Category: Apps Development

IT News: Facebook occupied a virtual reality firm for $2 billion a year ago and now it will soon release its first Virtual Reality Video App for Android and iOS.

IT is surrounded with updates every day. People are very curious to listen to something new from giants like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft etc. Recently, Facebook decided to step into the world of virtual reality. Now, Facebook will bring this technology to the billions of users who are using this service.

What’s new in this technology?

This new virtual reality supports 360 degree videos. The new app for Android and iOS will serve to be the one and only application in the market in the field of this latest technology. Further, it will support spherical video format which is made from numerous snappers and various view points.

This shows that users will be able to transform their viewing angles with a single slant of their smart phones. The official release of this app is not yet confirmed as the app development is still in progress.

Hence, one can see the beta version which will be visible within few weeks. No official statement by Facebook is released for the same.

Previously, at any occasion it was revealed by Zuckerberg that virtual reality is another promising platform that can be considered in the IT industry. Facebook will at some point or other will be indulging in this platform thus offering spherical videos where users will be allowed to move around the video thus watching it from various angles.

These apps will also get same user experience but the thing is that it should have proper reach to the audience. The app will have the content that is specifically designed for virtual reality apps. The moment this app is launched, Facebook then soon will be in competition with YouTube which currently is supporting 360 degree videos.

If we talk about Google then it too has its special way of displaying these videos on smart phones. It uses Cardboard VR viewer which Facebook can use too in its VR app.

Why this is opted by Facebook?

A question may arise why there’s a need of such an app. This may not be surprising for many people that Facebook is stepping in the world of virtual reality as many times CEO of Facebook; Mark Zuckerberg has revealed the importance of such videos for social media network.

Knowing how social media is going to get affected with this app and how it will benefit the business; this decision is being taken. So, whether it is Android users or iOS users; this will be available for both as it is known to get developed for both of the users.

Looking at few years back, most of the Facebook content consisted of text but now slowly it will get transformed into video which will have more attractive content such as virtual reality and augmented reality.

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Today is the trend of spherical videos. Apart from Facebook, various companies like Samsung, Google, HTC, Sony, Microsoft are stepping in the world of virtual reality and Google’s Chrome browser now also supports spherical videos.

So, what are you waiting for? Do you want to join these giants and step in the world of augmented reality? Then get in touch with well known Android App developers like Softqube Technologies.

Businesses have now slowly diverted to the mobile world. You will see every business wishes to have its own app so as to offer quick services to their customers. Before actually developing the application it is necessary to choose the platform that suits your needs.

For those who are getting the application developed for the first time, it is difficult to choose among the two platforms. This is the question most business owners think of. Are you one of them? Then this blog post from Softqube Technologies, Android App Development Company will clear all of your doubts.

What platform to decide for developing any business application?

There’s a stiff competition between Android and iOS and hence this has become a question of debate as to which platform to choose for business apps. Well, before actually deciding the platform it is necessary to know about the advantages of each platform.

Talking about Android, it covers nearly 83% of global smartphone market. So, nearly 80 smart phones out of 100 use android as their operating system. While only 14% of smart phones run on iOS.

This shows that Android is dominating the mobile apps market. Looking at the data above, it can be clearly stated that it is the android platform that is preferred the most in the mobile apps market. However, it is difficult to launch any mobile app project in Android as compared to that of iOS.

When someone wants to earn money with an application then iOS is the most preferable platform. iOS makes 85% revenue for app makers. We can say for business owners Android is preferable while for app developers who wish to make money from apps, iOS is preferred.

Still if you are in the confusion then here is a small comparison list that will clear all of your doubts:

Advantages of iOS:

• Suppose your target market is US then it is advisable to opt for iPhone App Development.
• As compared to Android users, iOS users are willing to pay more.
• It is the most stable mobile platform and its crash rate is less as compared to that of Android.
• More quality apps are available. The app approval system is very tough and so chances of low quality apps get reduced to an extent.

