Sam Seay
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Add WooCommerce Mobile App Banner Ad for Android and iOS (https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-admin/pull/5037)
Fixes woocommerce/woocommerce-admin#4654
The feature calls for a mobile app ad banner to be displayed to users on mobile devices.
Based on the discussion in woocommerce/woocommerce-admin#4654 this implements the following:
1. [an iOS Smart App Banner](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/PromotingAppswithAppBanners/PromotingAppswithAppBanners.html). This banner is a meta tag that is generated in PHP. It will only display on iOS devices. One note about this: **This tag is not directly trackable like the implemented Android banner. If we would like to track its success then I believe [these instructions are relevant](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12906502/is-it-possible-to-track-click-throughs-from-iphone-smart-banner/20422334woocommerce/woocommerce-admin#20422334)**.
2. A mobile app banner ad that **only displays on Android** and only displays at the `738px` breakpoint specified in the issue. To only display this banner ad on Android, we use basic checking of the user agent string. I weighed this up against other approaches and for this kind of niche use case a simple UA string check is (imho) still the best way to do this.
3. The banner ad makes use of user preferences to retain a per user setting that determines if that user has dismissed the Android banner. We don't/can't do anything like this for the iOS Smart App Banner (but in theory we shouldn't need to).
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2020-08-27 13:46:53 +12:00 |