Tips for Mobile Application Development

In the current scenario various mobile apps has become part and parcel of our daily life. Whichever digital device we use today is enriched with many numbers of apps so that it could fulfill our requirements. An application will become popular and preferable only when it has the potential to deliver some unique service to the user.

Mobile apps development is not just a simple task; it is a process which has to be handling carefully and developed with a definite purpose and dedication. Simply, developing any apps will not make you a perfect application developer. For that you need to learn some of the basic as well as essential elements required.

If you have a vision to become one among the best apps developer and to enrich your business, then along with mobile apps development you also require to be a good planner as well as a good marketer to sell those apps.

Here are some tips, which are actually shared by some of the young entrepreneurs who are into Mobile apps development.

Apps developer should try creating an in-app system so that the users will be benefited with some special deals and discounts. Trying out such techniques will not only increase the sales but also enrich the relationship with your customers. 

You should be very careful and conscious on providing some value through the apps. And you should also look into implementing online marketing strategies to promote the product, particularly through the Social media.

Before developing and promoting Mobile apps one should always understand how it is going to solve a problem for someone. For instance if you could find a niche market and your product can serve as a problem solver for them then it will be more beneficial. It will also help people to become loyal to that particular mobile app.

One among the young entrepreneurs suggested that developers should focus more on social media engagement. Such application will help to develop a real time interaction. For example, such Mobile apps will help user to meet each other comfortably through the social media and thus the app will become more popular.

In the current scenario people are looking for easier methods of payments and thus experts believe that initiating mobile apps development which will develop apps which are dedicated to leverage Mobile payments will have greater opportunity to flourish.

Another tip is to build in features and real benefits oriented apps, so that people will prefer sharing it. A person who is benefited by using a product will definitely promote it and share it to others. So the Mobile Apps developers must aim on that.

It is also recommended to give the customers a magical power with the application so that they find themselves top of the world with the facilities the Mobile apps offers. The magical power can be a key factor.

Before going for the development process of mobile apps it is always preferable to ask yourself what is there so special in your application that everyone would love it or use it. And try to identify that crux, so that you can develop apps which the users will be convinced to use.

Try to keep the apps very simple and flexible. That is it should be designed in such as way that users from every category will be convince in using the apps. So you should always try to add something extra to the apps.

Plan for location-based discount feature for the user so that the user will be attracted to your location and visit it through your mobile apps. This will not only increase the usage of your apps, but also help it to be popular. 

Mobile Application Development and Future Trends

Mobile Apps Development is witnessing high growth taking in to consideration the user friendly applications as well as the customization that comes with it. With users getting everything with the touch or click of a button in their Smartphone which is enhanced by the presence of Mobile apps, the demand is definitely on the rise and there is no sign of this increase in demand slowing down in the near future since Mobile apps itself is going to define the future.

The trend as of now is that most of the mobile phone manufacturers are trying to create their own operating system embedded in the mobile phones. As of now, the most popular being the one in which the users are able to make money transfer which is seen by analysts as the one which is going to redefine the way users are going to make money transfer. Enhancing the users with ability to download third party mobile applications with the rise in demand of the Smartphone as well as tablets, the use of in-built mobile applications is definitely a thing of the past. This makes the user to concentrate more on the quality of the mobile phones or Smartphone they buy instead of worrying about the mobile apps they wish to download.

As far as the future trends of the Mobile apps Development is concerned, one mobile app that is definitely going to redefine the mobile app market includes the concept of Enterprise service which enables the mobile workers the permission for the synchronization of the ERP services and systems. Another popular mobile app that is going to create a buzz among the users is the introduction of a mobile app that allows the users to read e-mails. With the emergence of Cloud Computing in the Smartphone as well as tablets, it’s for sure that Smartphone with the implementation of cloud capabilities is determined to play the role of a video camera as well as credit card and location device that helps in identifying the specified location. The Smartphone can also be used as a gaming device as well as music player with the help of greater synchronization with the cloud computing.

In future users can also see Mobile phones as well as Smartphone being used as personal digital assistants even though the users cannot replace them. One of the mobile apps that is closely associated with the functions of PDA includes Siri that is present in iPhone 4S which even makes use of voice assisted guidance technology that has the capability to open an application with the voice of the specified user of the device. The fact is that State of the art as well as advanced mobile apps development is definitely on the cards. It is just a matter of time when you will see all kinds of mobile apps being available in the international market for downloading. And we will have to accept the fact that Cloud Computing is definitely going to play a major role in the future of the mobile apps development in the mobile phones as well as Smartphone.

Google Launches 24x7 Supports for Mobile Business Application

Google considered as one of the most popular brand names around the world. They rose to immense popularity for Google Search Engine to the world. Now Google has strong user base around the world and they redefined the smartphone industry by releasing one of the most sought after mobile applications that base on Google Android operating system that provides a lot of user-friendly features as well as increased customization.

