What pig? What poke? The proverbial pig in the poke (or cat in the bag) is the email newsletter and the purchase is the registration. Email newsletters are not a very exciting topic and yet important for many businesses to provide customers with information. Why? Newsletters are a great tool for businesses: you write an email […]
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What is the difference between mobile newsletter services and mobile Apps?
With the forthcoming ban of WhatsApp newsletter services some businesses think of using their apps as replacement. It sounds like a no-brainer: just post the App-install link and users will flock to the mobile App instead. Right? Unfortunately not. The reason is that WhatsApp newsletter services are rather unique in the way how they address […]
Trends, Costs and Benefits of mobile Shopping Apps
Having an App for your business is much more than “nice to have”. Basically, with your business App your engage your customer base and drive your sales. Trends Recent numbers by Apptopia show a strong trend towards shopping apps. Worldwide downloads grew to 5.70 billion in 2018, a plus of nearly 10% over 2017. Android […]
Lush connects online and offline
Lush’s new flagship store in Tokyo is a good example how online and offline commerce can be connected. For example, the Lush app offers services that give customers information about “naked products” when they are scanned. The app recognises objects from the store, looks up information and presents them to the customer in several languages. […]
Fallacies and Pitfalls in building (hybrid) Progressive Web Apps
We’ve rolled out our first wave of (hybrid) Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to our customers during the last couple of weeks. Using a PWA based approach speeds up the development process for sure, however building hybrid PWAs which run a native web container had some challenges. Design Considerations Before we started to implement the hybrid […]
Ephemeral Apps
In the past, there was an app for everything. People were happy to download those apps. However, people evenually got tired from installing apps for everything. It’s easy to see why this has happened. Some apps did not live up to the expectations, other apps are often used sporadically for a very specific task. For […]
Introducing the Boerseviertel App
We are proud to announce the brand new Boerseviertel App. The App is our first hybrid App that blends Progressive Web App technology with our active App framework. We invested heavily in the offline capabilities and are using Service Workers and local storage to provide a fully native experience to our users. The app itself […]
IKANGAI is a top App Development Company in Austria
Things are happening at a breakneck speed here at IKANGAI. Only a few days after we were selected as one of the top 30 blogs in Austria we were listed among the top App development companies in Austria. We’re happy and proud that our hard work is well recognized. Naturally we got a lovely bagde:
Why Rich Push notifications are important for your Business
A click can make a huge difference. It can mean that your business earns money or not. Therefore, as a business you must make it as easy as possible for your customers to spend their money. The fewer obstacles, i.e., clicks, the better. After all, as a business you put considerable effort into the activation […]
How to Resurrect a dying App with a Seven + One Strategy
There’s an App for that. So true. Now there are millions of Apps for just about anything. And it has become increasingly difficult to stand out from this ocean of Apps. More than ever it’s of paramount importance to get your App noticed by users and to engage them on a regular base. One of […]