Category: Apps Development

Java is selected as the default application programming language for Android operating system by Google. With the first version of Android Operating system, Nokia and Symbian operating system ruled the smartphone market.

The first version of Android was launched in 2007 and at present Android rules the smart phone world as 85% of smart phones have Android as their operating system. The Android source code is released under open source licenses.

Most of the Android devices have a combination of open source and proprietary software that is needed for accessing Google services.

Android is based on Linux Kernel and is designed mainly for touch screen mobile devices like as smart phones and tablets. Android’s user interface is mainly based on direct manipulation with the touch gestures that quickly correspond to real world actions like as swiping, tapping and pinching.

These can be used to manipulate onscreen objects along with virtual keyboard for text input. All the android apps and games are popular among smartphone users. These are developed by developers with Android Software development kit (SDK).

This Android kit is then developed using Java Programming language.

So, why Java was given preference over other programming languages?

To understand this, first of all we must understand about the basic advantages of Java Programming language which are as follows:

• Java is a language that is known by developers and hence they don’t have to learn it. Further, it is one of the most popular programming languages. There are various engineers who have good knowledge about this programming language and hence it makes it easier for them to develop Apps and Games.
• Java runs on VM and hence there’s no need to recompile it for every phone as it is easy to secure. This is one of the important features of Java. It easily separates the process from each other thus avoiding a rogue application from destroying the phone as well as interfering with other applications.

  Every application has its own assigned address and all these are translated by MMU. This offers base security level to the App as well as the Android ecosystem by avoiding leakages.

• Java comes with huge open source support with many libraries and tools that are available to make the life of developer easier.
• Most of the mobiles already use Java ME and hence Java is one of the well known languages in mobile industry. With Java, one can also create sandbox applications and develop better security model so that an imperfect app cannot slow down the complete OS.

Along with these points, during the development process of first version; languages like Go and Rust were not that much popular and hence it was not advisable to use native languages like as C and C++.

Developers find it difficult to use these languages. Hence, Microsoft decided to develop its app on .NET but then Google didn’t consider it profitable to use any other programming language apart from Java.

Java comes with very useful libraries and tools which shows how simple the language is. Hence, we can say that Java is the perfect choice available to develop Android apps. However, there are no official comments regarding the same by Google.

Take Away:

So, mobile app developers who wish to develop apps can use this blog post as a guide. For more such guidance about app development, stay connected with Softqube Technologies; a well known mobile app development company in India.

As per the latest news, Apple is known to develop a tool that will allow users to get shifted to Android devices from iOs products. This can because of maximum competition in Europe.

Last year, Apple released its Move to iOs app which can be used by Android owners to transfer their contacts, messages, photos and calendars from Android to iOs in case they start using iPhone.

And opposite to this; Apple is now developing a new app known as Telegraph that allows users to transfer from iOs to Android. This app will be used by those iPhone users who can shift their data to an Android device.

Generally, Apple doesn’t have those customers who quickly wish to migrate from iOs to Android. But it is believed that the new app can be the result of pressure from European telecom companies.

These are concerned with maximum number of users who wish to switch to Android. Some believe that Apple completely dominates a huge part of mobile market. Apple makes it difficult to shift from iOs.

Hence, this reduces competition thus making it harder for Android developers. This seems that Apple has agreed to create a tool to make it easier to switch operating systems easier.

It is not clear whether there are many complaints from network operators. There’s no word yet on when the new app is to be released to the public. Many times Apple has faced problems in Europe regarding allegations of anti competitive business practices.

The company was examined by European commission which conspire the record companies to try ad supported free to listen music streaming services like Spotify thus offering an advantage to the paid service.

There are more European services who had found no proof of illegal activities and however it continues to monitor the market.

So, till the time this app gets developed completely, let’s take look at some of the ways through which one can easily make a move to Android from iOs. Till now, there’s no such direct option.

So, here are the alternate ways:

• Make sure that the files get transferred like as those in contacts and calendars.
  Android uses Google account for contacts and calendars. Hence, if you want to transfer those; your Google account must be synchronized with iPhone.

  For this: Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add account. Now add your Google ID. This synchronization can be done manually by plugging your phone into computer.

  Then open iTunes and then find your next device. Open the Info tab and then tick the box next to Sync Contacts with> Google Contacts.
  Now as soon as you enter the Google ID, iphone will get synchronized and all the contacts and calendars will be added to Google’s Cloud.

