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Friday 14 November 2014

Promoting Apps with Smart App Banners

Safari has a new Smart App Banner feature in iOS 6 and later that provides a standardised method of promoting apps on the App Store from a website.

Note: Smart App Banners only show on iOS, not OS X.
Smart App Banners vastly improve users’ browsing experience compared to other promotional methods.
If the app is already installed on a user’s device, the banner intelligently changes its action, and tapping the banner will simply open the app. If the user doesn’t have your app on his device, tapping on the banner will take him to the app’s entry in the App Store. When he returns to your website, a progress bar appears in the banner, indicating how much longer the download will take to complete. When the app finishes downloading, the View button changes to an Open button, and tapping the banner will open the app while preserving the user’s context from your website.
Smart App Banners automatically determine whether the app is supported on the user’s device. If the device loading the banner does not support your app, or if your app is not available in the user’s location, the banner will not display.
To add a Smart App Banner to your website, include the following meta tag in the head of each page where you’d like the banner to appear:
<meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=myAppStoreID, affiliate-data=myAffiliateData, app-argument=myURL">
Note: You cannot display Smart App Banners inside of a frame.
For example, please open this link in your iPhone Safari.
I have added the meta like this
<meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=313192737">

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