What You Must Know About Progressive Web Apps
With the emergence of smartphones in the past decade, internet traffic has seen a major shift. Smartphones command more than half the internet usage – meaning more people access the internet from their mobiles than other devices. However, statistics also show us that this doesn’t necessarily translate to more engagements and conversions.
As any person conducting business online including those who making a foray into mobile apps would know, engagement and conversion rates are very important and without it, the purpose of developing mobile apps, be it android or iOS, becomes irrelevant.
In this blogpost, our developers at HireIndianProgrammers make a case for Progressive Web Apps and why both android and iOS developers must readily make a transition and incorporate it into their future mobile app development services.
What are Progressive Web Apps (PWA)?
Progressive Web Apps are fairly new to the internet scene and they can be best thought of as a bridge/ link between mobile web and mobile apps. You need to be aware of just 3 criteria with respect to PWA. First, you need to be running under HTTPS and secondly you would need a web app manifest, app shell and thirdly a service worker. All these in conjunction would enable you to develop what is called a Progressive Web App.
The best thing is you can virtually convert any website into a PWA using the above three criteria.
Here’s why companies providing mobile app development services must make a beeline for PWA:
Doesn’t depend on Connectivity – This means that you grant users the boon of accessing your business products offline too – a possible game-changer for businesses due to the addition of new customers located in remote areas.
Very Secure – Because they run under HTTPS, mobile developers and business people alike can be rest assured that PWA are generally more secure than mobile websites. What’s more? PWA are also much faster and battery efficient than conventional mobile apps.
Ease of Use – PWAs remove the need for app stores giving users the option to install and add them right to the home-screen, ultimately giving more control to the user. The high responsiveness of the PWA means that users will prefer them over mobile apps or sites any day, thereby leading to more conversion rates. No irritation, whatsoever.
One step ahead of Mobile Websites – Developing websites, both for the desktop and mobile to provide a seamless experience can prove to be a challenge. PWAs on the other hand have the capability to integrate with the user’s smartphone through push notifications. The existence of the app shell boosts the look significantly. They also provide app like interactions primarily navigations making it easy for the user.
Higher Engagements – Because they are far easier to share with the outside world – a one click process, Progressive Web Apps are sure to crank up the engagement for businesses.
Conclusion
All of the special features of Progressive Web Apps enable them to become much more desirable for mobile app development service companies to create ground breaking applications, thanks to its checking of several boxes – speed, security, convenience and so on.
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Designing Mobile Websites for Voice Search
When Siri was launched by Apple in 2011, Voice Search was a nascent technology. Over the years, it has emerged popular among consumers for various reasons. It has also significantly improved in terms of accuracy and reliability. Recently, Google showcased its rejuvenated Google Assistant under the Duplex program and as you can see in the below video, the developments in Voice Search are unprecedented. Clearly, the usage of Voice Search is on the rise and it is high time businesses acknowledge its importance and incorporate it to address customer needs in new ways.
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In this blogpost, we will see how to develop mobile websites, focussing on leveraging Voice Search for your business. The one thing you must remember is that customers seek voice search is because of the associated convenience.
Addressing Common Queries
First of all, you must know the in and out of your business. That includes what your customers want from your business and the related queries. Make a list of all queries one would ask commonly about your business – for instance – hours of operation, live chat/ support portal, making reservations etc; By facilitating a mechanism for such common queries through Voice Search, you are directly hitting the customer’s sweet spot – convenience.
A good programmer familiar with Voice Search queries will have no trouble in finding out your business’ specific queries. She would also place useful snippets of information related to that corresponding query.
Localisation
One strong recommendation is that you localise your content related to Voice Search queries. This means everything ranging from pictures, colours to language. By advocating localisation, you are strongly appealing to the said customer. It will bring him closer to you.
Localisation is particularly useful if your business is just starting out in the local neighbourhood. For example, if your business caters to people in Texas and the Deep South, you can probably use all visuals and language and audio that appeals to a Southerner. Do everything you can to pull up your clients’ website whenever a ‘near me’ voice search query appears.
Getting Deep
Figure out what kind of questions your customers are likely to ask that pertains to your business. As a programmer, though she may not be the person responsible for the content inside the website, they will certainly be in a position to frame it in a way such that it appears consistently in Voice Search results.
This can be achieved by making use of Google Analytics data for your website and also your business’ target market. Adding answers to common queries in featured boxes on your website will greatly help the end user by highlighting it on your website or better – place it directly in voice search results.
Now that you have learnt the importance of leveraging Voice Search in your mobile website, you can hire a mobile app developer at HireIndianProgrammers and get your Voice Search powered mobile app business started right away.
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