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r1432922 r1433039 206 206 == Other Notes == 207 207 208 You are searching for an easy way to create an app out of your WordPress blog? Then Webapp is a great tool to convert your WordPress site into a native mobile app for iOS and Android in only a few minutes - including iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets! Webapp does not require any skills and no coding and even though you can individualize your app to your own needs. We even upload the App for you, so your readers can download your Android app and Apple app right from the App Stores. 209 210 Turn your WordPress blog into a native app for iOS and Android 211 **You can build your individual Android and Apple app using your favorite colors and your own logo. First of all, please install our free Webapp WordPress app plugin and then you can change your native app just the way you want it to look. Instantly test it using our Webapp Preview app for iOS and Android from the Apple App Store or Google Play™ Store. You can test it as long as you want. If you like it, go to and we will take care of publishing your very own app to the Apple and Google Play Store. Your readers can download your app from there and read your articles on their iPhone, iPad or Android smartphone. If you want to learn more about Webapp, please check out our website. 212 213 Increase the number of loyal readers of your blog with Push Notification in your own native app for Apple and Android 214 Notify your blog readers with our free push notification service build into the plugin. This service will increase your number of readers largely, as they will receive notifications on their iPhone, iPad or Android smartphone whenever you have to share something with them. You can decide when and what you want to push. The notifications pops up on the Apple or Android devices and are also highlighted in the app itself. We really want to make sure that your readers will never miss a story of you again! 215 216 Have your native app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices indexed by Google 217 As Google takes care of mobile friendliness as a ranking factor we have added an awesome feature to our Webapp apps: You can get your app indexed by Google with deeplinks right into your native app! This will help to boost your ranking and to gain more app installs and find new readers. At the moment this works for Android apps, but in the future iOS apps will also be indexed. 218 219 Features of the app 220 send push notifications to iOS and Android devices 221 share your app content to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and email 222 show the feed of your Facebook page in the app (optional) 223 allows commenting and reading comments in your native app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices 224 a list of the most popular articles instead of the categories or the latest articles up front 225 support for videos 226 show related articles at the bottom of your post in your native app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices 227 continual improvement of the app guaranteed 228 Features of the plugin 229 fully integrated in WordPress 230 send push notifications directly from a post or page in WordPress 231 edit teaser content in your native app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices 232 add category images for your app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices 233 individualize your app menu 234 set your home screen look 235 Contact form 7 support 236 There is more to come! These features are currently under development and will soon be part of Webapp: 237 image galleries 238 a growing number of available themes 239 support for wordpress.com 240 Android Tablet version 241 Windows Phone version 242 You are searching for an easy way to create an app out of your WordPress blog? Then Webapp is a great tool to convert your WordPress site into a native mobile app for iOS and Android in only a few minutes - including iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets! Webapp does not require any skills and no coding and even though you can individualize your app to your own needs. We even upload the App for you, so your readers can download your Android app and Apple app right from the App Stores. 243 244 Turn your WordPress blog into a native app for iOS and Android 245 **You can build your individual Android and Apple app using your favorite colors and your own logo. First of all, please install our free Webapp WordPress app plugin and then you can change your native app just the way you want it to look. Instantly test it using our Webapp Preview app for iOS and Android from the Apple App Store or Google Play™ Store. You can test it as long as you want. If you like it, go to and we will take care of publishing your very own app to the Apple and Google Play Store. Your readers can download your app from there and read your articles on their iPhone, iPad or Android smartphone. If you want to learn more about Webapp, please check out our website. 246 247 Increase the number of loyal readers of your blog with Push Notification in your own native app for Apple and Android 248 Notify your blog readers with our free push notification service build into the plugin. This service will increase your number of readers largely, as they will receive notifications on their iPhone, iPad or Android smartphone whenever you have to share something with them. You can decide when and what you want to push. The notifications pops up on the Apple or Android devices and are also highlighted in the app itself. We really want to make sure that your readers will never miss a story of you again! 249 250 Have your native app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices indexed by Google 251 As Google takes care of mobile friendliness as a ranking factor we have added an awesome feature to our Webapp apps: You can get your app indexed by Google with deeplinks right into your native app! This will help to boost your ranking and to gain more app installs and find new readers. At the moment this works for Android apps, but in the future iOS apps will also be indexed. 252 253 Features of the app 254 send push notifications to iOS and Android devices 255 share your app content to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and email 256 show the feed of your Facebook page in the app (optional) 257 allows commenting and reading comments in your native app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices 258 a list of the most popular articles instead of the categories or the latest articles up front 259 support for videos 260 show related articles at the bottom of your post in your native app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices 261 continual improvement of the app guaranteed 262 Features of the plugin 263 fully integrated in WordPress 264 send push notifications directly from a post or page in WordPress 265 edit teaser content in your native app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices 266 add category images for your app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices 267 individualize your app menu 268 set your home screen look 269 Contact form 7 support 270 There is more to come! These features are currently under development and will soon be part of Webapp: 271 image galleries 272 a growing number of available themes 273 support for wordpress.com 274 Android Tablet version 275 Windows Phone version 276 Other Notes 277 mobile App vs. mobile Web App vs. mobile site 278 What problem do we solve? 