• Building a Farmers Market Search app