Friday, October 24, 2014

5Types of iPhone Owners You Shall Come Across After iOS8 launch


Whenever a new iPhone launches, upgrade the existing phone to the new model has a tightly knit to hardware-and-software ecosystem, can say. Here are some thoughts about different types of buyers and whether they should get one.

With iOS8, the iPhone 6 delivers a bigger screen while remaining easy to handle catching attention of Smartphone users.

Fans

Excited about everything Apple, this group of people own every version of the iPhone. It is like they own a t shirt and most of the time they avoid washing it just because they are afraid of their logo getting faded. 

Fanboy keeps on blaming other operating systems and believes that iPhone is the best among all. Create an iphone apps and they will figure out how worth it is to have it on hand.

Desk job

These are kind of Iphone owners who keep two their Iphone as an iPod and use the former on the places like gym. Making calls doesn’t hit them but still love to keep iPhone.

The Complainers

These owners of iPhone own a device because it is trendy, and utterly they do not know much about phone and use it only as style statement or fashion. Developers, no matter how hard they try to develop an iphone app, these people keep on blaming that the size of iPhone Is difficult to handle missing their Nokia phone.

The Seniors

iPhone users who even don’t know how to get benefits out of an iPhone fall under this type. These are the set of people who can amaze at the first look whose typing speed is one word per minute and use default ring tones. Developing apps for them is a maze drive. 

The Hackers 

These ordained iphone users jailbreak their device from day one, use it to remote start their car, for calls on Skype and uses WiFi. They do nothing but winning around the device from the touch screens to censorship. 


iOS 8 is here to stay for a big margin of mobile application developments when compared to the features of a Smartphone with other early birds. 

Monday, October 20, 2014

3 Influential Ways of Casting Mobile Apps into Shopping Trends


Increased usage of the Internet and especially mobile for shopping, most often consumers interact with online coupons, and deals. A global research says about 1.2 billion of users make use of their mobile devices to access several websites, plus 15 % of online traffic is via mobile commerce which force the online shopping businesses to transform their ecommerce business to the mcommerce..


Nowadays, the mobile app developers and designers have largely contributed in mobile application development for shopping which force mobile users to stick with their devices. Add to the value, the coming of responsive web design makes website itself automatically adapt to the mobile resolutions without decreasing the quality of a website.

This article concentrates on three important factors that drive your mobile app development efforts for shopping cart development.



The biggest advantage of mobile application for shopping is that it creates a brand visibility besides which many users tend to recommend the mcommerce app if they found it valuable and useful. It is found that by 2016, more than 50% of the mobile users will prefer to complete their transactions through the m-wallet.

Mobile devices with touch-screen technology offer a rich user experience so that it impacts purchasing behaviour of the customers. Rather than customers preferring to buy from another website, a mobile app that loads faster or transaction carried swiftly in one step make you app development a grant success.

The success factor to every mcommerce completely depends on the way the mobile applications are developed. The users can evaluate the cost by comparing it with other prior to make purchase. 47% users have confessed that they surf information about the regional stores via their mobile phones before making purchase. And, 42% of users verify the inventory before ordering and 60% of customers prefer to stay at home and buy.


Summing up, the best advantage of mobile commerce is that shoppers, regardless to any geographical terms can easily complete their purchases and payment via their mobile devices safely.

Friday, October 10, 2014

5 Impressive Tools That Aide in Creating A Mobile Game App


From kids to teenagers to old grannies, who on earth doesn’t like to play mobile games? Temple run has caught most of us and candy crush has become a stress-buster, steal some hours just to play while on the break.

Creating new and unique games for all age groups, mobile apps developer have a HUGE responsibility based on the variety of OS available and, the necessary tools. This post is a house for the 5 essential mobile game app development tools to develop free version, and in some cases the paid version to enjoy some nice fun moments.


Corona

Develop a single code base using this tool and, app developers can publish the game to various platforms with high quality and high speed to keep the gamers engaged. Besides, the interface and environment used here are pretty interesting and interactive.