Benefits of Android:

• Most of the Android app development technologies are available for free.
• Android app development is much easier as it allows you to make most use of crowd oriented frameworks as well as plug ins.
• Android is the best platform for those who have targeted Asia and South Africa.
• For getting mass exposure, Android is the best platform.

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Hope this information will be useful for business owners as well as app developers to make a proper decision regarding which platform to choose for any mobile app. For more such tips and tricks, stay connected with us.

New to the Smart phone world? Need assistance to install android apps. This blog post from Softqube Technologies, Android App Development Company is here for you to show you steps that will help you to properly install your apps.

When you use smartphone, you then become familiar with the word “apps”. But you may lack proper amount of information on what one exactly needs and how these needs can be achieved. Don’t worry while you are taking baby steps in the Android world, we are here to offer you the helping hand.

First of all, let’s understand what an app is?

App refers to the word “Application”. Applications are developed by programmers to complete specific tasks. To make most use of the apps, it is necessary that must be installed and stored on the devices that you can use.
You can see various smartphones come with some of the preinstalled apps. Some of the apps are developed for specific devices like as apps for Windows Smartphone are different as compared to the apps for Android.

However, slowly now days efforts are made that apps can run on all devices i.e. android can work on iPhone and iPhone ones can work on Windows app. One can interact with the apps in several ways like as typing text, icon tapping and menu items.

Sometimes developers may charge money to get the apps installed on the device and sometimes they provide apps for free but these apps may include several advertisements through which developers can earn some sort of revenue.

The apps are frequently updated by the developers so that new features are easily accessible making the mobile usage easy for users. Sometimes, to have the new features; it is recommended to download the app again which can be done silently in the back ground and all of the information is saved as it is with the app.

How are Android Apps Available?

The most recommended or we can say one stop destination for availability of Android apps is the Play Store. All the android apps are sold here with other content like as books and movies. If you wish to make in-app purchase then it is necessary for you to stay signed in with your Google Account.

Once an app is downloaded or purchased then it can again be downloaded at a further date upon the need. Hence, in case the app is deleted there’s nothing to worry much. Apart from Google Play store, other options are available too such as Amazon App Store and Humble Bundle.

Go to Google Play Store> find the particular app that you need> Tap it> Choose the download the option>The app will start downloading and once the download is complete then now it is available in your smartphone and you can use it as per the need.

Once the Download is over, you will be asked for two options: Open and UnInstall. Click Open to use this app. Such apps can also be accessible by touching the icons at the bottom of the screen assuming that the icon has not already been available on the Home Screen.

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This completes the entire app installation process. For detailed guidance, do stay connected with expert android app developers.

Technology has made tasks very easier. Now, patience is the wonderful thing that people just think of but cannot adopt as things now happen at rocket speed. If we talk about developing an Android app then this task too has become much easier with the use of App development editors.

However app developers may face some difficulty while adjusting the App as well as getting connected with the users thus maintaining the regular users as well as earning money from all of the efforts.

Here, we have come up with several cloud based products that can easily serve the needs of the developers. Let’s discuss them here:

Tools that serve complete app development needs:

1. App42: These are the cloud APIs that have 750 plus backend APIs which supports all the well known platforms like as iOs, Android, Windows and more such that are used to develop omni channel apps.

   These APIs are advanced across all 25 modules that assist the development of simple to complex apps which save time, cost and efforts. Modules that are supported are as follows:

   • User management
   • No SQL storage
   • CDN based file storage
   • Rich Push Message Service
   • Social APIs
   • Leaderboards and much more.

   These support the development of all applications like as mobile, web, tv, social applications and games.
   App developers spend large amount of money in getting maximum number of users. Organic app download is slow till the time right chord strikes with the App Virality. This means the more your app becomes viral the more times it is downloaded.

   One can also access user behaviour in the app with the help of analytics that show how and when users use the app. With the help of marketing automation; App42 Cloud API offers such APIs which can examine the users’ behaviour and then categorize the users based on their actions performed while using the app.

