subject: Mobile Application Development [print this page] Low power devices that are usually hand held, such as personal digital assistants and mobile phones, use suitable application software for their operation. Enterprise digital assistants also work on such application software. These applications are either pre installed in the equipments during the production or downloaded later by the users from software delivery platforms. The process of developing such application software for the usage in low power devices like mobile phones is known as mobile application development. Popularly know as downloadables, mobile applications are becoming increasingly common in mobile phones including expensive models and the simple entry level ones. Mobile applications are evolving into a rapidly rising segment of the world wide mobile market.
The mobile applications developed are used in suitable environments as per requirements which are known as execution environments. Usual applications are seen to be supported by the operating systems like android, blackberry, symbian OS and windows mobile. Android is an operating system based on Linux and has a java library. And it is a robot or synthetic organism. Android application development depends basically on the strong deep rooted knowledge in Android SDK, framework APIs and java programming. Android application development generally includes small utilities to multi-platform, database and web service incorporated projects. The market of phones with android applications is growing at a remarkable rate of 32 per cent every month, and new models being out all the time. With the features of android phones like the IPC message passing, SQLite for data storage, comprehensive libraries for 2D and 3D graphics making them the favorites among contemporary handsets, the android application development is on a rise.
Among the mobile phone applications that are most popular at present, iphone applications development is also one of the most prominent areas. With more than two hundred patented applications incorporated in it, iphone stands apart with its high range of utility. Experts in iphone application development can create customized iphone applications also which have been gaining popularity lately. The same reason is making courses teaching iphone development to be sought after more with the progress of time.
The number of professionals getting into mobile application development as mobile developers are skyrocketing as days pass. Mobile software development is being taken up as a career equally competent as the other technical professions or computer software development jobs. With the gush in the manufacturing based on android applications and iOS the dearth of mobile developers has been increasing and this arena is proving to be of great possibility for programming aspirants.