Unity

Known to be one of the most popular game development tools, even heavy gamers are aware of unity. Used to build games for both 2D and 3D action games, this tool allows you to develop games that can be integrated across platforms, and also extends to various gaming consoles.

ARM

This technology is one of the biggest in the world of mobile game app development available in present time in almost all the mobile app supported devices. It lets you build mobile games that possess high quality and speed, and all it needs is the openGL ES emulator to create bug-free apps.

Marmalade

Planning to create a multi platform game? Then you should necessarily choose the Marmalade SDK as your mobile game app development tool. Developers can use C++ or Xcode or even Visual Studio to build your game on various platforms like iOS, Windows, Android, and Blackberry etc.

Marmalade Juice- a cross platform development module within Marmalade offers platform specific codes and features for the major OS named above.

Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine 3 source code comes with the unreal engine development kit basically integrated with middleware technologies to develop games that will work across various platforms. Whilst used to develop next gen power gaming, it is available for high end gaming consoles, and for different OS.



IOS 8 and Hybrid Mobile App to Go hand in Hand- Not Google


Built using web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Hybrid apps run inside a wrapper of native code allowing installation from app stores and access to device-specific features. Google should be leading HTML5 development, but is astoundingly not working. Let’s read on to explore the depth and height of this notably changes here.

Apple though not a champion of open source or open standards, with iOS 8 it has become both. It has also introduced significant improvements for application developers who hope to exploit new API will need to work around a bug that breaks a common way for loading local files from the device.

Besides, here a few more benchmarks that sets IOS 8 a potential leader to be a huge win for hybrid apps.


HTML5 Support Level Test

The HTML5Test.com benchmark reveals that there are some APIs that are only available in WKWebView- a very supportive to iOS 8 version.

Webgl Is Now Enabled

WebGL was a hidden feature in iOS 7 but starting in iOS 8, it is officially supported in both WKWebView and UIWebView. This is huge for developers who require native-level 3D animation capability, especially for game app developers

Improvements to CSS3 Capabilities

iOS 8 has implemented many more CSS3 features than iOS 7

·         To control an element( images and videos) to fit in the parent container

·         More design support for text decoration party

·         Shaping floating content and keeping text-wrapped

Completely a Different Set of APIs

The most notable change is that WKWebView now has a mechanism to communicate between the native layer and the browser layer. For example, Cordova utilizes internal AJAX an IFRAME element to pass the data. WKWebView provides a direct way to send data between the layers. It will be much more accurate and take much less overhead compared to the UIWebView way of sending messages.


In a nutshell, all HTML5-based hybrid apps will run much quicker and become more stable for iOS devices with the new the new WKWebView engine. Playing a bigger and bigger role in application development...a lot of games and apps can be seen in future. 

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Why Small Biz are Heading to Android App Development


As Google Play is flooding bloating with millions of Android apps new ideas are flourishing in recent and futuristic contexts. There are more than 2 millions apps registered in the various market places serving a vast audience across the globe where Android OS based devices ruling in numbers and now in quality.

But this isn’t at all. Start-ups prey on Android apps for so many other reasons. Of which a few important ones are jotted down to give you a picture of why this way?

I’m an Open Source Platform

For expanding your products and services Android app development provides a wide open platform from phones and tablets to set-top boxes, refrigerator displays, and much more. This isn’t ends here. Google ensures their operating system is open to developers with the limits of Android’s capabilities, and the flexibility to cater to your needs.


I’ll Fit Your Budget

Google and the developer community has fairly streamlined the entire process making houses for varied features and functions, while custom coding and designing in order to create the app’s unique aspects. If you have a look it, the results are not only faster but affordable development cycle than most other software can offer. For startups, being short on cash is the status quo, and that’s why any business can consider it.

I Let You Dream Massive

With each release, the operating-system becomes hardly any bigger additional well-loved and extra effective which is influencing 1000s of recent customers active their products. Whilst permitting little companies to offer what their audience desire, these applications furthermore enhance the complete whole visibility of the choices.

I Promise Stable Customer Relationship

A mobile app provides accessibility to your customers instantly with no regards to time and place. With smart phones adoption is in skyrockets, developing mobile apps on Android is the most reliable and widespread methods of maintaining strong customer relations on behalf of your business.

