Sink Your Teeth Into Mobile Application Development

How are you finding your handheld gadgets so far

? Having fun? 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. The other features and other benefits of the phone, as well as the apps included, are also given a lot of thought. It is also a factor how they should be able to be susceptible to the addition of apps later on. However, most of us only care what's already built into them. We do not take the time out to think of what went on before it became the product that we are holding in our hands. The process is called mobile application development.

The mobile industry has started to advance, spurred on by the arrival of the iPhone. Soon the industry engaged in producing mobile devices and gadgets are racing against each other in coming up with 'the latest', 'the best', and 'the fastest'. Consumers are greatly benefited by such a show of competitive spirit. As per definition, mobile application development is the process of creating or building application software for small handheld devices. Personal digital assistants or PDAs and mobile phones are only a few examples of such devices.

End users have a variety of ways by which they can get a hold of these mobile apps. One would be the pre-installation of said apps on the gadgets or phones during the manufacturing stage. The apps could also be installed by the sellers when it is being purchased by the end user. These days, though, the preference is for the end users to download the apps into their gadgets. Thanks to the increasing number of mobile application developers these days, downloading has become a favorite method. Developing mobile applications would not be successful without the proper tools. They will be needed to get a start on the creation and also during the entire process. The tools can be found in the integrated development environments or IDEs found within the different mobile application platforms.

The most common and popular platforms for mobile applications include J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition), Android, Symbian, Windows Phone and Windows Mobile. Writing the applications will be accomplished through the use of these tools. You can expect to spend varying costs or rates for these developmental tools, or you could try those that are for free.

Testing of the mobile applications within the development environment will then be performed. 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 where the apps finally reach the end users.

Without a doubt, mobile application development has grown into something amazing and quite daunting as the years have progressed. The application stores have a wide array of mobile apps to choose from.

by: Ron Timbus

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