App Design Basics for Professionals

By Jennifer Carrington

It is my unique, personal honor to bequeath shards of wisdom to an inspiring woman of God, fellow businesswoman, and professional confidantJennifer Carrington. She has crafted a timely, succinct, and relevant treatise. This work is a culmination of successive years of fine-tuning, labor, contemplation, and learning moments. This masterpiece, though laconic, injects a cornucopia of powerful principles and emits laser focus on the art of business branding, content, and presentation. Frankly, this book should be a required reading in both the halls of academia and for small/medium enterprises alike.

As a personal and business mentor of Jennifer, I have witnessed firsthand how this driven and dogged businesswoman masterfully utilizes the concepts noted in this book in her own businessJ Carrington + Associates. She has proven to me on multiple occasions the value and pertinence of branding, content, and presentation. Her firm has, without slight hesitation, provided astute excellence and value-added service to our jurisdictional platform since I began working with her. As a competent, proven, and savvy businesswoman myself, Ive trodden the deserted road of entrepreneurial persistence from my youth. During the last thirty-three years of trudging through provinces of resistance, peaks of success, and valleys of trepidation, Ive learned the utter importance of crafting and molding the essential elements of branding.

Without the organic and pliable foundation of branding, my quick-serve restaurant holdings company, V & J, would have flatlined with my initial Burger King acquisition. But by positioning and pivoting my firm as a brand unto itself, my company has been catapulted into a vast conglomeration of multiple food-service brands. As such and with the advent of global technology and social media, branding should be the lifeblood of any.

Congratulations, Jennifer, and on serious entrepreneurial endeavorswhether small or large. Read this book and find out why! May the Lord continue to shine his favor upon you as share your insights and unpretentious learnings relative to branding, creation content, relational data maintenance, and presentational swagger with us all.

Dr. Valerie Daniels-Carter, president and CEO, V & J Holding Companies Inc.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984522429

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Copyright © 2018 by Jennifer Carrington.   776443

Library of Congress Control Number:   2018904929

Cover Design: J Carrington + Associates, LLC

Photography: Suite 211

Hair: Tia Cooper

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ISBN:   Softcover     978-1-9845-2241-2

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Rev. date: 05/10/2018

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Table of Contents

Basics

Introduction

Basics and Introduction Review

Basics and Introduction Application

Development

Publishing

Create, Name, and Customize Your App

Development, Publishing, and Creating Pages Review

Development, Publishing, and Creating Pages Application

Adding Pages

Adding Multimedia Pages

Adding an About Us Page

Adding a Website Page

Adding a Social Media Page

Adding an Audio Page

Adding a Website, Social Media, and Audio Page Review

Adding a Website, Social Media, and Audio Page Application

Adding a Video Page

Adding a Photo Gallery Page

Adding a Folder Page

Adding a Video, Photo, and Folder Page Review

Adding a Video, Photo, and Folder Page Application

Adding Contact Pages

Adding an About Us Page

Customizing Your Pages

Adding a OneTouch Page

Adding a Scheduling Page

Building a Form Page

Adding a Payment Merchant

Adding Contact, About Us, OneTouch, Scheduling, and Payment Merchant Pages Review

Adding Contact, About Us, OneTouch, Scheduling, and Payment Merchant Pages Application

Adding a Text Page

Adding a Testimonial Page

Adding a Map Page

Adding Text, Testimonial, and Map Pages Review

Adding Text, Testimonial, and Map Pages Application

Customizing Your Pages

Background and Layout

Advanced Elements Customization

Customize Your Page Icon

Customize Your Overall App Design Settings

Customize Your System Pages

System Pages Log-In Setup

Activating In-App Purchases

System Pages Alert(s)

Setting Terms and Conditions (T and C)

System Rate and Share Page

Adding Custom Pages Review

Adding Custom Pages Application

Generating Revenue

Monetizing, Sharing, and Measuring Up

Monetize Using Ads

Monetizing Using AdMob

Using Your Own Ads

Monetize Using In-App Purchases

Adding an E-Commerce Store Page

Create a Custom Store

Create a Custom Store (Continued)

Monetizing Review

Monetizing Application

Language Settings

Adding a Coupon

Rules

Content Management System

Import/Export Products

Sales Report

Create a Food Menu Page

Create a Loyal Member Card Page

Create a Hyperlocal Page

Generating Revenue Midchapter Review

Generating Revenue Midchapter Application

Grow

Create a Review Page

Share My App

How to Integrate Google Analytics to Your App

Going Live / Publishing

Benefits of Upgrading to a Paid Plan

How to Upgrade Your Plan

How to Downgrade Your Plan

How to Upgrade from a Gold Plan

Publishing with Apple Developer Account

How to Publish Your Android by Yourself

How to Publish Your Windows by Yourself

How to Publish Your Amazon App by Yourself

How to Test Your App Using an iOS Apple Device

How to Publish Your App to an iOS Apple Device

How to Publish Your App to a Blackberry Device

Review Page, Share My App, Google Analytics, and Going Live / Publishing Review

Review Page, Share My App, Google Analytics, and Going Live / Publishing Application

Setting Up Push Notifications

For items 1–10, see figure 190.

Key Performance Indicators

Marketing

Link Your App with Your Domain

App Page Descriptions

I would like to thank all the incredible teachers who helped me along the way. To my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jessie and Alma Bowers, to whom I owe a debt of gratitude for their consistent encouragement and prayers. Your inspirational leadership has allowed me to see the ability to make an imprint and provide positive change in the world. I am grateful for all that you’ve taught me. To my siblings, Roosevelt Bowers and Kimberly Bond, thank you for your support. I love you both!

To my husband, Robert Carrington Sr., and my children, Robert Carrington Jr. and Ivana Carrington, thank you for your unconditional love and encouragement. Thank you for quoting Proverbs 18:16 and reminding me that everyone has their own individual gift and that our gifts will always make room for us. Thank you for encouraging me to keep pressing through the long days and nights of writing. For your patience and sacrifice, I am indebted to you. I love you all to pieces!

To my editor Chess and to my publishing consultant Cecil Sands, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Books, Ingram, and Baker & Taylor distribution networks.

I would like to thank my mentor, the entrepreneur Dr. Valerie Daniels-Carter, who encouraged me to step out in faith and expand my small business into what it is today. Dr. Carter is one whom I will always admire. Thank you for writing the foreword for one of my other books. She has owned over 140 restaurants, including Burger King, Pizza Hut, and