Tutorials are step-by-step guides that can teach you how to build an app or use a particular feature of Appery.io. A few of the links (labeled) will bring you to a thread in our forum where the given topic is addressed.

Quickstart

If you are new to Appery.io, start with the following tutorial. It shows you how to build app UI, create an app database, display a list of items from the database, publish the app as a mobile web app, publish for Android and use native device features:

• Building your first mobile app

The following tutorial shows you how to write custom app logic using server code:

• Getting started with custom app logic

The following tutorial shows you how to send push notifications to iOS or Android phones:

• Getting started with push notifications

The following tutorial shows the best practices of using Model and Storage features:

• Building a MusicShop app using Model and Storage

Database

• Building a simple ToDo app with Appery.io Backend Services
• Building a simple ToDo app with Appery.io Backend Services, part 2: working in offline mode
• Building a search app with Appery.io Backend Services
• Building a search app with Appery.io Backend Services, part 2: using regular expressions
• Uploading multiple files to the Appery.io Database
• Adding multiple location points on Google Maps with Appery.io Backend Services
• Taking a photo with the camera and uploading it to the Appery.io Backend using plugin
• Building a mobile app with pagination
• Building a mobile app with user registration
• Building a warehouse manager app with a barcode scanner and database
• Building a mobile app with a SQL database using API Express
• Building an app with Appery.io database and LDAP for user management
• Integrating 3rd Party Database Services into Appery.io via API Express (Microsoft Azure SQL, Google Cloud SQL)
  

Push

• Sending push notifications to a device

Server code

• Creating app logic with server code
• Building an app with a password recovery feature
• Creating a geocoding application with the Appery.io database and server code

App builder features

The following tutorials teach you about specific Appery.io app builder features:

• Source editing
• App versioning
• Building a mobile app using custom components

Using 3rd party APIs

The following tutorials show you how to use 3rd party REST APIs. You can use any API in your mobile app by using the approaches shown:

• Building a RSS mobile app
• Building a mobile weather app
• Building a dictionary-style app with the Wordnik API
• Looking up social data with the FullContact API
• Connect with API providers using OAuth.io
  
• Adding communication features to your Appery.io app with Tropo
• Building a mobile app with Orchestrate Database
• Facebook
  • Building an app with the Facebook API
• Twitter
  • Building a Twitter search app
• Salesforce
  • Salesforce integration

Using browser storage APIs

The following tutorial show you how to use browser APIs such as “local storage”:

• Building a Hello World app with HTML5 local storage

Native device features and APIs

The following tutorials teach you how to use native device features and APIs:

• Using the Camera component
• Using the Barcode Scanner component
• Using the Geolocation component with Google Maps (See also Building a GPS tracking app)
• Using the Contact component
• Using the InAppBrowser API
• Using the Accelerometer API
• Using the Google Analytics API

To test these features, you need to use the Appery.io Mobile Tester app, or install the app on the device.

Google Maps API

• Building a mobile app with Google Maps and Geolocation
  Covers: showing user location on the map via Geolocation, Google Maps Directions (building a route from point A to point B), converting location name to latitude and longitude via Google Geocoding, placing marker or multiple markers, placing multiple markers from database, adding layers, fitting map to bounds.

Tutorials for public plugins

Public plugins are available to all Appery.io developers. If you created a plugin, and would like us to add it to our plugin directory, please email us at support@appery.io. Below is a list of available tutorials for our public plugins.

Social media

• Using the Facebook API plugin

Business & development

• Using the ServicePattern Mobile API plugin
• Using PayPal API plugin
• Using MetaCert Security API
• Using Upload File to Database plugin to upload files to the Appery.io database
• Using the OAuth 2 Template plugin to authenticate with OAuth 2.0 providers
• Using the Auth0 plugin for simple identity management
• Share your code using the GitHub API plugin
• Using the SendGrid Mail API plugin to send emails
• Using the Box API plugin to get access to files in the cloud
• Using the Twillio API plugin to interact with SMS data
• Using the Foursquare OAuth API plugin to connect to the Foursquare API
• Using the Stripe Payment API plugin

Newspapers & books

• Using the USA Today API plugin to read news and music, movie, and book reviews

JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery Mobile

The following tutorials show you how to add various app features using JavaScript:

• Building a dynamic select menu
• Custom icons in the jQuery Mobile NavBar
• Manipulating components with jQuery Mobile
• Converting an array of strings to an array of objects
• Using the MapQuest API (forum)
• Creating and using jQuery popup windows for confirmation (forum)
• Adding multiple markers to a map
• Adding a show password feature for an input field (forum)
• Adding jqPlot (charts and graphs) to your app (forum)
• Building a mobile app with multi-language support
• jQuery Mobile Android toast-style popup (forum)
• Admob in iOS Appery.io apps (forum)