Feature Tour

Overview

 

AppFurnace provides everything you need to transform your cool designs into hot apps!

You get your own set of online, easy to use tools that will inspire you to design, build, test and publish mobile apps yourself.

Powerful App Design

The Layout tool makes it easy to take a sketch and turn it into a great demo and then on to a working app.

  • You have total control on how it looks
  • Quickly add features using an extensive library of UI widgets such as video, QR code readers, Twitter feeds and much more
  • You can design your own screen flow and navigation
  • It is easy to use your own images, video and audio

Create once, run on iPhone and Android

AppFurnace makes it easy to do both iPhone and Android app development at the same time.

  • See how your app looks using the live online preview for the most common phones
  • Try your app on a real phone using the AppFurnace Player app in seconds
  • Extensive help is provided for designing your apps for the multiple Android screen sizes

App Customization

You can add functionality that is not already provided by one of the built in widgets by adding standard JavaScript. We provide:

  • An integrated intelligent JavaScript editor with live error highlighting
  • Standard JQuery-like ajax functions to connect back to your servers, feeds and CMS just like a web page
  • An extensive library of examples
  • Detailed API documentation
  • Debug your work right in the browser

Add Location and QR codes

AppFurnace makes it easy to trigger actions based on your user's location or the scanning of a QR code.

  • A dedicated map-based tool for adding location triggers to your app
  • An integrated QR reader and QR code generator
  • Test location triggers and QR codes from your desk with AppFurnace Preview

Test on a real phone in seconds

Use the AppFurnace Player App - available for iPhone and Android - to try your app on a real phone.

  • Easily show your friends, colleagues and clients your work in progress on a real phone
  • Get users to test your app on their own phones before you publish


Publish your App

Once your app is perfect, publish it to the Apple AppStore and Android Market.

  • You can submit the app using your company name. We will supply you with your app ready for publication
    • Or
  • AppFurnace publishes it for you. No need to register with Apple and Google, AppFurnace can handle everything for you

Sign up to AppFurnace now, you only pay when you publish an app on the App store.

Layout Pages

Simple Drag-and-Drop Interface

The AppFurnace layout tool gives you total control over how you want your app to look. It has a simple drag and drop interface for adding buttons, images, text and other custom widgets to your page layout.

Total Design Control

Every widget has a set of properties that make it easy for you to change things like colors, fonts, borders and background images.

Create Custom Styles

When your widget is pixel perfect you can save it as a custom style so that it is easy to use throughout your app.

Prototype Quickly and Easily

AppFurnace's powerful widgets and the simplicity of the drag and drop interface means that you can rapidly turn wireframe designs into working prototypes.

Manage Content

Upload Files

Graphics, text, video and audio files can be quickly and easily uploaded and used in your app. You can easily re-use media that you may already have created for a web or print campaign.

Track the size of your app

Keep track of your estimated app size to make sure your app is quick and easy for your users to download.

Customize Your App

Write your own JavaScript

With AppFurnace you can add custom JavaScript code to make your app distinctive and behave just how you want.

The integrated intelligent JavaScript editor makes adding code a breeze. It's so smart it even shows you when you make a mistake.

Powerful and Extensive API

AppFurnace's extensive and fully documented API gives you complete control over your widgets while the app is running, allowing you to add new and unique features to your app.

Connect to your content and CMS

Using JQuery-like ajax you can easily connect your app to your existing online content and CMS. For example you can have live headlines on your app from a wordpress RSS feed or have a form within the app add users to your database. We have also included plenty of code examples within the help that you can simply copy and paste to make this easier.

Easily Add Location to your Apps

You can easily add location to your apps with AppFurnace, using your user's phones built-in GPS to trigger sounds, videos and whatever you want.

Get Started with Tutorials & Help

Have a look at the growing AppFurnace Help & FAQ to give you an idea of the number of different things you can do with functions such as reading data from external web sites, displaying RSS feeds and much much more.

Preview Your App

Preview your App Online

See how your app looks using the live online preview for the most common phones. Test location triggers and QR codes from your desk with AppFurnace Preview.

Design for iPhone and Android

AppFurnace helps you design for the most common iPhone and Android devices, including extensive help on designing your apps for the multiple Android screen sizes.

Test on Real Phones

Try your app on a real phone using the AppFurnace Player app in seconds. Try out your app while you are working on it. Easily show your friends, colleagues and clients your work in progress on a real phone. Get users to test your app on their own phones before you publish.

Publish Your App

With AppFurnace, you only pay when you're ready to publish.

Once your app is perfect, publish it to the Apple AppStore and Android Market. You have two choices for publishing:

Publish with your own account

You can submit the app using your company name. We will supply you with your app ready for publication. This gives you a direct connection to Apple and Google and lets you get the download data directly from the stores.

Or


Calvium publishing

If you don't want to register as a developer we can publish it for you. We'll handle all the relationships with Apple and Google and submit the app on your behalf. This is quicker than having to register with your own developer accounts and uses our expertise in the managing the submission process.