subject: Challenges In Iphone Development [print this page] Recent era can be termed as Mobile era because smartphones have started doing all functions that a full-fledged computer does. Smartphones become prime devices of communication with friends and family. Its communication definition is not restricted up to a voice call but it has extended boundaries from net surfing to video call. This is become possible due to advent of technologies. Technologies grew and become complex enough. These complexities in technology front bring challenges to its developers. Today we will discuss some of the challenges during iPhone development.
Mobility
Unlike desktop device users carry iPhone with them. This mobility- constant moving condition pose challenges in iPhone development. It needs to support multiple experiences for each type of mobile client. For instance it sometime operates in landscape mode and sometime in portrait mode.
Various Models
There are significant variations in different models. Each model comes with their own screen size, their own hardware, etc. This makes difficult for developers to make a uniform application that plays on each model. For instance some devices have virtual keyboard while some have physical.
Power / Bandwidth
Battery life is an important factor for an application because different application consumes different power while same is true for bandwidth. Developer should develop software that consumes least power/bandwidth with maximum time period.
Small Screen
In iPhone you have to deal with smaller screen so everything changes here in compare to desktop. Developer need to forget all current UX design rules and reinvent new ones for mobility.
Sensors
iPhone is touch screen sensitive device. This needs special design effort to bring adequate functionality. Besides this it has camera and motion detector hardware that pose direct challenges to the developer and developer need to master specialized libraries and adapt their apps to device capabilities.
Voice and Notification
In iPhone user expect seamless integration between apps, voice and messages include speech processing this leads developers to create compelling user experience and integrate notification in application workflow. Recent models of iPhone have speech software Siri that again pose challenges to the developer for iPhone development. Siri do many amazing functions in iPhone 4S and developer definitely would like to take benefit of this software.
Back-end integration
iPhone used in e-commerce purposes so there are many sophisticated process need to perform by iPhone like payment, local app download, etc. which are based on user identification process. In such situation developers has to deal with complex back-end integration to securely manage and share users data and transactions as well. There are location based applications which need lots of data transactions and developer should carefully manage it.
Low memory warning
It has been observed that an application is terminated due to low memory this is because iPhone dont have memory like desktop so developer should consider this fact. Developers should not make applications which demand heavy memory and can sustain on low memory for long time.
Old Models
Old models of iPhone dont have multitasking functionality. If there is any call or message during an application then app should be terminated or app automatically ends there. Developer should have precautious in case of old model.
