What's New? 🆕

Our latest template bundle for Purple Apps and Purple Experience brings valuable features to help streamline your business working with Purple. Key improvements include an increased API level for Android apps, enhanced caching behaviour for apps and the web and additional website analytics tools.

Purple App Template 10.6

Increased API Level: Android apps now support API level 34 and Google Play Billing Library version 6.0.1 or higher, ensuring continued submission capability for the upcoming year.
iOS: Initial start-up offline screen: You can now display an extra screen when a user has downloaded your Purple App and opens it for the first time while offline. Read the documentation on Offline start

Purple Experience Template 3.7

FEATURES APP & WEB

Improved Caching Behaviour: Optional data caching optimisation ensures less data stored on web and app platforms. Data will be no longer overwritten but stored differently, leading to more efficient workflows and improved offline performance.

FEATURES WEB

• Support for Kilkaya: Kilkaya is a flexible analytics tool for news publishers, offering live dashboards, reports, recommendations, a toolbar, A/B testing, and more. Learn more on the website of Kilkaya.
• Support for etracker: Etracker is an EU-made analytics tool designed for consent-free web analytics, tag, and consent management. Learn more on the website of etracker.
• Support for Usercentrics: Usercentrics is a German-based content management platform already supported in the app. This update extends support to the web, ensuring seamless use across both channels. Learn more on the website of Usercentrics.

Key Facts 🔑

• App Template 10.6 is now the standard Purple App Template (see support matrix).
• Release Notes for 10.6 are available here.
• Compatibility: Version 10.6 requires Purple Experience version 3 or higher.
• Recommendation: Use the latest versions of Purple Experience and Purple App Template for optimal stability and performance.

What's new? 🆕

This new bundle of templates for Purple Apps and Purple Experience offers a range of features to help your business succeed with our Purple Publishing suite. Improvements include enhanced performance, a new way to test events in your analytics tool, and revised offline behaviour for a better user experience when reading content offline.

Purple App Template 10.5

• Support for Dossiers in the App
  With this new App Template, the Purple Dossiers content binder is now fully supported in the App Experience. This content binder type helps you to efficiently collect and present different types of content in your Purple Hub for all channels. It can contain multiple content types and combine content at different workflow stages, such as a mix of published and unpublished articles. Enable Purple Dossiers to be displayed in the App via the 'Content Component' in the Purple Experience. Learn more

• Tracking Event logging
  To better understand the events logged in your App Analytics, you can enable debug logging of raw tracking events. This feature is available exclusively on the preview version of a Purple App or Purple Website. Learn more

• Optimization of queries
  We have changed the default behaviour of most queries in the Purple Experience, resulting in improved performance, especially for large queries. Please note that custom functionality that relies on the "totalCount" value of queries may break due to this change.

Purple Experience 3.5.0

FEATURES APP & WEB

• Support of Google Analytics 4
  From now on, Google Analytics 4 is fully supported for Analytics in App and Web in the Purple Experience. Learn more

• Consent Management Integration Refactoring
  Revision of the integration of the Consent Management platforms - if you notice something that does not work as usual, please do not hesitate to contact us.

• Analytics Integration Refactoring
  The App and Web Analytics integration has been overhauled to improve efficiency and performance. We have tested all changes thoroughly, but if you notice any discrepancies please get in touch with us.

FEATURES APP

• Offline Behaviour Improvements
  There is a new mechanism to inform readers that they are not connected to the Internet and have limited access to the app content. Learn more about the Offline Behaviour in Purple Apps

• iOS Privacy Manifest
  As iOS apps are required to include a privacy manifest for each SDK that potentially tracks user data, we address this by including the required document in the Purple App itself and each SDK it contains.

• iOS Dynamic Resource Download Update
  According to Apple's guidelines for iOS, we are now informing the customer whenever they need to download or unpack additional resources to continue using the app. The app user will see a new dialogue displaying the size of the dynamic resources to be downloaded. This dialogue appears only once, after a fresh app install, on the first app start, showing the content size of the requested dynamic resources. Learn more

Key Facts 🔑

• App Template 10.5 is the new standard Purple App Template (see support matrix)
• Find the App Template 10.5 release notes here
• 10.5 will only work with a Purple Experience version > 3
• We recommend using the latest Purple Experience and Purple App Template to ensure a stable and flawless product.

What's new? 🆕

This new bundle of templates for Purple Apps and Purple Experience brings you a variety of helpful features that we hope will help you make your business more successful using our Purple Publishing suite:

Purple App Template 10.4

• Better caching behaviour
  We have implemented an improved caching strategy for news apps that reduces the total amount of storage used, to avoid large databases on your users' devices, making the Experience for your users lighter and faster.

• Consent Management with Usercentrics
  With the integration of Usercentrics, you now have an alternative 3rd party consent management provider integrated into Purple that works for Purple Apps. Learn more about Usercentrics on their website.

• Tracking with Snowplow and Piwik Pro
  As alternative options to meet your tracking needs, we have implemented two new innovative and GDPR-friendly providers which work on mobile devices and your website. Find out more on the providers' websites: https://snowplow.io/ and https://piwik.pro/

Purple Experience 3.1.0

FEATURES APP & WEB

• Bundles
  We introduce a new content component supporting content binders like Purple Issues or the newly introduced Purple Dossiers feature from now in the Purple Expierence.