Google introduced a range of applications that received great excitement from the users. There are mobile applications for the commercial users and Google also released applications that mainly meant for the business users that are mainly enterprise based. The latest news that is making headlines is that Google has decided to offer 24 x 7 phone support for the core components that comes under the Google mobile applications that is mainly enterprise based. The technical support is providing by trained Google experts and this support is for applications like Gmail, calendar as well as Google Docs, talk and video.

Some other significant improvements by Google include improvements in the abilities of the applications administrators that directly help for management of the mobile devices as well as in the broadening of the availability for cloud-based data analysis services. As far as business customers are concerned, today 80% of the customers satisfied but Google want to increase this level to almost 95%. For this Google launch 24 x 7 technical supports and it considering as first step towards achieving their goal. Google is definitely providing an increased competition to the tech major Microsoft that is trying hard to sustain itself in the international market with its advanced Office 365 cloud-hosted suite.

Google officials had claimed that the IT administrators will enhanced with access to almost all the mobile devices that are capable of syncing with that of the Google Mobile Applications. It designed in such a way that administrators can get different passwords as well as the roaming of the syncing of the individual user groups from the Control panel itself. Other News that is making headlines is expansion of bi-query service preview program that was initially made available only to a limited number of users as well as enterprises. Another path breaking improvements involves the updating of the data analysis system that upgraded with features like presence of a new user interface as well as a revamped API and also implementing of simplified functions to manage as well as share the data tables.

Facebook Acquires HTML5 Mobile Application Builder Store

Facebook has established itself as a brand name in the social networking service from the time of its launch. The popularity for Facebook has grown by many folds since its launch. Most of the credit goes to its user-friendly features such as chatting as well as discussions with friends as well as Facebook users across the world. Facebook was officially launched in 2004 and from now on its expect that Facebook has around 800 million active users.

For joining Facebook social networking service first need to register with it. After registration he can create his own personal profile and can add friends as well as relatives and can even join groups. At a time when Facebook is witnessing unprecedented growth, another sector was growing rapidly and that is none other than the mobile phone industry which combines Smartphone, tablets as well as mobile phones and the fact is that most of the Smartphone that runs in any operating system comes with in-built online service support that includes Facebook. The fact is that in the future even Facebook realize that Facebook cannot grow without Smartphone as well as Smartphone cannot grow without Facebook.

The latest news of acquiring most popular mobile application builder known as "Strobe" by Facebook that has created a buzz in the international market. Strobe has established a reputation as one of the most recognized mobile application builders that have specialized in html 5 mobile applications development. Html5 is gaining increasing popularity and is all set to replace dominance of Flash as far as the rising popularity of the user friendliness of thehtml5 applications development.

The acquiring of Strobe mobile application builder by Facebook will offer the users with a much stronger html5Facebook experience on the mobile devices. Facebook understands importance of html5 in the current scenario and the acquiring of Strobe will help them to co-ordinate each other for developing Facebook and will give increasing access to the mobile applications such as the popular Android as well as mobile application stores such as Android Market as well as Amazon Application store. 

Facebook is increasingly in to the ever-growing mobile phone as well as smartphone market with a keen eye on the success of several applications as well as the mobile application stores and the acquiring of Strobe can considered as the primary step in achieving more success in the mobile phone market. The booming smartphone industry with the emerging Facebook social networking site is definitely on the cards as far as the future generation of mobile usage as well as the social networking service. The acquiring of Strobe, html5 application builder store by Facebook with much anticipation and excitement. Facebook is definitely going to continue its success factor even in the mobile industry for sure.

Avoiding Malware in Android Mobile Application

There has been a significant increase in demands for the Smartphone as well as tablets in the international market. This shows the importance that users are giving to the gadgets in their everyday lives. It's an era in which users can get the information about anything with just the click of a button. The fact is that as the demand for the gadgets that includes Smartphone as well as tablets increases malware attack.

One of the main targets of malware is growing Android mobile market which revolutionized integration of the operating system of the emerging smartphone platform. The malware threat is posing a great challenge even for technical majors like Apple who have developed a walled garden to avoid the malware threat but the analysts have pointed out that Apple Application store still has its weaknesses which makes it still vulnerable to malware.

Some of the precautions that the users can take to avoid Malware in the Android Applications include:

·         Awareness

·         Doing Homework

·         Checking of the sources

·         Watching the permissions

·         Using Anti-Malware

Doing Homework: 

Before downloading an application, please try to get some sort of basic information about an application. Expert opinions from friends or relatives as well as from social networking sites are always appreciated.

