Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Sink Your Teeth Into Mobile Application Development

By Avina Gaz


I bet you are loving your handheld gadgets. Let us take, for example, the mobile phone. I am thinking it's no longer enough that it be able to send messages and make calls. Now we also take into consideration what the other features and apps are that have been included in the gadget. Of course we also make sure that adding apps into it during later dates will also be possible. Most of us are really just concerned about what is already there. We rarely give a thought about the manufacturing or development process. That is what is known as mobile application development.

The arrival of the iPhone on the scene triggered a domino reaction in mobile development. Developers and manufacturers of mobile devices became so bent on producing the 'best' products, trying to outgun their competitors and rivals. Consumers definitely benefit from this competition. Basically, mobile application development involves all the thoughts and processes that go into the creation and development of the various application software found in small handheld gadgets and devices. Examples of such devices are mobile phones and personal digital assistants or PDAs.

End users have a variety of ways by which they can get a hold of these mobile apps. The apps could already be installed on the gadgets even while the manufacturing stage of the devices are under way. Upon purchase, the apps could also be installed by the distributor or the seller before handing the device to the end user. These days, though, the preference is for the end users to download the apps into their gadgets. File-sharing has become popular because of the influx of so many mobile application developers these days. Mobile applications require certain tools in order for them to be built or created. These tools will be made use of from the planning until the end of the development process. Integrated development environments, or IDEs, are found within platform for mobile applications, and they hold these tools.

Among the many mobile application platforms, J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition), Android, Symbian, Windows Phone and Windows Mobile are the more commonly used ones. These tools are then used primarily for the writing of these applications. While some developmental tools are vary, others come at varying costs.

What follows is testing the mobile applications within the development environment. Initial testing is performed using emulators because they are simple to use and are cheaper. After the initial testing comes field testing. In this stage, the field testing will be done directly in the target platform environment. That is also the place where the end users will finally connect with the mobile apps.

Without a doubt, mobile application development has grown into something amazing and quite daunting as the years have progressed. Every consumer will have a fun time going through all the mobile apps that they can use.




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