As you know, part of the team went to Italy for the big students contest  !
They just came back and after 3 days, 3 cities, 571 kilometers, 2 universities, 3 presentations, almost 23 hours in the transportations, we’re going to tell you everything !

Let’s start at the beginning !

The first day started very well with the big contest ! At 9:30 am, Dumè and Mathieu presented GoodBarber and gave the subject of the examen to the students : integrate a screenshot for an application with about twenty items + create a detail page.

After few hours of examen and individuals interviews, we got all we need to choose our new interns !

The first day was great, we are happy about the result. The students were really motivated at the point like few of them refused to come to the lunch to not stop to work. Good right ?

We arrived at the Università di Salerno around 12pm to meet the teacher of the university Mr Massimo De Santo. He is working at the ICT division (Information & Communication Technology) and invited us to have lunch near the university (a pizza of course !) before the presentation at 3pm.

We have been really surprised to see how the university looked like an american one : big green parks, far away from the city. The first one is at 15 kilometers. Actually we felt like walking in a little city. Before our presentation, we met all the people and teachers who are working with Mr Massimo De Santo and we exchanged some ideas together.

The bilan of the second day is great as well, we met a lot of interested people and we got some good ideas (we’ll tell you that soon... stay tuned !).
On the road for the last step !

We started the day at the Università Degli Studi di Napoli, Federico II. There are around 150 000 students there ! And they are near to the Napoli stadium where Diego Maradona used to play ! That’s awesome and the people are pretty proud of that and we understand why ;)

The professor of the university Mr Antonio Picariello received us with Massimo De Santo and Renato Pelella (a coworker of Massimo). They came with us from Fisciano.
Around 50 students were at the presentation, they were almost all on the last year of university on major Computer Engineering. We talked and exchanged with them during around 2 hours and it was really interesting.

In general our trip was really great and interesting. We are really happy about the people we met and the students we saw. That trip was the first one but not the last one... to be continued.

Bob Bellanca asked our team to design an app for its great radio show, "Bob vous dit toute la vérité". Here is the result :)

Look (and listen) to this showcase, and go to download this app, for iPhone & Android!

Hi there !

My name is Méryl and I just joined the GoodBarber’s team.

Graduated from an Advertising and Communication school in Paris named ISCOM, I got a job at Kassius’s agency (WPP group) after my final internship. I was Digital Project Manager in this agency during one year and a half.

After this job, I decided to realise my dream and go to the american west coast to learn english, discover California and see the Silicon Valley ;)

When I came back from San Francisco, Jerome contacted me for an interview and here I am ! Back in town wasn’t my first project but finally, I have been seduced by the GoodBarber’s team and after 7 years away I wanted to come back in my hometown.

I’m here to join the marketing team and work on the international communication strategy.

Geekette, travelette and young photographer, I spend a lot of my time on Tumblr, Instagram and Pinterest. Taking and sharing pictures is one of my big habit with travelling of course.

Here is the changelog for this Tuesday update :

- When live radio is paused, hitting play will resume the live
- Now Jelly Bean loads .kml files in plugins sections
- Bug fix: displaying correctly long texts correctly in the tab bar
- Bug fix: starting hour is removed for all day events (Agenda)
- Bug fix: displaying date for on going event (Agenda)

- You will now receive an e-mail when a user posts a content from the Submit section of your app
- You can add a custom source in the Video, Photo, Agenda sections.
- You can set custom filters in the Twitter, Instagram, WMArticle, WordPress, TypePad, 500px, Flickr, WMPhoto, WMVideo, Dailymotion, YouTube, Vimeo, BlipTV, WMPodcast, SoundCloud sections.
- You can set a search engine in the WMVideo, YouTube, Dailymotion, WMPodcast, TypePad sections.
- New source avaliable in the Agenda section : VCalendar
- Advanced settings in the Custom source : you can set the Search feed and the Subsection feeds.
- JSON API : In the navBar, you can completely remove background color and texture on the buttons.

Don't forget to re-build your app to apply these changes :)

During Google I/O 2013, some recent figures were given about Google Play. 

48 billion apps installed from Google Play, 900 million Android activation, and soon, 1 million apps in the store. Looking at those huge figures, you may wonder how to make your app stand out from the crowd ?

Here are some tips to help you highlight and promote your app in Google Play.

Let start with the basics.

