Will mHealth app development become simpler with Apple's Swift ?

Swift, Apple's latest programming language, likes to have coding mobile applications simpler for all which includes mHealth developers too. According to Apple's senior VP in software engineering Craig Federighi, Apple assures their latest programming language, Swift, is likely to develop apps for the OS X and the iOS of all types, starting from games to health and fitness, simpler and quicker than before.

Dr. Chuck Thornbury, CEO & Founder at meVisit, stated that they do not notice a strategic drawback by Swift, however being a fresh language, it keeps the possibility of worldwide adoption. Swift is pretty new and readiness is one area which needs to be considered; that is very valid for those features such as mix-and-match and also interoperability with the old (legacy) code. One thing you need to keep in mind is the reason why this is that big deal on a developer's understanding. Mac and iPhone-based applications are usually made out of an old language known as Objective-C which was started in the year 1983 and has taken over by Apple devices from those initial days. Though being an older language, Objective-C is actually arguably not the perfect suited to many latest computing apps. Basically, it has been introduced at the time while all the computing power of smartphone would take up an entire desk. Thornbury further stated that, Swift has several great features that were discovered from different programming languages. It gives a very similar syntax than many other major languages particularly, those which are script-like, powerful languages. The mix-and-match amongst the Objective-C and the Swift could be likely to interest developers to start developing in Swift soon, since they would not be believed of having issues about the legacy code in theObjective-C.

According to Ned Fox, a software engineer at AliveCor, it would be most beneficial for the developers to work with Objective-C along with Swift. Fox further said that, he will stay with Objective-C for some time and apply features of the Swift. Although he includes there are latest features in Swift which could accelerate application development greatly. One particular feature known as Playground, that enables developers to check individual snippets of code without the need to test the whole app at a time. Fox added saying that, HealthKit is a very excellent step, which will make it simple to gather health data and bring data out. In case a campany is looking at hardwae they could target on hardware and transfer all this data.

Yet there are certainly contradictory stories regarding the positive results of Swift. As stated in an article by InfoWorld Swift performed considerably slow out of standards when compared to some other developing languages, Objective-C is included in that. Then again Swift just has been introduced in beta therefore it is not clear just how important these standards are in this aspect, especially as Swift and Objective-C needs to co-exist in the meantime. This month, Google is likely to announce Google Fit, their own digital health platform much like Apple's HealthKit. For the hardware brands like AliveCor platforms such as these could be important materials enabling companies to go to the market swiftly. Apple has definitely advanced in correct way about inspiring future app development it's going to be the developers by themself to finally choose where industry is going. Finally, coders |need the biggest audience possible and they will go with whatever tool available to get it. To get maximum benefits of mHealth, you may consider hiring services of a mobile health app development company.

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