If the business on different platforms is a new reality, a cross-platform framework offers the key! As an affordable and efficient business tool in the online space, no one can turn a blind eye for the cross-platform apps. The idea of cross-platform app development started skyrocketing because of the number of benefits it offers to the organizations irrespective of the size, revenue, and model. In today’s world, there has been a paradigm shift in establishing the right business strategies; most companies are swapping from websites to mobile applications. As the mobile app industry is also going through one of the challenging phases, choosing the right framework with an apt platform and development process becomes important. Let’s take a deep dive in some of the leading cross-platform app development framework that will be a boon to the developers in 2019 and beyond. 1. Ionic : One Codebase. Any Platform Ionic is a reliable cross-platform mobile app development framework, which is cementing its footprints nowadays. It’s among the most widely used tools to develop hybrid mobile apps for various Smartphone OS devices. Moreover, it’s an enterprise-ready framework to create a dynamic, safe & complex app for multiple industries. Ionic works on technologies like HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and SASS. This open source & free hybrid mobile app development framework is beneficial for creating alluring and efficient user interfaces for your app. Above all, it uses a single codebase to build an app for different app stores. You can create smart & interactive UI’s

Android is the most popular mobile OS right now with over 85% of marketshare. Android phone was officially launched first time about 10 years ago. Google’s decision to make Android an open source OS made it highly popular with third-party smartphone makers and among the public. Soon after the launch of Android 1.0, it has become the most popular OS in the world. That is why there has been a high demand for Android apps and Android developer in the world market. Now People use Android smartphones and many Android apps on daily basis to do so much of their everyday work. Founding of Android In Oct, 2003, the company Android Inc. was founded in California. In 2005, Android was acquired by Google. The decision was made to use Linux as the basis for the Android OS and Android was offered to third-party mobile phone manufacturers for free. Launching Android 1.0 Right after the launch of Android first version, there has been the birth and the rise of Android App Development Company which was required to build Android apps. In 2007 when Apple launched the first iPhone, Google too started to reveal its plan to launch Android as a mobile platform. It used the formation of Open Handset Alliance which included phone makers like HTC and Motorola. Google said that their vision is to launch a powerful platform that will power thousands of different phone models. Google launched the beta version of Android 1.0 for developers on Nov 5, 2007.

If there is really something that is making the world go upside down, it is of course the advancements in mobile app development, especially the coming of dynamic smartphone apps such as Virtual Reality (VR) apps and Augmented Reality (AR) apps as well. The perspective of the world can be changed easily with the help of AR and VR apps that offer full-on entertainment combined with productivity and usefulness to its users. The objects can now be visualised as how will they seem in the real-life without even being there! Not only VR, every mobile app development company is coming up with apps that are integrated with the AR technology. You must have heard about the smartphone apps that lets you create the virtual world using your smartphone apps. Very less would have heard about the watch apps that are integrated with AR, there are sports wristbands and more! These are the e-commerce apps that now support virtual try-ons so that it is possible to see how a product looks on the user before he spends money on buying it. No wonder, all tech freaks are amazed by the advancements in mobile application development   All you need to know about using a try-on watch apps on smartphone These types of apps have prerequisites which one needs to follow for the best results and optimum performance of the apps. A paper is attached to the wrist which has a QR code on it and it must be scanned for the

Believe it or not, people are really cautious about the information that they post on the mobile apps. Keeping in view this fact, it is the duty of the mobile app creator to take care of the app testing and its aspects. It is the trust of the app users on the mobile app that lets them download the apps just by reading the reviews and the feedbacks about the app. Moreover, with the advancing technologies, it is the security that has to be kept on the top. Security of the mobile app: Prime Requirement of the app Nonetheless, it is the design of the app as well which matters the most, it is the security which pushes the users to continue the use of the app on their smartphones. There are many factors involved in Android development as well as iPhone development that makes an app successful and security of an app is strengthened with Automated Testing or Manual mobile app testing. Why every app needs testing in Android development? It is the responsibility of the mobile app creator or the mobile application development company to take care of the issues and bugs that are found in the app. It is a very systematic process which ensures that the app bugs and issues are resolved by the concerned app developers and designers as well. It is a quite significant step which needs quite an attention by the developers. Otherwise, all the hard work associated with creation of the app

In Android JetPack announcement at I/O in May, Google unveiled a redesign for the Android Support Library, called AndroidX. Like its predecessor, AndroidX is designed to help developers maintain a backward compatibility with older versions of Android. These libraries are now open source as part of AOSP program.   Good thing is that now if you are an Android App Creator then you can also use AndroidX in your project. AndroidX was started out as a small set of libraries mainly aimed to provide backwards compatibility for new Android platform APIs and therefore its development was strictly limited to the platform. Therefore, all of the work was done in internal Google branches and then pushed to the public Android Open Source Project (AOSP) alongwith the platform push. With this workflow, the external contributions were only limited to a small window of time where the internal and AOSP branches were close in content. Also more important is that, it was difficult to contribute as in order to do a full AndroidX build and testing, external developers needed to check out more than 40 GB of the full Android platform code to their development platform or system.   Now, the scope of AndroidX has widened drastically and now it includes libraries like AppCompat which is for easier UI development, Room for database management and WorkManager for background work mainly. Most of these libraries implement higher-level abstractions and are less dependent on the new revisions of the Android platform in general plus all

