Mobile Application Development

Mobile Application Development

The popularity of Smartphones is on boom these days, According to a report In India, the number of Smartphone users will hit to  337 million at the end of this year with an increment of 15.6%. Before 2022, we can observe an increment of 60% in the number of Smartphone users in India. These statistics are enough to explain the necessity of mobile app development.

Different from traditional software creation, One critical difference is Mobile Applications are designed specifically to utilize the features of devices. These days most of the mobile devices are running on Android and IOS Operating  Systems, According To them mobile applications are classified into different types.

Mobile apps are majorly classified into three categories,

•        Native Apps
•      Hybrid Apps
•        Mobile Web Apps
  

 

1.      Native Apps:

These mobile applications are basically created for specific platforms using software development tools (SDC) and programming languages support to that platforms like iOS apps will only run on iOS (Apple Devices) and Android apps will only run Android devices. We need Objective-C and Swift software for developing iOS apps and Java and ADT for developing Android apps.

 

2.     Mobile Web Apps or HTML5 Apps:

Mobile Web Apps or HTML5 Apps are basically web applications which execute on web browsers and deliver the requested pages. These Applications are usually written in HTML5, JavaScript or CSS. These apps target web browsers so they can work on different operating systems.

 

3.      Hybrid Apps :

These apps as name Suggests are the mixture of both native and mobile web apps, that's why they have a cross-platform compatibility. These apps generally created by using HTML, CSS, JQuery, and PhoneGap etc.

Software Development Kits :

SDKs provide a stimulating environment through which developers can develop and test the application they are creating. An SDK typically includes few things which are,  a visual screen builder, an editor,  a linker, a compiler and some more things. Eg. Android Studio, Net Beans.

 Mobile App Development majorly classified into two categories based on operating system.

·         Android App Development

·         iOS App Development

Android App Development

Android is an open source operating system which is owned by Google, it is based on Linux OS.  It provides an integrated approach for developing applications for devices which are powered by this Operating System.The Latest released version of Android OS Is Oreo.

Why Should We Develop Applications In Android?

Android is one of the Massive Properties under the umbrella of Google with around 2 Billion Active users this year. Some of the mobile apps owned by Google have around One Billion, active users. All the Android users downloaded 82 Billion Apps during the year 2016 which is a shocking figure.

iPhone App Development

Apple originally released iOS Software in 2007 for its iPhones, iPads and Apple TV Devices. iOS is basically a mobile version of Apple's computer operating system OS X. In past few years, Apple Smartphones (iPhones) become a status symbol due to their unique features and security.

Why Should We Develop Applications In iOS?

Apple Inc. used to launch just one or two Smartphone globally but still captures approx 19% of Market Share. According to report, there are around 1 billion active apple devices around the globe and on Apple App Store there are around 2.2 million apps.

There is huge market available for iOS developers as the number of targeted users is huge.

Hiring a good Mobile App Development Company is a difficult task as there are a lot of service providers in this domain. Building a mobile app is not an easy task but developers following some specific steps.