subject: Knowing More About Iphone Application Development [print this page] Smart phones developed by Apple IncSmart phones developed by Apple Inc. have to be appreciated for iPhone application development initiation. The operating system of the iPhone was initially called as iOS was developed to only support the iPhones. But in the later stages, it was developed to be used on all other devices of Apple Inc. such as iPad, iPod and its television as well. These devices would not have license to install other operating systems during the initial stages. When the OS was released by them, they collectively released five hundred thousand OS. These were downloaded in mass, more than 18 billion times. Can this be imagined in any ways? Though, difficult to obligate; yes, it is in reality.
The touch pad and its gestures are the user interface in terms of iPhone operating system which is, in other words called IOS. Few of its important elements are flip sliders, switches or even buttons. This fluid user interface has been very crucial in terms of response to the users input. There are wide ranges of technology used to increase this speed. Internal accelerometer program enhances the response time (may be touch screen, shaking) collaborating with few applications. Undo input command is one of the common result oriented option.
The Apple IOS is quite similar to UNIX operating system in nature, which is due to the Darwin foundation utilization. Mac operating system X has contributed to a great extent in deriving the OS of Apple Inc. There seems to be abstraction layers of four courses aligned to apples operating system. OS, service media and cocoa touch are the abstraction layers mentioned. The storage capacity of each OS versions differs from device to device.
Though the iPod touch does not have several features of a common iPhone, there were sales of more than a million during 2007 while the whole people had holiday season. This was probably due to the iphone application development evolving several possibilities in terms of software and application programs. iPad is having larger screen dimension than iPhone and iPod. These are designed for internet browsing for access all electronic apps & programs available.
