subject: Tools For Creating Good Quality Apps [print this page] Mobile application development is one of the most highly expanding industries in the current economy. Thousands of apps are released in the mobile market every year, thereby raising the level of competition among app development companies and individual software designers. Download rates of a mobile application will rise only if the developer uses effective tools for building the software products. Listed below are the most prominent tools that developers must be acquainted with for designing good quality mobile applications:
1. Tiggzi This is a HTML5 cloud based mobile app builder which is used for the creation of applications for the Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone operating systems. Being a drag and drop platform, the interactive online tutorials, support from customer service, and reviews in blogs about the Tiggzi is elaborate. It is thus preferred by even the beginners in the world of mobile application development. There are advanced tool features available for the expert application coders, thereby allowing the designing of custom mobile apps. In fact, mobile applications in most app stores are uploaded using Tiggzi.
2. EachScape This is another popular drag and drop platform which non-developers find easy to use for creating and managing good quality apps and customizing them for the platforms of Android, iOS, and HTML5. Since the tool allows software developers to work with third parties, inclusion of features such as social sharing, video overlay, location, augmented reality, analytics, and ads becomes easy. The best feature that EachScape provides is helping a mobile application to be launched in app stores while also white labeling the OS platforms for reselling the apps to clients.
3. Buzztouch This mobile app development tool has one of the strongest communities of software designers, ranging from experienced to new coders. Being a web based software, Buzztouch allows users to host mobile applications to their personal sites or in cloud storage services like Dropbox. While simple mobile apps can be built using this tool, some of the most complex applications selling in the market are created using the Buzztouch tool. However, detailed knowledge of working using programming languages like Java and Objective C is required to design the complex mobile application using the Buzztouch framework. The parallel ecosystem comprising podcasts, third party sites, and hosting sites have proved informative to developers wishing to learn the techniques of building with Buzztouch.
4. App Express Coding or programming skills are not required for people using App Express to build mobile applications. This tool comes with modules that help the developer to design customizable applications which can be published in the app stores within a couple of weeks from when the app building process has begun. Building business mobile apps using this framework is effective, since App Express allows inclusion of features such as scheduling appointment, paying invoices, and getting good deals in the final version of the application. Moreover, sending messages that have attachments becomes easy by using mobile applications built using the App Express tool. This is the reason why business vendors prefer the use of mobile applications designed with this framework.
While some of the above tools can be downloaded by mobile app developers without charge, other are paid frameworks. Analysts say that all software developers must be technically aware about the methods of usage of these tools in order to create mobile apps providing good user experience.
