构建安卓小程序的教训

By Matt Bowen, James Lockhart, Cecilia Hunka, and Carlos Pereira

作者：Matt Bowen, James Lockhart, Cecilia Hunka, and Carlos Pereira

When the new widget announcement was made for iOS 14, our iOS team went right to work designing an experience to leverage the new platform. However, widgets aren’t new to Android and have been around for over a decade. Shopify cares deeply about its mobile experience and for as long as we’ve had the Shopify mobile app, both our Android and iOS teams ship every feature one-to-one in unison. With the spotlight now on iOS 14, this was a perfect time to revisit our offering on Android.

当iOS 14公布了新的小工具时，我们的iOS团队立即开始工作，设计一种体验来利用新的平台。然而，小工具对安卓来说并不新鲜，它已经存在了十多年了。Shopify非常关注它的移动体验，从我们拥有Shopify移动应用开始，我们的安卓和iOS团队就一对一地统一开发每一个功能。随着人们对iOS 14的关注，现在是重新审视我们在安卓上的产品的最佳时机。

Since our contribution was the same across both platforms, just like our iOS counterparts at the time, we knew merchants were using our widgets, but they needed more.

由于我们的贡献在两个平台上都是一样的，就像当时的iOS同行一样，我们知道商家在使用我们的小工具，但他们需要更多。

Why Widgets are Important to Shopify

为什么Widget对Shopify很重要

Our widgets mainly focus on analytics that help merchants understand how they’re doing and gain insights to make better decisions quickly about their business. Monitoring metrics is a daily activity for a lot of our merchants, and on mobile, we have the opportunity to give merchants a faster way to access this data through widgets. They provide merchants a unique avenue to quickly get a pulse on their shops that isn’t available on the web.

我们的小工具主要侧重于分析，帮助商家了解他们的工作情况，并获得洞察力，以便迅速对其业务做出更好的决定。监测指标是我们很多商家的日常活动，而在移动端，我们有机会让商家以更快的方式通过小工具获取这些数据。它们为商家提供了一个独特的途径，以快速获得他们商店的脉搏，这在网络上是没有的。

Add Insights widget

添加洞察力小组件

After gathering feedback and continuously looking for opportunities to enhance our widget capabilities, we’re at our third iteration, and we’ll share with you the challenges we faced and how we solved them.

在收集反馈并不断寻找机会增强我们的小工具能力后，我们正处于第三次迭代阶段，我们将与你分享我们面临的挑战以及我们如何解决这些问题。

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