   To boost the app performance; one can make use of automatic campaigns like as Push Messages, In-App messages as well as email.

2. AppWarp: Apart from App42, this is yet another product that runs over TCP, UDP as well as web socket protocols thus delivering support to actual multi participant communication. This is used to develop multi player games and chatting applications.

   It possesses the similar capacity to aid omni-channel app development. These APIs are used to develop simple and complex apps thus saving nearly 70% developer efforts.

3. App42 API Gateway: This is used by enterprises to reveal their heritage systems in the structure of APIs that can be used by internal and external apps in a very strong and safe environment.

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Any one; be it an individual developer or a huge enterprise can use these tools to fulfill all of the development needs. So, if you are any android app developer then make sure that you try atleast one of these tools and get proper knowledge about the same.

For more such updates about App development, stay connected with Softqube Technologies, Mobile App development Company in India.

Have you developed any mobile app? You wish to make it viral and get it noticed by many customers then this blog post from Softqube Technologies, Android App Development Company is here for you.

Today, we will discuss about some of the best practices that must be followed to make your app go viral. The reason for making an app go viral is it will be shared among the maximum number of customers across the entire internet.

This will be useful to any app developer as it will provide more publicity by word of mouth as this is more powerful as compared to any other advertising technique. Advertisements are generally ignored by the users however stories are been shared the most.

Hence, an easy way to make your app popular is to let it go viral and this needs a perfect social SEO strategy.
So, let’s see what it needs to go viral:

Making your app go viral:

• Your app must pass some of the tests which are as follows:
• Possess something that is valuable to share
• Is easy to share and invite friends to join
• Offers rewards to users for sharing
• Frequent users must be given more value.

So, the main thing is your app must contain something that is very different. This can be anything; be it a photograph, any game, an article or a playlist, anything that makes your customers joyful and develops a feeling to share it with others.

The value of the app increases with increase in the audience that uses the app regularly. Now the question is how will you know whether your app has something good in it or not?

Here are some questions that will help you to identify the uniqueness of your app:

• Do you feel that your app has something good to offer?
• Do you think that the app must really be shared?
• What rewards will you offer to the users when they share your app?
• Why users want to share your app?
• What do you think is the key that will tempt users to share your app?
• What is the motivational point that will compel users to share your app?

If you have got good answers to these questions then you can easily consider your app as an unique one.

Developing a Viral Strategy:

1. It should be effortless: The app flow must be very smooth and one must get completely involved in doing what they love to. This means while using your app; users must get deeply involved irrespective of knowing where they have spent their time.

   This flow can be developed by removing all the obstacles and doubts which users may have when they use your apps. A few ways to do so are as follows:

   • Provide sign in at just a single click like as offering sign in via their social media accounts.
   • Show the profile pictures of friends while authenticating this will increase the audience.
   • App’s first screen should motivate the users so that they can get started once they know how their network can grow
   • Top actions must be made visible on the screen in proper manner as this will let the users know what they want to do.

   Compel users to post easily on several social platforms by using a single tap. For this, android apps are more convenient as they offer easy to share options.

2. Keep rewarding your users: Rewarding users for using, sharing your app will keep them motivated to do so. As a result, the more rewards you give; the more your app will be shared which will increase its presence all over the internet thus spreading it completely to an extent.

   And then sharing the app with friends and family will be their regular task. Provide rewards to their referrals as well. This means your customers, their friends everyone gets something when they actually share your app.

   Offering secret rewards that surprises people is a bonus point for you.

3. Offer Control to the users: Keep your app as transparent as possible. Be clear about what your app is sharing as this will let the user decide whether they really want to share your content or not.

   Unless and until people don’t trust your app; they will not be interested to share your content or they may stop using your app as well as may leave negative reviews. Allow users to control what they are sharing and this is very easy; just include a settings screen that has options to control the sharing options.

