Dominique Siacci, Tuesday 3 December 2013

Beautiful Apps Engine: Update #1693

Memory optimization
Bug fix: Fix wrong background frame for app with colored background in twitter detail
Bug fix: Set text align in JSON is now working
Dumè Siacci, Friday 29 November 2013

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.
Written on Thursday 28 November 2013

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 :)
Méryl Fiamma, Wednesday 27 November 2013

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. 
Mathieu Poli, Tuesday 26 November 2013

Beautiful Apps Engine: Update #1660

Add method "gbGetPlayingLivePlusParams" in Plugin section
Plugin section : management of "contentUrl" parameter in section initialization
Add SearchBar placeholder customization
Dumè Siacci, Monday 25 November 2013

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 
Jerome Granados, Monday 25 November 2013

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?
Dumè Siacci, Thursday 21 November 2013

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!
Dumè Siacci, Wednesday 20 November 2013

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.
Sergio Miranda Carvalho, Tuesday 19 November 2013

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 detail
Bug fix: Built-in CMS post comment is now working
Written on Monday 18 November 2013

Alex, the italien guy ;)

Hi everyone!   My name is Alex, I’m an iOS developper, from Genoa (Italy) and I started to work for GoodBarber in September after 2 months of internship.   My passion for the development began when I was in high school. My parents gave me my first iPhone, and since I could not change the background image, I began to do research how to customize my phone. In this way I discovered the jailbreak ... and the rest is history.   Some people know me as MPow in the jailbreak scene, I love to make jailbreak tweaks and apps for iOS.   Right now I'm studying IT at the University of Genova, and I live and work in Ajaccio, for GoodBarber of course.
Written on Friday 15 November 2013

Friday Talk: My GoodBarber App

Today we're going to talk about My GoodBarber app. You all already know what it is, but do you really know how to use it?
Sergio Miranda Carvalho, Tuesday 12 November 2013

Beautiful Apps Engine: Update #1568

Add MobPartner Stats SDK
Bug fix: Fix a shifting on Grid navigation mode
Bug fix: Automatic status bar text color on Grid navigation mode
Bug fix: Fix some fails on settings images download
Sara Guiral, Monday 11 November 2013

Living an adventure

Hi everybody!   I’m Sara and last week I joined the GoodBarber team.   I’m graduated in Advertising and Public Relations in Barcelona, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. The first job that I had got was at Orbyce Comunicación a PR Barcelona’s agency and then I worked for HelloPlan a technological StartUp in Marketing Department.
Written on Friday 8 November 2013

Friday Talk: How to deal with localization?

Today we're going to talk about localization. Localization is the process of adapting a product or service to a particular language, culture, etc. So you will discover how GoodBarber is adapted for you and how to adapt your application for your users. 
Dumè Siacci, Thursday 7 November 2013

Showcase: Vineyard App

An other beautiful app created with GoodBarber. We love to see how our users can make such great apps with the product! Look at this showcase, and go to download the app :)
Dumè Siacci, Wednesday 6 November 2013

Discover the brand new My GoodBarber app!

The new version of the My GoodBarber app is available on the stores since last week. We designed it to be your best companion, all along your app lifetime.   You'll discover some useful features to manage your app on a daily basis. 
Mathieu Poli, Tuesday 5 November 2013

Beautiful Apps Engine: Update #1513

New NavBar effects (transparency, blur and disparition)
Increased size of NavBar background image
Increased size of NavBar
Dumè Siacci, Monday 4 November 2013

Highlight the content that attracts your readers

Your app is designed to give access to your content in a fluid, efficient, mobile-friendly user interface. So, what you want to do first, when you put content into your app, is to sync the last published posts of your website.   We also already talked about adding filters to show categories or on predefined searches, in order to refine your app's content.   But, do you think you really know what really catches your readers attention? GoodBarber knows :) A good way to enhance the user experience in your app is to push content that has already been proven to be popular content!   You've probably already noticed the Popular section in your GoodBarber backend. Its goal is exactly to display your most popular content. We'll review together everything that you should know to use it efficiently.
Sergio Miranda Carvalho, Tuesday 29 October 2013

Beautiful Apps Engine: Update #1485

Bug fixed: status bar color on first launch for Swipe and LittleSwipe
Bug fixed: wrong pager color (Minimal template)
Dumè Siacci, Monday 28 October 2013

Create a mobile app for ANY website

We always talk about the dozen of connectors GoodBarber provides you to publish your content in your app. To this day, there are more than 30! But now, you may be wondering what a connector is? You might also be disappointed to see that your favorite platform isn't in our connector list.  We do our best to offer a native experience, synching content from the most popular solutions in the market, but there are thousands! Today, I'd like to introduce you to our custom connector. This connector makes GoodBarber compliant with all existing services to publish content. Of course, the downside is that it involves work on your part... but, by the end of this post, you'll see that it's not that difficult. Let's discover together how to create an app for your Joomla, Drupal, ezPublish, Spip ... or any other solution, even one created from scratch.