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Starting up with ‘Mobile Application development’

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Article Overview: Before starting up with, what all is included in ‘mobile application development’, lets begin our discussion from the very beginning when the mobile devices came into picture.

Starting up with ‘Mobile Application development’

Before starting up with, what all is included in ‘mobile application development’, lets begin our discussion from the very beginning when the mobile devices came into picture. ‘Mobile devices’ are small low-power, memory constraint hand-held devices. These can be classified as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones. Now-a-days, these devices are highly in demand in the market as they help in completion of most of the important work using professional, simple and business applications. The best part is that most of these devices provide connectivity with the internet and helps users to access their e-mail on the run.

Coming on to what exactly is ‘Mobile Application Development’ or ‘Mobile software development’. The Mobile Software development is the process of creating software which can be used on a mobile device. It also refers to creating of websites that are specially designed for mobiles. These websites are light-weight and could be rendered very fast on these memory-constrained devices. With the increasing demand of mobile devices in the market, a large number of software development companies are engaged in creating innovative applications for their clients. Some of the fields where mobile software development is being used are business, finance, games, internet, productivity, utility, news, sports, multimedia, lifestyle, educational, social networking applications, GPS navigation, health and fitness and travel.

The software development on the mobile phones makes use of mobile platform. A large number of mobile platforms are available in the market. These can be listed as below:

- iPhone

- Android

- Blackberry

- Windows mobile/Windows Phone

- Symbian

- iPad

- Android Tablet

As the competition in the market is on a rise, the demand for the mobile software development is also rapidly mounting. We can see number of other mobile platforms emerging out in the market. With the increase in number of mobile platforms, the mobile software developers have to face various challenges to create applications for these types of devices. Each of these platforms uses different programming language, SDK and API to develop software. The developers can use emulator/simulator for initially testing their application. After this, the application could be deployed on the device. Also, a number of screen resolutions available for each of these devices, poses another challenge to the developers. Moreover, many different hardware components exist in mobile devices so their applications are developed using different software architectures. Mobile software architecture can include spiral model, bottom up development, model view controller, callback, Message sequence chart and state transition diagram. Each software development company involved in developing applications for mobile devices makes use of these components.

Most of the mobile platforms specified above have their own marketplace from where a user can easily download the application, depending upon the type of device, either free of cost or after paying a certain amount of fees. These applications are today's popular and demanding application for every mobile platform. Apart from this, many other applications have been developed by experts and experienced mobile application developers as per clients' requirement.

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