Checking of the sources:

Checking the sources is the most important steps that the users have to take notice while downloading an application. For Apple based IOS, Jail Breaking is possible if the user wishes to introduce a third-party application. But comparatively the fact is that Android is an open source mobile applications development platform with ability to accept any sort of third-party applications. Some of the safest source as far as the applications development platform is:

·         Google Android Market

·         Amazon Application Store

Please make sure that the users deselect the unknown sources option that is present in the Android mobile applications settings.

Watching the permissions:

Users should understand that most of the existing mobile applications ask the mobile operating system for access to the core functions as well as services of the device. The users will have to read and understand the conditions before blindly accepting them.

Using Anti-Malware:

This is one of the best options that the users can opt for, McAfee being the most sought after anti-malware software. The fact is that anti-malware software like McAfee provides the users with satisfaction by detecting and identifying any sort of threats in your Android applications.

Apple Mac Sales up in US

Apple’s Macs have been incredibly successful since its release, achieved worldwide appreciation, earned a huge number of followers and is the best selling device this year. Apple Macs gained a big reputation, eventually making Apple develop accessories and endorse accessories from other companies as well for Macs.

Apple Mac sales have skyrocketed this year globally. NPD Group has made a report of the Apple Mac sales in the United States. According to the report Apple Macs sales rose up over 13 percent this year.

Apple Mac sales are projected to go up even more after this month. Popular analysts, Gene Munster and Piper Jaffray expect Apple Mac sales growth to far exceed the rate mentioned in the NPD reports, by the end of December.

Apple investors are expecting 5.2 Million Macs to be sold in this month alone, worldwide. This would definitely increase Apple’s Mac sales growth rate topping 25% before the year ends. Apple desktop devices and notebooks sales went up 5% and 9% this year respectively, as per the reports prepared by NPD. Gene Munster has apparently high hopes for Apple Macs, believing that the sales will go further than 5.2 Million Macs this month, making a new record and marking Apple’s milestone in the Macs sector.

This is in the US alone, according to Munster. Apart from the growing sales of Apple Macs domestically, Munster states that Apple Macs are growing equivalently faster in the international market. We can’t argue with Munster’s statement as it is well known that Apple Macs sell like hotcakes in almost all major continents and is one of the most preferred computers at present.

In September this year, Apple sold about 4.89 Million Macs. Quite a few analysts statistically calculated record breaking Mac sales in December. It should also be known that Apple’s iPods sales have gone down this year, but Apple Macs are having a better time and is believed to contribute 18% of the overall revenue of Apple in the December quarter.

Apple Mac Compact Available for Christmas

Apple’s MacBook computers have gained global appreciation and an incredible amount of followers Worldwide and within a short period of time. With the MacBooks gaining this much reputation, Apple constantly tries to make MacBooks, the World’s top best-selling gadgets of all time, by releasing and certifying releases of the coolest accessories for the Macs. Besides these accessories, Apple also develops OS updates for the Macs frequently.

Apple’s marketing strategy also includes launching all ready popular MacBook Air franchise as new limited editions with attractive features, differing even in size. Apparently, Apple is competing with Santa Claus himself as Apple’s new Christmas gift to the World is something cool, unique and pretty small and compact. It is a compact version of Apple’s MacBook Air sharing a similarity in size with iPod Nano.

This new version of MacBook Air is referred to as the MirrorBook Air. Certain facts about this gadget may sound disappointing, but MirrorBook MacBook will definitely win the hearts of Apple fan-girls, probably. The first thing is that Apple hasn’t endorsed it, well, not that much. If you are wondering about how cool such a small device would be with all the awesome technology it is made of, then you are going to be quite disappointed.

The truth is that MirrorBook Air doesn’t come integrated with super cool technologies. As a matter of fact, there isn’t much technology in it to speak of. If you have ideas to present this device to someone close to you, then you had better tell them not to expect MirrorBook to be a miniature version of MacBook Air with all of Apple’s much appreciated features. MirrorBook is definitely a miniature version of MacBook Air. But it is nowhere close to be considered as a small sized Apple MacBook Air.  

The bright side is that it can be used as a pocket mirror. It would make a cute and pretty pocket mirror and girls are going to love it – their very own MacBook model pocket mirror. This would be a great addition to all the fancy stuff you have at your place. If you are wondering about the price, no need to worry as MirrorBook costs only a fraction of the price tag of the real McCoy. MirrorBook Air is quite stylish for its size and would be a great Christmas gift for a girlfriend who loves Apple more than you.

QuarkXPress 9.1 Released for Mac

Something which is growing in popularity as much as the Android operating system is the technology called eBooks. ePublishing is a career option nowadays. If you are good at this stuff and if you are a proud owner of Apple’s iPad, then you can now use QuarkXPress 9.1. This is the latest version of the popular desktop publishing application.

