18 January 2012

Make Your Blog Into An Andriod App!

So I'm feeling quite behind the times as I'm scrolling through the blogsphere.  All these new doodads, like making your blog into an app!  Who knew!  Well, surely not me.  So I went to check it out.  And in 3 easy breezy steps, I am now an app!


Appropriately name Free Andriod App Maker, click to get started.   Then choose what type of app your making {blog/rss}.  This will work with Wordpress and Feedburner as stated.  I used my Feedburner address.  From there you pick your background and icon.  Unfortunately you can't customize it.  Then allow it sometime to gather your info, punch in your name and email and voila!  You have a neat QR code you can download and place on your blog and a link to direct your readers to!




So after scanning it with my smartphone, I realized I had to go to the settings on my phone to allow "unknown sources".  After changing that, and rescanning the code, it took seconds for the download to be done. It looks just as it does in the email version of my blog.  I only allow a few lines of text, to get an idea of the post and if the reader wants to continue reading they go to my website.  This cuts down on load time.

Anyone else use this great tool?  How's it working out for you?  To me it seems easier to keep up with giveaways, so I'm hoping some of my favorite giveaway sites have this in play!  What else am I missing??  Any other new useful blogger tools?