• For photos, download the Google photos app and then sign in using Google account. After getting logged in; select “Back up & Sync” and then continue. Once the photos are completely synchronized these can be viewed from your Google account on the Android device.
• For music, make sure that your iPhone is already synchronized with iTunes library then install the Google Play Music Manager. You can get up to 50,000 songs from iTunes library.
• With the help of Google account, one can easily access and listen to all the uploaded songs. Make sure that your songs are stored in cloud.

Take Away:

Hence, in this way one can easily switch from iOs to Android. Days are very near when there will be an app for the same. So, if you use that you can easily get transferred from iOs to Android.

Hope this blog post was useful to you. For more such details related to android or iOs apps, stay connected with Softqube Technologies; a well known Mobile app development company in India.

In 2015, we saw various forces that completely shook up the mobile development industry. Today, we will show you the three important trends that mobile app developers must keep in mind while developing apps in 2016.

Let’s take a look at these three trends:

• New JavaScript: Most of the JavaScript was evolved into first class programming language option that is beyond its Web site scripting origins. This trend was demonstrated with the emergence of React Native in the mobile realm.

  Facebook engineers included this framework for developing web sites and then applied it to developing fully native mobile apps for iOs and Android. Its specific approach to cross app development makes it different from other JavaScript networks.

  The resulting apps that derived from traditional cross platform approach cannot match the performance of actual native apps that are developed specially for single operating system with other native languages and tools.

  The React approach is different from other traditional coding methods thus rejecting certain time honoured coding conventions like as separation of various concerns like as UI mark up and logic.

  React has its own JSX syntax extension that is used for component based coding JavaScript along with virtual DOM which helps to show several parts of UI that need updating.

  This “doffing” approach is transformed to native development in such a way that certain UI components are updated as soon their database site changes. This React Native ecosystem is evolving slowly and it closely fits the real React philosophy of supplying the view in the Model View Controller (MVC).

  These maturations will increase React Native for increased use in 2016 thus developing various accolades that technology garnered in 2015. This completely reinforces the fact that React.js is the perfect way to develop apps.

  Hence, native apps can be written in the same way as web apps using this React Native feature.

• Dynamic Web: The new development in 2015 saw cutting edge technology and techniques that are seen in the Web arena might tilt developer mindshare away from strictly native approach.

  One champion of these techniques is Google that places them under the heading Dynamic web.This Dynamic web uses modern web capabilities so that one can render app like user experience.

  They get transformed from pages in browser tabs to immersive top level apps thus influencing Web’s low friction. The new progressive web becomes responsive as well as able to fit in any form factor, independent of connectivity thus enhanced progressively with certain apps so that they can easily work offline.

  Other attributes consists of support app like interactions that are being safe and fresh with updated information and linkable to zero friction as well as easy to share.

  One of the best examples of this New Age web app is Flipkart; an Indian eCommerce retailer that makes use of Progressive web techniques and technologies in new web app that handles various problems like as lack of network connectivity.

• Citizen Developers: With the shortage of mobile development talent; most of the citizen developer initiatives took place in 2015 which fed the gap in the enterprise mobile app development.

  These are called “low code” or “no code” approaches or we can say rapid application development or do it yourself and various such tools that can be used to take mobile app development beyond the limits and then keep it in the hands of ordinary business users.

  Such solutions are mainly based on drag and drop facility along with project templates, WYSIWYG editor, pre-developed components, automated services and most of the programming that must be placed within non developers.

  Various types of citizen developer offerings were available and these increased last year with most of the well known brand new products that easily hit the market.

  Several other signs will continue to show no signs of letting up and various other solutions will evolve in 2016.

Take Away:

So, if you are looking for JavaScript jock or business analyst who can do some sort of coding or any web developer who is in search of new opportunities then in this year you will get plenty of them.

Hope this blog post was useful to you. For more such details, stay tuned with Softqube Technologies; an IT firm that offers custom mobile application development services at nominal cost.

As New Year arrives, we all start making different New Year resolutions. Among us, very few will actually keep their resolutions. As per the research, 25% of us will be away from their goals the next week itself.

Till half year, most of the important things will be left over. This means New Year resolution is just a way to say ourselves we will progress ahead, we will change habits, shun bad habits but very few people actually apply them.

