Want to promote your App?

You’ve invested the time and effort to build an incredible new PocketPlatform App.  Now you want people to know about it!  Apple and Google offer some simple and straight forward ways to promote your App on your website(s).  Best of all, these methods pull information from the store that’s relevant to the device (Apple App Store for iOS devices, Google Play Store for Android devices) and users can quickly click on the install link to get the App.

Apple Devices

In the Apple method, you need to take a quick step to find out the App Store ID for your App and then drop a meta tag on your website.  You can find out all the details in this developer article on Apple’s website.  Bear in mind you’ll need:

• Access to edit the HTML for your website or administrator access to the website’s CMS where you can edit the meta tags on the whole site.
• Knowledge of which App in the App Store is yours so that you can find the App Store ID.

Google Devices

In the Google method, you’ll need a little more technical ability in order to create a couple of new features for your website.  Check out this developer article on Google’s website to see the details.  Bear in mind you’ll need:

• Access to edit the HTML for your website or administrator access to the website’s CMS where you can edit the meta tags on the whole site.
• Ability to create / modify the website’s manifest file (this is a simple text file located in the root directory of your website).
• Ability to create a simple JavaScript function on your website to display the banner and button.