I’m currently in the closing months of an extremely involved enterprise e-commerce project that is occupying all of my time (pretty much), which is why I appear to have fallen off the Internet… but I am still here.
One concrete milestone I have reached in the last couple of months is to have version two of my Yoke server project published. Version one added support for users to share via Android applications. Version two has added preliminary support for developers to promote their Android applications.
Early support for App promotion
The first glimpse of this functionality peeking through into my own applications can be seen in this customizable app promotion widget that now accompanies all of my mobile apps:
It’s generated by application data stored by Yoke and inserted via a simple JS include onto any webpage. Without JavaScript, the widget safely fails-over to a link that takes the visitor to a simple webpage that contains the same information:
It’s a convenient way to ‘socialize’ my application download links and manage them from a single console, which currently looks a bit like this:
What’s next
I’m now slogging my way through an email pile-up and trying to carve out some time for my own development work prior to returning to it full time. So what do I have planned?
Mainly to start yoking all of my applications together. Progress on my mobile apps is well under way and I’m working on rolling Moseycode and Betan in too.