Rest of us, just keep them on paper and hardly apply in real life. So, why does this happen? Is it due to lack of motivation, dedication or other things? Yes, this may be possible.

But in case you lack in these areas then you can get help from the apps. There are such apps that perfectly suit your resolutions and help you to maintain them.

Here’s a list of these apps that will help you:

• Get Moving: The best resolution that everyone makes on every New Year; I will focus on fitness. An app known as C2K5 will help you to keep this resolution during the entire year and actually achieve it.
  

  Apart from this, there are many such app options that can help you. But there are very few that actually motivate you. C25K is the smartphone version of popular Couch to 5 k workout plan.

  This does the same thing that one performs according to guided daily programmes. These can be between short bursts of walking and running till you are ready to walk for long distance.

  It also provides facility to listen to your choice of music while performing the runs. Also, a digital trainer is available to let you know what is coming up next.

  This app is available for free in App store as well as Google Play.

• Calculate your calories: Another hot favourite among the huge resolutions list is the resolution to lose weight. An app known as MyFitness Pal is very useful here.

  This app will help you out to fulfill your resolution to become fit. The app works as a diet tracker and calorie counter. This shows you how many calories you need every day to reduce pounds of weight.

  Just your meals consumed and this app will help you to update remaining calories available for the day. MyFitness Pal is available for free in App Store and Google Play.

• Increase Savings: Yet another important resolution is to save money. For this New Year resolution, there’s an app known as Mint-Personal Finance & Money Manager.

  This application makes it possible to keep a track of income and expenses, sync up with current financial accounts, prepare a budget and then start saving. This reduces the unnecessary habits and thus many opportunities get widened for savings.

  The information can be accessed from several mobile devices, desktop as well as laptop computers.

  This one is also available for free in App Store and Google Play.

• Keep things in an organized form: Among the basic ones; this one is yet another New Year Resolution which is taken by most of the people. To support these people; an app called 24me is available which can easily transform this resolution into reality.

  Do you keep missing things or meetings? Easily forget important dates? Then it is the time for pocket sized personal assistant.

  It becomes easier to get organized with 24me. This is the to do app which keeps a check on all your calendars, contacts, notes etc and then lists and manages everything with a glance.

  24me is available for free in App store and Google Play.

• Do some smart work rather than hard work: An important decision made by people who wish to progress ahead. Quip is an app for all those who have the New Year resolution of going ahead in career.

  It is not possible for any person to be at two places at the same time. Quip is the next big thing. Irrespective of where you are; you can easily keep in contact with your boss, employees as well as project mates.

  One can chat, dive into active group document or add few essential points from anywhere.

  Download this app today. It is available for free in App Store and Google Play.

• Have peaceful mind: Most of us have this as New Year resolution i.e. to practice mindfulness. The perfect solution to this is an app known as Buddhify. This app will help you to fulfill this New Year’s resolution.

  This app includes 80+ guided meditations that are suited for any occasion such as walking, eating, feeling stressed, surfing internet and more. Choose the mindfulness exercise which suits you the best at any point of time.

  Buddhify is available for $4.99 in App store and $2.99 in Google Play.

Wind Up:

So, what are you waiting for? Try out these apps and fulfill your New Year resolutions without laying them further to next year.

Hope this blog post was useful to you? For more such informative posts; stay tuned to Softqube Technologies; App Development Company India.

Hey Friends, New Year has arrived and we are all set with our new strategies to achieve our targets. Softqube Technologies wishes you a wonderful New Year to all its loyal readers & viewers; May this year brings lots of successful moments in your career.

We will continue sharing our knowledge with you and will keep you benefitted with latest trends and updates of IT industry. Today, in this blog post we will share with you some more of the Android technical terms and Jargons.

Previously, we have shared many such terms with you and here are few more. Hey wait, before actually discussing the technical part; I am sure you all will have one question “Why the first blog of this New Year is related to Android?

Reason is : As we discussed in our previous blogs; 2016 is going to be mobile centric and hence people will search more for android related news and updates as well as more of the developers will consider Android App Development as a good career option.

Keeping all these things in mind; we decided to begin New Year with something that is going to get more importance in the entire year. So, let’s begin and know some more Android terms:

Few more Android Technical Terms:

• OLED & AMOLED: OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode. This is a specific kind of display technology. OLEDs discharge their own light and hence they don’t need any backlights. AMOLED differs slightly from OLED technology which is more often used in Smart Phones.

