Building your app inside a social platform.
Major social platforms like Facebook and Google+ provide you with resources, free space and deep access to their social graphs, so that you can showcase your creativity by building your apps inside their website or mobile app. With this approach, you can deeply integrate with the platform’s core user experience and core platform technologies will be available for your app to hack into. It is meant for apps that are specifically meant to tap into the power of the targeted social networking platform.
You can create innovative apps, even games inside these platforms, while offering full range of social networking capabilities to the users.
So should I let my apps socialise?
It’s worth noting that social APIs are highly progressive in nature and you might need to update your apps according to the changes in their policies and protocols every once in a while. Nevertheless, from a developer point of view, it’s one of the biggest thing to have happened to apps in recent times. Even giants like Apple have taken the social path, by ‘deeply integrating’ Facebook into their latest version of iOS. The manner in which social networking features are capable of enhancing your apps’ overall user experience and capabilities, it easily surpasses any tradeoff that might come with it.
With the power of social networking, you can tap into unexplored networking potential waiting in your apps, while making sure that you add value to your users, your apps and yourself!
