SocialEngine iOS & Android native mobile apps
Mobile Social Network
Promote your website as mobile social network: users may create new accounts from the mobile devices, fill in their profiles, upload profile pictures and become active members of your community!
Keep up with the times! Give your users an ability to communicate with each other anytime anywhere: view/sent private messages with PUSH notifications, join events and groups, check in the location where you are!
Share you special moments and thoughts wherever you are, don’t wait till you get home and turn on your computer!
Browse photos and videos, join groups and events, view current friends and find new onces!
Take a photo and share on the fly! Photo and video uploads directly from mobile device.
Why SocialEngine Mobile App?
Preface
The world is going mobile. Nowadays more and more people prefer using their smartphones and tablets rather then desktops to get online, as they can do it on their way home or at a coffee break, everywhere!
Our team keeps up with times, we know you don’t have a minute to lose, that’s why we offer all SE users to enter this new technical era, namely, to get a socialengine mobile app – it is smart, convenient and fast.
Since 2011 SocialEngineMarket provides development of iOS and Android Applications for SocialEngine based sites. The App covers basic needs of users and allows them to communicate smoothly through SocialEngine via their smartphones. The very first release of the App dated Autumn 2011. The product became very popular among SocialEngine site owners and users. Every SocialEngine app could be customized upon customer needs, both layout and functionality.
New release
We’ve added most popular and most requested features in our latest release of iOS and Android app. Now the usage of the App became even more friendly to users and admins of SocialEngine sites.
Advantages
- Adding more users to your SocialEngine community via iOS or Android Application
- Augmentation of users presence within your community as they can access it from wherever they want using their phones
- Customize the layout as you wish
- Inbox features + ability to order custom features for your App directly from the software development company that created the original App
- Users can access the SE community both through the web and mobile phone
- Immediate updates
- And lots of other useful benefits
Summary
The iOS and Android Apps are targeted to change and improve the logic of how current SocialEngine communities work. You can still stay with the web version and use the app on your iPhone, iPad or Android phone. Communicate with your friends/colleagues any time you want to. Stay in touch and be a part of the community!
SEM speaks:
"We are happy to provide our customers with the best SE solutions nowadays. The App itself is a new tool for SE communities and businesses that attracts new users for our clients and makes them feel more comfortable. We build a constant dialogue between us as service providers and clients that point out what features are most valuable in the future. I personally believe that this way of making business will broad horizons both for us and our clients".
Sergiy Bezugliy,
CEO,
"SocialEngineMarket"
"It has been a long way to find and use most modern technologies and apply it in our App structure. We're now sure that we use the best solutions these days to make SE Apps work correctly and smoothly with all SE communities and on all devices. We plan to constantly upgrade the App in further releases with new features and technologies. Stay updated about our new ideas and share yours".
Inna Muraenko,
CTO,
"SocialEngineMarket"
How It Works
1. Order Apps here;
2. Enroll into the iOS Developer Program if you don't have an account yet: http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/;
3. Register as Google Play developer if you don't have account yet: https://play.google.com/apps/publish/signup;
4. Prepare an app icon (i.e. your logo) with 512x512 px resolution and App Title, Keywords (up to 100 characters) and Description;
5. Provide us with your website credentials, and all the information listed above;
6. We complete the submission process to AppStore and Android Market marketplaces.
Check our free Demo apps:
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| Website: | http://apps.socialenginemarket.com |
Features
Both iPhone and Android apps
- Intuitive easy-to-use interface;
- Badges and PUSH notification about new messages;
- GEO-location check-in feature;
- PUSH notification mass sending from Admin Panel.
Integration with your SocialEngine based website
- User sign in and sign up;
- Edit profile and upload profile pic from device camera;
- Browse members and friends, viewing profile including profile fields, wall and user data;
- Private messaging with chat-like conversations;
- Support of Groups, Event, Albums and Videos native SE plugins.
Mobile Apps Admin Panel
- Real-time layout customizations;
- Change colors at any moment;
- Upload new logo;
- Send PUSH notifications to selected Profile types and/or User Levels.
Check-in feature
- Integration with our Places plugin (free if you purchase apps);
- Ability to create place (using device GPS to determine location);
- Find the place using radius search and check in existed places.
SocialEngine Native plugins support
- Events (browse all or user's events, create new event, view event, RSVP);
- Groups (browse all or user's groups, create new group, view group, group members, admin may send message to all group members);
- Albums (browse all or user's albums, create new album, view photos, upload photos from media library or take a shot using your camera directly from the application);
- Videos (browse all or user's videos, watch YouTube and Vimeo videos, add YouTube or Vimeo video, upload new video from your device media library or record a new one using your camera directly from the application).
Frequently Asked Questions
Why would I need a Mobile Application?
One in four people check their phones every thirty minutes, while one in five check every ten. And usually it’s not calling but surfing. To be or not to be an app owner is not a question for popular web projects anymore. It is much more convenient and faster for users to connect with their friends with the help of mobile app, which is also a benefit for community owners and admins, since users presence will significantly increase. Customize the layout and moderate your community anytime anywhere. It’s so easy!
How will my app be delivered?
Android app will be delivered as .apk file. You may upload it to any marketplace by yourself (we may submit it to Google Play if you wish) or just put the link on your website to download. We do not sell app source codes, so you get binaries only and not sources.
iPhone app also includes AppStore submission service, so we will submit the app to AppStore for you to avoid additional delays during submission process and to make sure that the app passes all verifications successfully.
I’ve submitted a request for the mobile app. What’s next?
Our specialists will contact you within 24 hours. Once the payment is cleared you will receive a letter that contains a list of questions needed to work on your app. As soon as we receive all the necessary information we will be able to start working on your app.
What is the payment process?
Once we have received your request, we will contact you and talk out the payment method preferred. After that we will send you an invoice and as soon as the payment cleared we will proceed with the app implementation.
How long does it take to get Apps online?
We submit apps within 7 business days after you provide us with all required data. Android apps appears in Google Play immediately after submission. Apple review all apps and this process may take up to 14 days or sometimes even more. We can’t influence on this process.
Will the app fit my website layout?
All apps include basic customizations to fit your website. We may change basic colors, background, put your logo, change header colors, etc. This customization does not include changing any funtionality, forms, field sets, etc. It’s just an overall style to make your app look like a part of your website. As another option we may customize your app, add more features, etc. to fit your needs. If you’re interested please feel free to contact our sales department and get a free quote.
I have a customized SE core. Will the app work with it?
We have server-side part for our applications which we’ll need to install on your SocialEngine website. If you did not changed SE database structure app will work fine. This server part is not a mod to SE, so you’ll be able to update your SocialEngine without any issues.
Important: this version of the app works with Local storage only. So if you’re using Amazon S3 or another storage type for your SocialEngine, app will not work smoothly. We’re working on other storage type support, as well as other plugins support, etc. In the meanwhile the current version is working with Local storage only.
We may ask you to open some server ports to make PUSH notifications work, so this feature may not work if you’re using shared hosting. It’ not a problem on VPS and VDS (and actually some shared hostings too).
I need more features, is it possible to add them to the app?
If you would like to create custom versions of apps, i.e. free app with limited functionality and full-featured paid app, we may customize the app to fit your needs. Kindly contact our sales department.