   A perfect example of this is the Pinterest App:

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Following these points will definitely make easy for android app developers to let their app go viral. Have some more suggestions to make the app popular? Do share with us.

YouTube, as we all know is one of the well known destinations used to search for videos related to important stuff. Today, while searching videos on YouTube; what you will find is lot of unwanted stuff before actually the video starts.

Now, with Android’s new YouTube App; one can easily get videos directly from video platform’s better creators instead of this unwanted stuff. This new YouTube Android App got released yesterday and very soon this will make it easier for people to find videos that you wish to love as well as create.

We can see several subtle changes in the design as well as features. Instead of the normal YouTube Interface, this new app has now only three simple tabs i.e. Home, Subscriptions and Account.

YouTube Android App launched recently:

What’s new in this app? Let’s take a look…

• Home tab: Inside the home tab one can explore and find the videos that you will love. It also provides some recommendations based on your previous watch history. There will be playlists personalized for you.According to Google, recommendations have improved to an extent so that it can now offer you the best as well as relevant content.
• Subscriptions Tab: Another interesting addition is the Subscriptions Tab which will show videos from various channels that you have subscribed to. It also now has notification feature that ensures no video is missed out from your favourite YouTube creator.The bell icon will show you the notifications as soon as the new video is posted. There’s a lot of difference between the channels you love and the channels you subscribe.
• Accounts: Along with Home and Subscriptions tab, another important section is that of Accounts that allows you to check your playlists, know history as well as the uploaded videos. This all available at one place.Also, one can watch vertical videos with full screen mode. So, now this new App will definitely be one of the favourites among the creators. With this app that is redesigned for creators, one can get access to a completely new set of video creation tools.

  This new app is now available for Android and very soon its iOs version will also be available.

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YouTube lovers will definitely love this app and hence this is pretty useful to them. Try out this amazing useful YouTube app and you will definitely love to use. Make sure to use all of the features of this new YouTube app and you will for sure be the one to make it as one of your favourite apps.

For more such updates about Android apps, stay connected with Softqube Technologies, Android app development India where you can get amazing android apps developed at nominal costs.

Are you a developer willing to create an app? Do you need some finance to finish your app development process then crowd funding can be the best option for you. For developers, it is difficult to get the fund as well as traction for the app they are developing.

Crowd funding is tried by many but most of them have failed. The reason; they lack the techniques on how well crowd funding must actually be used. Here, we have come up with some ways as to how crowd funding can be used to get maximum finance for your start up app.

Ways to use Crowd funding in proper way:

Well, before we actually understand how crowd funding can be used in efficient manner let’s first learn what exactly crowd funding is?

So, crowd funding is getting others to finance the development of any product or project, business work or art. This is useful for entrepreneurs thus reducing the upfront costs due to which many start-ups stop their projects before actually beginning.

The two well known crowd funding platforms that are most popular in today’s market are “Kickstarter and Indiegogo”. Many of the success start-ups as well as crowd funded projects have started using this concept from these sites.

So, how can this concept be useful for app developers?

Hope you are here because you have somewhat made your mind to crowd fund your app. So, first of all the need is to select a perfect platform that meets your needs. For that, you must understand the platform properly before actually using it for your app or software.

Crowd funding platforms are mainly based on three different approaches which are as follows: donations, equity as well as reward based crowd funding; each of one having its own pros and cons.

Let’s understand these approaches in detail:

1. Charitable Campaigns: For apps and other such innovative ideas, this type of platform is useful. Certain crowd funding sites like as GoFund Me, Razoo and Crowd Rise are the perfect examples of this type of platform.

   Using such platforms; individuals can easily raise the required funds to fulfill their passion or transform the world into something better. However, these sites are considered as less reputable.

2. Equity Crowd Funding: In this type of platforms, the supporters get something from the business for which they are funding. Several websites like AngelList, CircelUp and CrowdFunder work on this platform.

   These sites bring investors and entrepreneurs who are in need of cash are brought together. Yes, the main drawback is absence of investor commitment that leads to less attention and help. For established softwares like Dash, such websites are useful.

