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2013 in video ... here's how we had fun :)

We had a lot of funny moments this year ... Here's what happens behind the scenes :) Thank you all for your great support. You can't imagine how 2014 will be a great year!

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How to promote your app on your website? #2

We have already talked about it in the past, now we will resume what has been said and delve further into the subject. As you all know, an app can help you to increase your customer base and your traffic. But before this can be possible is important that your new app is presented to the world! You must to expect a normal period of transition in which you will try to redirect the users of your mobile website to your app. At this point, it is usual to undertake marketing strategies to promote the app and make it known to the world.

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Merry christmas :)

Merry christmas, with love from the GoodBarber team!

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10 reasons to create an app!

We have discussed many times the "benefits" that the creation of an app can bring to your brand, not only as a commercial brand, but also as a blog, a VIP, a radio, a club, etc.   Nowadays, native apps provide a better user experience and improve the way content is made available. The experience that a mobile application offers to users is much more rewarding than the one offered by a mobile web app.

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GoodBarber FAQs about mobile app development #4

Today we're focusing on three new subjects: native apps vs. web apps, which platform is the better to start, and app analytics! Learn what our team can tell you about these questions.

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The magic of Christmas in your app!

Trees decorated to the nines, sparkling lights, smell of hot chocolate down the streets and soft white snow that covers everything. Christmas is coming! Every city, with all the christmas decorations, is so much beautiful in this period. And what about your app? Is it maybe less important? Does not deserve to be decorated? Your users will appreciate that you want to support the Christmas mood! :D Here some advice to design your app for this period of festivity!

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Beautiful Apps Engine: Update #1771

Add OpenAdsInExternal in JSON parameters to open the ads links in SafariAdd "Helvetica Neue Ultra Light" fontUsername and mail are now saved in post comments

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GoodBarber FAQs about mobile app development #3

Today we're focusing on three new subjects: what "submission" means exactly, what can make a great church app, and Flat design! Learn what our team can tell you about these questions.

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How to plug social networks sharing features in your app

Your GoodBarber app embeds social sharing features that will help your users to spread the word about your content. It means that almost everywhere in the app, your readers have access to a "share" button that will lead them the sharing screen.   You've probably already added such features to your website: you can easily understand that the more the process will be easy for your users to share your posts or videos, the more they'll share it :)   Since the GoodBarber 2.5 Salvador release, we've also integrated Facebook likes into the apps. It means that once your reader is logged in your app with his Facebook account, he'll just have to click on the "heart" button to like the post he's reading. It's not exactly the same action than a real Facebook share: a share will create a new post in the user's timeline, and a like will just appear in the Facebook ticker feed.   To be honnest, as a Facebook user, I prefer most of the times to just "like" a blog post than to actually "share" it to my friends: the two actions are totally different and apply in different situations.   GoodBarber also allows you to ask your users to login using Facebook or Twitter to post a comment, to bookmark a content, or to submit a picture/video/text from a Submit section. You should enable this feature if you don't want the comments on your website to be anonymous.

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GoodBarber FAQs about mobile app development #2

Today we're focusing on three new subjects: monetization, featured placements in Google Play, and the time needed to create an app. Learn what our team can tell you about these questions.

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Beautiful Apps Engine: Update #1693

Memory optimizationBug fix: Fix wrong background frame for app with colored background in twitter detailBug fix: Set text align in JSON is now working

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GoodBarber FAQs about mobile app development #1

These are the first videos of a new series that we've just begun. Three times a week, we'll publish a short video on our YouTube channel (if you're not already subscribed to it, you should!) to answer a question asked by our users.

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Súmate al Éxito: A beautiful app for a web TV

Súmate al Éxito is a web magazine based in Peru for entrepreneurs. In its web site, you can find informations about marketing, entrepreneurship, business, etc. You will find a lot of videos and articles about this subjects .  We let you discover this application with our showcase :)

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Towards applications always faster!

Since we launched GoodBarber, our goal has always been to offer applications with the best user experience. Beyond the interest that they can present for the final users, our approach — which is mainly shared by the industry — is to estimate the user experience of an application by the design and the fluidity (speed) of the interface. Our second goal is to give our users the maximum flexibility in the management of their application with the diversity of the settings, and by modifying it easily. It's the reason why we created a system of remote control for the applications updates. As fast as possible, this tool helps you updating all the base installed (design for example) on your app without an other submission to the stores. The combination of these various constraints created a complex equation to be solved. Because the largest the flexibility of the settings is, the most complicated it is to keep the speed and  fluidity of the interface. And conversely, the more we look for speed, the less settings we can propose. We dedicate a big part of our work to keep on improving GoodBarber and make it the sharpest DIY software to create beautiful app (especially through the GoodBarber 2.5 Salvador update). In parallel our team works on the optimisation of the application after every release. 

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Beautiful Apps Engine: Update #1660

Add method "gbGetPlayingLivePlusParams" in Plugin sectionPlugin section : management of "contentUrl" parameter in section initializationAdd SearchBar placeholder customization

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Discover our brand new Italian and Spanish blogs

Hey GoodBarbers! It has been a few months now since GoodBarber begun to speak Italian and Spanish. And you're now more and more users coming from Italy, Spain and Latin America. So we've decided to now open our blog in Italian and Spanish ! If you receive our weekly newsletter, you'll also receive our content in your language automatically. You can follow our Twitter accounts : - @goodbarber for news in English - @goodabrberFR for news in French - @goodbarberES for news in Spanish - @goodbarberIT for news in Italian 

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3 tips to create a great splash screen for your mobile app

When you are considering how to make an app for iPhone, Android, or any other platform, you must add a killer splash screen if you want to ensure a good launch experience for your users. After all, the splash screen is the first image that is seen when your app is opened. So, let's review some tips that will help make your app a success, shall we?

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GoodBarber #Students contest: Winter 2013 edition

Hey Italian Students! GoodBarber's contest for Italian devs is coming back for a second round in Florence the 15th of December.    Apply to the contest on our Studends page. We will choose 20 developer, which will participate to the final session in Florance where they will show us all them development skills!   The best two developers will win a paid internship with the GoodBarber team in Ajaccio, Corsica.   Don't lose the opportunity to improve your skills with a great team of experts! Have a look to the the Students page and find all the information!   We are waiting for you!

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Understand your mobile app's traffic statistics

In your GoodBarber backend, you can find several types of usage statistics for your app. In this post, we are going to review the traffic statistics (that you can find in the Audience > Statistics > Traffic menu). These stats will help you to measure the numbers of your app's readers, and their loyalty. Here are some definitions, and some ways to analyze them. Keep in mind that you can consult your stats specifically for iOS or Android, or for both platforms. You can also choose the time range to analyze.

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Beautiful Apps Engine: Update #1614

You can now create a LivePlus section from a Plugin section"Scroll to top" feature is now implemented for Article and Video detailBug fix: Built-in CMS post comment is now working