Bringing Video Commerce to Your Mobile App
Want to bring the excitement of video commerce directly into your mobile app? Bambuser offers two straightforward ways to make it happen, helping you connect with your customers in a whole new, engaging way.
Our Recommended Approach: Use Bambuser’s Social Commerce SDKs
We highly recommend using these because they offer the best experience for both you and your customers. Here’s why:
- Super Smooth Video: Videos will play seamlessly within your app, just like any other native video, and even support the handy Picture-in-Picture mode (where the video shrinks down so users can browse other things while still watching).
- Works Great on All Devices: We've optimized the SDKs to be lightweight and efficient, so they won't slow down your app or drain your users' batteries.
- Customize Your Shopping Experience: The SDKs give you the flexibility to design the live shopping flow exactly how you want it to fit your brand and your customers' needs.
- Always Up-to-Date: When we release new features for Social Commerce, the SDKs are automatically designed to work with them smoothly.
- Everything You Need, Right Out of the Box: The SDKs come with all the standard features.
- Easy to Integrate on Both iPhone and Android: Whether your customers use iPhones or Android devices, the SDKs use a consistent system, making it simpler for your developers to integrate.
- Track Your Sales: You can easily see how your live shopping events are driving sales thanks to Bambuser's built-in conversion tracking.
Ready to get started with the Native SDKs?
Option 2: Embedding the Web Player (Webview)
The second way to bring video commerce to your app is by embedding our existing web player using something called a Webview. Think of a Webview as a window within your app that displays a web page.
With our new SDKs, the primary (and virtually only) reason to choose the WebView approach is if you have an existing, fully integrated web player and wish to quickly experiment with a full-screen Live experience with minimal development effort. In all other scenarios, leveraging our new SDK offers a superior and more feature-rich solution.
Want to use the Webview? Here's how to get started:
In summary, while both options allow you to bring video commerce to your app, we recommend the Bambuser Mobile SDKs for the best performance, most flexibility, and access to the latest features, including conversion tracking. However, if your website already has the integration, the Webview option offers a quick and easy way to begin with the core features.
For more technical information, please read our Technical Documentation.