AppsGeyser is proud to introduce a range of new features to the messenger Android app template. There are many new features that can help you create and customize your template to suit your personal and business needs.

free messenger Android app

• In-App Media Playback and Search in Chats  – You can now add videos and audio that is hosted online directly in your chats. This will open a window so the audio and/or video can be viewed directly without having to leave the app. You can also search for content within the app history.

Messenger Android app new features. Multimedia support

• Custom Sticker Sets - Using your own set of images, you can create your very own custom sticker set that can be used on your telegram messenger app. This is a fantastic feature for both personal apps and business apps.

Messenger Android app: Stickers

• Places, Photo Captions, lots of user interface improvements  – You can now add landmarks to your location, captions to your photos and even keep track of your voice messages that have been sent and received. There are now new emojis and rich-link previews, and even smart notifications have been introduced.

• 11 new languages – AppsGeyser has added their own personal feature that will allow the messenger app to now support 11 new languages. Updated languages list: English, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Arabic, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Korean, Russian, Catalan, Parsi, Finnish, French, Galician, Japanese, Slovak, Chinese, Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese Traditional (Taiwan).

• Bots - Now you can add your own code to customize your app even further. Bots can be coded to set a reminder and to add new stickers. The options are endless. There are plenty of options that you can already choose from, or you can create your own. For more details on creating a bot follow the bot creation guide here.

Messenger Android app: Create your own Bot

AppsGeyser is proud to be able to support your use of the Messenger app. If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact a member of our team.

Click here to create your messenger app today

We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.

I have had many questions regarding our previous post and messenger customizations. I need to explain that customization of the messenger app, including adding bots and stickers is a process that is done on the personal level. This means that you add the customization to your app on your device and not during the app making process.

The customization that you create will only work on YOUR app and not that of your app users. This is a very important fact to understand.

To help you customize your app I would like to show you how to add bots and stickers.

Firstly open your messenger app on your phone.

When open it, you will see the search feature with the magnifying glass icon on the top right.

Messenger app search – use @ and Bot name

In the search, you can look for a range of bots and sticker files. Here are some that you may wish to add:

• @ImageBot – send this bot a keyword and it’ll provide you with a relevant picture.
• @TriviaBot – test your trivia knowledge or add to groups to compete with friends.
• @PollBot – add this one to group chats to create polls.
• @RateStickerBot – discover and rate new stickers.
• @AlertBot – set a time and this bot will send you a reminder for anything you like.
• @HotOrBot – find friends with this Tinder-like dating bot.

To discover new bots you can use this:

• @StoreBot – find new bots and rate them.

In order to find new stickers for your installed messenger template, open this website from the mobile device that your messenger template has been installed on: http://telegramstickers.altervista.org. There are many sticker packs here that you can simply install direct to your working app.

Choose sticker package for your messenger app

If you have any further questions please feel free to contact a member of the team. I am sure you will love using this messenger app just as much as we do. Did you know that the mode of communication in the AppsGeyser office is with this app template?

We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.

All is fair in games and war, and the same applies to business. The app world is extremely competitive, and many apps are fighting to gain loyalty from their app users. Think about it.There are 200 apps all aimed at the same topic, doing the same thing, so why would your app user stay with your app and not try another?

It’s time to use some emotional triggers to improve your Android app loyalty. Human beings are not logical creatures. If we were, then we would all study hard at school, start saving for our retirement from the moment we start working, eat healthy and exercise – instead, well, instead most people just go with the flow. What keeps most on track is an emotional pull. Emotions pull us towards the people we love and the brands we’re loyal to. Time to bring that loyalty to our app. So how can you create an emotional trigger inside of an app?

Trigger emotion on your Android app – using cute kids helps

Emotion

We have found that visuals are often the most successful of all tricks to trigger an emotional response. The visuals do not have to be of starving children left in a warzone. No, triggering emotion means playing on all our emotions, including humor. There are sites, such as Cheezburger that is an example of a humorous website that makes you go back for more, as is College humor.

If you look at the actual content and style of these sites, they are extremely simple. It is the content and not site design that is stirring an emotional response – laughter.  How many times have you sat in your car on a long journey and on comes an old song that sends you back to your past? The nostalgia triggers another response in us, making you feel warm and fuzzy. I have to say, we are often in the car and my kids start to cringe when old songs come on. Like a little old woman (and I’m not that old) I will happily sing along to a song and then start telling my kids stories of ‘when I was younger’… Radio stations are extremely easy to create via AppsGeyser.

Think how you have loyalty for a particular brand. In blind taste tests Pepsi performs better than Coke. However, once the blindfold is off – Coke beats Pepsi by a mile (and it shows in the company stocks as well). Why is this? It all comes down to the memories and emotional triggers that the brand of Coke has managed to achieve, so much so that people are more willing to drink a drink that has not won in a taste test! The emotion controls our loyalty.