• Custom Blocks
  The Purple Experience allows you to display Custom Blocks created in the Purple Hub in your Purple App and website. Thanks to Custom Blocks, you can add unique features and functionalities to your site that may not be available in pre-built blocks. Learn more

• Automatic setting of Aria labels that are used for links
  To improve accessibility, images can have an aria-label attribute. For images that link to a post, this uses the post title, otherwise it fills with the value of the alt attribute. Learn more about Aria labels

• Google Ads refresh
  If you use Google Ads in your Purple Experience, you can profit from the newly implemented refresh mechanism. This behaviour allows you to display ads one after the other and set the interval between them. Learn more: Control ad loading and refresh in the Google developer docs.

FEATURES WEB

• Pay or okay subscriptions, aka 'Pur Abos'
  This model allows users to access content for free on the condition that they agree to tracking. Alternatively, they can subscribe to your offers without tracking as they consume your content. As these two options remove the ability to read your content by neither paying nor being tracked, offering this subscription can lead to a much higher opt-in to tracking and save your valuable advertising revenue. In Purple, we have implemented a provider called 'Traffective' to offer such a service in Web using their CMP and ad service. If you would like to enable this for your Purple Website, contact our Customer Success team.

• Coupon function now also available for web
  Coupons created via the Purple Manager can now be activated by your users in app and Purple powered websites, granting a seamless user experience on both channels. Learn more

• Optimisation of Lighthouse Score and Core Web Vitals
  The Lighthouse Score and the Core Web Vitals have increased, granting you SEO advantages, as this Experience release includes various factors such as the automatic setting of Aria Labels for links (improving accessibility), the optimisation of performance scores by changing the loading behaviour of JS scripts and better configuration options for images. Learn more about Core Web Vitals and the Lighthouse Score.

Key Facts 🔑

• App Template 10.4 is the new standard Purple App Template (see support matrix)
• Find the App Template 10.4 release notes here
• 10.4 will only work with a Purple Experience version > 2 
• We generally recommend using the latest Purple Experience and Purple App Template to ensure a stable and flawless product.

What's new? 🆕

We are pleased to announce the first official public App/Experience Template release for the new Purple platform: The Bundle Release featuring the Purple App Template 10.3 and the Purple Experience 2.2.1. Within this bundle, you will find several valuable new features, capabilities and two adaptations to meet the latest requirements for both Apple and Google operating systems.

General changes

• The combination of Purple App Template (from 10) and Purple Experience (from 2) is the first to allow you to play out the Purple Experience on the web as a server-side rendered web application. This approach has the advantage of high performance and SEO optimisation. In addition, your users will benefit from a better user experience as they will see the same look and feel in the app and on the web. We have already demonstrated this improvement by integrating it into more than 20 successfully launched customer projects.
• Curated collections: When using Purple Hub, you can curate lists of articles to display on your homepage or any other overview page. The Purple App Template 10 and Experience 2 is the first to support this new logic to display your curated lists in the app and on the web. Since collections are dynamic lists, this new feature gives you a whole new way to keep your overview pages up to date without touching them one by one.

App Template 10.3

Time-based issue deletion
We have added an option to automatically delete issues from the user's device based on the time elapsed since they were last read. Besides limiting the number of issues, you now have the additional option to set a specific period for deletion. Learn more about this feature

Compliant with Google's latest consent requirements
Google's new Consent Management Platform requirements for ad serving specifies that the Consent Management dialogue in App and Web must appear before the App Transparency Framework dialogue. App Template 10.3 includes an adaption to comply with this new requirement from Google. Read more in the blog post

Ready for iOS 17
App Template 10.3 includes an adjustment that allows you to make your apps available on the Apple App Store with iOS 17, which will get released around September. Only App Templates without the newly deprecated 'Newsstand Kit' will work when downloaded to an Apple device updated to iOS 17. By updating the template, you ensure that your live applications are updated to reflect this change and still work on your user's devices.

Consent Management with Consent Manager
With the integration of Consent Manager, you now have an alternative 3rd party provider for Consent Management integrated into Purple that works for both app and web. Learn more about Consent Manager on the provider's website.

Integration of the Clever Push SDK
We now support a push messaging provider that works for mobile apps and the web, providing an alternative to Firebase. Learn more about CleverPush at the vendor's website.

Purple Experience 2.2.1

Generic widget integration
A new container in the Purple Experience allows you to integrate any 3rd party widget into the Purple Experience to make it visible for both the app and the web. For example, you could use it for comments, podcasts or advertising.

Support for the Weekli widget
Weekli is a German brochure management provider. Integrating it allows you to outsource your brochure management to a specialised service and display it to your users in your Purple App or Web frontend. Learn more about Weekli

Configure dynamic paths
You can configure the paths in the Purple Experience for both Purple App and Purple Web to your liking, with the flexibility to create a customised URL and align it with your brand identity. Learn how to configure it in this Docu article

Support for Google Tag Manager
By integrating Google Tag Manager for Analytics into your Purple App or Web Experience, you can easily add and update tags without modifying the underlying code, making configuration faster and more efficient. Learn more about Google Tag Manager at the vendor's website.

Key Facts 🔑

• App Template 10.3 is the new standard Purple App Template. Find the Release Notes here.
• Submitting your apps with it will be mandatory before September to comply with the latest requirements from Apple and Google. It's already available for you to update your app in Purple Manager.
• 10.3 will only work with a Purple Experience version > 2. We strongly recommend using the latest Purple Experience 2.2.1 to ensure a stable and flawless product.