Creating Mobile App build

StoreHippo provides you with the feature to build apps on your own in a few easy steps. Please follow the below-mentioned steps to build an app:

1. Go to Mobile Apps > Mobile apps section in the StoreHippo Admin Panel.

2. Click Add New to add a new record. The add new window will have the following fields: 

The 4 different tabs containing the information regarding the app are explained below.

General

Title

Enter the name of the app. The name appears on the device's home screen and within app-store interfaces.

Package

Enter the package here. Specify the app's reverse-domain identifier, e.g. com.storehippo.abc. 

Version

Enter the full version number. It is expressed in major/minor/patch notation.

Description

Enter the metadata that may appear in app store listings.

Theme

Choose the theme which will be used for the frontend of the app. 

Domains

Select the domain from the drop-down to define the app for the specific domain. You can have different apps for different subdomains.

Splash Image

Upload an image that appears when you launch your app.

NOTE: All the required splash images for different size devices will be automatically generated using this image.

Icon Image

Upload the icon for your mobile app. 

NOTE: All the required icon images for different size devices will be automatically generated using this image.

Push Notification

Push notifications are used to send notification messages to your app users to drive user re-targeting and engagement. Push notifications are sent by Firebase Cloud Messaging (according to the latest Google update) for both Android as well as iOS. You get the files from the FCM used to send the notification. 

• Android: Enter the .json file for android push notifications.
• Server Key: Enter the server key in this field.

Please refer the Firebase Cloud Messaging documentation for complete information on how to obtain these files.

Platforms

Select the platform for which you are building the mobile app. It can be either Android or iOS.

• Android

  • Enabled: Check the flag if you want to build the app for Android.
  • Key: The signing key which will be used to sign the app for publishing on the Google Play Store.
  • Preferences: StoreHippo Mobile apps support some custom preferences for the app. Preferences are used for things like android-versionCode, android-targetSdkVersion, and others.
  • API Level: Lets you express an application's compatibility with one or more versions of the Android platform, by means of an API Level integer.

• iOS

  • Enabled: Check the flag if you want to build the app for iOS.
  • Key: The signing key which will be used to sign the app for publishing on the Apple App Store.
  • Preferences: StoreHippo Mobile apps support some custom preferences for the app. Preferences are used for things like target-device, prerendered-icon, and others.

Advanced

Plugins

StoreHippo uses Phonegap/Cordova to build the mobile apps. You can add a custom phonegap/cordova plugins in this section to extend the functionality of the store mobile apps.

• Name: Name of the plugin.

• Version: Version of the plugin. 

• Source: It can either be "pgb", "npm" or "git". Defaults to "npm" (or "git" if a git URL is detected).

• Params: If there is any custom tag you want to place in the config file, then you can use the params. 

  • Tag: Name of the tag.

  • Attributes: Attributes, if any.

  • Subtag: Whether the tag will be a subtag of some other tag.  

  • Basetag: Parent tag, used if subtag is checked.

  • Value: Value of the tag.

Example:

If you want a tag like <chcp attr="abc">123</chcp>

• tag: chcp

• attributes 

• key: attr

• value: abc

• value: 123

If you want the tag to be like <parent><chcp attr="abc">123</chcp></parent> 

• subtag: checked

• basetag: parent

Social Login

 The Social Login section gives you three options to log in:

Google

You need to specify the Web Client Id in order to use Google Login on mobile apps. You first need to setup google login for mobile app to get the web client id.

Facebook

In this field, you have to mention your App ID and Application name. For this, you initially have to Setup facebook login for mobile App.
Once you have configured your ID and name enter the details in the respective fields.

Example

How can I have separate mobile apps for different sub-domains?