AppSurfer: YouTube for Android Applications
The Amazon Appstore for Android has long been offering users to test applications in the browser before purchasing, and a new startup launched today is ready to offer this alternative. AppSurfer, as it is called, plays on a wider field - he wants to become “YouTube for Android applications”. Whether the company will be able to realize this idea is not yet known, however, the very idea of ​​offering applications in the browser — with the opportunity to try, test, share, insert code on an arbitrary website — seems very interesting.
Indian startup so far, at the time of its launch, has only 50 applications, and most of them are from local publishers. Pay attention to the fact that the system still focuses on developers and not on users, so time to improve the site, which definitely requires some improvements, the company still has and then it may well become “YouTube for Android”. The startup says that the release for users will include a separate Android application to search for applications and it will take place within two months - after expanding the catalog of proposed programs.
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According to the co-founder of Aniqat Awati, the first idea of ​​the team was to make AppSurfer as a tool for developers that can be used for testing and privately displaying applications — something like Pieceable for Android. “After four or five months of development, we realized that this idea can be found to be the best application in the consumer market, for testing the application before purchasing,” he says. “The ability to let users try an Android app outside the platform and the device gives us access to a much wider market, so we changed our idea.”
The same idea is inspired, for example, by BlueStacks, which produces a player for Android applications for Mac and PC. Only instead of destkopnogo software AppSurfer relies on the web.
On competition with Amazon, Avati says that the try-before-you-buy functionality in Amazon only applies to apps from the store, and the store itself is not available in many countries. “AppSurfer is an open platform that wants to promote applications everywhere on the Web — in blogs, developer pages, and social networks,” he says. "And then we will send users to the page on Google Play to download the application."
In addition, AppSurfer is implemented on HTML5, which allows it to work on smartphones, tablets and computers. Plus, like YouTube, it gives developers a link to their application in the system and the ability to embed a widget into a page - this is what it looks like .
The company has been conducting closed beta tests since March, and the average number of clicks to the Google Play page reaches 15%.
You can write to the test here: http://publisher.appsurfer.com/app_publishers/sign_in#signup
Indian startup so far, at the time of its launch, has only 50 applications, and most of them are from local publishers. Pay attention to the fact that the system still focuses on developers and not on users, so time to improve the site, which definitely requires some improvements, the company still has and then it may well become “YouTube for Android”. The startup says that the release for users will include a separate Android application to search for applications and it will take place within two months - after expanding the catalog of proposed programs.
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According to the co-founder of Aniqat Awati, the first idea of ​​the team was to make AppSurfer as a tool for developers that can be used for testing and privately displaying applications — something like Pieceable for Android. “After four or five months of development, we realized that this idea can be found to be the best application in the consumer market, for testing the application before purchasing,” he says. “The ability to let users try an Android app outside the platform and the device gives us access to a much wider market, so we changed our idea.”
The same idea is inspired, for example, by BlueStacks, which produces a player for Android applications for Mac and PC. Only instead of destkopnogo software AppSurfer relies on the web.
On competition with Amazon, Avati says that the try-before-you-buy functionality in Amazon only applies to apps from the store, and the store itself is not available in many countries. “AppSurfer is an open platform that wants to promote applications everywhere on the Web — in blogs, developer pages, and social networks,” he says. "And then we will send users to the page on Google Play to download the application."
In addition, AppSurfer is implemented on HTML5, which allows it to work on smartphones, tablets and computers. Plus, like YouTube, it gives developers a link to their application in the system and the ability to embed a widget into a page - this is what it looks like .
The company has been conducting closed beta tests since March, and the average number of clicks to the Google Play page reaches 15%.
You can write to the test here: http://publisher.appsurfer.com/app_publishers/sign_in#signup
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/154531/
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