

The keyboard onboarding process should be like unwrapping a gift – shiny and appealing on the outside with the real gift on the inside and something the user looks forward to. Challenges that are not entirely too difficult to fix, yet so many companies rush to market without considering small but powerful tweaks to improve the user onboarding experience. Like many apps launched in the Apple store, they come with their own set of challenges, as installing these apps can be complicated and the first-time user experience (FTUE) is in a constrained space. Smartphone users are using keyboard extensions to do everything from sending personal emoji’s, to searching for gifs, to change the way they tap the screen (and more.) It has become so popular that even the Kardashians have a stake in the keyboard trend with the release of Kimoji’s. Since then there have been hundreds of keyboards developed.
#Popkey developers download#
With the release of iOS 8 in 2014, Apple, for the first time allowed third-party developers to create keyboard extension apps that users could download and either replace with their existing keyboard or use as an extension of their existing stock keyboard. This is a guest post by Dom Tancredi, CEO & Co-Founder of Dom & Tom and Alice Fountain, Content Strategist at Dom & Tom.Ĭan you even imagine your life before Emojis? Even if you can, do you really want to?

Improving User Retention: Keyboard Extension Secret Ingredients
