Mobile App Development

What is Mobile app Development?

Mobile Application development is the method of building software applications which run on a mobile, and a specific mobile application uses a network connection to function with remote computing resources. Therefore, the mobile development process includes building installable software bundles, initiating backend services like data access with an API and testing the application on target devices.

These software applications are built to function on mobile devices, such as a mobile phone or a tablet. These applications can either be installed beforehand on mobiles during manufacturing platforms or given as web applications utilising server-side or client-side processing to offer an experience worthy of an “application-like” experience within a web browser.

In today’s times, the two most famous mobile platforms are iOS from Apple and android from Google. Phones and tablets such as MacBook come loaded with applications beforehand, inclusive of a full web browser and an app store. On the other hand, android devices also come with preloaded applications and a user can install more using the Google Play store.

Various types of Mobile Applications

In early times, the only way to ensure an application's optimum working was by developing a new code to suit each device’s specific processor. In today’s times, most of the mobile applications are device-agnostic.

Before developing any app, it’s essential to know which type of application we want to build. Listed below are several types of mobile app development technologies for you to understand:

1. Native applications: These are the type of applications built by using integrated development environments (also known as IDEs) and languages for mobile OSes such as iOS or android. Native apps help you to customise some features but this may turn out to be costly in comparison to other technologies.

2. Hybrid Applications: these are the web applications which act like the native applications. They are built using technologies like HTML, Javascript etc. Hybrid applications are cheaper to develop and can be built faster.

3. Progressive web applications: A Progressive web application that appears and acts as if it is a mobile application. These applications are built using web technologies like Facebook React.

4. Frameworks and libraries: This reusable code written by someone can be used to fasten your development of a mobile application.

5. Encapsulated Applications: an encapsulation app is one which runs within a container app. Products like the Microsoft power app’s drag-and-drop app creation tool helps developers with less experience to develop a mobile application swiftly. But the absence of isolation from the core OS, OS lock-in and the relative recentness could develop problems.