I had an exciting email the other morning welcoming me to the private beta of Magento Mobile, can’t wait to get my hands on this as it’s going to be extremely useful for many of my clients, especially as the costs seem to be reasonably acceptable.
Here’s some first impressions:
Installation was really easy, i took the manual approach and basically had to drop in some directories and change the permissions of one folder, this also required me to refresh the cache of Magento to pickup the Mobile option in the admin area.
Designing the application seems extremely easy also, you’re basically choosing the icon displayed at the top, the main image shown and an optional background image, i customised the colours to suit the website’s palette, had a few buggy issues and had to do this more than once, but i’m sure this will be ironed out in the public release.
It’s taken the best part of 10 minutes to customise the application to suit my needs, which is extremely quick, almost feels like cheating, but i’m not complaining, it’d take me weeks to get the same functionality programming it myself.
All in all it seems like a very impressive feature to sell to prospective e-commerce clients!
