Mobile Application Development: A Gist!
The world is speedily creeping into your mobile phones at a rate beyond your imagination. Dotted with so many icons of the new tech species called ‘mobile apps', your smart screen has but turned into a magic hub. The apps, your magic tools can be at your service at any time anywhere. The 21st century is indeed witnessing a fairy tale unraveling with the super intelligent mobile application technology.
With the prediction that iOS and android mobile application will cross the 1 million mark in 2014, it is quite natural that mobile application development is undergoing fierce competition and evolution every day.
Many distribution platforms today are distributing apps both free and priced. Most popular platforms being, Apple app store, Google play, Windows phone store, Blackberry App world. Distributors profit a 20-30% margin on selling an app while the producer gets the rest. So naturally app development as a profession is gaining immense popularity.
Now what it takes to build a mobile app?
Your spare time, most of your imagination and tools! And you need to be considerate enough as a developer as you will be developing apps that run on mobile devices that houses slower processors than PCs, smaller PCs, extensively varying configurations and low battery power. Also select your mobile platform for which you will work better start with one and navigate to others in future. Here are a few of them:
Android app development
Android, that's the word of the day, android platform is based on Java framework and hence is popular among most developers. Marketed by Google, these apps can be downloaded and used by Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson equally well. Most important feature being of optimization with varied devices, at run time android apps adapts to differing configurations such as screen size.
Its Linux kernel ensures stability and security. Another good thing, android is open source hence no licensing fee and relative investment is low with respect to other platforms.
Development for Apple phones
If you are the choosy one and have a taste building apps for ‘the' particular platform to be used by ‘the' particular customers, then you are certainly an Apple developer. The framework based on Objective C, you seriously need to be the chosen ones to write your apps and get a place at their Apple app store.
Windows Phone development
Though the 3rd player in the mobile phone market after android and IOS, yet Microsoft seems to gain market hold with its new windows 8 phone that uses the Windows NT kernel used by the Windows OS. With its beautifully re-designed UI, Apps are naturally becoming more popular as users slide through apps using their finger swipes. So this platform appears lucrative enough for app businesses.
Sources to master the trade: App Development
So hey App Builder, armed with the guidance mentioned above, it's time for you to dive into the world of Mobile application development. With the stats showing an average developer earning $2,222 for Windows platform and $6,000 for android while apple making a market earning worth $20,000 for its developer, it shows if development taken up seriously, you the builder can become the money minter too.
With the prediction that iOS and android mobile application will cross the 1 million mark in 2014, it is quite natural that mobile application development is undergoing fierce competition and evolution every day.
Many distribution platforms today are distributing apps both free and priced. Most popular platforms being, Apple app store, Google play, Windows phone store, Blackberry App world. Distributors profit a 20-30% margin on selling an app while the producer gets the rest. So naturally app development as a profession is gaining immense popularity.
Now what it takes to build a mobile app?
Your spare time, most of your imagination and tools! And you need to be considerate enough as a developer as you will be developing apps that run on mobile devices that houses slower processors than PCs, smaller PCs, extensively varying configurations and low battery power. Also select your mobile platform for which you will work better start with one and navigate to others in future. Here are a few of them:
Android app development
Android, that's the word of the day, android platform is based on Java framework and hence is popular among most developers. Marketed by Google, these apps can be downloaded and used by Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson equally well. Most important feature being of optimization with varied devices, at run time android apps adapts to differing configurations such as screen size.
Its Linux kernel ensures stability and security. Another good thing, android is open source hence no licensing fee and relative investment is low with respect to other platforms.
Development for Apple phones
If you are the choosy one and have a taste building apps for ‘the' particular platform to be used by ‘the' particular customers, then you are certainly an Apple developer. The framework based on Objective C, you seriously need to be the chosen ones to write your apps and get a place at their Apple app store.
Windows Phone development
Though the 3rd player in the mobile phone market after android and IOS, yet Microsoft seems to gain market hold with its new windows 8 phone that uses the Windows NT kernel used by the Windows OS. With its beautifully re-designed UI, Apps are naturally becoming more popular as users slide through apps using their finger swipes. So this platform appears lucrative enough for app businesses.
Sources to master the trade: App Development
- Time for some school work, at W3Schools you get started with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript, the very basics of Mobile application development.
- Learn Java, Python, Ruby and Objective C the languages that your apps speak. But go at a wise pace. Take the advantage of sites like the Microsoft Virtual Academy and the Learning tree that gives hands on training in windows mobile app development and android mobile apps development respectively.
So hey App Builder, armed with the guidance mentioned above, it's time for you to dive into the world of Mobile application development. With the stats showing an average developer earning $2,222 for Windows platform and $6,000 for android while apple making a market earning worth $20,000 for its developer, it shows if development taken up seriously, you the builder can become the money minter too.
Source...