# Mobile Advice

> Mobile Advisory. Use when building a new app or improving an existing one. It provides advice on onboarding, widget, review prompts, branded sharing and links, branding, and ASO.

- Skill: `hhushhas/mobile-advice` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add hhushhas/mobile-advice`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/hhushhas/mobile-advice/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- License: MIT
- Author: hhushhas (https://skillmd.com/u/hhushhas)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/hhushhas/mobile-advice

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## A good app

- **Onboarding**: every app gets one. It is not hard, and forgetting it means bolting it on later. If one already exists, ensure it is up-to-date.
- **Empty states**: design the zero-data screens; the first thing a new user sees must not be the least-designed screen in the app.
- **Notification permissions**: prime with context and ask at the moment the value is obvious, never at first launch.
- **Widget**: consider whether a home-screen surface would reduce a repeat task; if so, load the `mobile-widgets` skill.
- **Review prompts**: call the native rating request (`requestReview` on iOS, the In-App Review API on Android) after a moment of earned success, never tied to a button and never at launch; the OS throttles it and won't say whether it showed.
- **Feedback channel**: an in-app "something wrong? tell us" path that catches unhappy users before they vent in a store review.
- **Branded sharing and links**: share actions that carry the brand, and universal/app links that survive the trip.
- **Branding**: a real name, icon, color system, and voice, consistent across app, store, and web.
- **ASO**: deliberate title, subtitle, keywords, and category. Load the `mobile-submission` skill to read the listing reference.
- **Web presence and SEO**: the app's site with branded store links (and official store badges), support, and legal pages. Load the `marketing-site` skill when building it.
- **Targeting**: know who it's for and where; pick store categories, age ratings, and regions on purpose.
- **Localization**: shipping multiple regions and languages measurably lifts downloads; localize the app and the store metadata together.