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Landing Page for Phimpme Android

Landing page for any app is very important for its distribution. Its provide all the relevant informations for the app, its download/ source link and screenshot of the app for preview of its view and features. As our Phimpme app is now reached to a milestone, so we decided to bring out a landing for it.

Landing page is a simple static website which gives relevant informations and their links on a page. To develop a landing page, we can use multiple frameworks available for it. For example using Bootstrap, basic pages using html and css. As GitHub provides a free hosting service such as Github pages. I decided to work on jekyll which is easy to customize and hosted with GitHub pages.

How I did in Phimpme

  • Search for Open Source theme

There are various open source themes present for jekyll, mainly you will get for blogs. I got this awesome app landing page. It fulfils our requirements of showing a screenshot, brief description and links.

  • Create separate branch for Landing page

The GitHub pages works from a separate branch. So I firstly created a orphan branch in main Phimpme Repository. And Clear the working directory. Orphan branches are those branch which do not have any commit history. It is highly required that branch should not have any commit history, because that will irrelevant for gh-pages branch.

git checkout --orphan gh-pages
git rm --cached -r .
  • Test on Fork repo

Now rebase your branch with the gh-pages branch created on the main repository. Add the complete jekyll code here. To reflect changes on github.io page. You need to enable that in settings.

  • Enable gh-pages from settings

Go to the Settings of your repo

Scroll down to gh-pages section

Here things are clear, as we need to select the source branch from where the gh-pages is hosted. We can directly choose some open source themes built over jekyll. Also there is a option to add custom domain, such phimp.me in our case.

This all I’m writing as per the Developer perspective, where the developer have limited access to the repository and can’t access the settings of main repo. In that case push your code to by selecting the gh-pages base branch.

  • Problems I faced

The usual problem any Developer here faces is creating a orphan branch in main repo. This required removing all the files as well. Also to face less problem I recommend using some other editor such as Sublime Text, Atom etc. Or any other IDE other than Android Studio. Because in Android Studio after changing branch, it sync and rebuild again which actually takes lots of time.

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Pawan Pal

Android Developer. Open Source Enthusiast.

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