I want to achieve the following ( mobile users only ):
- if user clicks on a link he receives, he goes to my web-site
- if this user then downloads my app from google play / apple store, I will offer him some discounted price
I am thinking to implement it by tracking user's IDFA or GAID. I know that it's 100% possible to get on mobile app ( so the 2nd step is 100% ).
However, I wonder if it's possible to get IDFA / GAID on my web-site ( like that I can make an ajax request to the server to memorize IDFA / GAID so later on I will give discounted price to this mobile ).
Are there any clues?
Thank you in advance.
Best Regards,
Capturing IDFA/GAID from mobiles browsers cannot be done, both Android and iOS only support thru either Hybrid or native app, I thought of similar scenario thru PWA's , but resorted to implementing in Hybrid app,
here is support docs,
https://support.google.com/authorizedbuyers/answer/3221407?hl=en
http://www.androiddocs.com/google/play-services/id.html
I thought this approach would do, but this one also points to implementing in native app.
How to fetch device information from a progressive web app
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how to identify a unique id in ios device? if I have multiple app with different developer account on same device. How to detect both apps is on the same device?
Example: How to identify Apps A and Apps B is installed on the same device.
different bundle id
build with different developer account
on the same device
iOS 9 and above
Beside a unique id to identify device, any others solution for it?
If you try to make unique ID for each App-device , I think you can make a unique ID by generate MD5 from your bundle ID combined with UDID
But if you wanna detect if App A installed from App B, you can use URL scheme:
Read More here
Or you can read this: Different ways to share data between apps — iOS
How to identify bundleid of any production ios app without installer file
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/identifying-bundleid-any-production-app-without-ipaapp-buyankar
Go to https://www.apple.com/ios/app-store/
Search for required App Eg: Salesforce App , it will provide the app id in the URL
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/salesforce/id**404249815**
Look up with app id will give us the Json will entire details of the app. Just replace the id in the below URL
https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?**id=404249815**
Eg : JSON response of Salesforce App
{"averageUserRatingForCurrentVersion":4.70164000000000026346924641984514892101287841796875, "userRatingCountForCurrentVersion":184073, "averageUserRating":4.70164000000000026346924641984514892101287841796875, "trackViewUrl":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/salesforce/id404249815?uo=4", "trackContentRating":"4+", "trackId":404249815, "trackName":"Salesforce", "releaseDate":"2010-11-22T08:00:00Z", "genreIds":["6000", "6005"], "formattedPrice":"Free", "primaryGenreName":"Business", "isVppDeviceBasedLicensingEnabled":true, "minimumOsVersion":"12.0", "sellerName":"salesforce.com", "currentVersionReleaseDate":"2020-05-11T17:59:28Z", "releaseNotes":"We update the Salesforce mobile app regularly to make it faster and more stable for you.\n\nThis version includes bug fixes and performance improvements.", "primaryGenreId":6000, "currency":"USD", "version":"224.060", "wrapperType":"software", "artistId":281826149, "artistName":"salesforce.com", "genres":["Business", "Social Networking"], "price":0.00, "description":"The new Salesforce mobile app is here! \n \nRun your business from your phone -- faster, easier, and with AI as your sidekick. The Salesforce mobile app unlocks a whole new level of productivity, personalization, and speed.\n \nMake smart decisions with AI \nTake immediate action with intelligent views and insights into your business, powered by Einstein Analytics. Get the information you need exactly when you need it to make informed decisions from anywhere.\n \nBuild mobile experiences faster\nWith Lightning now available on mobile, building custom mobile apps is faster and easier—with clicks, not code. Mobile-optimized lightning components? Check. Dynamic and rich mobile record pages? Check. Now anyone can build amazing mobile apps fast.\n \nAccess your entire business\nThe full power of Salesforce is now available from your device. The Salesforce mobile app now includes all your favorite Lightning Apps. And the new navigation bar makes it easier than ever to get to the apps you use most.\n \nWhether you're in the office, on an airplane, or checking in from a coffee shop, the new Salesforce mobile app is your key to productivity.", **"bundleId":"com.salesforce.chatter"**, "userRatingCount":184073}]}
#iOS #mobileautomation #bundleid
Is there any known way to pass some data in iTunes Store url:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id000000000?mt=8
And then get it from installed app?
As I know, Google Play have "referrer" parameter that you can get from installed app, but iTunes doesn't. I need to track installations of our apps, and don't know where to start. Maybe there is a way to link our url and application launch?
Some companies, like Adjust or Appsflyer can do that. How is that possible?
You have a few choices here:
A) you can rely on attribution measurement in Firebase/Google Analytics. This is the way you are asking about. It's for free, but it has some huge limitations like only attributing some sources (no Facebook campaigns for example) and you need to use generally very unreliable UTM parameters with each link.
B) You can rely on AppsFlyer or Adjust which attributes referrer sources on the back-end. So it's agreement between Facebook / Google etc. and AppsFlyer to hand-over that information. It's industry standard and if you have money (you pay for each non-organic attribution, approx. 5 cents per install)
My company has an app (iOS and Android), to which the following scenarios applies. I'm trying to help point my engineers and product team in the right direction.
