The 4 Golden Rules to Develop Perfect Mobile Apps

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Companies are nowadays not in rush to have mobile apps. The craze appears to be over.  Apps keep coming and going, and only a few of them become popular. Many companies have got built apps for an event, marketing program, or business process, but not all of them are successful. So what is wrong? Is it technology that causes failure, or it is the way technology has been adopted by mobile app developers. Many developers miss the 4 Golden Rules to develop perfect mobile apps. Here they are:

Don’t ignore the lifecycle

Many mobile developers tend to ignore the lifecycle of their products. It is not a short-term fad. For many businesses, it can be an important and permanent shift. They need to create an internal capability so that today’s mobility can be used in the best possible manner.

Build app with mobile friendly scenarios

Mobile is absolutely a different device. We cannot compare it with a PC. Developers need to work with mobile friendly scenarios. All the actions should take minimum efforts. App-navigation is the first thing to be considered at this place.

Make a clear business goal

How can a goalless product be fruitful? Same is the case with mobile application. If you want a significant rise in traffic from your mobile product, it must have a proper goal. The app should help both your users and businesses.

Make metrics to track progress

Mobile application can be tracked through many types of metrics. The best method is to set business metrics for more leads, increased, etc. Other metrics such as number of download, social sharing, repeat usage, reviews can also be set.

Acer may launch its $99 Android powered tab in 2013

December 28, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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In the New Year, Acer, the Taiwanese multinational hardware and Electronics Corporation has plans to launch a $99, Android powered tablet. They may do this in the beginning of the year 2013. The news came from the anonymous source for the Wall Street Journal.

It may be a 7-inch device that will run on Android version 4.1 Jelly Bean. It will reportedly be called the Iconia B1. This tablet may be positioned for developing markets. But, we will hardly be able to see it in the U.S. market, especially with this price tag.

There are numerous brands available in the 7-inhce tablet range, and they are chosen by users for both attractive prices and advanced functionalities. We have Kindle Fire and Google’s newly launched Nexus 7. iPad Mini also falls in the same category.

In last few months, we have seen several changes in the market. We have seen how an elite brand like Apple also agreed to launch a version of iPad tablet for low-end tablet market.

Let’s see what wonder Acer does with its device.

Develop your websites in PHP

December 14, 2012 by · 1 Comment
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Websites are mostly developed in java, .net and PHP and out of them; PHP is the most popular open source language that designs dynamic web pages nowadays. Initially, full form of PHP was “Personal Home Page” but over the period of time it changed to “Hypertext Pre-processor”.  If you want a complete and purposeful website that too for lesser price then developing it in PHP is the best solution.

Many popular content management systems like Drupal, Joomla, Magento, WordPress is PHP based. With PHP scripting language website developers can improve the functions and looks of the website. Developing a customised website becomes easy by mixing PHP with HTML one of the most preferred programming languages by website developers.

By saying that PHP is user friendly, it means it has easy formats, techniques and features that are smoothly clenched by the website developers. Using PHP increases efficiency and usability to make effective websites. Developing websites with PHP processes data quickly in the backend. One more added advantage of PHP is that it is compatible with all operating systems such as Windows, UNIX, Linux, so no need to install a specific operating system in your machine.

Cost is a major concern in today’s time; hence PHP is the best solution for those who offer website development solutions. Its low priced nature makes it easy to design, develop, modify and customise a website. Above all, it can be painlessly integrated with all major web applications.

The fame of PHP is spreading worldwide at a great pace. Famous portals like Facebook and Yahoo are PHP based. No paid software is required for developing a website in PHP. It’s safe and secure application makes it support different popular databases like MySQL, Oracle, Sybase etc. PHP involves minimum coding to develop a new website and aid in server side scripting.

PHP has an upper hand over Java and .NET. Cost factor and experience required makes PHP better than Java and .NET. Being based on open source language there is no license cost involved in PHP hence affordable and preferable by website developers.

