Mobile Application Development
A mobile application development is a process by which an app is developed that is suitable and works on the mobile devices.
As a part of the app development process, mobile user interface design is also essential in the creation of the mobile applications. It considers constraints, contexts, screens, input, and mobility as outlines for the design. The user is often the focus of interaction with their device, and the interface entails components of both hardware and software.
The Process:
Right from the idea generation till the execution of the application the whole process is important.
– User Interface Design (UI) – This is the most important step in the whole process of mobile app development. In this phase, the screen design is taken into consideration in the perspective of the end user. The screens are been designed using color combinations and the expected features.
– Development – There are various technology stack that are used to develop mobile applications. Based on the screens, the development team creates the database architecture and maps the whole development plan. The development takes place screen wise till the end. – Web Services – In practice, web service commonly provides an object-oriented web-based interface to a database server, utilized by another web server. The primary purpose of the service is to manipulate the XML representations of the web resources using a uniform set of stateless operations. In simple words, a web service carries the data to the screen.
The development approach for mobile apps:
Native Mobile App Development – In the native app type, the app is targeted towards a specific platform like Android or iOS. Native app development results in better performance, consistency and good user experience delivered for specific mobile operating system. In simple words, there is separate source code maintained for Android platform and for iOS platform.
Hybrid Apps – It is the mix of the native apps and web-based apps. The hybrid apps are easier and faster to develop. A single code-base is used which works in multiple mobile operating systems. Usually the performance of hybrid apps is not at par. Often, the apps fail to bear the same look and feel in different mobile operating systems.
Web Based Apps – Web based apps are implemented with the standard web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The most important factor for web based apps is it requires internet connection for proper functioning as compared to the offline mode. The performance of the web based apps is comparatively slow.
However, the costing for hybrid apps development and Web based apps development is low as compared to the native app development.