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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

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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This 5-minute video shows how to create a simple, yet real mobile app that talks to an API backend.

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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This is a recording of the webinar we did with our friends from Orchestrate. This video shows how to build a Contacts mobile app in Appery.io connected to Orchestrate database.

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Our Youtube channel has over 80 videos, and we are happy to announce we now have videos in German. Our German partner Objective has created videos that you can view here (click on PLAYLIST – top left to see the playlist):

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

The last piece is in for the Appery.io self-training course of videos. We’ve now added:

Lesson 5: Appery.io & PhoneGap Capabilities

In the video, we show how to take advantage of the PhoneGap API with ready-to-use “device services” and data mapping in the Appery.io app builder. For this lesson, we build a simple contacts app and go through the steps of testing it in an Android emulator.

Here is the complete set of lessons from the video page on our help site:

• Lesson 1: The UI Builder
• Lesson 2: Data Mapping to a Service
• Lesson 3: Using the Appery.io Database Service
• Lesson 4: Web Service Caching
• Lesson 5: Appery.io & PhoneGap Capabilities
• Lesson 6: A Windows 8 App with the Twitter API

Each lesson links to a YouTube video. For each lesson there is also a link to a Appery.io backup ZIP of the finished lesson app, which you can open as a new project within Appery.io.

We’ll be updating the series soon, so chime in with any suggestions