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  Appli Bot

Posted by: clarencemartin
07-26-2023, 01:57 PM
Forum: General
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I hope that the Appli users have tried the Appli Bot.
This feature is really a Great Tool for Appli.
I asked the Bot "how do I create a many to many data Table in Appli. The Bot posted an accurate solution.
If you would like to see the solution it gave me I will be happy to share the solution.

Appli Team - thanks for this added Feature to the Appli application.

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  Appli version 1.2.13

Posted by: marktalluto
07-14-2023, 08:09 PM
Forum: Announcements
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So, our family took the opportunity to vacation in California to see family and do touristy things.

One of the trip's highlights was working with Hutch on the La Crescenta Independence Day Fireworks show. Two of my sons and I participated in setting up the fireworks. We learned a lot and had a great time. Hutch is an accomplished special effects expert for entertainment and other industries. He uses his LiveCode development skills to support his various projects. Check out Hutch's website to learn more about him http://hutchfx.com.

Rejuvenated and full of energy, I am happy to be back with the team working on Appli. We have been working on some extensive features for Appli, and now I can discuss a few with you.

We have a significant time-saving new feature called Form Builder. Open Form Builder by clicking on its icon in the footer of Appli Builder. A window will show three pre-built forms with a fourth option to create your bespoke forms. Selecting a pre-built form will instantly generate a complete form, matching database table, data binding, and relevant buttons. This feature is the initial release, and we have exciting plans to make it even more helpful.

We appreciate you mentioning Appli to your friends and colleagues. Appli Builder has a new and improved onboarding experience that starts when making your account. We want people to be free to jump into Appli as quickly as possible with minimal friction. Our trial tier is easier than ever to get into. We are testing a no-credit card required experience. Appli will guide the new user towards making their first app or using a template to get started. The look and feel have been polished to match the UI of our website.

To support new and experienced users, we are releasing our new tooltip feature, Hover Assist. When you hover over supported parts of Builder, you will see a tooltip that provides more information to get you started. It is still being added system-wide, and not all visual support has been implemented. We decided to get some feedback early while we continued to work on the feature. The hover assist will link to the relevant documentation and provide an image, animated gif, and even a video where appropriate. We expect this feature to help people get started faster.

Did you know you can now manage your windows (low-code editor, variable viewer, data viewer, database manager, bug reporter, etc)? If you have two or more windows open, they can be arranged vertically or horizontally to improve your development experience.

Since Appli fully manages your apps and their organization, we are responsible for providing basic management options. We are happy to announce that you can now copy or move an app between projects. This feature and the ability to delete, rename, and save a project to disk are available from the My Projects screen.

Appli and Daysix https://www.daysix.co/ did a collaboration project where their professional designers used Appli Builder to design and build an app. They sent us the project when they finished their part. An Appli developer applied the logic and data to the project. It is an excellent example of the two disciplines working together as it would be done in larger studios. We learned a lot from the experience and improved Builder to better meet expectations from a designer's point of view. Kit Lister is the name of the app. The app will be available as a template in a day or two. It is an excellent example of a hybrid storage app where it works offline and syncs data to the cloud when able. Check it out for great ideas on how to do your next app. Like all our templates, feel free to use this template as is or modified for your private and commercial needs.

Our Appli AI support bot, based on OpenAI's ChatGPT, has been getting much use on the website. We brought it into Builder to provide immediate support for your questions. You can ask it how to do something in Appli, which usually gives a solid response. The bot was trained on our growing documentation and website. We noticed that its AI personality developed an annoying vibe, making it sound verbose and caviler with people's questions. We retrained it to be friendly without being silly. These are the early days of this technology. We are watching it carefully to ensure it provides accurate answers that will be helpful and succinct. You will find the icon to engage with the support feature in the footer of Builder.

Our goal to make developing software more approachable to a broader audience is becoming a reality. We have a range of new ways to communicate with us and the community coming. We love reading and responding to your questions on the forums. Our social media presence is lower but slowly growing. We must be everywhere to reach audiences that prefer a particular communication format. Please use the format you are most comfortable with. The links below will take you directly to them. I appreciate your support.

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  Chat GPT

Posted by: marktalluto
05-24-2023, 11:26 PM
Forum: Announcements
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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.

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  Appli version 1.2.5

Posted by: marktalluto
05-19-2023, 03:24 AM
Forum: Announcements
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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

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  San Franciso Region Outage

Posted by: marktalluto
05-09-2023, 12:23 AM
Forum: Announcements
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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

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  Using Components

Posted by: clarencemartin
05-05-2023, 09:04 PM
Forum: Getting Started
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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!

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  The New LowCode Editor

Posted by: clarencemartin
04-18-2023, 02:21 PM
Forum: General
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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.

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  Using the repeat Low Code

Posted by: clarencemartin
04-15-2023, 10:13 AM
Forum: General
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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.

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  Designing for different screen sizes

Posted by: agarzia
04-06-2023, 01:06 PM
Forum: Getting Started
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Mark Hsu wrote a very good article about how to design for different screen sizes. Don't miss it, it is a great read.

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  How to View the Data You’ve Collected

Posted by: agarzia
03-28-2023, 05:42 PM
Forum: Getting Started
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Linda Lu posted a handy guide teaching new users how to view their data: https://appli.io/how-to-view-the-data-youve-collected/.

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