  OLED displays have wonderful colour reproduction with fast switching speeds. The pixels emit their own light and hence they are completely black when they are off. Recently, there are OLED displays that are as bright as LCDs. But, these tend to be more expensive.

• Open GLES: This is a set of programming APIs and technologies that developers can use as the application basis which employ 3D rendering. There are several games developed using OpenGL ES.

  This is a pared down version of OpenGL that is developed for devices like smartphones and tablets. Most of the 3D games that you play on Android phone are developed with OpenGL ES.

• Overflow Button: You use an Android Phone, right? Have you seen those three dots that are seen in the upper right corner of the screen in many Android apps?
  This is called the Overflow button.

  Just tap it and you will get additional options as well as tools or settings in an app’s toolbar.

• Overlay: This is the customized interface developed by smartphone manufacturers. Most of the custom overlays feel and work similarly to unmodified stock in Android. However, these are modified to suit manufacturers’ and carriers’ needs.

  Some overlays are bundled with apps for specific devices. Let’s say there’s a custom Android version for Samsung Galaxy devices. These include Samsung’s TouchWiz interface as well as Apps like Samsung Pay.

  In reality, most of the manufacturer “overlays” are not just about overlaying a new interface on the top of Android. The manufacturer has its own individual version of Android.

  It has its own features, interface and hardware optimizations. There are various features for the carrier from whom you have purchased the phone. This is one of the reasons why android systems take long time to update.

  The custom versions of Android are always known as “Overlays”.

• Qi & PMA: These are involved in wireless charging technology. This includes LG, HTC and Verizon with Qi while PMA standard is backed by AirFuel Alliance. It is a group that consists of companies like AT&T, Broadcom, Intel, Powermat, Duracell and Starbucks.
• Quick Charge: It takes several hours to get the phone battery completely charged. Quick Charge helps to bring up things. This is the technology offered by QualCom and this can increase the phone’s battery charging speed by 75%.

  In order to take advantage of Quick Charge, it is necessary to have a device that supports it as well as its wall adapter. Other mobile phone companies have developed their own fast charging capabilities in their phones.

• Rooting: Android has various security precautions to save your phone from unauthorized parties who can mess up your phone too badly. Rooting your phone means to bypass security measures.

  This allows you to customize it in several ways which is not possible otherwise. One can even replace the Android Os with something like Cyanogenmod.

  Rooting means getting access to the operating system which helps you to change or replace such OS parts which are not repaired.

• Smart Lock: It is advisable to protect the phone with a passcode or password. However, people find it boring to enter it every time the phone is taken out of the pocket.

  The smart lock feature of Android easily discovers the phone when it is with you and it gets unlocked. It offers various methods to unlock the phone. Let’s say when your phone is connected to a particular Bluetooth device or is in a particular location.

  This Smart lock is developed into Chrome OS and it works better with passwords.

• Vanilla Android: It is also known as “Stock Android”. It is used to describe pure Android. It possesses Google’s interface, features, apps and nothing else.

  There are several phones that run unmodified versions of Android. Some manufacturers have their own Android versions which look like Stock Android. These have very precious few modifications that can be used to enable privileged features.

• USB C type: There are many of the USB connectors. One is USB type-A; which mostly seen in the computer. USB type B which is mostly available in printers. Mini USB and Micro USB which are found in devices as well as tablets.

  USB type C is a brand new USB connector which is a bit larger than Micro USB and more flexible than any other kind of USB ports. USB C connectors are easily reversible.

  Hence, one doesn’t need to identify the right side to get connected. All the devices must have USB 3.1 in order to use USB Type C.

• Wake Lock: We all have a setting in our phone where we decide after how many minutes we want our mobile phones to sleep as this helps to save battery. But there are times when you don’t want your mobile to sleep. For instance, while watching a movie, a video or chatting via Instant Messengers.

  Here, this feature known as Wake Lock is useful. It is a feature that comes in built in Android system. This feature forces the app to keep the phone awake till the task is over.

  Wake Lock is usually a term used only when the CPU is awake and mobile screen is off.

• X86: If you are very well aware about PC hardware then you will easily understand what is X 86. It is a name given to the processor architecture that is popularized by intel and used by majority of PCs.

  Intel’s Pentium, Core lines and Celeron, all AMD’s processors are x86 processors. One cannot find X86 in most of the Android Smart phones and tablets. But those that use Intel’s Atom processors are based on X86 architecture.

