Mobile porting has been gaining it’s momentum with time and the increasing use of different applications over all mobile platforms. There has been number of applications launched every single minute and therefore it’s not feasible to develop the same application for different categories of handsets on the same platform. This is when mobile porting comes in handy. This reduces the overall cost and the time for having a particular application on multiple handsets for the same platform.
There are few things which help us to determine how we can have an application ported to multiple handsets. An application initially developed on a single handset is called build and the numbers of builds are decided depending on the list of handsets we have to target. The targeted handsets are then categorized based on their screen sizes and the handset features. Porting is generally done through two strategic ways. One is family porting and the other is on device porting. In the family porting, list of handsets with similar screen sizes and features are put in a single family and another family is formed with another list of handsets with their features in common. This way we determine the number of builds for mobile porting, as one build is considered for one family. In the other way of porting for on-device porting, there is no family formed and each handset to be ported is considered a single build and in this case each handset are with different screen sizes and features.
This is a general overview of an idea followed in mobile porting. I hope the concept of mobile porting is clear from this perspective. Please feel free to contact if you have any questions on the above information provided on mobile porting strategies.
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Mobile devices became pervasive device as soon as people started using mobile phones, smart phones and PDAs anywhere and at anytime. Application development for mobile devices has seen a huge effect on the app store since Apple iphone has been launched and now BlackBerry getting into act with it’s streak of new launches. It has been noticed recently from a survey that more than 60% of enterprises have some kind of wireless or mobile application development project underway.
We have been noticing in the past few months the zeal from the users of different kind to get an application developed and to make their presence in the app store, which has been made possible by We have been noticing in the past few months the zeal from the users of different kind to get an application developed and to make their presence in the app store, which has been made possible by Apple iphone by giving a platform which supports any type of users. We at Rapidsoft have been into mobile application development for quite some time now and such huge interest from all class of users to own an application has been noticed for the first time in the history of wireless industry. We have been flooded with customer’s ideas to develop a mobile application for various OS be it from any enterprise user or a general user who just came up with an idea having a cup of tea sitting in his lawn. We have been hitting the app store frequently with our deliverable recently and have helped number of our customers in getting their idea floating through people.
Mobile porting has been gaining it’s momentum with time and the increasing use of different applications over all mobile platforms. There has been number of applications launched every single minute and therefore it’s not feasible to develop the same application for different categories of handsets on the same platform. This is when mobile porting comes in handy. This reduces the overall cost and the time for having a particular application on multiple handsets for the same platform.
