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New Photo Gallery and More Product Updates

Check out what’s new with AppPresser this month. Photo Gallery You can now easily add a photo gallery to your app, and allow app users to upload photos from their device. Choose if you want to allow photo uploads, what photos you want to display, and how you want them displayed. Click a photo to…

Major Improvements to AppPresser Dashboard and Apps

This week we are releasing some major design and feature improvements to both the AppPresser app dashboard, and the apps themselves. App Dashboard Improvements The app dashboard received a major design overhaul, as well as some new features. The app dashboard has a better layout and design Some settings have moved from the app customizer…

Apple Allows Avoiding In App Purchases

Late last year, Apple cut in app purchase commissions in half (from 30% to 15%). More good news for app developers came out this week: Apple has agreed to allow a way to get around paying commissions on in app purchases. Apple was sued recently, and in the settlement they agreed to allow app developers…

AppPresser Updates June 2021

We’ve been working hard as usual, here are some of the new features, fixes, and improvements we’ve done over the last month or so. Support Over 1,000 email conversations in the last 30 days New Features Added support for “any” attributes in WooCommerce Use custom taxonomies in WordPress category list block – usage Added BuddyPress…

New WooCommerce App Features and Improvements

This month we’ve been working hard on WooCommerce app improvements, here’s what’s new. New Product Filter The new filter modal appears on your shop page, and allows app users to filter based on product attributes and categories. The filter pulls in all product attributes, such as size, color, gender, etc. It also includes all parent…

Custom App Spotlight: All the World – Better Learning

All the World is a weekly educational show featuring live-action videos for children, think “Mr. Rogers meets NatGeo”. Our Custom App Development Team developed the All The World mobile app which is available in the App Stores for download on iOS and Android Devices. This iOS and Android app features a weekly educational show with…

New Features and Improvements This Month

We are always releasing fixes and improvements, here’s the latest. Comments on API based Posts You can now show comments and add new ones on WordPress post list blocks. To enable comments, just check “Show Comments” on your WordPress post list block. For apps built prior to the date of this post, your app must…

How To Create Great Looking App Store Screenshots

Great screenshots are critical to making your app store listing attractive to collect more app downloads. In this article I’ll show you how to go beyond just grabbing screenshots from your app. Learn how to liven them up with attention grabbing titles background images, and device frames. Free Figma and Photoshop files included. Table of…

New App: Share and Upvote WordPress Community Content

The new Capital P Dangit app by AppPresser is live on the app stores. Download it (links below) to find the best content from around the WordPress community. Share, upvote, and even submit your articles in a user friendly mobile app. This app was built with AppPresser just for fun. Here are some of the…

Apple In App Purchase Fees Cut in Half

Apple recently announced that they will be dropping their commissions on in app purchases to 15% starting January 1st, 2021. The fees will be reduced for anyone making under $1 million per year, which they classify as Small Businesses. From Apple’s announcement: Existing developers who made up to $1 million in 2020 for all of…

New! Apple and Google Login

You can now allow your app users to easily login to your app with their Apple and Google accounts. (not available on all plans) With this feature enabled, your app users will be shown the standard email/password login, as well as buttons for Apple and Google Sign on. When they click one of the buttons,…

New! App Page Builder

Our new App Page Builder lets you create pages for your app easier than ever. Create custom page layouts Drag and drop components visually See changes right away, less rebuilding! No code required This is a huge improvement for creating custom pages in your apps, it’s faster and more intuitive. Create Custom Page Layouts Using…

Updates – Logins, Camera, and Email Notifications

This month we made some significant updates to AppPresser apps, here is a log of the important changes. September stats just for fun: > 75 code commits > 1700 email replies > dozens of bugs squashed Login Updates By default the WordPress login token (JWT) expires after 7 days. An expired token causes problems with…

New! Podcasting and Media Player Improvements

This month we made some big improvements to our media and podcasting features. Speed and Looping Now you can listen to podcasts (or any audio) faster or slower with our new speed adjustments. With the click of a button, listen at 1.5x, 2x, or .5x. The new loop button allows you to loop a single…

Version 3 Deprecation

AppPresser version 3 is now deprecated. That means we are no longer adding new features or bug fixes, any customers on v3 who wish to continue building apps should upgrade to AppPresser 4. Anyone who purchased after March 2020 or who already upgraded can ignore this article. Why It was not our intention to deprecate…

PhoneGap Build is Dead. Here are some alternatives.

PhoneGap Build, the cloud build service for hybrid Cordova and Ionic apps, will be discontinued later this year. The team at PhoneGap has been neglecting this service for a long time, so it’s not much of a surprise. Here at AppPresser we used their service in the past, and in this article we’ll talk about…

July Product Updates

This month we’ve been working hard fixing bugs and helping customers. Here are some of the recent product updates we’ve released. New HTML Validator One issue that was coming up a lot was broken builds due to invalid custom HTML. For example, if you forgot a closing tag or added an extra double quote, your…

In App Purchases and other product updates

Things have been very busy around here, support got pretty crazy due to the pandemic, but we are finally able to come up for air. We have some exciting updates for you this month. In App Purchases In app purchases got a total rewrite to make signups and cancellations more reliable, and make debugging easier.…

Should You Pay a Monthly or Yearly Fee for a Mobile App?

Recently a customer emailed me and said he was thinking about buying our product, but a developer approached him and said he could build an app with no monthly fee. Why should he pay us a monthly (or yearly) fee? After all, the app is done, why keep paying? Monthly fees are no fun, I…

Create a Mobile App For Your WordPress Membership Site

If you use a WordPress membership plugin like Memberpress, Restrict Content, Paid Memberships Pro, WooCommerce Memberships, and almost any other, you can build a mobile app for iOS and Android using AppPresser. (Updated for AppPresser 4) AppPresser has a more robust and customizable WordPress membership app builder than any other platform. Here are some things…

Everything you need to know about building mobile apps