Wind Up:

So, here completes the entire list of all Android terms and Jargons. Learn them all and you will be ready to understand Android in a perfect manner. For more such guides related to Android world, keep reading our blogs.

For developers, knowing all the Android Jargons and Terms will help you to develop an Android app in a perfect manner as you will have very less confusions about what a term means.

Learn more about Android App Development, stay tuned with us.

People sometimes get scared when it comes to coding. For most of us, coding seems to be a scary word. There are some those who cannot believe that coding can be done to make living as well.

This is the thing that people even never think of. But still, web development is such a world where people with zero interest can also make good career. However, in this digital world, online presence has become mandatory for every business.

This blog post is for those people who wish to learn coding within limited time and budget.

So, the list is as follows:

• First of all, know the reason to learn coding: If you are really interested to learn coding for career purpose then it is advisable to take courses from experts. You can learn such courses like as Software engineering. The first thing is to begin with C++, Java and Python.

  Some online courses are also available from Harvard and Stanford for free. Khan Academy is also such one such institute. Let’s say if you want to design a website or develop games or Android apps then it is not necessary to dig deeper as there are lot of interactive online tutorials available.

  You can access those and learn at your ease.

• Which coding language will you select to begin with coding? The aim matters a lot here. If you are interested to become a software engineer then it is necessary to continue course work.

  This will help you to move ahead in that direction. Most of experts recommend starting with C language. But language selection actually depends on the purpose for which you want to use that language.

  

  Let’s say if you wish to go for iOs App Development, then the first language you must learn is Swift. Swift is a completely new language introduced by Apple in June 2014. It comes with modern and simple syntax.

  It is compatible with objective C. So, any person who knows C language can easily start coding after learning Swift. An iOS developer can easily switch to Android development.

  You can learn swift from various online training sites. You can choose the one that is right for you.

• Know the terminology: The first and foremost thing is to know the terminology. These are the ones that boost your self confidence and give you a feeling that you are aware of them when it comes to foreign terms.

  To make yourself familiar with the most used terms, you can learn the definitions from Vin Vacanti. His aim is to help people learn coding so that they can develop your own sites.

• Begin with a small project: When you decide to learn from online tutorials, you will naturally begin with a small project. Always keep one thing in mind; don’t skip any lessons, repeat them constantly till the time you have mastered the art.

  Just go through a simple tutorial lesson, erase all the coding and begin from scratch. Start using patterns, the more you use them the more easily you will remember them. Always, “Practice makes Men Perfect”.

• Try your hands on Kids’ tutorial App: These apps are used to teach coding to Kids. There is several numbers of these available for kids of every age. One of the most popular is Scratch as kids can easily learn coding for animation, games, music etc.

  In such tutorials, coding is explained in a simple language; this is very useful for adult learners as they can understand things easily. Just write simple code and get good experience from the same.

• Join an Open Source Community: There’s a huge community of coders who work on open source software to make improvements. Let’s take WordPress; it is an open source platform for programmers who add new elements, tools and apps.

  Programmers share their experience and work in the community. Other members show their comments, do changes if there are any. You can also hack others code and check whether you are able to understand it or not and what the coder did and how.

  In case you find any improvement, add it to that code and share your improvements in the community.

Wind Up:

Hope this blog post will serve as a perfect guide for those who wish to try their hands at coding and save some money by developing website on their own. It is good way for start ups.

Let us know how this guide has helped you. For more such details, stay connected with Softqube Technologies, a well known App Development Company in India.

Welcome back friends; in our previous part we had learnt about some of the well known Android terms and jargons.
Today, in its continuation we will learn some more terms.

So, let’s proceed ahead:

• Fragmentation: Variety is necessary when it comes to developing android apps. Android phones are available in every shape and size. This means there are various android phones available in the market.

  Yes, having a variety is a good thing however it can have several issues like as apps that don’t run on all devices or slow uptake of new android releases. This potential is known as Fragmentation.

  Is fragmentation a big issue? Different types of hardware and software available in the android market can make the work tedious for developers as they need to develop apps in such a way that they work properly on various devices.

  HDR refers to High Dynamic Range which is a photography technique where several photos are taken at different exposures and then these are combined in a single image. This will provide proper exposure and detail to both dark as well as bright areas of the photo.