Using this app in your iPad, you can create eZines as well as eBooks. Apart from all the traditional layouts and publishing tools and formats, the new version QuarkXPress 9.1 App comes packed with a number of cool features giving you a wide array of design choices, effectively helping you create the best layout for eBooks and eZines. You will be able to make cool designs of online bookstores and newsstands, make use of all tools at your disposal so as to make them attractive and then use the app to create contents for it as well.

ePublishing is a pretty great idea, giving you a lot of financial profits depending on your idea of the layout and the contents. Apple apparently wants to offer a platform for people who can manage designing and creating ePublishing firms and for capable authors of eBooks. QuarkXpress 9.1 comes with a lot of cool features making use of technologies that can be of very good use to you. Cloner is one of the coolest features in the app which allows users to copy and paste contents in groups to other pages or even layouts also allowing you to split multiple pages layouts to single page ones.

You can use the Linskter tool to link, relink and unlink text boxes without worrying about the usual textbox overflow problems which annoyed you in the previous versions of this app. There are a lot more which you will be able to do with this app, if you are up for creating ePublishments for Apple devices. You can even select a shape for your layouts using the ShapeMaker app which also lets you determine the size of the shapes, in addition to providing shapes like spirals, stars, rounded rectangles, polygons etc.

Even if you are just a print designer, QuarkXpress 9.1 will definitely prove to be a nifty and very useful application or an upgrade if you already own a previous version of this application. If you are up for the task and have passion in ePublishing, you would also realize that using QuarkXpress 9.1 in Apple Mac is kind of fun as well. 

Cloud Hosting: Changing The WebHosting World

In simple terms the meaning of cloud hosting is when a website is being hosted on several servers simultaneously, so that the website is available to all irrespective of the load on the network. In this we also have the control to add a brand new server to meet the growing requirements of any organization.  

This technology is used to provide the data and software through a systematic and dependable network of computers and the data is not fetched from any local computer or server. In this technology the client requests for a task and his task is processed without actually ownership of any software or hardware. This technology is highly upgradeable and expansion can be done without having technical difficulties. Websites can be expanded as well without having any limitations. Actually cloud hosting consists of network of servers thus it certainly can provide reliable space for hosting the websites.

Advantages:

1. The main benefit and goal of this technology is its scalability and it’s economical too, because of its scalability feature we can expand any website without having the problems regarding limitations of space and other problems like that. Cloud servers can effectively handle such requirements if they are needed anytime.
2. The other important advantage of cloud hosting is that it can protect us from server crashes and from transferring of the website to a dedicated server from shared one.
3. It also gives us the benefit of API (Application Programming Interface) that is a machine which enables computer systems to connect to cloud software. 4. Through the use of this technology user can get access to their own personal system through web irrespective of their location.

Usage:

1. It's economical because it does not need any hardware and software resources to be purchased. Just contact a cloud services provider company and start your business without investing in any of the hardware and software on your own.
2. It is basically used for hosting websites on a higher bandwidth through which data can be sent and websites can be hosted on different servers which are connected to each other.
3. These services also offers some other advantages like free IP’s (fixed and dynamic both), balancing of the load is free too with it, both these services are boon for people who are responsible of hosting the sites which are heavily surfed and for longer durations.

At last we can say that the next era is going to be the era of cloud hosting, with so much of facilities it is offering in today’s world, we can’t even imagine what it can offer us in future.

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

Search Engine Optimization is basically another name for marketing your website using the key words which are mostly searched for on the internet. This is a way to increase the traffic of the websites. Especially the term is related to the various search engines through which users tend to find the literature and material for various reasons. As the researchers enter only a part of the phrase they need to know about, the search results will appear on the basis of the appearance of that particular word on certain websites. This ultimately determines the number of visitors on the website.

Internet marketing has given birth to the concept of search engine optimization. The basic idea behind all this is to market your business in a way that it appears on the very first page of the search results. The reason being, mostly the users only visit the first page of the search results because of the shortage of time. Today, the life is so busy and competitive that you need to do quality work in a limited time period. Therefore, this marketing tool has been developed to improve the volume of business of various companies which has worked for them.

If you also want to increase the profit margins of your business, you can also do it easily by making intelligent use of the search engine optimization technique. This is simple and commonly used by the leading businesses of the world. All you have to do is to optimize your website with the keywords that best describe the features or characteristics of your product or service. In this way, when a user will search for the product or service through any search engine, your webpage will find its place in on the very first page thus increasing the traffic of website.

You have to ensure that you provide all the necessary information about your offered product or service on the website. It is also one of the ways of using the search engine optimization to create links to all the related websites of your product. The images should not be used because most of the search engines do not consider the images and videos except for some exceptions. You should name your website keeping in view that it sounds relevant to the nature of your business. Besides, always avoid unnecessarily long website addresses because it does not do any good to your business.