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Community Round-up: The Best of 2016

Published December 19, 2016 by Cate

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From creating recipes in our Cookbook, to discussing issues in the Forum, to getting in touch to share your ideas and feedback – thank you for contributing! We had an exciting year of big releases, announcements and growth and we'd like to share some of the highlights with you.

Launching Appway Community
The major highlight for us this year was of course the launch of the new Appway Community! Have you visited community.appway.com yet? It's our new one-stop-shop for support, news, learning and collaboration.

We’re completely revamping the community experience, improving our knowledge base, tools and services. The transition from our legacy platform, developer.appway.com, is ongoing – so far, we have migrated Support Ticketing and the Support Forum. More features and functionality will be added soon as we continue creating benefits for the Appway ecosystem.

We've already had some great feedback on how our users expect the Community to grow – through events, more targeted content and interaction – and are looking forward to building on your ideas. If you'd like to get in touch, details are at the end of this post.

Events and Releases
This year saw two big moments for the Appway platform. In March, we launched version 6.3 which brought a number of improvements and requested features to the table. Some of the biggest highlights from the release included the Business Object Diff Viewer, a new feature that greatly enhances the capabilities of a development team when performing parallel work. We also added Error Guidance Screens to provide you with improved information in case something unexpected happens in your solution.

In September we pulled back the curtain at Appway Sphere to reveal some of what the future holds for Appway 7 and beyond. The announcement of Packages was warmly received by the community members we spoke to. In case you missed it, Packages are a new approach to structuring large solutions. You can find out more by watching Christian Estler explain Packages in detail.

The Inbox is another facet of Appway 7 that was showcased at Appway Sphere. Working with Inbox speeds up development, and introduces the power of the new unified data layer. Watch Aurelian Briner’s talk and live demo of the Inbox.

Appway is part of the future of digital interaction with the introduction of chat-based conversational interfaces. This feature will work natively within Appway, and be expanded into the third-party realm with Facebook messenger and more. Watch Appway CEO Hans Peter Wolf unveil this powerful new toolset.

As if all these great features weren't enough, you can also look forward to a new design system as part of Appway 7. Senior User Experience Consultant Adriana Ispas took to the stage at Appway Sphere to present the evolution of the Appway Workspace (and what was learned along the way!), taking a look under the hood of Layout Managers and a providing a glimpse of the new design patterns coming with Appway 7.

Top Content
Looking back over the year, we wanted to highlight some of our most popular posts. Our Workspace Design Notes, covering design and development decisions for the Appway platform, were expanded with posts on why you shouldn't play hide and seek with your users and why it's really not a good idea to design for a specific device. The most popular Workspace Design Note, however, was about why there’s almost no drag-and-drop in Appway. The whole series is available to download as a PDF.

We also ran a two-part series in which we explained the importance of SSL. Part 1 covered what SSL does and why you'd want to use it and Part 2 looked at Certificate Authorities and server authentication.

If you're using Appway 6.3, you'll perhaps have met the little bird that appears on certain screens: Appbird. Do you know where the bird originates from?

Other popular content published this year included a deep-dive into screen performance optimization, as well as a detailed outline of export and deployment procedures. And when it comes to speed and efficiency, our guide to shortcut keys in Business Object Editors is incredibly useful!

Appway e-Learning & Certification
Alongside providing high-quality classroom and remote training, the Academy team has launched the latest way to learn all about Appway: e-Learning! Appway Fundamental training can now be taken online, whenever and wherever suits you best. Developer and Administrator training will follow in 2017. Visit e-Learning.appway.com for a free trial.

Once you’ve completed our training sessions, why not gain recognition for your skills by getting certified with Appway? Certification is even bundled together with e-Learning for an even more cost-effective approach. Read our Certification blog post to find out more!

Talk to Us
We've heard from many people throughout the year, and it was a pleasure to meet quite a few of you in person at Appway Sphere!

The key to building any healthy relationship is communication. Your feedback helps us improve your own experience and the experience of future Appway developers. Let us know your thoughts, ideas and concerns. Contact your Community team, Cate and Alex, anytime via community@appway.com

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