  Some modern phones can easily take HDR photos in just a single snap. Another one is IPS which is known as In Plane Switching. It is a display technology used in LCD screens. IPS displays have a wider viewing angle as compared to that of twisted nematic display.

  Twisted Nematic is yet another prevalent LCD technology which reduces the colour shifting issues which indirectly have affected LCDs. These also have a wider colour gamut and hence they can easily generate more colours. Among Android, one of the popular display technology is OLED.

• Material Design: This is the new feature introduced by Google in the new Android version; Android Lollipop. It has the new look and feel for Android with more importance on depth as well as bold graphical elements along with fluid motion so that one can get sense of the place.

  The new material design is currently employed by Google for various Android mobile phones. Some of its online tools like Google Maps as well as other redesigned Google+ social network are also equipped with this material design.

  It is not just a set of elements from Google but it is a codified interface convention which shows all the aspects as to how an application show look and feel. This contains fonts, colours, animations, shadows, layers, proper placement of these elements and more such as mentioned in the Material design guidelines.

  An important idea is that third party App Developers can make Android apps that have a consistent look as well as those that operate with same interface conventions. In this way users don’t get confused with the change in interfaces.

• Milliampre Hour: Its short form is mAh which is a unit to measure electrical charge. It is often used to know the battery capacity and this can be often found in various marketing materials of smart phones & tablets.

  The more the mAh rating, the larger its capacity and as the tech specs as well as power management system varies from one device to another, the charging capacity of any battery cannot alone measure the battery life.

  Mobile phones with smaller mAh rating on the battery can last longer in case the display and the processor as well as radios are more of energy efficient.

• Nearby: This allows you to connect and share the data with some other devices which are very nearby. As per Google; Nearby uses a small combination of Bluetooth, WiFi to locate several other devices available nearby to that device.

  It is basically a set of technologies which developers can incorporate in their apps. Let’s say Google Play Games use Nearby to find others near you who can play a game with.

• NFC: It is a short form of Near Field Communication. It is a technology which helps you to wirelessly transfer information between various devices. Devices like as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi have ranges which can span multiple rooms in your house.

  This technology is used in many smart phones and it is widely used to facilitate mobile payment systems like Google Pay and Apple Pay. NFC is used in Android phones to make data transfer easier from one device to another.

Wind Up:

So, here we have discussed few of the terms that will make it easy for you to understand Android. There are many more such terms. Keep reading our blogs; we will be bringing more such terms to you.

For any guidance related to Mobile Apps Development; get in touch with Softqube Technologies.

We all today are using Android phones. Even though; it is small in size; an Android phone is a very complicated device as well as a powerful piece which helps you to click your refreshing moments even on the go.

Now days, these phones are also used for purchasing groceries online. Lot of things are going on and there are lot of things to learn and these must be known to everyone irrespective of whether one loves technology or not.

But then, how can one learn without interest? Well, this blog post is for those who wish to know everything about Android. If you are aware about these terms then it will help you to get a better command over technology that rules your mobile phone.

You can also save this blog for future reference and in case you are aware about some other terms that can be included here then do let us know about the same.

So, let’s begin with the glossary of Android technology:

• ADB: This is known as Android Debug Bridge. It is a developer tool which lets you send commands to an Android device that is connected to your computer. It is an advanced tool which you can run through the command line on PC or Mac.

  In case, if you wish to install a developer preview release of Android then you will have to have ADB.

• Android Studio: It is a Google’s Software development kit which is used by developers to develop apps for Android devices. Android studio includes a code editor as well as various code templates which can be used on the basis of apps.

  These device simulators are used for testing the apps as well as other development tools. You can learn more about this on Google’s Android Developer site.

• API: It is useful for Application Programming Interface. APIs are functions which developers can call on to access specific features by calling on various programs, codes and services which are previously written by others.

  Let’s say: A small bit of code can be added to draw a button on the screen. If you wish to know the location then you can make use of API location so that the location of the device is easily found.

  The rest of the things are then handled by Google and hence there’s no need of any developer to develop an entire location from the basic just for one app. Android contains innumerable APIs which include everything from drawing interface elements to cameras, location access, accessing storage, 3D graphics and much more.

• ARM: This is the term used for processor architecture and is widely found in devices like as smart-phones and tablets. ARM based processors can widely vary and hence you will find them in small mobile phones as well as high end servers.