Benefits of Iphone application development

December 10, 2012 by · 3 Comments
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iPhone has evolved from first iPhone to recently launched iPhone 5. With the 6 generations of iPhone operating system, iPhone has won the heart of its users by bringing surprises every day. This is supported by iPhone applications that make its users to stick to the phone to the longer time. Developers are working on iPhone applications from a long time now, since it was first launched in the year 2007 but all the new ideas and concepts keep it afresh and lively.

More than 5 Lakh applications are available and can be easily installed on the phone. According to Apple’s Chief Financial Officer, the company has spent more than $4 billion on developers for iPhone applications. Till now iPhone  app store has generated more than $5.7 billion as revenue.

App stores are affected by the changing trends. Special iPhone applications are developed at the time of Christmas. According to last year’s record, Christmas day was the record breaking day for the application downloads. Special iTunes are made for this extra special day.

Similarly applications are developed at the time of football world cups, Olympic Games etc. also; game applications are developed based on these sports and their special events like world cups and final matches of football, cricket, baseball, basketball, badminton and many more.

A shift is seen from consumer applications to business applications. The trend is changing corporate are developing applications that makes their work easy and is more user friendly.  Customized iPhone applications are made by the corporate to grow in their field. Applications are developed based on the conferences and the summits. The details of the conference including venue, menu, attendees, participants, sponsors can be easily known and saved in your iphone with an application.

iPhone applications available in market cover the following areas business, entertainment, games, news, social networking, sports, travel, and weather. Applications are available under App store and can be developed through third parties. All the information in one hand is the explanation of mobile application. And when the exclusive application is based on iPhone operating system, it becomes the unique feature that distinguishes an iPhone from others.

Finally, Android begins to earn respect among developers

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The mobile game Kingdoms at War is now equally popular on both iOS powered devices and Android powered devices. However, the developer of this game says that the iOS version earns more than double the money than the Android version. Many developers consider Android as a weak contender to earn high revenue for their works.

Apart from fragmentation, lower monetization rate is another thing that weakens Android. Of course, Android is world’s most widespread OS, but in terms of earning revenue for developers, it still comes second. Many mobile app developers continue to use iOS development for prestige, higher revenue and uniformity.

But developers also say that with Android, conditions are rapidly changing. Google’s partnerships with Samsung, HTC and to some extent LG are aimed to bring uniformity in all Android devices. Non-uniformity or what technically known as fragmentation is also a reason that does not let developers monetize their apps in the desired manner.

Latest Android devices are coming with an improved built-in payment system, and mobile makers like Samsung, HTC and LG are introducing a new fleet of Android devices that will not cause fragmentation issues. Google too has taken steps by adding anti-fragmentation clause to the license of its latest SDK. If an Android developer agrees to the term, he actually agrees to not create an app that causes any type of fragmentation. This makes developers to respect the OS.

Will iPad Mini affect the regular iPad?

November 19, 2012 by · 1 Comment
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A debate is firing up among most of the reviewers, non-reviewers and tech-pundits in the Apple’s world: is iPad Mini better than the regular iPad? They are at variance with one another to establish their points for their favorite i-device.

In spite of all accords and disaccords, they can come to a single point—the iPad Mini is a perfect form-factor, whereas the regular iPad is just right with the retina display, the highest resolution available for tablet displays so far. Maybe the small one will also get the screen like its big bro.

Many tech specialists believe that iPad Mini is a travesty for a glorious name like Apple. But it is not true. There is an assumption that Apple will see a decline any time soon. But it is just an assumption like lots of others, and not all assumptions do become reality. Do they? iPad Mini is for a separate user-group and the regular iPad for the separate one.

However, one group does not mind whether you buy an iPad Mini or iPad regular. They are iOS developers who know that their apps will work on all iOS powered devices.

Nokia to bring its Maps on iOS and Android powered devices

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Everybody knows that Nokia, for now, is a struggling brand as it hasn’t found its way to a successful comeback in the global smart phone arena. It partnered with Microsoft and used Windows Phone 7 and is now using Windows Phone 8 to get back its lost charm. However, no Windows Phone powered Nokia’s device has succeeded to carve a special niche among users. Now the company is hoping to get its tentacles into competitors’ phones via mapping apps. Many believe it as a move of Nokia to help itself.

