Tuesday, May 24, 2011

A New Frontier For Mobile App Development-iPhone apps

 Apple Inc. introduced a new multimedia Smartphone in June 2007. Since then apple has sold over 7.5million Smartphone and has build loyal customer base. After all iPhone is not a simple communication device. It is a combination of three different devices – a revolutionary mobile, an internet device and a widescreen iPod.

IPhone popularity has led to breakthrough in mobile application development in mobile software development industry. Web interactive phone apps are developed in huge quantities. These apps are developed on SDK-software development kit. All iPhone apps are sold on Apples stores on profit-sharing basis. This profit is generally shared between individual developer and Companies involved in iPhone open application development.

Iphone conception has given substantial input to developers and industry people to come-up with lucrative iphone apps and increase usability of Smartphone. A separate niche market of iPhone has lured the industry experts to exploit upon the idea of development of usable and interesting apps and make them versatile for their usage.

Apple iPhone apps development is based upon Mac platform. Therefore users need Mac OS X on the computer along with visual studio developer and X-code tools to develop apps, provide source-code editing, source-code repository managing, debugging source-level, performance tuning and more. Those developers which have achieved a comfort level in working on specific mobiles are contacted to develop the right apps.

IPhone apps development is outsourced to India owing to the proven track-record, cost-effectiveness and timely delivery of projects. Apps are developed for a wide range of categories – business tools, entertainment and multimedia, games, and many utility apps.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Mobile Apps latest intervention with shopping industry

Shopping is a headache due to its time-consuming factor. People want to shop but avoid long queues and waiting time for billing and delivery of items purchased. The good news is that mobile apps’ developers have developed an app which showcases specific mall of a place. Mobile app features all the shops in that mall and views the items in those shops. Shoppers can navigate through stores inside the mall or even some stores in the parking lot.

Shopping mall app is available to combat against the rapidly growing dissatisfaction amongst the shoppers owing to serious issues like lack of parking space and long waiting lines. Shopping is fun but billing is a nightmare. Shopping apps are here to provide a relief to users and enjoy their shopping right from home.

Users can simply login to their mobile app through their mobile phone and visit the desired store. Users can also visit numerous stores to search for the right product without getting tired. Product once chosen should be purchased immediately because there are chances that it goes off the shelf through a customer present in the store. 

Shopping mall mobile apps are a blessing in disguise for store-keepers also. They enjoy enhanced sales and hence enhanced revenue through these mobile apps. Mobile apps are making revolutionary changes in the mind of people. For example: if a shopper likes a product and the product is not available in that size in that store; then it can be searched in other stores for the right size.

Mobile apps are revolutionizing Web application development in the form of excellent apps to cater to all their needs and demand.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Mobile Application development Services

Mobile application development services are not limited to application development alone. It includes creation, development, quality testing and deployment of mobile apps for major platform like BlackBerry RIM, Apple iOS, Linux, Android and for other mobile platforms. Mobile application development also includes porting services for customers to deploy apps on multiple operating systems and devices.

Mobile application development is a vast subject with huge knowledge. Mobile platforms and device have increased considerably challenging developers with multitude of knowledge over different development platforms. Application developers must have an expertise in their subject or operating system to develop the right app as par specifications and limitations. These applications are portable on different platforms and again it needs expertise to port it on different platforms and device form factors. Mobile application porting is not about porting them on different platforms. It also include successful porting them on different devices e.g., iPhone application portability on iPod touch and iPad like handheld devices.

Consumers want one in all projects and application developers have to be versatile in their approach to build an application and deploy it on different platforms and devices. This includes development solution for mobile application with design, development, quality assurance, testing, and deployment as per consumer needs. Mobile applications are valid for a wide range of device types including tablets, ereaders, and Smart phones to run on Android, Linux, Microsoft and many more operating system.

Mobile application development is hot subject owing to warm reception from the market. The design to delivery is a huge process and involves a teams’ effort to make-up for the right app.