The real question is – what emotion do you want to trigger?

Design

What you need first is great design. Get your brand designed before you start to make an app. Create a well thought out visual design for your brand that will then transfer over into your app. What you also have to ensure is that you have made your website and any other URL link that you are converting into an app, mobile friendly. If the URL you are using is not mobile friendly you will lose all your brand style, and thus you will lose your loyalty.

Ensuring that you website is mobile friendly will simplify the web elements so that navigation is clear. Instead of multiple columns of text, which looks great on a website – make one column of text (not too wide). Minimize graphics to the most basic elements that pop out instead of having cluttered design. Think about font size – not all of us have perfect vision – and the older we get (keep the comments to yourself) the harder it is to differentiate subtle color differences. Make sure everyone can read the font sizes on your app without expanding. Keep contrast between the text and the background – and for goodness sake – Do Not Put White Text on a Black Background.

Care

Push notifications can be either the angel that promotes your app or the devil that makes your users hate you and turn them off. What we are saying here is don’t send push notifications just for the sake of it. Make them relevant and don’t send them every five minutes. Make sure you are sending something that will benefit the user and not as spam for yourself. Make the user feel as if you are sending them something personal for them. Show the user how much you care, and they will respond in turn.

Give people the ability to share on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter from your app. If you’re about images then consider Pinterest, and if about content then also Reddit and Digg.

Be there when they need you. Do you have a Facebook page for your app? What about Twitter? If someone has a question / comment / compliment – can they find you? Because they should be able to.

We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.

It is time for you to create an Android app with unique content. Some of the best content out there on the net is the content that simply does not fit in any box, is unique and grabs attention. To make a name for yourself, you should aim to create content that no one else has thought of, and that is not an easy task.

Thinking outside the box is what you need to do. College Humor has done just that and created a range of videos based upon taking a usual situation, and turning it upside down. I have to say that I am addicted to their content. The ideas that they come up with are simply amazing, and the person that decided to turn Dora the Explorer into a real action explorer simply deserves a medal. They took a simple idea, turned it upside down and came out with what can be considered one of the funniest sketches of all time. Now, I may have found this funny because I am a parent that has been made to suffer through numerous episodes of Dora the Explorer, so I could relate to the character.

Taking an idea like this, you too can start to create your own content based on everyday situations, turning them into comical sketches. Humor sells and humor builds loyalty. When you are smiling you are winning.

Now time for you to join in the fun….just for you, please, sit back and enjoy Dora the Explorer – The real action movie trailer.

We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.

You have all the good intentions of starting your very own Android app career. You have the idea in place, the content all ready, and you even know how you want to market your app. So what is stopping you from starting your Android app career?

What is distracting your and your Android app career

Many of us sadly get distracted way too easily, leading to our inevitable app making failure. In this post I am going to highlight the main sources of distraction in the hope to keep you from making the same mistakes as many others have. It is time to put the distractions aside, and begin your career in Android app making.

1: Social networks – You are all set to get your social media plans up and running. Social media is perfect for marketing your android app career and building your audience prior to releasing your app. BUT, oh dear, you just can’t stop clicking over from your newly founded business profiles to your personal social profiles. Just that one second look to see if you’ve received a notification will take you off track for the next 10-20 minutes. You may very well think that split second look at your personal profile won’t set you back, but it will. That one second stops your concentration. It stops that train of thought and it takes time to get that back, losing you plenty of precious time. And by then, oh oops, you have clicked back to your personal page again, and that cycle of concentration lapses has repeated itself again.

2: Mobile phones – Beep, vibrate, ring. Oh, the joy of being connected. If you are not turning your phone off, or at least putting your phone on silent then you are setting yourself up for multiple disruptions. It isn’t just the two minute phone call that stops your train of thought. Once you have answered that call, how can you ignore those social network notifications? And how can you not click on to your favorite app? Do you have the urge to read that whatsapp message on the school notice group, even though you know it’s about the upcoming trip and not relevant right now? Of course you have to click on it. Well, that’s another hour of work gone. Time to turn that phone OFF.

3: Lack of organization – Today on the to-do list you want to create a social media contact list for Twitter, you want to upload some new images, oh and you want to delete and rewrite just one paragraph. And don’t forget that you want to create a new logo and research branding ideas. Well, once again you find yourself clicking from one thing to another. If you are not clear on your objectives of the day, or have too many conflicting ideas, then you will never get through the list and will spend your time clicking back and forth between each of the tasks you know need to be done.

