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Mobile Application Development with Mayven typically follows a simple process...
We review your site designs (or we’ll help you create them)
We provide a fixed quote and timeline for delivery
Our expert team codes your front-end
Our expert team of Mobile engineers finalizes the application
We QA & Test together for a perfect final product
Cell phones, smartphones and tablets, oh my. These devices are increasingly becoming the computer of choice for people. This certainly changes the game for desktop-oriented developers to adjust their outlook. While many developers have made the transition, others haven’t.
A few stats about going mobile:
And these rates are growing. Rapidly. Is your company positioned to create the mobile applications wanted by your prospects, leads and clients?
Even without any stats, you know it’s required to be in the mobile apps game, right? Below are some common tools for building mobile apps.
iOS apps are an obvious and important player with nearly 18% of the smartphone market. Let’s touch on the two most common tools for iOS development.
Objective-C is the primary programming language for writing iOS mobile apps. It’s a superset of the C programming language and provides object-oriented capabilities and a dynamic runtime. Objective-C is a thin layer, and strict superset, sitting atop the long time and popular C language. This makes it possible to compile any C program with any Objective-C compiler, and to freely include C language code blocks.
Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple. Swift is becoming the de-facto program language for creating responsive, consumer-facing applications. It was designed to scale from “Hello World” to an entire operating system. It’s intent is to make app development easier and more approachable than with any other development tool. Benefits over Objective-C include:
Almost 82% of the smartphone market belongs to Android. Wow, huh. Develop apps for Android and iOS, you’ll address to 96.8% of the smartphone market.
Java is the popular programming language developed by Sun Microsystems. It’s the language used to develop android applications. Developed long after C and C++, Java incorporates many powerful features of those languages while addressing some of their drawbacks Code features include:
Using Java + Android Studio = build world class Android mobile apps.
Android Studio provides the fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device. It helps developers code, edit, debug, and deploy Android apps. It has a flexible build system, and an instant build/deploy feature, allowing developers to focus on building unique, high quality apps. Additional features include:
First, some ground work.
Native apps are specific to a given mobile platform (iOS or Android) using the development tools and language for the respective platform (e.g., Xcode and Objective-C with iOS, Android Studio and Java with Android). Native apps look and perform the best.
HTML5 apps use standard web technologies- typically HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. Developers can write code once, to run their apps on any platform.
Hybrid apps make it possible to embed HTML5 apps inside a thin native container, combining the best (and worst) elements of native and HTML5 apps.
PhoneGap (created by Adobe) is a desktop application (for Mac OS X and Windows) for creating hybrid apps. PhoneGap developers focus mostly on the user interface using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. PhoneGap’s development tools bundle these files into a platform-specific deployment packages (iOS, Android, Windows 8, and more).
React Native is a tool for building native mobile applications. It lets you build apps using only JavaScript. It uses the same design as React (a popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces), for developers to compose a rich mobile UI from declarative components. React Native uses the same fundamental UI building blocks as regular iOS and Android apps. You just put those building blocks together using JavaScript and React.
As you can see, mobile usage is nearly ubiquitous. Are you all in for developing a mobile application for your business? A few topics to consider for hiring a mobile app developer.
Qualified candidates should be eager to give you a list of apps they’ve created or helped create. Get links to each app in the various app stores (such as, Apple and Android). Use this information to gauge if they have the skills and experience for the applications you want to build.
Talk to the people who can verify the candidate developer created the said applications. Too, this gives you an opportunity to check how reliable, trustworthy and skilled the were. Did they deliver under pressure, on time, and within budget?
The quality of your application often depends on how clearly and often developers communicate design, requirements, issues and more. Do they prefer to talk in person or via phone, chat or email? Do they use any popular tools, like: Basecamp, Skype, Slack, Google Docs and other common tools for collaborating? How often will they provide status updates? Proactively?
Know where their head’s at around testing and how they will address, log and fix bugs. Better to test features as their being built. This allows you to be at a known state of done. Otherwise, you’ll have a collection of features built, with bugs still remaining across all features.
A good development shop or developer should be able to help you more than just ‘code it up’. Can they provide creative input based on past experience and with similar apps? The good ones know what things work, what doesn’t, based on working with many clients.
Mobile app development is more than a one-time activity. Apps go through many evolutions and cycles based on continuous user feedback. Hire someone to see it through beyond just initial development and deployment.
For iOS, Android, native or hybrid, call us to help you decide which, then build you a great mobile application for your business.
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