  There are variants that are to be used inside smart phones and tablets. This ARM architecture is maintained by the company with the same name ARM. It licenses its own design and processors.

  Samsung and Qualcomm are the major manufacturers of ARM based processors.

• Baseband: It is a part of the phone that handles its radio connections. The phone’s baseband consists of a processing chip. Once this is used; you don’t have to touch the phone’s baseband system software.

  In case you wish to know which baseband version you are using then you can check it in Settings- About Phone.

• Doze: It is the new feature in Android 6.0 Marshmallow. It is a power saving feature which prevents the phone from conducting certain tasks in case your phone is in idle state for some time.

  This feature keeps your mode in a deep sleep mode and it wakes up only to handle background tasks which save a lot of battery power but it can also be turned off for individual apps.

Wind Up:

Well, these were some of the Android terms that one must know to make oneself aware about the technology. There are many of these which we will discuss in our coming blogs. That’s it for now but the list doesn’t end here.

So, to know more of these terms stay tuned with us. For more such details; keep in touch with Softqube Technologies; a firm offering affordable Mobile App Development services in India.

Native mobile applications are mostly written on SDK of a platform and these are made for a particular device. Different people have different definitions for native mobile app development but among them the common things in all definition were as follows:

• Written to the SDK of any platform and OS of the manufacturer
• Designed specifically for a particular phone or any device
• It can run locally on any device
• It is developed to provide the ultimate mobile experience.

Few of the respondents felt that one can achieve a complete acceptable user experience with an application that is written properly in HTML 5. Later on, everyone came to the conclusion that native mobile apps are a must to integrate a huge range of complex sensors, displays and systems in order to create a perfect intuitive, streamlined experience.

Native apps are basically developed in several ways which are as follows:

• Making the use of tools offered by mobile platform: Here, the entire code is to be written in JavaScript and then it is to be deployed on all mobile platforms. This is not possible with a wrapper.

  A developer has to get their app to work on various platforms and hence this is not the perfect design for any one platform. The scale and quality varies. It is necessary to properly grasp the vision of Google and Apple and then do the needful to optimize their user experience.

  It is necessary to develop native apps if you wish to get featured in the App stores. Apple and Google pay very close attention to the entire app making process. Hence, for developers it is very important to keep in mind the app development guidelines given by Google and Apple and strictly follow them.

• Making most use of the value that these apps can give to a phone: Native apps are specifically designed for the phone. These offer a better UX in an app as compared to anything else with Bluetooth connectivity, GPS and connections to the stored data on the device.
• Web based HTML: Native mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows can be developed with the help of traditional web. Every app needs to be device specific.
• An app which runs locally on the device: So, native application is the one which can run on the device without the need of any internet connection. This means there’s no need to access web to run native apps.
• Dedicated Advertising Formats: Native applications need specific advertising formats and native apps play an important role here. It is necessary to follow the guidelines of committee members on native advertising formats.
• What is considered to be native and what is not? There are many apple apps which use web views for user interface that lay things out in such a way that platform independent things can be laid out easily.

  We are in a coding centric environment and when getting a hybrid line, it can be very flossy. The type and layout is superior to native as it is much more difficult then native. It entirely depends on the developer.

  If you use HTML 5 then there is no performance issue but the condition is it should be written properly. Basically, people need performance and if you are producing client side code for performance and automation then keeping in mind the performance anything you use doesn’t matter at all.

  The most important thing is how fast can you develop an app? If you are creating several numbers of apps then there’s no need to make native apps as both need equal time.

• Native apps are developed for creating mobile experience: Native mobile apps are developed for perfect mobile experience. A mobile app’s differentiating feature is its small UI footprint that is relative to its desktop counterpart.

  The fact is native mobile app is much more sophisticated as compared to any other piece of software. Native mobile apps must combine a wide range of sensors, displays and systems in order to create an intuitive, streamlined and immersive experience.

  From touch screens to complete voice recognition, proximity sensor to facial recognition; native mobile apps can be considered as the perfect way to interact with the world around us.

  It is one that enables us to have a complete control on the user experience and access all the mobile resources such as GPS, accelerometer and camera. It is written in the technology form for the device and runs on the particular device.

  Native apps make sure that the platform is used to its full potential. There are various ways to do cross platform development and get a native app developed for the perfect user experience.

  Native Script is completely a new framework that includes cross platform development with JavaScript to make most use of native apps. Apps are developed in a language and toolkit offered by the platform.

