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Did you know that since the Beautiful Apps Engine Update #753, you can now add a Search Engine to your app ? It can be very useful for your users, by allowing them to search a specific term within the whole content of your blog.
Many of you have enabled the social sharing options into your apps, and you're right! It's a very good way to encourage your users to spread the word about your app and your content. Since last week, the Android beta is opened on GoodBarber. You probably noted that new options have appeared in your backend: in expert mode, you can now upload a specific icon and a specific splash screen for your Android app. In order to set up properly the sharing options in your app, you need to set up a new parameter in the Facebook and Twitter apps you have already created. Here is a little summary of the modifications you have to apply to your social apps if you have already created them.
Time has come to create Beautiful Apps for Android ! Today, we are very happy to open GoodBarber for Android. Thanks everyone for your kind messages to encourage us during the final stretch. The team worked very hard to finish the Beautiful Apps Engine for Android as quick as possible. From now on, you can enjoy on your Android device almost all the features of GoodBarber. There is still work to be done. This is the reason why we say this is a beta. But you’ll see, the result is already fantastic! If you want, you can even submit your app on Google Play. If you do so, take the time to review your app before publishing. Hey, it’s a beta ;) Last thing, remember that every Tuesday, we update GoodBarber with new features. You’ll be able to publish a new version of your app on Google Play, in order to make it even more beautiful ;) Now, go to your backend and have fun ! (or test for free if you're not already a GoodBarber)
Beautiful Apps - iPhone Android - by GoodBarber. This is the title of our first iBook. It has just been published on the iBook Store. Download it for free and you'll discover all the great features GoodBarber has to offer.
Le Radio show ended yesterday in Paris. These three days have been an opportunity for us to gather lots of ideas to improve GoodBarber, in order to make it the best solution for creating mobile applications for radio stations. This is also an opportunity to review the features available with GoodBarber for radios. Please note: we'll update this blog post as we go along so don't mind the publication date ;)
GoodBarber has developped 25 connectors (and counting) to retrieve your articles, photos, videos, events, sounds, tweets, …well, you get the idea :) Use them to put all your content at your users's fingertips. The idea is simple. From your backend, different sections can be created in your app. Each section corresponds to a type of content. Behind each section is linked a source. Here is the list of the supported external services. Keep in mind that this list is growing.
Bloggers, this theme is for you. Use it to unify your web presence. It was especially crafted for those publishing a high volume of content : news, videos, photos, podcasts, etc. Looking at the root view, you see that our designer chose a tab bar for the navigation. But you notice that Blow has also a sub-navigation, with a "circle band", at the top of the screen. Very useful to offer a clear navigation among a lot of content. In the detailed view, the tool bar is at the bottom. Select the option you want to propose. In this exemple, comments, sharing, font size and add to faves are enable. Blow is one of the 50+ themes available in your GoodBarber backend. Use it as a starting point to create your Beautiful App .
It's been exactly once week now, since we have widely opened GoodBarber 2 beta to the public. We are very exited because, everyday, many of you try it and give their feedback. It helps us to speed up the pace to stabilize GoodBarber 2, so that it is rolled out earlier than expected. Thanks to your experienced tests, we were able to publish last tuesday the first update of GoodBarber 2. Here is the changelog of what's new :
Hello GoodBarbers! It's been a long wait but now ... time has come :) In a few clicks, you will be able to test GoodBarber V2. This edition is called "Beautiful Apps" because we focused like no other on design. We hope you will enjoy the brand new back end, and get the inspiration to create the app that stands out from the crowd. Before you start, keep in mind that GB V2 is still in beta. We look forward to reading your feedback. Now, let's have fun and create your first Beautiful App ! www.goodbarber.com Enjoy ;) The GoodBarber Team
We know that those of you who have registered for the Beta Goodbarber V2 can't wait to try it out. But be aware that it's just as unbearable for the whole team because we really look forward to your first impressions! So to help you you while waiting, we offer those 2 videos of demo made by our friend FredZone one introducing the applications, the other one the backoffice. Here is also a link to Kriisiis.fr article showing GoodBarber among other projects announced at Web'12. Hoping to whet your appetite, Rendez-vous at the opening of the BETA. Just few more days to go :)
As discussed with many of you during the GoodBarber Summer Tour 2012, by the end of this year, GoodBarber will be pushed to the next level ! Today, we open the private beta of GoodBarber #V2. You can request an invite from this page to participate in : http://www.goodbarber.com/new/ Time has come to create Beautiful Apps ;)
GoodBarber now has a plug-in for users of the Content Management System (CMS) SPIP. This plug-in%28computing%29 , when installed on your server, allows you to generate a pro forma XML feed. You specify the source stream in your GoodBarber back office. Import your site contents to your mobile application, and provide an improved user experience compared to a standard RSS feed.
With the various 2012 elections, GoodBarber has strengthened its status as the mobile solution for public figures. Several politicians are now using our service to ensure their presence in the App Store, Google Play, or Windows Marketplace. To ensure their mobile presence, Jean-Pierre Chèvenement (Senator, former Minister) and Paul Giacobbi (MP, Chairman of the Executive Council of Corsica) have been using our service for a long time. They also use WMaker, Goodbarber’s sister service for the web.
Enhance your application with your tweets, and allow your readers to reply or retweet you directly from your application. Our goal is to enable you to combine all of your content sources in one single application, and to offer an exciting and unique experience for your readers. Integrating Twitter with GoodBarber was planned on our roadmap . For several days, your back office Sources page has included a space for Twitter. It’s extremely simple: you have to click twice. Your live thread is displayed on the application, and the “Reply” and “Retweet” options are available.
As promised, GoodBarber is enhanced with new content sources. In terms of video, your Dailymotion channels and playlists can now be connected to your application. It functions the same as YouTube in the GoodBarber back office. Enter the name of your Dailymotion channel on the Sources page. GoodBarber will recognize it and ask you either to import all videos, or import one or more of your playlists. If you select the playlists, you can connect as many as you like by pairing each playlist with a navigation tab located on your tab bar. Your application can keep your videos on a single tab with your other content sources and even become a real “video app.”
Since the end of last week, the iPad apps that you configure with GoodBarber are up to Retina Display standard. We had announced it last Thursday in our blog. Since Friday, your GoodBarber apps have an optimized display for every version of the iPad, even the new iPad with Retina display.
Conscious to closely follow market developments and benefit you to the greatest degree, an iOS update is coming soon so that your apps are up-to-date with the new iPad. We’ve been on the starting blocks since March 7th, and even before. If you follow us on Twitter, you’ve probably seen photos of the new model that we received last Friday. We were eager to test GoodBarber apps on the new iPad, but not without some anxiety. Display problems can always be a possibility, especially in the case of a version with a doubled screen resolution. Pleasant surprise, GoodBarber apps remain stable on the new iPad, but we will make quick adjustments to our system so that you are able to take full advantage of the Retina Display. We will allow GoodBarber users to load images that are twice as big. And you will all benefit from a free update for your iOS app, so that you can bring your apps to new iPad’s level. We will talk to you about it again soon.