Scroll Down (at first I thought nothing happened, but then realized it loaded below) Choose the app you were just playing with. Then select the background gradient you want or nothing at all (transparent)Īfter you’re done you get kicked back to the illustrations page, but let’s go check out what we created!Ĭlick Illustrations then Available Illustrations. This is the image that shows as being *active* on the screen. Then you pick the one in-app shot to use for the mockup. After selecting Waterfall, choose the app (.Netitude), then select all the shots you want to include in the mockup. The first two options are up to you do you want a “waterfall style” illustration, or a “cards style” illustration? Or both? You choose. Much like uploading the in-device shots, click Illustrations then Create Illustrations. You now get to use those generated in-device-shots in the other parts of AppAdditives. Once you’re done with all the ones you wish to utilize in later steps, move on. Choose the hardware type on which you want your app to appear (I chose Gray Nokia Lumia).For each uploaded screenshot, do the following: Now you need to transform those screenshots in to in-device shots. Click the same app (again) and note that the screenshots you upload appear. Don’t forget to click “Start Upload”! After uploading you’ll be taken back to the app listing. * Advice: Upload your splash screen as one of the screenshotsĬlick Upload new screenshot and add the shots you want to use in the in-device shots you’re about to render. No matter, you uploaded those from your source code location anyway so you have them handy, right? * Point of improvement here would be for it to pull the screenshots right from the store listing. You’ll see on the next page “No screenshots available…” On the left-hand bar, click Illustrations then In-Device-Shots.Ĭhoose the app you just added to the list – in my case. Once you’ve added the app to your list of apps in AppAdditives, you can now create promotional material for it. More importantly, search engines will find it )įill out a good app description for your app and add some good text to add to tweets about your app, click Save Changes, and let’s move on. Turning this on allows people to browse the ExGrip/AppAdditives gallery of applications who have created promo material. The more people know about it, the better! Add my app to the gallery In my opinion, it’s good to have this active unless you’re creating materials for an app that you don’t want to make public yet. Let’s walk through each option on the Edit page: Tweet about my appįrom time to time, the ExGrip twitter account tweets about apps that use AppAdditives to create promo materials. Now click ‘Edit’ for the entry you just added and we’ll get the goodies. When it’s all said and done you’ll have it in the list of apps in the “Your Apps” section. Put that in to the Add App form of AppAdditives and watch the magic kick off. Hit the ‘Details’ area of the app in question, and grab the App ID: Want Windows 8 support? Vote for it on their Uservoice forum. For this post I’m going to create assets for the Windows Phone application for my blog. ![]() Now you go find your App’s UUID (Universal Unique Identifier) by loading your Windows Phone dashboard and viewing the entry for the app you want to create some awesomeness for. Create a new appĪfter signing in / creating a new account, head to your Dashboard, then the Apps section. Point #1 for me here they allow registration & sign in via 3rd parties. Head over to and register for a new account. In this post, I’ma give you the rundown of just how easy it is to create some sweet promo materials for your app using their awesome new web based suite of tools. The folks at ExGrip have now made this insanely easy with App Additives. Getting your Windows Phone or Windows 8 app published is only half the battle.
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