Your app name and your app description must be as relevant as possible. The words you use to name and to describe your app will be indexed by Google Play's search engine. Think about the queries users may type in to search for your app, and use the keywords they could use in your app metadata.

But, keep in mind that first of all, you write your title and your description for a user, not for an engine bot! Avoid keyword stuffing, and non appealing content.

This one is my favorite.

Even if the "feature graphic" is a promotional asset listed in Google Play, you should consider it as required. Why? Because if you don't provide one, there is no chance for you to be featured in Google Play.

Being featured in Google Play means that you could have the chance to appear in the Editor's choice.  

Follow those guidelines to create the perfect feature graphic.

2 is a minimum, but add more.

Screenshots are mandatory when you enter your app metadata. They are displayed on your details page for your application on Google Play.

Take the time to select the best content of your app when you make those screenshots: color full images in articles, smart titles, etc.

To make them even more professional, the Android team suggests that you crop off the navigation buttons from the bottom of the screenshots ;) 

You can even add a link to a YouTube video.

This video, showcasing your app best features, will be displayed below your screeshots.

Videos between 30 seconds to 2 minutes work best.

Have you ever tried the HTML5 version of your app provided by GoodBarber? In the next weeks, you will be able to use it in production to provide mobile version of your website.

Listen to Jerome & Laurent, they explain everything in this Friday Talk!

Hey Italian Students! The GoodBarber team comes to meet you next week, to present our great summer internship recruitment program :)

We'll host a big contest in Florence on Monday May 20, and we'll meet students of Napoli area on Tuesday May 21 and Wednesday May 22.

The whole operation is described on our Students page.

We will present GoodBarber to the Napoli area computer science students during two workshops :

University of Salerno : May 21 at 3:00pm

We love what the Presse Citron team did with their GoodBarber app :)

Look at this showcase and go to download the app, for iPhone and Android!

Here is the changelog for this Tuesday update :)

- Images in WMaker articles now contain a link to the original picture

Don't forget to re-build your app to apply these changes :)

Here is a little tutorial that will show you how to customize the design of your app with GoodBarber.

We chose MissPastry's app as an example: you'll see that you can customize every detail of your app, with texture effects, etc. :)

One of the best features of GoodBarber is the Push Notification service.

Discover with Jerome & Laurent how you can tighten the link with your users.

Three years ago, eMarrakech was one of the first app our team worked on. A few month ago, it became LeMag.ma, "The Maghreb Daily". We would like to thank Tarik and his crew for their trust in GoodBarber :)

Look at this great app, and download it!

- Bug fix : Now, app doesn't crash anymore if the GPS provider is disabled

- You can now change the header text of the Swipe menu (Design -> Global design)
- You can now customize lists in Twitter section (Advanced settings -> Filters)

Don't forget to re-build your app to apply these changes :)

If you follow our blog with attention, you probably noticed a new backend feature in the last Tuesday update :)

You can now set the default tab for the preview (iOS or Android), and choose the phone's color (black or white). Trust us, it will be such a useful feature when designing your app!

We always say that GoodBarber is for non-developers.

But did you know that if you have coding skills you can develop your own plugin? GoodBarber has 3 types of APIs: Plugin, Content & Settings.

Listen to Jerome & Laurent, they tell you everything about that.

Discover a great app this week: TheAfricaReport.com for iPhone.

Look at this showcase at go to download it :)

Did you know that since the Beautiful Apps Engine Update #753, you can now add a Search Engine to your app ?

It can be very useful for your users, by allowing them to search a specific term within the whole content of your blog.

To activate the search engine, you need to have a WordPress or WMaker section plugged into your app.

In your GoodBarber backend, go in the Content > Sections menu, and Edit your Article section. Click on Advanced Settings, Enable the search engine option, and save your modifications.

NB: If you don't see the search engine option, click on the Save the section button to flush the backend cache.

Once your section has a search engine enabled, you can go to the Design > Global menu to customize the design of the search bar for all your sections. You can also edit the design of the search bar for a specific section of your app.

If your app has been built with an update of the Beautiful Apps Engine previous to #753, you'll need to publish an update on the Store to activate the Search Engine. Otherwise, just go to the Publication > Update menu, and click on Publish modifications.

This week, Jerome & Laurent are presenting GoodBarber's monetization features.

You'll know everything about ads in GoodBarber: internal ads, external networks and strategy!