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If your push notification is setup with Google Cloud messaging and its working, than for the new androapp apk (version 6.0.4 onwards) you have to migrate your existing GCM app to firebase, so that your existing customers remains intact.
Follow these steps to migrate
Follow below steps for setting up a fresh firebase project for push notifications.
Download this file to your server and update the file path in textbox in Firebase Api Settings section on AndroApp->Account Settings tab on your wordpress admin dashboard.
you might need to enable Firebase Cloud Messaging api from https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/fcm.googleapis.com/overview?project={project_number}Here are the old instructions to follow for v0 api (just in case you need) to be followed after step 17).
Today we added Deep linking support in our AndroApp wordpress plugin.
Its an intelligent link which can dynamically decide where to open the link? If end user has your app in his mobile than the same link can be opened directly in the app. Click here to read more about deep linking.
It results in more visits to your app, which is faster than the normal web browser and gives a more customized options to your user.
Update the AndroApp plugin to 6.00 or later, Go to Look & Feel section and scroll to Deep Linking Section.
By default we have put “/” in the textarea, which means all of your links will be opened via app. However if you want you can selectively choose what links to be opened, enter path prefixes in one per line.
After you are done with pathprefix settings, click on generate build button, you will get a new apk link on your mail.
Deep linking will work when you click on your link on some existing web page, it will not be attempted when you directly enter your site address on web browser manually.
Once you are done with testing deep linking, publish the new apk on google play developer console.
You might like like to checkout Promote Your Android App Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 as well.
Google play store rating plays an important role in your app’s download, more number of ratings you have, google will give more preference to your app for play store listing.
But users might note rate your app until we ask them, So ask your users to rate your app on playstore.
One easy way to do this is to add Rate Us link in the app menu
Check out your app, just restart it to see the new menu option similar to the image below
On the click of the menu option, it will open your app’s playstore page where user can rate your app.
You can also add the rate our app link below the post text for app by following this article.
Now you will start getting the ratings and reviews for your app, but don’t just leave it there, in general it is a good practice to reply to your users comments frequently, that way your readers will feel more engaged.
What is SelfPush ?
It is the ability to send push notification anytime, now push notifications don’t only go for new posts, but you can even send push notification for any of your post anytime.
Why Selfpush ?
It gives you more control and more power, you can try triggering push notification at different time and see what gives you better result. some of your posts make sense on few days like festivals or any offers, you can use this at the time.
In the end, it is a tool to get more visitors on your app at no extra cost.
Continue reading “Introducing SelfPush in AndroApp Mobile app plugin for wordpress”
If you want to add any shortcode for posts on your androapp mobile app than you can do so by adding below code in your themes functions.php
add_filter( 'json_prepare_post','androapp_overwrite_content', 11, 3 );
function androapp_overwrite_content($data, $post_array, $context) {
$textToBeAdded = do_shortcode("[related_post_shortcode]");
$data['pwapp_post_content'] = $data['pwapp_post_content'].$textToBeAdded;
return $data;
}
If you want to use post id or some other information you can use $post and $data objects, see below example to use post id
Continue reading “How to Add Shortcode in AndroApp Post Page”
You might have checked and implemented Promote Your Android App Part 1 and Part 2 already
We hope you followed the Part 1 of the series and got some installs, in this article we are going to add top banner for your mobile visitors, to prompt them to download the mobile app.
Step 1: Install and activate this free wordpress plugin called AppBanners
Step 2: Go to Settings->App Banners
Step 3: Enter Your Android App ID
this is nothing but your package name, you can get your package name from the mail we send.
OR if this is your app link on google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.androapp.storytal.c2123
than your android app id will be mobi.androapp.storytal.c2123
Continue reading “Promote Your Android App – 2”
We hope you used our wordpress plugin to convert your wordpress driven site to a fully native mobile app.
What After you publish your mobile app to Google play store ?
You need install to actually get the benefit of mobile app, so that you can be connected with your mobile users via push notifications. So it is very important to invest some time to get the mobile installs, best way to get the installs is to convert your site visitors to mobile app users.
Continue reading “Promote Your Android App – 1”
This guide is for little advanced users, who know little bit of php.
We will suggest to try out below changes on test setup and check it is not breaking your website or app.
It will change only the app content, your website content remains as it is.
Add this code to functions.php
add_filter( 'rest_prepare_post','androapp_overwrite_content_pre', 8, 3 );
function androapp_overwrite_content_pre($data, $post, $context) {
$inner_data = $data->data;
if(!($inner_data['type'] == "post" ||$inner_data['type'] == "page")){
return $data;
}
$textToBeAdded = "add your html code here";
$inner_data['pwapp_post_content'] = $textToBeAdded.$inner_data['pwapp_post_content'];
return $data;
}
Add this code to functions.php
Continue reading “AndroApp Tricks to change post content”