4: Workspace – Your sofa is beautiful and ever so comfy, but it is NOT the ideal place for you to work from. If you want to work from home, you need to set yourself up a space that will provide comfort and no distractions. Having the kids running around, or seeing the breakfast bowls that need cleaning in the corner of your eye will simply keep giving you excuses to stop working. If you are at home there is always something that will distract you. The kids have the TV too loud, your partner is asking you questions. Stop. Clearing one hour with no distractions will benefit you much more than working through six hours of distraction. Find that time and place to work without distractions.

No more excuses… Go and start your Android app career today.

We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.

Do you want to enjoy your app’s success, but wonder how to market it to a wide audience? Well, it is time you introduced a Pinterest Pin button to your android app

Pinterest is a fun and visual social media site, used for sharing images. Marketers have jumped on this social platform and are using it as part of their product growth strategy. There is huge growth on this platform. In fact it’s growth patterns have reflected the same growth pattern as Facebook did in 2006-7.

Pinterest has an audience that is contributing for the long term. Unlike a gaming platform, people are sharing images, images which they are attached to for personal and business reasons, and therefore they are committed to this platform.

In its first 8 months, Pinterest only had 40,000 unique users, but the platform’s growth snowballed with the number of shares it was receiving. The sharing aspect of this platform is what makes it a great tool for marketing your business.

It is time for you to add the Pinterest button to your app, and get your users to begin to share images from your app onto this fantastic social and viral media site. We have recently been adding different styles of customized code to our blog, and these codes are now available on our AppsGeyser Academy YouTube channel.

View the video below to add a Pinterest Pin Button to your Android app. Have fun, and enjoy this wonderful customized code.

We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.

Have you got dreams to give up the day job and sit back waiting for your Android apps to bring in a high-rolling salary for you? You are not alone. The competition that you are facing is harsh, but the dream can become a reality if you are willing to put in the work and focus on marketing your Android apps.

AppsGeyser has provided free to use Android app templates and continues to provide on-going customer service to help you customize and distribute your Android apps. However, what AppsGeyser can not do for you is to carry out your marketing. AppsGeyser will let you know the tools and tactics you need to implement for Android app success, but the rest of the work is up to you.

The most successful of all Android apps are those that have a strong social media presence. Using social media profiles can help you to build, engage and maintain a loyal audience.

Social media marketing is not for the fainthearted. It is not about posting your app and spamming people with adverts about your business. It is all about the engagement. You need to be grabbing your audience through the links you share, and the conversations you make. Social media marketing is focused upon getting the audience to know the people behind the business, and getting them to love you and become loyal to you. Today we are going to look at how we can engage our social media audience so that we can continue to build apps, and build our app business successfully.

Android App Marketing is vital for success – image via geekszine

1: Make time:  You will not need to break the bank to use social media for your marketing. Social media is free, but your time is not. Using this technique to get your app known is by far the most successful, and it is also by far the most time consuming. To get the most out of your social media marketing campaign, you need to either employ a social media person, or be prepared to be active for a few hours every single day. Of course this is not as daunting as you may think. Social media is available on every mobile device. Therefore you can divide your time between social online networking and responding to messages and notifications. The latter can be completed from your mobile device as and when a notification becomes available. Social networking should be a scheduled plan for you initially, ensuring you really build your audience. After a while this will wane and you can focus upon your notifications and engagement. When you begin your social media profiles, you must be prepared at the beginning to talk to yourself before people being to reply.

2: Advertise your social profiles – Make sure that people coming to you, either from your website, from any form of advertising, or through any contact with you are given easy access to your social profiles. Make your social media outlets clear on all your paperwork, website, app, blog and where ever there is any form of written text. Many of the templates on AppsGeyser have the ability to add tabs. If your website does not have social media buttons, add another tab on your mobile app app with links to all your social media. You want to ensure that your audience has a way to get connected with you. Building an audience is like watching a snowball roll down a mountain; it begins slowly and gradually increases speed and size.

3: Plan your social platforms – There are so many different platforms out there. One piece of advice: you do NOT have to be active on them all. Choose just two platforms that you can focus your time on, and build these successfully. You can build additional profiles once you have a stable following. Facebook and Twitter are the most popular of all sites; however, we believe you should have a visual platform also. Choose from Instagram, Pinterest, or YouTube. Each social media platform has its advantages and disadvantages. It is up to you to decide which will engage the right audience for your business.

4. Be realistic– If you want to be successful, you need to be active, engaging and interesting. If you are posting links that are irrelevant to your audience, or you are replying to contacts with boring links back to your website, then you will not succeed. Social media marketing is not traditional marketing. Social is exactly what this style of marketing needs to be to be successful. If people love you, they will gravitate to your Android apps without you having to persuade them to tune in.

We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.

