App Clips – When downloads are a dealbreaker
summary
App Clips let users run a native part of an app without visiting the App Store and are constrained to a 10 MB limit (raised to 15 MB on iOS 16) but can use Vision, Apple Pay, biometrics and secure enclave for free; Name Tag’s App Clip scans ID + selfie to verify age and it works in the demo; invocations include QR/app clip codes NFC AR and universal links; app store overlay banner installs the parent app; testing uses local experiences TestFlight and app thinning reports (example: 5.7 MB uncompressed 2.3 MB compressed) and there are 8-hour ephemeral notifications and the app store overlay banner migration gotcha where the parent app may open instead of the clip.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05What are App Clips
- 4:40App Clips explained
- 8:54Real-world examples
- 13:16Creative use cases
- 14:20Building an App Clip
- 23:27Invoking App Clips
- 30:25Universal links in App Clips
- 32:53Migrating to parent app
- 38:33Testing App Clips
- 42:55Optimizing binary size
- 45:05Resources
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