All these above mentioned points emboldens both small and medium businesses alike to rapidly implement Android platform for acquiring their business applications developed.

Why Enterprises to Develop Cross-Platform Apps with HTML5


What do you think from a customer’s end regarding User-experience? Doubtless, there could be only one answer.  Regardless to what device they have in front of them, be it a Windows PC at work, or an Apple  iPad at the local coffee shop or an Android* phone on the go- the mobile application must work, intact.

So... why HTML5?

Instead of deluging in programming technologies such as C# and Windows APIs and Visual Studio, ObjectiveC and iOS APIs and Xcode; Java and Android APIs and Eclipse, etc cross-platform HTML5 languages focuses your efforts on the things that really matter, starting from developing the right features for your app without failing user experience.


Today’s cross-platform apps need to adapt to varying screen sizes, resolutions, aspect ratios and orientations and, yes this is both an opportunity and challenge. HTML5 code are packed and been deployed as a locally installed hybrid web app rather than running within a sandboxed browser window frame.

This article will explain the following best practices for building cross-platform HTML5 apps for enterprises:

Supportive to All the APIs Used By Your App

ü  HTML5 browser is a first-class programming language supported by some of the latest development tools, including Microsoft Visual Studio, Appcelerator Titanium and Node.js.

ü  Also, the HTML5 runtimes implemented on your target platforms will always support slightly different APIs but a nuisance for app development. However, using Cordova, you can take advantage of device capabilities to deliver rich and contextual user experiences.

Adaptive To Provide A Good User Experience

ü  Based on screen dimensions and, adjust padding around the UI components to better accommodate various aspect ratios, you can scale your UI components and fonts.

ü  Instead of loading a different image asset optimized for a different resolution, propose web standards for support of responsive images.

Managing “Quirks

The fast evolution of the HTML5 standard behaves differently as a function of the target platform, optically different in the behaviour of platform runtimes to complicate cross-platform development. Say, Android platform shows inconsistent behaviour over audio and video playback across various manufacturer implementations. Such differences can be easily overcome by the use of cross-platform JavaScript library APIs that mask runtime implementation differences such as Modernizr.

In order to serve the app developers, HTML5 technology is applied to building device applications that will help you to write once and deploy across multiple platforms.


How to Generate Revenue from a “Free” App: 4 Modest Conspiracies.



The price tag of an app often becomes a barrier for people to download it whilst acting reluctant to generate money. This is why counter intuitive that a free app became an easy mode to generate revenue.

So how do you make money from a free app?  Let’s see a few surprising strategies.

Get Users First Monetize Later

Let’s take an example to illustrate how this works. Whatsapp which was acquired by Facebook for a staggering $19 Billion, on the surface, has no revenue model which means no subscription fees or mobile ads. But see they do have a lot of users with 18 billion transactions a day. 

As simple this model is defined to be getting the users first and monetize later regardless to the data size, advertising or something else.

Act As a Vehicle To Deleiver Quality Service / Product: 

Few examples for this model will be

·         Uber, a mobile app where users can request and pay for a ride sharing service.

·         Doctors on Demand application let users to get a consultation from a licensed physician through a video conference for $40 for 15 minutes

·         Besides, there are many online shopping apps to purchase pretty much anything and everything.

Mobile Advertising Is An Aid:

Almost projected to reach $31.5 Billion this year alone, many mobile ad companies have sprouted with various revenue models most of them in conjunction with apps that have in-app purchase and consequently allows a free app to generate revenue even if the user doesn’t make any in-app purchases.

In-App Purchase Otherwise the “Freemium” Model

Whilst your users are getting purchase an app for absolute free price, they are provided with an opportunity to purchase additional services.  Not to forget, Apple retains 30% of the revenue generated from this mechanism.

·         Unlocking “Pro” Version of the App besides unlocking varied features

·         Allowing the app to work after a trial period

·         Disabling ads is currently the highest grossing app strategies.

·         Including additional content like a song, story, game level, etc

Winding up, all that i want to say is if you want to develop an app for profit- launch it “free” is the way to go.