What a month is has been for the AppsGeyser team. The secret we have been hiding can now be revealed.

AppsGeyser is proud to release not one, but EIGHT new templates.

Over the past month, the team has been working night and day to get these templates ready for you. We have listened to your requests and are now happy to be able to give you, our Android app makers, the templates that you have been asking for.

New Android app templates:

1: Blog app template – This template has been built to fit directly with your blog provider. There are many blog hosts that have different formats, and the usual URL website template was not able to re-size as efficiently as this new template does. This Android app template supports blog hosts such as: WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and Pinterest.

Create an app from your blog – Android App Template

2: Image feed template – We love visual templates. They bring with them a lot of character, and build loyal audiences. The image feed template has been created to suit images via your 9GAG and Reddit page.

Create your entartainment app with funny pictures from 9GAG or Reddit – Android App Template

3: Meme generator template – You do not have to use a website such as 9GAG if you want to generate your very own memes. Using the latest AppsGeyser Android app template you can now create your own meme generator app.

Create your own Meme maker – Android app template

4: Video download template – There are plenty of times that you have viewed a video and want to download it to your device but do not know how. Using the video Android app template you can now create an app that will give you the ability to download videos from the net to your own device.

Create a Video Downloader app – Android app template

5: Wallpaper template – Now it is possible to create an app that will allow you to set images on your devices directly as your background image or homescreen image. Users of this app template will be able to choose images from their own device and not images that you have set for them.

Slideshow from your Photos – Android app template

6: Butterfly game template – Building on our range of gaming templates, the butterfly Android app template is a tile-matching puzzle game that hosts a number of different levels and lovely graphics.

Create a Butterflies game app – Android app template

7: Personality quiz – This game was released a few weeks ago and has proven to be a huge hit. Personality quiz games are addictive, and build fun into your app network. Add this quiz template to your Android app range and you will be assured of pleasing your audience.

Create a Personality Quiz app – Android app template

8: Flappy bird game template – Based upon the favorite flappy bird game, this Android app template will help you raise your average usage ratio. This game is addictive, fun and helps build audience numbers.

Create a Flappy game app – Android app template

We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.

We are coming to the end of another week, and with it the first full week back to work for many.

Remember to rest up well this weekend, and to start considering your Android app career.

By creating an Android app career you could soon be turning your back on the Monday to Friday 9-5 day job, and be opening a new fulfilling and flexible future.

Have a great weekend everyone!

The approaching weekend face of the AppsGeyser tech team

Start your own app empire by creating apps.

Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social media platforms for businesses. There are many reasons why businesses decide to turn to this visually inspiring platform for their marketing needs, and why you should consider having a Pinterest link on your app. Pinterest is used as a way to bookmark items into visually appealing categories, allowing people to share images whilst linking back to the original source. You should consider adding a Pinterest link to your app so that your items can be pinned and shared. This will raise awareness of your brand and will increase your traffic.

In order to add this customized code, go to your AppsGeyser dashboard, click on ‘Edit’ and go to the ‘Advanced Edit ‘page. Add the code at the bottom of the ‘Advanced Edit’ tab.

Today’s code will add a Pin button to the bottom right of your app. This code can be used on Browser and URL based templates only.

Note: This code may not work in browser with night mode or reading mode!


(function(d){
var f = d.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0], p = d.createElement('SCRIPT');
p.type = 'text/javascript';
p.async = true;
p.src = '//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js';
f.parentNode.insertBefore(p, f);
}(document));
var pinlWrapper=document.createElement("div");
pinlWrapper.style.position="fixed";
pinlWrapper.style.bottom="5px";
pinlWrapper.style.right="5px";
pinlWrapper.style.textAlign="center";
pinlWrapper.style.zIndex="9000";
var pagePinIt=window.location.href;
var pinItPic=document.createElement("img");
pinItPic.setAttribute("src","http://assets.pinterest.com/images/pidgets/pin_it_button.png");
var pinItLink=document.createElement("a");
pinItLink.setAttribute("href","https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url="+pagePinIt);
pinItLink.appendChild(pinItPic);
pinlWrapper.appendChild(pinItLink);
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendChild(pinlWrapper);

 

To upload the code, please click on’Edit’.

Then click on ‘Advanced Edit’.

Choose Edit app to edit your free android app.

Scroll to the bottom and add in your customized code.

This is what the app will look like before and after:

Add customized code to create a Pinterest pin button

Add customized code to create a Pinterest pin button – WITH PIN

As you can see, the difference is very subtle. The pin it button sits in the bottom right hand corner

We wish you the best of luck with your app, and hope that you enjoy adding in customized code to your app.

Appsgeyser will be adding more codes over the coming few weeks. Don’t forget to come back and learn some more.