  Several native apps have a hybrid platform such as high fidelity with usability and access to local sensors. Most of the HTML 5 components use A/B testing.

So, these are the different ways to define native apps. Let us know how you define it and what according to you a native app is?

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It is necessary to get more clients. If you fail to market your business properly then it can cost you a lot in the modern world. Hence, it is necessary to get the sufficient amount of customers in order to get sufficient revenue from your business.

With mobile technology; one can now days manage marketing campaigns on the iPad itself. One can respond to customer needs and demands 24-7. There are various marketing automation apps for iPad which can automate and supercharge your marketing efforts in such a way that your business stands out from the crowd.

iPad marketing automation softwares can smoothen the marketing processes as well as operations and enables to monitor the efforts more closely during any time of the day. Most marketing softwares for iPad are cloud based.

This means you can manage the campaigns from your Apple tablet as well as from any device or computer all around the world. iOs users expect their software to work well as well as look good in order to have picked out some best marketing automation apps for iPad which will not only boost the marketing efforts as well as are a great fun to use.

All of these iPad marketing apps can be downloaded for free but needs a subscription to cloud service so that these can be run easily. Most of these have free trials and hence one can give them a spin before you make your decision whether to purchase them or not.

Here are some iPad Marketing Automation Apps which can be used to get more clients:

• Infusionsoft: This app was developed specifically to offer tools to the entrepreneurs. These tools can simplify the sales as well as the marketing process. Hence, business owners can spend most of their time in dealing with various tasks and projects which they actually enjoy.

  One can personalize marketing efforts with the help of segmented lists to send personalized email campaigns, develop landing pages and web forms, get marketing reports and also turn social media likes into leads with the help of GroSocial Integration.

  Infusionsoft’s iOS marketing automation software allows you to search all of your contacts and capture new leads. One can add tags to trigger the action and campaigns from your iPad.

  The app includes its ability to search existing tags and create the new ones and assign them to contact records. This app is available for $199 per month.

• Auto Pilot: This is one of the powerful and elegant marketing automation software for iOS that makes marketing more visual to marketers and sales team. This application is aimed to be more at medium and small businesses.

  It is simple email marketing software as well as high end automation tool which enhances high end customer relationship management, customer acquisition and the growth from your tablet.

  It enables you to capture leads from forms, personalize and automate emails, view visitors’ events in real time and maintain the marketing databases. The result must be higher return on investments due to better marketing insights as well as powerful reporting tools which help to make better marketing campaigns.

  It is available for $4 per month.

• Hub Spot: It is an all in one marketing platform which has wide array of features and capabilities. This software can be used to carry out, track as well as measure all of the online marketing activities like as blogging, email marketing and social media marketing.

  Hub Spot can be used to create landing pages as well as calls to Action and also get SEO tips. Further, Hub Spot serves as a content management system thus helping you to update the website content, optimize its search and also adjust it for mobile.

  Hub Spot is great marketing software for iPad and with this app; one can take care of analytics, contacts, social media as well as connecting with prospects. It also has a good push notification support that allows you to stay alert of social stream matches based on particular leads as well as notification of new leads when they arrive.

  This app is available for $200 per month.

• Azalead: This app is available for $6000 per year. It is a B2B account based marketing software which analyzes your website traffic in order to identify and retarget those prospects which mean the most to your business.

  This software refines the audience which you retarget by knowing such companies that visit the site and don’t fill out any forms, filtering traffic by criteria like as company size, industry and location as well as removing unwanted prospects like as B2C customers.

  This app allows you to target key accounts and get alerted when they are likely to get engaged with you. This well designed marketing software allows you to view targeted and excluded leads as well as check out visitor profiles.

• Mail Chimp: It is one of the most popular web email marketing solutions available for iPad. It offers a total control as well as transparency over campaigns, email tracking, click through rates, reports, subscribers and un-subscribers.

  MailChimp allows you to develop your own templates and also choose from several custom designs and campaigns. Mail Chimp offers a lot of free number of emails and subscribers although several businesses will need to subscribe to one of the MailChimp’s plans.

  This looks superb on tablet and can also be used beyond iPad by integrating it with other CRM solutions as well as social media channels in order to maximize sign up rates. It is easy to use and is useful for those who wish to use email marketing on iPad.

  This marketing automation is available for free.

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