Increasing number of app developers are resorting to the use of Xamarin development and design tools. Thanks to the cross platform app development that Xamarin facilitates and developers are able to create iOS apps as well as Android apps without worrying much about the code modification, thus saving a lot of time and highly dynamic apps are delivered to the clients according to their business requirements. Why choose Xamarin over other development platforms? Before we move on to discussing the design tools to create amazing and high-end mobile apps with this technology, it is important to be familiar with the Integrated Development Environment for Xamarin app development. A very popular one among the app developers, it helps develop hassle-free Android, iOS as well as Windows-based apps which involves using C# as well as Visual Studio. Code sharing and compiling becomes very easy with Xamarin. Why Xamarin is preferred is because of the fact that the apps built in this platform have best UI, amazing performance of that of a native app and best features. It will be awesome if you can read a “Get Started” guide before jumping straight into the nuances of this development platform. If you are a new developer, it would be beneficial to read about the tools that we are going to mention below:   Compatible Integrated Development Environments of Xamarin 1. Modern and Sophisticated Visual Studio This integrated development tool helps the Xamarin developer to create cross-platform apps with a lots of features that are

Google I/O is an annual developer conference held by Google in its Mountain View Headquarters. I/O showcases technical indepth sessions which are focused on building mobile, web and enterprise applications with Google and its many open sources including Android and others. This year Google held its annual I/O developer conference from May 8-10. Below are some of the biggest announcements from the Day 1 keynote. Just before the keynote, Google announced it is re-branding its Google Research division to Google AI. This move tells us how Google is increasingly focusing its R&D on computer vision, natural language processing and neural networks.   Now developers must be asking what’s in store for the Android App Development and its mobile applications. For its flagship smartphone operating system Android, Google is doing something really important and different. Now instead of showing you all the ways you can use its phone operating system to use more, it is actually creating features to help you use it less. Android P will be released later this year. It will have a new dashboard which tells you how often, when and for how long you are using each of the app on your mobile phone. You can also set limits for yourself. For example, once your 1 hour is up, the icon will go from its usual eye-catching color to a dull grayscale to inform you about that your set time to use the smartphone is up and now you can take rest or do some other

When we talk about the latest business marketing tools which are productive as well as help in generating leeds, we simply can’t forget about the mobile apps. A buzzing trend in the market, currently there are 2.2 million apps on Apple App Store and almost 3 million apps in the Google Android Store. These numbers are only inclining with each passing day! We can owe it to the rise of popularity, awareness and the level of success an app gives to a business. A mobile app empowers a business to reach millions and thousands of customers so that they can buy the goods. It also helps the people around the world to get aware of the services that a business provides. The power of an app is phenomenal and unparalleled. This is the much acclaimed reason why the business of mobile app development is flaring like forest fire and it will continue to be. What is Mobile application development by the way? Development is any type of process that gives the output in the form of high productivity and contributes to the success of any venture. Similarly, mobile app development is the end-to-end process of creating an app for a business. Aspects of Mobile App Development are as following: – Designing of the app. – Developing through coding. – Quality Analysis. – Debugging and retesting. While the above steps are just cursory, there are some more steps that might be involved in the complete development of the app for a

So many Android developers and Android mobile phone users were waiting for the release of Oreo 8 Android OS. Android Oreo OS has finally released on 21st August 2017 to the public with new features and updates by Google. We are giving here the key features you should look forward to from Android Oreo when it will be rolled out to your smartphones. Picture-in-Picture   If you are looking for Android App Development then make sure the developer makes full use of the new features in Android Oreo like this one feature “Picture-in-Picture”. Google has introduced new picture-in-picture functionality which is one of the most useful changes. This new feature will allow users to continue watching videos on a small virtual screen while getting stuff done within other apps. Google says that apps will be able to put themselves in picture-in-picture mode. The idea is to make you able to watch a YouTube video while you are sending emails in the Gmail app. Background limits For smartphone users, battery life is always a big concern that’s why Google keep on making improvements with the new Android OS. In latest version of Android Oreo also Google has increased the automatic limits on what apps can do in the background in many key areas like background services, location updates, broadcasts etc. Google blog post says, “These changes will make it easier to create apps that have minimal impact on a user’s device and battery. Background limits represent a significant change in Android, so we want every developer to get familiar with them”. Amazing Text Selection features   If you want to develop an Android app and want to incorporate this new feature then you can hire Android developers which are expert and can use this feature. Actually Google has

Android is right now the most famous mobile operating system which has a market share of around 64% while iOS has 32% market share. The reason for so much popularity of Android is that it is an open source mobile OS and have an easy mobile app development process. More and more businesses taking benefits of Android and creating custom mobile apps which are solving customer’s problems and increasing value for their businesses. Here we are explaining the benefits the businesses will get by doing Android Application development. If you are running a business then you can look for Mobile app development services so that your business also gets a boost due to increased customers from mobile devices through your mobile app. Android is free and an open source platform built on Linux. Google owns Android and also provides Android Development Studio, the development tool used to build Android apps. If you want to take your business to new heights then you should look for Android app development service from a well established and experienced company. Demand for Android based smartphones is still growing at fast speed. If your business will get a presence on Android mobile phones then it will definitely be a great push for your business. Now we will describe some benefits of Android App development:- Very less Investment Android involves comparatively less cost to entry. Android provides free software development tools, Android Development Studio for the developer community which reduces the development and other costs for