Nokia is going to release a maps app called HERE on the App Store (iOS app store) this week. It is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. They also said that Android programmers will soon be able to get the toolkit of maps app HERE and use it in their mobile app projects. The company is also partnering with Mozilla, world’s no. 1 browser, in order to develop location features for Mozilla’s OS dubbed as Firefox OS.

Nokia emphasizes that its mapping database is more powerful than the maps apps of Google and Apple. It recently published a blog-post in which it concluded that its maps app is better than Google’s and Apple’s maps apps at lots of places.

Apple’s iOS 6.1 Beta is now Available to Developers

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iPhone 5 is gradually getting its place. A massive influx of people is showing their interest to own the new iPhone while the existing owners of the previous model iPhone 4S and some others are able to upgrade their devices to iOS 6. Users are happy as they have new devices and/or OS to do new things. But developers have to adapt new rules and upgrade their applications accordingly.

Apple held a long preview-period for the iOS version 6, and now it is going to do the same with the next iteration of the OS. Yes, Apple has released iOS 6.1 Beta on its developer website. Interested developers can get the Beta version now.

The new version has been launched with various new changes. The most interesting change among them is the addition of new feature in maps. The new app allows developers to programmatically search for map-based addresses and points of interest.

This beta version of iOS 6.1 is available for all those devices that are running on iOS 6; however iPad Mini and the fourth generation iPad have not been included in the list.

Are they incompetent to get this upgrade? It leaves me suspicious.

How secure Android 4.2 is?

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Android 4.2Some users want to download all the Android apps even if these are available on third party app stores. However, they should also accept this fact that many of such apps come with malicious code that can stake the security of their devices. But this will not happen anymore as Android’s version 4.2 offers a high level of protection from apps installed via third party stores.

Android is doubtlessly giant, but it has grown with several incidents of viruses and trojan attacks, and other types of security concerns. They have risen with the rising popularity of the OS. A report conducted by Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, and Philipps University of Marburg, Germany revealed that more than 185 million Android devices are at risk because of malicious apps.

Fortunately, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean has been announced with a powerfully integrated security system. It will provide a real time scanning so that a malicious app can be detected before user install it.

The new security also seems to fit well with other security measures implemented by Google on the Play store earlier this year. These security measured resides on the server to analyze uploaded apps.

The new feature is for device-side and will locally keep an eye on apps installed from third party stores and send report to Google’ servers.

When user will download a third party app, a request to verify it will prompt. It will ask user to click on agree so that the checking of the app can begin.

Jelly Bean’s fresh version is announced now. What will be new in that?

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Google was supposed to announce the new version of Android Jelly bean on October 29, but the hurricane Sandy made it to cancel the event. However Google has announced it through a press release in place of the live event. The OS will soon be available under the slogan of “A new Flavor of Jelly Bean”. LG’s Nexus 4 and Samsung’s Nexus 10 will be the first devices to run Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. The OS will be available from 13 November 2012.

Here are some exciting features of the new version of Android.

Photo Sphere Camera

It is truly an exciting feature. Now Android users can too generate a 360-degree panorama. All you need to do is let the camera go in all directions; from left to right, from down to up.

Keyboard with Gesture Typing

It is another interesting feature of Android 4.2. Just glide a finger over the letters and the new keyboard will type the word you want. Google claims that the new keyboard will have text to speech capabilities even without internet connection.

Multiple User Profiles (tablets only)

Yes it is true. Now Google-powered tablets will have multiple user profiles. This is a useful feature if a tab is used by more than one user. Now you need not to expose your Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and other accounts because you can enable multiple user profiles. Multiple user profiles will allow users to have separate home screens, widgets, apps and games. Switching between users is also easy.

Miracast Support

Android 4.2 will come with Miracast feature. It is an advanced technology. It is a P2P wireless standards allowing Wi-Fi video streaming or mirroring of your device on a TV. However the TV needs to have this feature enabled.

Daydream

Daydream is speculated like a screensaver running when the device is docked or ideal. It may show off your photo albums and get latest news, etc.

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