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It is all the craze right now. Many well-known app-building services are looking at ways to bring this technology into their toolset. People have questions about our plans to integrate AI into Appli. I figured I would post our initial thoughts here for everyone to see. Everything is subject to change as Appli and AI evolve.
We have been looking at the technology to see if it can improve the app-building process. We think that Appli's coding style may connect well with a system that can take natural language and generate our block-style coding in the correct order.
That said, it needs to be good enough that it does not get in the way of an already quick system for coding. Having to resubmit queries to the AI will get old quickly. The technology would have to make a significant performance boost. The Appli app-building process today is already fast. Our minds are open, and we will tinker to see how things go.
We have found some practical uses for AI today. I am happy to announce that our first use of this technology is already on our appli.io website. It is pretty cool. Check out the chat bubble on the bottom right of the site's windows. You can ask questions about Appli and get answers that were trained from our documentation and website content.
We ran it through various tests and found it impressive with how well it delivers valuable information. In our testing so far, it could pick the correct Action and knew what needed to be selected for the argument/parameter. Pretty mind-blowing considering our training took us less than an hour to complete. I think partial credit goes to the source of our training material. Please post your experiences here.
We plan to add this same feature inside Appli Builder's header. The contextual search the bot provides is not a replacement for good documentation. It is simply another tool at our fingertips to get our work done. We will also add links to our docs because they are excellent and provide depth about any one topic in Appli. As we learn more, we will see if we can get the bot to generate links to the relative parts of our documentation.
I am optimistic that more use cases will become possible in the future. We aim to delight you with improvements to Appli that make sense. Let's keep making some great apps together.
Hello, Appli and LiveCloud supporters. We have been working on some important new features affecting Appli and LiveCloud.
We are improving our database with new features to enhance performance for apps that simultaneously manage multiple projects. If you are developing your apps in LiveCode, you might see slight improvements since most people work on one project at a time.
If you are working in Appli, you will see the performance of Builder increase dramatically because it manages awareness of all of your projects. Some of that improved performance is in there now. More to come in the coming weeks. Going from the login screen to loading your app is now much quicker. Plus, you can now develop offline for -most- of your development. We are working on the remaining pieces to cut the cord, allowing you to create free from any network. These features will be released to LiveCloud users as well.
We released -phase one- of the data modeler in Appli. You can access it by clicking on the database icon in the footer of Builder. This feature will allow you to manage your database tables, schema, placement, and colors. This is one of the number one feature requests from developers that use other database app makers.
I am not big on pre-announcing new features until they are ready. All I can say about -phase two- for the data modeler is that you have been waiting for this feature for a long time. I am winking at you, FileMaker developers. We needed to get Appli to a mature state before heading in this direction. The time has come. We are working on it, and the wait is almost over.
As you know, we formally launched early this year. But we have not made a big marketing splash yet. We have some under-the-hood improvements that are critical for our marketing plan. Until then, we are developing a series of quick videos introducing people to the power available in Appli today. Features like our powerful low-code editor with actions, data-binding, drag and drop CSVs to create a data table and local/cloud database, responsive design, to the simple deployment of an app without needing the App Stores. We receive you loud and clear on the videos. Video production starts next week.
We so very much appreciate all of you. If you provided feedback, you should have received your Appli shirt. Please email us your shipping address and shirt size if we missed you. If Appli is serving you well, feel free to write us up on Twitter and LinkedIn. We would certainly appreciate it.
https://twitter.com/Appli_IO
https://www.linkedin.com/company/90523494/
Until the next time, keep on developing!
Best regards,
Mark Talluto
Founder and CEO
Get Appli at https://www.appli.io
Hello everyone. We are experiencing an outage in the San Francisco region. We believe the issue is due to our cloud provider being unable to resolve DNS requests. They are working on the issue.
https://status.digitalocean.com/
We will monitor the situation closely and update you when there is a resolution to the problem.
No other regions have been affected by this issue.
-Mark Talluto
Components are Elements that can be used as "Objects" for your Appli Application (Really Cool Items).
The idea is to create these components as shared Elements that can be used on one or many screens in your application.
When you take an Element and turn it into a Component,you can use these components on all or any screens that you create. For instance you may want to take a Text element and make it a title Item for your Application. It can be shared on any or all of the screens in your Application. Another Comonent that you make may be a group of Buttons that you group together as a Menu Block. If you make this item a component it can be used universally on your many screens as a common Menu Bar, That can have shared code to be used to open your various screens with a common low code Navigation action without having to code for every screen.
These Components can eleiminate dupilcate low code coding and make your Application have a UNIFORM Look and feel with minimum coding.
One idea might be: to create a base Sceen that has all of the common Cmponents that can be share with all of the other screens in your Application.
One other thing that I found (thanks Mark and Team), is the Components are Project Aware. Once they are created in a project, all of the other sub-projects created can share those components.
GIVE IT A TRY. I am sure that there will probably be a tutorial in the Blog sometime soon. If not, I might create a video showing the use of components.
HAPPY APPLI-ING!
If it's been a while since you opened Appli and the LowCode section, You should see and use the new LowCode editor.
It took me a minute to get use to it and realize how much it is improved. If I had a choice, I would never go back to the old way.
It's awsome!
Thanks to Mark and the team.
I have included a demonstartion for using the Repeat Low Code.
you can upload the included file with the Appli Load File afte you unzip it.
Mark Hsu wrote a very good article about how to design for different screen sizes. Don't miss it, it is a great read.
Linda Lu posted a handy guide teaching new users how to view their data: https://appli.io/how-to-view-the-data-youve-collected/.
Learn more about the tried and true Mater—Detail Interface Pattern a proven way to design your user interface for database-driven app.