Getting started
Mobincube is one of the most popular platforms for non-developers to build mobile apps for Android and iOS devices. One of its keys for success is its scalability in terms of the range of functionalities that publishers can add to their apps. And the way how Mobincube achieves that is by letting 3rd parties develop new functionalities and make them available for every publisher of Mobincube.
And that's a great way for both startups and consolidated companies to showcase their web-based products to hundreds of thousands of app developers. Just
How is this useful to your company?
In case you provide a web-based product for small companies, you should really consider integrating with Mobincube. The process is quite straight forward: just develop a small html5 based version of your product using our guidelines and it will be published on Mobincube's AddOn repository, so any publisher can add your functionality to his app by just dropping it.
As an example, imagine that your company provides a SaaS based platform for restaurants to offer food delivery to their customers. You might have been asked plenty of times by your existing customers if you could develop the same tech but as an app, right? Now you'll have an answer for them, just tell them to build their own app with Mobincube and drag your company's addon into their app.
It gets way better beyond your existing customers though. There are hundreds of thousands of small business that are already building an app with Mobincube and they might have not heard about your company, while they might be looking to add the same functionality you're providing. Integrating your company with Mobincube will place your product in front of tons of potential customers.
Monetize your own AddOns
Ok, you're not a company looking for potential customers. You're just a clever developer who wants to earn money from home and be your own boss. There's a good opportunity here for you to accomplish your dream.
Publishers of Mobincube are always demanding new features to make their apps look unique. Some times they look for a simple feature (new menu formats, algorithms, etc.), some other times they look for full-equiped modules (chats, forums, mini-games, etc.). And they are willing to pay a fee in order to use them inside their apps.
So here's the deal: start developing today your own Mobincube-compatible html5 based modules. Publish your modules on our AddOn marketplace and we will make them available for our publishers. Everytime they decide to include your addon inside their apps, they'll pay you a fee.
How simple is that?
Well, it's pretty simple. Mobincube apps have a pure native core, which is ready to support html5 based addons. Those addons can interact with the native side of the app or even with other addons. All that communication is handled by the native core. So basically, you just need to develop those addons using html+javascript, following some of the guidelines you'll find in this site.
Your addons should be customizable by our publishers, who generally don't know about programming. But that's easy too! They won't need to access your code. In fact, they won't have access to it.
There are some javascript variables that you might want the publisher to define their value, so you can make the addon behave accordingly, right? We call those variables PROPERTIES. You need to define all those properties inside a JSON file called properties.json and put that file in the root folder of your addon. Mobincube will take that list of properties and convert it into a rich form, for the publisher to enter the values of all properties. And you just need to access those properties from your javascript to get the value that the publisher of Mobincube entered when building the app.