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Why do you want a StudioVeena.Com app?
We get a tremendous number of requests for a StudioVeena.Com app, and as such I’d like to see what features our members our hoping to see so that perhaps we can accommodate them from our web interface.
Just so we don’t get your hopes up we are not planning an app at this point but we want to see why it is that people request apps in hopes that we can accommodate them within our current interface.
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When aps are designed properly it just makes it easier to access a site. Currently I have to access a browser then go to my favorites and then finally enter the site. I am sure there is probably a way that I can put a link on my phone that may streamline that but I have not explored that option. I will however say that there are a TON of really bad aps that I thought would make site access better but royally BLOW.
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You can add icons to your devices screen with the following instructions:
For android http://mobile-pixels.com/pin-webapp-website-android-homescreen/
For iOS http://lifehacker.com/5809338/add-web-site-bookmarks-to-your-iphones-homescreen
As far as making a site easier to access, UI design is all that really matters, not how its delivered. The big problem I have with apps is that since its an additional architecture to maintain most companies actually reduce functionality in their app.
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This is great! I just added the StudioVeena icon to my iPhone. Webmaster, you rock!
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I was literally just thinking about an SV app tonight!!!! No matter what though, SV will always be the best quality teaching the web has to offer. Love you guys!!!
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Sascha, can you tell us what you’re looking for in an app? 🙂
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I would rather use this option anyway. Very few site apps are worth the trouble.
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Speaking generally, a well designed app usually takes up less battery power than a phone based web-browser. That’s really my only personal, solid reason.
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I thought an app would be quicker to get to but I’ll try the link for the icon. Functions I would like in an app:
-be able to search for a trick/spin/whatever by its name
-be able to put lessons into different categories such as favorites, in progress, achieved.
-group lessons by static or spin pole or trick versus a spinI’m new to Studio Veena lessons so maybe some of these things are possible on the website now and I just haven’t figured it out.
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CapFeb – In general there should be no difference in power consumption between your web browser and an app. However an app has the potential to burn much more power as rather than operating through a standardized piece of system software (your browser) it has complete access to the network interface and can create and use network connections willy nilly (yes I said willy nilly).
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grayeyes
– you can currently search for any of our lessons by their name and common aliases.
– You can favorite a lesson or user video– You cannot currently make categories or groups of lessons or sort in a way the site does not sort
The things you can’t do is functionality that is not intrinsic to an app but simply something we would have to develop. I have added them to our idea list and we will evaluate it for inclusion in a future release.
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Sweet, Webby. I just never looked into it because a few taps is not a huge deal for me.
I think people want an easy button and are so used to having 50 million aps for everything under the sun. The only ones that I really use like a true ap are my banking and maps. I would not even consider facebook an “ap” as it is just different design for mobile devices, and I might add that I hate their mobile ap…..but I use it.
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Even with a shortcut icon on the home screen, a web-app open in safari, takes up a tab there and does not allow any multitasking. If you open it again from home screen it just opens a new tab with the main page, and doesn’t know where I was before (I have to go to the other tab it used in my safari). An actual app shows up on its own, saves it’s state when you exit it, and easy to re-enter. This is not just with SV, it’s my general complaint with sites that provide only a web app and think it’s perfect this way.
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Mary Nightingale – That is a very excellent point. Maintaining state is a nice feature and I wish I could recreate that for you. Let me think on this, there may be a way to do it inside the web interface.
It’s not that sites think its perfect this way, its that creating an “App” is a very expensive and time consuming endeavor. Creating an app that recreated the full functionality of this site and would work on both Android and iOS would be just as much effort and expense as creating the website itself. Then, once the app is created, you have to add features to and regression test three platforms every time you make a change.
I would very much like to make an app but the cost would be so prohibitive as to make it functionally impossible.
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I thought about the app since I use my phone, but after getting the webpage on my homescreen I’m cool.
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I was going to say, I have been using studioveena like an app with the icon on my home screen on my iphone. It’s direct access and the mobile version of SV is wonderful!
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