If you are a Magento website owner and you are finding a way to run your website on mobile apps (iOS and Android), this post will introduce you how to do it with ease using fatherofapps’s Magento mobile apps.
It’s pretty easy and you can do it with a few steps:
- Register a fatherofapp’s account.
- Install our iOS and Android app.
- Connect the mobile app with your Magento website.
- Submit the apps to Google and Apple stores.
Create a fatherofapps’s account.
The first step is the easiest one. Go to the register page and create a fatherofapps account.
After that, log in and select the My App Informations section. In this section, you can enter the settings of your mobile app such as your app name and the Magento website URL, …
In this section, you can see we have 2 fields: Access Token and App code. Let’s find out what they are.
- Access Token: This is the access token you will get from your Magento admin site. The access token will provide access to the APIs the app needs to connect to your Magento website.
- App Code: This code will use for determine your app with other sites. You will enter this code to the mobile apps that’s installed later to load and run with your Magento website.
Connect with your Magento website
Go to your Magento backend and find the section Integrations: System -> Integrations
Select “Add New Integration”
In the Integration Info section, enter the information of the integration as you want to create.
In the API sections, change Resource Access to Custom and select the following accesses which the mobile apps need to run with Magento website:
- Sales -> Operations -> Orders -> Actions -> view
- Catalog
- Customers
- Carts
- Content -> Elements -> Pages
- Stores -> Attributes -> Products
- Stores -> All Stores
Click to Save
After creating, your integration is in the Inactive state, select Activate to make it actived.
After activating the integration, you can see several keys and tokens created. And Access Token, yes it’s the one we need to fill to the Access Token field in the App Information section pointed in the first step.
Copy the Access Token and save it on the Access Token field in the App Information section on the fatherofapps’s account page.
Install the iOS and Android apps.
Open the Magento mobile app Product page.
Scroll to the View demo section, you can see we have apps for Android, iOS. Depending on the OS you want to install, select and download the apps.
Match data from the mobile app to your Magento website
When you have downloaded and installed the mobile app, the next step is to connect the app with your Magento website.
In the first step, I showed you what is the App code and now is the time we need it to go. Tap to the floating button at the bottom right corner on the app Home view then enter the App code then tap OK.
The app will restart and load exact data from your website. Now you can browse your products, add to cart, and process the orders the same way your users make in your website, but with the mobile application experience, of course.
Submit the app to the Apple and Google Stores
Yay till now, you already run the mobile apps with your Magento site. The next thing you may wonder is how your app will be submitted to the Apple and Google stores. We will develop a system to help you publish the app to the stores in the near future.
For now, you can contact us and we will help you to make it published in the stores.
If you have any questions about mobile apps for the Magento website, do not hesitate to let us know by leaving a comment or send us an email on the Contact us page.
We will help you resolve the problems and make your Magento website available with mobile applications.