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Mobile App Development: Like a Boss

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Patricia Holmes
Mobile App Development: Like a Boss

 

With the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, there’s no doubt that consumers are on the move. Mobile apps are taking over the world and this is seen in the number of ultius review apps being published on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store for Android.

Why Build Native Apps?

Native apps give you a much richer experience by giving you a broader access to the underlying hardware. Below is a list of some of the benefits you get from native mobile app development:

  • Broader access to device hardware
  • Closer integration with system features
  • Ability to integrate with other apps
  • More discoverable (widgets, search, and notifications)
  • Faster, smoother, and more attractive

A native app is faster, more powerful, offers more control, and better integration features.

Native app development is all about innovation, trying to make your apps run faster and more efficiently. Mobile devices continue to experience new hardware and software innovations while maintaining a standardized user experience. New sensors, cameras, displays, animations, background writemypaper4me reliable        services, hardware acceleration, fragments and loaders, as well as widgets continue to see their way on mobile devices. This essentially demands developers to be innovative in the way they leverage these new innovations and make them work for their apps.

It is well known that standards always trail innovation.

 

Mobile Innovation Leverages Hardware

Similar to hardware innovations, the software front has also been cracking up some very fancy apps and ways of leveraging the existing hardware. Below is a look at a few of these software innovations leveraging mobile hardware:

  • Location-based services: Google Maps
  • Audio input: Shazam
  • Video input: Google Goggles
  • Touch screens: Angry Birds
  • Accelerometers, gyroscopes, barometers…….

As a developer, the trick is to leverage the hardware on new platforms whether its on smartphones, tablets, televisions, cars, picture frames, fridges, washing machines, pretty much anything that runs on software.  At the moment you can leverage audio input, video input from both the front and rear facing cameras, sensors (orientation, light, temperature), 10-finger multi-touch input, telephony, WiFi, Bluetooth, SIP, and USB.

 

Each App is Part of an Ecosystem

Native apps are not just something that sits in a sandbox, they become part of the ecosystem on the device. This means that you can do things with them. This can include:

  • Listening to system events
  • Communicate with other apps
  • Leverage functionality from other apps
  • Offer functionality for use by other apps
  • All native apps can be replaced or augmented

Since apps are first-class citizens, then any communication and interaction can be replaced or become an alternative.

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