by Chris Oryschak, Product Manager
Now that it’s officially summer, we’re sharing all the “hot” updates we’ve been working on. Those of you using Digits to onboard users may have been looking for more insights into your conversion funnel and flexibility in testing the Digits flow. To help you do just that, we’re excited to release two major upgrades for Digits today: an integration with Answers and the Digits sandbox.
Understand exactly how your users are using Digits
If you use Digits to onboard users, you may have been looking for more insights into your conversion funnel. For example, maybe you want to know where users downloading the latest version of your app are signing up from. Now, with the latest Digits <-> Answers integration, you can easily track these events within the Digits flow:
If you’ve already installed both Digits and Answers, we’ll automatically create and track these events for you on your Answers dashboard. On top of these built-in events, you can even log specific user actions of your choosing. Just like other events tracked by Answers, we’ll let you know if we detect any abnormal trends so you can better serve your users and optimized your onboarding experience.
To get started, check out our iOS and Android docs.
Phone verification you can test & trust
Besides analytics, another popular request for Digits was the ability to test the Digits flow without triggering any rate limits or needing an internet/data connection. That’s why this month we’re also excited to release the Digits sandbox. Now, you can test the authentication or “Find your friends” feature flows as often as you want or even add these tests onto CI. With sandbox, you easily mock both success and error states for your users and optimize their experience before your latest build hit the app store.
Check out the Digits sandbox for iOS and Android!
We also shipped a number of smaller enhancements in June. Here’s our internal changelog:
iOS
Enhanced Answers integration to show more of the auth funnel
New Authentication delegate so developers can get insight into when each part of the auth flow funnel is entered
Debug mode to stub in an automatic session or error instead of launching the Digits UI
Fixed non-modular import error in Cocoapods
Digits logger delegate support for contacts upload/lookup activities
Android
Added new beta Sandbox feature that provides
full offline testing (to avoid rate limits in development)
success and error state mocking
Added new beta Analytics feature that provides
out of the box Answers integration
support for custom analytics providers
integration points for full funnel visibility
Updated Friend Finder feature to provide
a summary code in the event of failure
feedback when a user cancels the flow
upload bandwidth optimizations
Updated Authentication feature to provide
fixed Russian and Serbian translations
improved input feedback to end-users
feedback when a user cancels the flow
consistent cleanup after activities finish