Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Where Do You Stand to Influence the Users to Buy Your App


There’s too much noise in the mobile market with too many apps vying for the same user’s attention. And what is our choice to take users there and even download your app? And many would say, “Promotions”. But then, does it take users on the path for massive downloads? Eh...that’s still not guaranteed.

Okay. What about this? If you can influence the user to buy your app or product instead of mere promotions, I think it should essentially seal the deal. Let’s discuss on various ways that you can influence your user to buy and download your app.

Social-media channels, A Great Tool to Start:

These are great tool and medium to promote your articles or news on app development progress, features besides crating excellent content that your potential users may want to read.

Get community approval:

A huge community with many potential customers are waiting to give feedback and help spread the word about your app. Platforms such as Beta List, Product Hunt and Hacker News make it happen. And, those followers acted as brand ambassadors can really influence other users to download the app.

Press coverage for third-party endorsement:

What's better than a publication of repute writing about your app and its utility? Identify a journalist who can write with a concise pitch, explaining why it merits a story.

Contribute An Article:

The content-marketing bandwagon is vital. Given actionable pointers, people notice good writing and also the people behind the blog or article. Plus, including links to your landing page in the bio interests more readers and these add to your product’s credibility.

Take Time To Build A Reader Base:

Complement writing for your own blog from the industry that you’re app is catering to works. Meanwhile, writing for those industry leaders (blogs and publications) in that category brings huge traffic and immense credibility.


These are only a few ways to influence your potential customer’s behaviour even before they get to your download page.

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Four Signs Your Mobile Apps Development Need Extra Help, NOW



Whether iOS or Android, or other internal mobile app project, often times a single gifted “jack-of-all-trades” can create simple design and develop the entire app with the help of some online tutorials and Google searches.


However, it is very important to consider working with subject matter experts to ensure a successful project that earns you a good profit and satisfy your needs. Are you lacking to find if your new app development project requires assistance? Let’s see how we can help.

Top Signs to Seek Extra Help To Execute a Successful Project

Visual Appeal for Branding

One of the most critical areas for a mobile project is Visual designs. Starting from professional photography, intense branding, illustrations, to even videos- to handling visual design on your own without an experienced app developer results in inconsistency.

Rich Media Tools For User Experience

Features like animations, calculators, infographics and dynamic data display or visualizations are the greatest tools to enhance user-experience. Each of these fields can efficiently execute your vision while exposing potential issues in the process.

Build for Multiple Mobile Platforms

It may make sense to build for multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows Phone depending on the type of mobile application you need. Approaching a professional app development company only lets you use a “one-stop-shop” and you can receive valuable advice on the various nuances of each platform too.

Complex Back-end Structure

Whether to present data from multiple existing “legacy” systems or to save profile information for your users and customize their interaction with the system or to add e-commerce to your app, you will need to build a back end server system to go with your app for added security measures.

There is no substitute to handle these hurdles that come with building complex mobile apps except a leading app development services who listen to your needs carefully.

4 New IOS 8 App Extensions That Concentrates On User Experience


The new version of Apples’s iOS operating system – iOS 8 has got numerous improvements, and app extensions impacting on how owners of iPhones and iPads use their devices. Be it Notification Center, Share Sheets and into other apps, iOS 8’s app extensions are going to bring about much-needed flexibility changes to the iOS ecosystem.

This post describes about 4 of the new iOS 8 app extensions and how including these in your own apps can significantly improve user experience.

Share Extensions from Within Apps

Sharing is an integral part of how we use mobile technology and that’s why share extensions are one of the most hotly-anticipated upgrades to iOS. Until recently, Apple has strictly controlled which apps were allowed access to the ‘Share Sheets’ say iBooks or Messages to share out material through the app.

Action Extensions to Cross-app Functionality

This includes a few buttons like Print, Save to Camera Roll, and Copy to Clipboard only been used by Apple’s apps. With iOS 8 now included an Action inside of this area in order to bring about some significant improvements to app functionality. Action extensions refers that users can spend a lot less time switching between apps to perform functions that should be able to be done inside the app itself.

Storage Provider Extensions for Cloud Service

In recent times, we see enormous growth in the cloud storage space. However it’s never been very easy to make use of these services on an iPhone or iPad. But no worries! iOS 8 addresses these issues with Storage Provider extensions where developers can allow users to save directly to their chosen cloud storage from inside of an app.

Custom Keyboard Extensions

Pretty self-explanatory, can say. This extension allows users to download and install keyboards that operate throughout the entire operating system. If you will have to develop iPhone apps that require a keyboard, IOS8 makes it a breeze. Moreover, for security reasons, custom keyboards won’t work in secure areas such as password fields.


As is obvious, app extensions are going to be a game-changing addition to iOS. So better ensure your iPhone and iPad apps are ready for the future.

Why iOS8 and HealthKit Is Considered a Centrepiece for Overall Health-Data Strategy



If you have upgraded to iOS 8, then you’ve likely seen the new “Health” app that Apple has introduced. A development tool set called HealthKit is working behind the screen offering data and information about Health and related third-party apps. Guess why? Firstly, to create a full profile of your activities as like walking, running, working out at the gym, eating and more and secondly- fitness goals, tracking your workouts and managing your diet accordingly. Want to know in detail? Go on.

Apple’s HealthKit for iOS

HealthKit is a programming framework that allows iPhone app developers the ability to access and share health-related data between apps or into Apple’s Health app where it can be displayed on your dashboard. Briefly called “at a glance” dashboard of their daily health activity, so that a diabetic can track their blood sugar and food intake or a runner can learn their distance and elevation.

Varied Apps That Uses Health Kit to Track Your Workouts and Progress

FitStar Personal Trainer (Free):

Known as an award-winning and highly-rated app, it acts as a personal trainer explaining each exercise in a workout and former NFL football star Tony Gonzalez providing some occasional advice with high-definition videos.

Carrot Fit ($2.99): 

Carrot Fit takes a different approach to track workouts and coach exercise, consistently. This iPhone app uses HealthKit in a lot of ways like syncing your weight and exercise data into the Health app while drawing data from Health and other apps to ensure you’re staying true to your goals.

Strava Running & Cycling (Free):

Being an athlete, if you would consistently improve or you’re a novice runner who just wants to track their workouts, then Strava track your distance, speed, pace and more.

MapMyRun (Free or $2.99):

Dedicated to helping iPhone owners track and improve on their runs, HealthKit allows MapMyRun to sync workout data and provide it to your central Health app dashboard.

These are a few examples. HealthKit provides data that can be analyzed to help determine where you’re struggling.