Author: megha

What is GDPR?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union. It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. The GDPR aims primarily to give control to citizens and residents over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU.

It was adopted on 14 April 2016, and after a two-year transition period, becomes enforceable on 25 May 2018. The GDPR replaces the 1995 Data Protection Directive. Because the GDPR is a regulation, not a directive, it does not require national governments to pass any enabling legislation and is directly binding and applicable.

The GDPR extends the scope of EU data protection law to all foreign companies processing data of EU residents. It provides for a harmonization of the data-protection regulations throughout the EU, thereby making it easier for non-European companies to comply with these regulations; however, this comes at the cost of a strict data-protection compliance regime with severe penalties of up to 4% of worldwide turnover or €20 million, whichever is higher.

What does it mean for AndroApp?

To give our clients better experience, we at Androapp are using google analytics to capture crashes, renewal status and page hits for all the apps (apart from your own analytics). We as such are not collecting any personally identified information, however taking a cautious approach, we will disable this collection permanently.

[update]: We have disabled Google analytics from version 15.00 onwards

What does it mean for you?

For those who submitted your app through us (using android app account). As we don’t have control over your app content

1. We will un-publish  Android apps OR transfer it to your own google developer account, we have already communicated to relevant owners.
2. FOR IOS apps, we will remove European union countries from the distribution, OR you can chose to resubmit the app from your own account.

Also

We can not advise you as to whether you are GDPR compliant or not, you should consult your legal representative for the same.

However, we are working to give the best possible support to our partners to be GDPR compliant.

In general, you should check where all you are collecting user’s data, ex. Analytics, Ads (admob, appnext, admob, adsense others), push notifications, login forms, comments etc. and take appropriate action.

Versions used By AndroApp

We are using below versions in our last update 15.00 (in android)

AppNext
'com.appnext.sdk:ads:2.3.0.469'
'com.appnext.sdk:banners:2.3.0.469'
from AppNext team =>

Push Notifications
com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:15.0.2

Google Analytics and Admob
'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:15.0.1'
'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:15.0.1'
'com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:15.0.2'

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

Adsense: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/7670013?hl=en&ref_topic=7670012

Analytics: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6366371?hl=en&authuser=1&ref_topic=2919631

Admob: https://support.google.com/admob/answer/7666519?hl=en-GB&ref_topic=2745287

For any queries or suggestions please feel free to contact us on contact[AT]androapp.mobi.

We recently added a new Menu option in AndroApp in last release version 11.00, Top Slider Menu.

Checkout this screenshot

How to add this menu in your Android App via AndroApp?

1. Update AndroApp Plugin to latest version 11.00 and above
2. Go to AndroApp->Configure tab in your wordpress dashboard
3. Select the slider menu from dropdown (you should create a new menu just for slider menu from Appearance->Menus and select that one here)
4. Create New apk from AndroApp->Look & Feel
5. install new apk to your android device and test it out thoroughly
6. Upload this new apk to Google play store.

Note:- Slider menu is available only on Android versions, it is not available in IOS versions as of now

We have done some improvements in Android Menu in our latest release version 10.00.

What it includes?

These are the main features of this change

1. We now show your app’s icon and name at top of the menu with menu color matching with action bar color.
2. Added menu icons support

How does it look?

these are some of the screenshots to give you a glimpse

How to Manage Menu Icons?

AndroApp supports FontAwesome icons and by default we try to show the best possible icons ourselves, but obviously you might want to override those icons for some of your links.

to change the icons

1. install Menu Icons plugin on your wordpress site, this plugin has more than 1 lakh active installs
2. Go to Appearance->Menu from your wordpress admin dashboard
3. Select FontAwesome under menu icon settings
4. Select the Android App menu which you have selected in AndroApp->Configure tab
5. Expand the menu for which you want to update the icon
6. Click on icon: Select link
7. Select the icon from the popup
8. And click on Save Menu button at bottom

Note:

• If you are using the same menu on your website, than you might want to change the menu icon settings to show/hide icons on your website
• It might be possible that some of the icons are not supported in app, in that case, use a different icon
• If you have a version older than 10.00 on google play store, than you need to publish a new apk  – so create a new build, test it and publish it to play store.

In the last release we have introduced a new post content type, i.e. Slideshow

What is this option about?

Androapp provides you the ability to load post detail page content in different ways, like pre processed, post processed, load as url already, with this new option, when a user clicks on feed image, post’s images will directly open as a slide show, like below

How to turn on this feature?

1. login to your wordpress admin dashboard
2. go to Androapp->Configure tab
3. Scroll down to Post Content Type section and select slide show
4. Select Failover post content type – if there are some images in the post than it will open the slideshow, post content will not be visible, if there are no images, than it will fail back to Failover post content type

Note:

This feature is available from App version 9.00 onwards – so if you are on the older version, you need to publish a new apk to google play store, also you should give enough time for new version to distribute among your existing users before you enable slideshow.