Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Mobile Web Development

Mobile web development is slowly creeping up the list of important tasks to be successfully completed by front-end developers. Millions of users around the world depend on mobile devices like BlackBerry and iPhone to access, not just simple email or text messaging, but full-fledged websites and applications.
Very soon, this skill will be a mandatory requirement on the average front-end developer . Front-end development principles are based on catering to the needs of the user.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Mobile Game Porting

Why the term porting did come into mobile game development field? The main reason was the number of mobile phone models, mobile phone manufacturers and different languages for mobile device. A new developed mobile game's market depends on the number of models covered as the target customers are huge when covering a large number of mobile models.

The main reasons for outsourcing the mobile game porting are as follow:

It is highly reduce the cost of the products.
Porting into large number of mobile phone models.
Non Risky field.
Time management
and quality control.
These works are doing by experts of this field.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Challenge for Mobile Application Developers

The biggest challenge for Mobile Application Developers is the porting and testing. For most application developers the satisfaction comes from developing the application from scratch and thinking through the logic and the user experience. However, before any such mobile application can be launched in the market and expect to reach a significantly, the application need to be ported to multiple devices and platforms – which requires a very different set of skills and areas of expertise. Porting is making changes to software to make it run on different environment. In mobile development, porting is the most important phase where they has to run a large number of models and has to cover most new models to get through the market. To maximize market availability, mobile application publishers and developers must make their content available on popular mobile platforms such as J2ME, BREW, iPhone and Windows Mobile.It enables developers to maintain a single code base to target the four most important mobile platforms J2ME, BREW, iPhone and Windows Mobile. As the mobile devices become so ubiquitous, the requirement for reliable mobile testing services has become even more compelling. Mobile applications are often built to be as agile and robust as PC based applications. This really takes a great deal of effort and its time consuming.