279 280 As soon as publisher decide on setting up an mobile app they face the choice between monotonous low-quality “mobile app builders” lacking the opportunity to create custom designs, because they will never have a chance against apps from professional mobile app agencies. However, agencies and freelancer are slow, changes can be implemented only by the developer and are tremendously expensive. We are a solution to this problem. 281 282 What is your solution? 283 284 We combine all advantages of mobile app builders, freelancers and agencies and additionally clear up all disadvantages. Sounds great, but let us explain how we achieve this: We offer a sophisticated system allowing publishers to create their very own top-notch native mobile app for their WordPress blog or YouTube channel for ios and android. In addition to that we only charge a small monthly fee and take over the hosting and general technical care. Furthermore, if requested, we develop a completely distinct and exclusive own custom mobile app design hand in hand with our customers - the same applies to specific desired functions. Webapp represents the golden mean between mobile app builders and agencies. 285 In every area of our lives we recognize the trend to mobiles devices and smartphones. Mobile Devices (Android Apps and iOS Apps) are everywhere and they are talking over task by task. We use a mobile app for communication, a mobile app for entertainment, a mobile app for booking, a mobile app for eating, a mobile app photos, a mobile app for meeting new people and especially a mobile app for getting informations and news on both android and ios. 286 287 Did you know that we spend more than 80% in native mobile apps when we use our android and ios devices? As a result, less than 20% of our smartphone use time is spend in browsers where people read your blog, and the trend is growing towards a mobile app. 288 289 If you are a publisher with a large audience and do not have a mobile app yet, your readers have no possibility to be up-to-date with your news. Only through a native mobile app you can unfilteredly reach your target group through push notifications. In addition to that, a native mobile app creates a whole different feeling when using it. It can use the core advantages of native software and access powerful frameworks and offer tremendous features. 290 291 Since you are on our page, chances are that you have already tried out different mobile app builder solutions. You may have also noticed that a vast majority of mobile app builders are complex to use, look unprofessional and unclean and are very limited in both function and design. 292 293 We are bloggers ourselves and also discovered these issues when trying to create a mobile app. You can either use an overpriced mobile app builder or offer a professional agency that takes very long and is very expensive as well. 294 Its unique approach, though, is clearly aimed at developers so what options exist for those WordPress users who want to deliver their WordPress content via a mobile app but don’t wish to get their hands dirty with PhoneGap? 295 296 In this article, I take a look at five other plugins that all deliver a mobile app and discover that if you are willing to compromise the process is surprisingly simple and cost effective. 297 The simple, easy-to-follow, building process operates entirely on the Webapp website although you will need to install a plugin that provides a JSON API for accessing content for both the building process and the app itself 298 299 The customization options allow for basic color selection, selecting the format of the home page and deciding which categories (maximum of 10) and pages to include. 300 301 The app features a slick slide-out menu (automatically populated with links to Home and the selected categories and pages), a search function (disconcertingly, on the preview of the app it doesn’t search your site but the generic demo site) and a back button. 302 303 The preview app did not seem to recognise any formatting, so posts were displayed as a dump of text with no paragraphs. Whether this is restricted to just the preview, I’m not sure. 304 305 Webapp is easy to use and it takes a little more than five minutes to have an app up and running. The preview, though, is not that inspiring and left me wondering if this was really what my app would look like. Perhaps for $69, I’d be willing to risk it but if you are going to have a preview, and for these tools it’s pretty much essential, then it should be as close to the real thing as possible. 306 307 As even Webapp shows, creating an app for the mobile platforms is an involved, technical process that is not for the feint-hearted. Not surprisingly, then, services and their associated plugins have been created to smooth the process and make app publishing available to anyone who wants it. 308 309 Even though Webapp is aimed at developers, the basic aim is to produce a mobile app and so it was a little surprising to see some commentators claim that Webapp has no competition. Sure, there are significant differences between the newcomer and the existing plugins and services but they have a common goal: the creation of a mobile app. 310 So we thought there has to be a better way and we invented Webapp - the golden mean between mobile app builders and agencies for an android app and an ios app. We offer a strong background system, take care of the whole process of publishing, managing and updating your mobile app for ios and android and offer affordable prices. Furthermore we enable you to better monetize your mobile app for android and ios and earn more money. We do not limit push notifications. Once set up, you never have to worry about your mobile app again. Push notifications are sent completly automatically - no action required. In our strong analytics system you can watch your mobile app growing. 311 312 The best thing is that we want you to be happy with your app so we decided not to charge any money until you are 100% satisfied and decide to release your mobile app for ios to the app store and your android app to the play store. You can try and experiment with every function and design your mobile app as long as you like for free and test your android app and ios app on your devices. 313 314 Once you are content with your mobile app you can hand it over to us and we will take care of the remaining process. We will hand your iOS App over to Apple and your Android App to Google and offer strong servers that process the content of your mobile app. Your site does not have to struggle with an extra amount of traffic. 315 316 Uppsite offers a very comprehensive wizard and configuration options, all from within the WordPress Admin interface. 317 318 That said, there are two issues with the app building process which make it an unsatisfying user experience. 319 320 Firstly, although there’s a large superfluous image of an iPhone on every page, it’s not a preview which you would reasonably expect. 321 322 Secondly, there’s no access to the many premium features, even just for previewing, without at least signing-up for the 7-day trial which involves providing payment details. Yes, you can cancel but this is an unnecessary hurdle. 323 324 The problem is caused by Uppsite offering a free plan that provides an HTML5 app. The premium features apply equally to that app as they do to the mobile app making it difficult for Uppsite to make the premium features previewable on the free account but at the same time preventing them from flowing through to the HTML5 app. 325 326 This needs to be addressed because it hinders what looks to be a very promising product. 208 327 209 328 == Changelog ==
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