Effective Mobile App Development - Do’s and Don’ts

As per the recent survey conducted by ICD, every forth persons owns a smartphone in USA. Smartphones and tablets are changing the way of life. Now, there is an application which is helping us in almost every vertical of our life. More and more businesses are creating apps to grab more customers from the market. Some of the application are also being made for company’s employees.

However, developing software’s for enterprises is really not a simple task. The developer has to understand the need of the market and the desired outcome of the enterprise before outlining the structure of an application.

Developers most of the time has to work with multiple technologies and highly distributed environments in order to build a robust application which can be run on the multi-cross platform. The growing rate of smartphones and tablets only add pressure to develop better applications.

102 Billion Mobile App Downloads with $26 Billion Market in 2013: Says Gartner

Smartphones are successful because of the applications they offer to their consumers. People are buying smartphones so that they can use all those useful applications which can make their life easy. On September 19, 2013 Gartner Inc. (Technology Company) said that the number of applications both free and paid will soar to 102 billion by the end of 2013. 

It is surprising to see that, 2012 has seen the download of 64 billion apps. It is expected that this number will reach the sky-high of 269 billion in 2017. The revenue from mobile app will be $26 billion in 2013 with comparison to $18 billion last year. This is a very good amount considering that this sum is only coming from paid application and only 9% of the total application are paid.

Table 1. Mobile App Store Downloads, Worldwide, 2010-2016 (Millions of Downloads)

	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Free Downloads	57,331	92,876	127,704	167,054	211,313	253,914
Paid-for Downloads	6,654	9,186	11,105	12,574	13,488	14,778
Total Downloads	63,985	102,062	138,809	179,628	224,801	268,692
Free Downloads %	89.6	91.0	92.0	93.0	94.0	94.5

Data Source

Read more

Google Unveiled the Name of Android 4.4 Version - It’s KitKat

Android 4.4 version is coming very soon in the market and in the surprising move, Google has announced that the new version of Android will be known as ‘KitKat’. Google said that they are keeping this name in the honor of all the KitKat bars which were consumed by the developers while working on this android version. The interesting thing is that the name keeps up with the Google tradition of naming its product after sweet treats.

As per the industry experts, Google will be using android 4.4 KitKat version on Nexus 5 and perhaps on Nexus 11 tablet. It is expected that Samsung galaxy S4, galaxy note 3, HTC one family etc. will be the first set of devices which will receive update version once Google officially release the source code. Third-party ROM are also likely to release their custom-made firmware once they get to receive the Google android 4.4 code.

Android 4.4 KitKat feature

Google is really becoming very secretive about this new version and they are not saying anything on this topic. But as per some of the renowned industry specialists, these are the features which android 4.4 version is likely to have:

WhatsApp Adds Push-to-Talk Voice Messaging Feature To Mobile Platform

WhatsApp messenger is essentially propriety, cross platform prompt messaging application for smartphone. It is available to all the mobile platforms of blackberry, android, Series 40, iOS etc. which has bought revolution to the messaging market. It has over 300 million monthly active users all over the globe. WhatsApp has been constantly updating its features from last couple of months. The location update as well as file transfer feature were also updated recently.

Company announced the availability of this new feature while proclaiming the amazing figure of 300 million active users all over the world. WhatsApp was able to achieve a whopping 50 million new active users in just 2 months. More and more people are opting for WhatsApp because it gives them easy, cheap and convenient way of communication. It has been observed that WhatsApp is also popular among the mid-age people who are professionals. One can exchange free messages across the country as well without any charge with WhatsApp.

IBM Worklight: Step Towards Success

On January 31st, 2012 IBM announced that they were planning to buy Worklight, and that this move would give great variety on all cross-platform mobile application development and its technologies. This year, on April 19th 2013, Omnie Solutions (I) Pvt. Ltd announced that they had become the

largest ASL partner for IBM Worklight in North America. Now the question arises; what is IBM Worklight, and how is it going to affect the telecom and mobile industry?