3. Rewards based Crowd Funding: In such type of platforms, the start-up businesses sell their products so that the money earned from the products can fund their project. Some of well known crowd funding sites that are based on such model are as follows:
   • Quirky
   • Rocket Hub
   • AppBackr
   • Tilt

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We feel this blog post has answered some of your questions regarding crowd funding. If you need some more guidance or have something to share that will help app developers then you can get in touch with Softqube Technologies, Android App Development in India.

Nowdays, there’s a craze among youngsters to have a smartphone. People want to have a cell phone that does everything for them and that’s one of the reason Moto G has now become the well known smart phone for all.

As per the latest statistics, “80% of people use smart phones to surf internet”. Recently, the demand for new Moto G has increased. This is a mobile phone that is worth recommending to everyone. So, what are its specialities? Why it is so demanding?

Here, in this blog post from Softqube Technologies, Android App Development Company India; we will know about few reasons that make Moto G worth purchasing.

Four Reasons for buying Moto G 2015:

Are you deciding to go android? Willing to replace your current one with the latest one? Looking for Android at best price? Have some options, consider Moto G as well. Here’s why:

• Perfect Performance Perfect Price: If you are willing to spend Rs.13000 to Rs.15000 then this is a perfect phone within the given budget. The company offers you an unlocked phone which works on all GSM networks without any issues.This device changes the way everyone thinks when it comes to the price of a smartphone. It excels in performance as compared to its price.
• Handles everything easily: No matter what you want to use your smart phone for, its new Snapdragon 410 allows to run things smoothly with such a low resolution 720p screen without even draining the battery very quickly.Yes, 3D games can run a bit slow as everything at such low price is impossible. However, rest other things like as communication, web browsing, social networking and other such tasks can be done very easily.

  Most of things are done in a better way as compared to the phones that cost up to $500.

• Enjoy Rain Dance with Moto G in your pocket: Now, get wet as much as you want. This Moto G is water resistant. Hey wait! No you cannot take it with you in a swimming pool but yes if you get caught in rain then don’t worry your phone is as safe as it was before.So, now stay relaxed even if your phone drops in a water puddle as now you don’t have to shell out money to buy another one.
• Good Camera at Affordable Cost: Keeping in mind its price; we can say that the Camera is of good quality. However, if you are looking for a well professional camera then you must opt for Samsung Galaxy or LG G4.

However, talking about the features of Moto G camera;

• Fl2.0 lens
• Colour balancing dual flash
• HDR and Night mode

Such features make camera a worthy tool to use it very often.

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Ready to buy this one? Still have some confusion? Well, you can find innumerable reviews about the same on the internet and for more such updates about new devices, stay tuned with us.

Are you an Android Device user? Then you might have found several apps that are pre installed in it and one of them is Google Hangouts. But, do you think everyone loves to use Hangouts? No, we don’t think so and we thought to do some research about another such free texting android apps.

And finally our research gave us good results; we were able to find the list of best texting apps that are available for Free and are compatible with Android. What is needed is just your Phone signal as well as messaging service from your service provider.

But wait, these are completely different from the Instant messaging apps like as Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp. If you need such messenger Apps then you can get them from here.

Best Texting Apps for your Android Device:

• Google Messenger: Sometimes you will see Google Hangouts making the simple message process complex one. Google messenger here is the solution as it has many qualities similar to Google Hangouts as well as removes the clutter that is sometimes a major problem in Google Hangouts.

  Having enchanting eye catching design interface; it makes texting an awesome experience. Within the app; one can click images as well as record audio messages.

• MYSMS: Just read its reviews from its user and you will find how awesome this app is? This app is available for both Android as well as Windows, Mac and other web browsers too. This means one can directly post a message from a tablet or a computer just with a simple Android Phone number.
  

  It also includes group messaging and MMS including message scheduling, message export and back up. If you wish to get benefit from its advanced features then you can need to pay a membership fee of US $9.99 per year.