When one of our users clicks on a content link from one of our emails, or Tweets or Facebook posts, and they're on their mobile device, we prompt the user with a link to download our app. This is similar to what many apps do, including LinkedIn (see i.stack.imgur.com/glSgJ.png).
I imagine this is mildly effective of driving awareness and downloads of a native app, for new users who came in from social media and various web sources. However, it is not helpful at all for a user like me who already has the app!
1) clicking "No Thanks" keeps me on the mobile web (when I want to be in the native app), and
2) clicking "Download the App" takes me to iTunes App Store page for an app I already own.
SUPER ANNOYING. As a result, I have to manually open the app, and search for the content in question. I'm guessing most users don't do this. More importantly, depending on the UI/UX of the app, I may never get there!
Again, I know we are handling mobile web visits in the same way many other companies (including LinkedIn) do, but it seems we are leaving a lot of potential native app use on the table. I want our engineers to build that elusive 3rd option, "Open In App".
Spotify and Rdio have solved this very nicely. Here are deep content links (in the case of these companies, to a specific song) for the two apps respectively:
http://open.spotify.com/track/2SldBUTJSK6xz43i8DZ5r2
http://rd.io/x/QF3NK0JKWmk
If you have a moment, first grab the free version of Rdio or Spotify apps. Then, if you open those links above from an iOS device, you will see how nice the experience is, for existing native app users: Rdio has a nice "Tap to open in Rdio" link (http://i.stack.imgur.com/B7PuE.png), and Spotify's link is even more clear, "I have Spotify" (http://i.stack.imgur.com/Q3IV6.png). Both apps also include a link to download the app, for new app users. More importantly, both apps cookie the user: future visits to links (whether from email, Twitter, Facebook, etc) on mobile web automatically open the app, instead of prompting you to choose each time. SUPER CONVENIENT.
Questions:
1) How do they accomplish this? I'm initially only concerned about iOS (on which I tested this), but this same situation should apply to Android.
2) Why aren't more apps doing this? It doesn't seem like rocket science, so am I missing a key reason why this might be a bad idea? Half of my problem is convincing the use case.
3) Why don't I see discussions about this technique? I've searched a ton for an iOS solution. I come up with a lot of discussion about URL registrations (mainly app-to-app), but no one actually referring to the type of scenario I describe (mobile web prompt to open native app).
It seems that with minimal engineering, app developers could dramatically increase native app use, converting from mobile web. :)
Android supports deep linking. Please refer to
http://developer.android.com/training/app-indexing/deep-linking.html
Tapstream's deferred deep links can send users to specific views within apps (iOS only), even when the app isn't yet installed on their device.
I'm toying around with the Facebook APIs for a game I'm developing as a hobby project, after reading through the facebook SDK documentation, I'm still a little unclear as to what is required for developing games on the platform.
This is what I have :
Native iOS application
All game data is stored locally (levels, characters, items)
I don't have any backend servers, the game is completely client side
only.
I want to make the game "social" by adding achievements/friends lists, the facebook API seems like a good candidate for doing so
This is what I'm trying to achieve :
SSO - Hoping to make use of the facebook SSO for accounts so I don't
have to implement my own authentication etc. This saves time in not having to develop it myself.
Scores - when a particular event happens in my game it will award
some points to the user, I'm looking to use the scores API for
this.
Achievements - after the user has earned a certain amount of points,
or another predefined event has occurred, an achievement will be
granted, using the achievements API.
Question : Can I use the scores and achievements APIs from facebook without having my game deployed onto a backend server?
No, two reasons:
You need a URL to host the metadata for your achievements
The scores and achievements need to be posted using the App Access Token, and distributing that in your client app would allow anyone decompiling the app to change any of your app's settings, make posts on behalf of any of the app's users, redirect your traffic to another site, etc.
At the least, you need static pages describing the achievements, and a callback script you can hit from your mobile app which triggers the publishing to Facebook of the Scores and Achievements
Update 2012-09-06: it's no longer necessary to use the app access token to post scores and achievements, so you could use scores in a mobile app, but you still need a website to hold the achievement metadata
I found a good answer for this recently.
There's no point in duplicating, so please see the answer here:
Using Facebook Achievement API in Android
(It is relevant for iOS as well as any other platform)
I'm trying to figure out whether the users I get from ads will buy in-app purchases frequently enough to justify the cost.
Is there any way an iOS app can tell whether the user has clicked on an AdMob ad in the past? Their Download API only seems to show aggregate data. I'm open to using any other network if they let me do this!
If there's anything in the HTTP request from an ad which would give me the user's magical ISU string, I'd be happy to bounce ads through my own server and implement my own tracking.
Thanks!
AdMob doesn't have any way of querying for this.
I decided to bounce ads through my own server and have the app query it later. If the server finds an ad click which came from the:
Same IP address
Same Device type
Same system version
it will tell the app that it came from a paid click.
Of course the problem with this is that I lose data on some unknown number of ad-click installations. I'd like to know how many I'm losing, but I don't know if there's a way to use AdMob's app conversion tracking together with ads which go to arbitrary URLs.