subject: Understanding the Concept of Mobile Application Porting [print this page] Understanding the Concept of Mobile Application Porting
The overall market of content, applications and wireless games is constantly booming and hence serving as the foundation of numerous revenue streams for a large number of carriers. Newer applications are being announced on daily basis. These applications are getting more complex with the passing of each day.
Today, mobile application porting has become an exciting field that offers a range of opportunities for application developers, games developers, aggregators and even for carriers. However, there are a huge number of challenges that limit the deployment of these innovative applications to a broader periphery.
One of the major challenges faced by port application mapping is the precipitous number of varied devices, screen sizes, operating systems as well as local market needs and requirements. In fact, the large number of mobile devices, present in the broad global market, has made it quite difficult for a mobile software company to port games and applications from one device to the other. The main aim of porting mobile applications is to enhance the compatibility of those applications with the target platforms.
So, in case you are looking for some reasonable porting solutions, then the internet is the best place to start your search. There are a number of companies that offer lucrative porting solutions as well as Dashboard application development for all major platforms. The porting services offered by these companies can be broadly divided into three categories:
Intra platform or cross platform porting including J2ME to iPhone, Symbian to Blackberry, J2ME to BREW, etc.
Carrier specific or Operator porting that includes all the major European, Canadian and US carriers such as Vodafone, Orange, Rogers, Telus, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and many more
Inter platform porting that encompasses the addition of new features, frequent enhancements, latest device compatibility, upgradation of Operating System versions, etc.
Creating internal porting competence can be pretty expensive as well as time consuming for most of the organizations. Therefore, a large number of organizations prefer to go for external porting solutions so as to cut time as well as cost to market applications. But you need to do some proper research for finding an appropriate partner in order to port your applications effectively.