• Chomp SMS: This is one of the useful Android SMS apps. It has a long range of features like as emoji, passcode app lock, message locks, privacy options, blacklists as well as quick reply pop ups along with lots of customization options including Pushbullet and Android Wear Compatibility.
• 8 SMS:
  This is a simple to the point text messaging app with some additional functionality as compared to normal SMS apps. One of its additional functionality is Quick Pop up replies. This app is available for free however once the free trial period gets over then you will start seeing ads until you donate some amount.
• QK SMS: QK SMS is popular because of its amazing design as well as a wide range of themes, night mode, customization, quick replies, group messaging and ad free environment.

  Basic App is absolutely free however to have it in various colours and advanced features, one can opt for premium mode available for just US $1.99 in app purchase.

• Evolve SMS: One of the apps that is highly inspired by Google. It has a look similar to Google+ and has a nice smooth simple design that is developed keeping in mind the current Android Style guidelines. One can use more of the themes by spending some cash for customization.
• Mighty Text: It is not just a SMS app but an awesome tool useful for sending and receiving text messages from the desktop itself.

  This is an extension to your current SMS App. So, just select an app and offer it a mighty touch so that you can send as well as reply to your inbox messages directly from your desktop screen. It has also has options to restore and back up your messages.

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So, these 8 most amazing SMS apps will definitely be useful to you. Keep these in mind when you actually want an option to shift from your current SMS app or we can say Google Hangouts.

Smartphones – Which countries are adopting technology quickly? The answer to this question will be United Kingdom, United States etc. When we wish to get any technological updates, our eyes are on the tech updates from these countries.

If we talk about smart phone usage for browsing and surfing then UK web users are the ones who consider smartphone as one of the important device to be online. Nearly 3rd percent of UK internet users actually rely on smartphone to use internet.

Smartphone preference shows a drastic change in last year’s report when the proportion of smartphone users was very close to 22 percent while remaining 40 percent still opt for laptops.

According to the British report; 66% people own a smartphone and surf internet for nearly two hours per day. This makes use of faster mobile networks. 4G subscriptions increased to 23.6 million by the year end.

Apart from the ones described above, few other observations are as follows:

• 4G leading to increase in mobile usage: Now, 4G/ LTE devices are used more in general with their smart phones than those without 4G. The faster is better.
• Smartphones means comms: Irrespective of different capabilities; smart phones are used mostly for chat purpose where almost 72 percent of time is spent in ongoing communication in smart phones for their communication activities like as text messages, email and social networking.
• Middle Age Smartphone Usage: If we consider people between 55 to 64 year old age group then smartphone usage is less as compared to that of youth.
• Tablets are used at the most: Nearly 54% people in UK have tablets and this has increased from 2 percent in 2011 to 54%.
• Even today TV is watched the most: We believe technology or usage of smart phones have reduced the craze for television but this is not the truth. For people in London, even today TV time is more important.They spend more time in watching TV screen as compared to using mobile phones.
• Some of the social norms and conditions: British people believe that it is not good to use cell phone while having dinner. However, majority of people do so. Nearly 34% of adults check their smart phone within five minutes of waking up.
• More of social media is used by Young Britishers: Youth in UK uses more of social media like as :Twitter : 40%
  WhatsApp : 37%
  YouTube : 32%
  Instagram: 35%
  Snapchat: 26%
  Tumblr: 8%
  Vine : 4%

  Nearly 50% people only use Facebook. However, new ones are easily adopted by people in UK.

• Google and Facebook: UK’s digital audience is the majority using Google and Facebook. However, Google’s properties are used less as compared to Facebook.
• NetFlix and Amazon Prime: UK has 4.4 million of Netflix subscribers and 1.2 million subscribers for Amazon Prime.

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Smartphones So, this was the overall data of UK people using technology as well as adopting new ways of technology. To get more of such updates, stay connected with Softqube Technologies, Android App Development Company India.