Blog
This Just In! Pocket Integration for iOS
Our engineering team devotes a portion of each Monday to projects of interest to them. We call it 15% time. Last week an idea surfaced to integrate story saving or read-it-later functionality through the Pocket app, one of the most popular story saving apps out today. The premise of Pocket is simple. As a user, I find lots of stories [...]
It’s Time For the iOS Release!
We’ve got everything ready to ship! Our previous two posts about this iOS release are here and here for the full summary. Here’s a quick recap of what this release will include, which we plan to submit to Apple next week. Support for rich media advertising within apps Over 200 performance improvements designed to improve the speed and stability Improved [...]
StepLeader iOS Release Update & Improved Social Sharing
This year we are working diligently to improve our communication, both internally and externally. That means sharing great new releases and well as any delays. We’ve got one of each to share today. A product strategy we are testing here is releasing Android updates first, since they’re faster to get in the market. We then take those lessons learned and [...]
Better Promotion of Your Apps, And a Call For Feedback
One of the most common themes we hear from our partners is that mobile traffic now exceeds desktop traffic. The mobile growth typically doesn’t come at the expense of website traffic, but rather by adding a new audience. People expect to be able to quickly find your apps, because that’s where they increasingly wish to consume your content. This is [...]
StepLeader’s February Apple iOS Release
Next week we’ll be submitting an app update to Apple. This is the follow-up to our January Android release. Once the release is submitted to Apple, we’ll enter the 1-4 week Apple review process before the update goes live. We’ve got two major things to share. First, we’ll be releasing over 200 behind-the-scenes performance improvements designed to stabilize and energize [...]