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What is a Mobile App Development

what is a mobile app development and how does it work

By Ayomide Rotimi Precious Published 3 years ago 3 min read

The act or process of developing a mobile app for mobile devices is called mobile app development. You can use it to create personal digital assistants, enterprise digital advisors, or mobile phones. Then, you can run these software applications on smartphones and tablets. Many components and tools are needed to develop, deploy, and manage mobile applications. These components allow developers to create, test, and deploy apps into the target platform environment.

Front-end development tools

The following capabilities are available in front-end development tools:

• UI design tools

• SDKs for device features

• Cross-platform accommodations/support

Servers for back-end

The back-end tools take over where the front-end tool leaves off and offer a range of

reusable services that can be centrally managed and controlled. They include the

following capabilities:

• Integration with back-end system

• User authentication-authorization

• Data services

• Reusable business logic

Add-on layers for security

With bringing your device becoming more common in enterprises, IT departments often require tactical, stop-gap solutions that layer on top of existing apps, phones, and platforms. These features include

• App wrapping for security

• Data encryption

• Customer actions

• Statistics and reporting

The criteria for choosing a platform to develop are usually the target platforms, available infrastructure, and developer skills. It is crucial to evaluate the tool's impact on the experience when targeting multiple platforms with cross-platform programming. Research on mobile apps has shown a strong correlation between app performance and user satisfaction. Performance and other criteria may be combined with the availability of technology and project requirements to drive development between native and cross-platform environments and published some guidelines and benchmarks to help you choose between cross-platform and native environments. Can reuse cross-platform environments across multiple platforms. They use a native container and HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to provide the user interface. Native environments, on the other hand, are intended for one platform only. For example, Android development takes place in

Eclipse IDE using Android Developer Tools plugins. Apple iOS development uses XCode, IDE, Objective-C, and Swift. Windows and BlackBerry have their development environments.

Mobile app testing

First, mobile applications are tested in the development environment with emulators.

Then they are subject to field tests. Emulators are a cheap way to test mobile

applications that developers might need help accessing. You can use these tools to test

applications on the most popular mobile OS.

• Google Android Emulator is an Android emulator. It can be patched to run as

a standalone application on Windows PCs without downloading and installing

Android SDK. It is easy to install and can be used with Android-compatible apps.

• Official Android SDK Emulator is a mobile device emulator that mimics the

hardware and software features of a typical smartphone (without calls).

• TestiPhone is a web browser-based simulator that allows you to test iPhone

web applications quickly. This tool is tested with Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.

• iPhone provides a pixel-accurate browsing experience and is powered by Safari.

You can use it to develop websites for the iPhone. It is not an iPhone simulator

but is for web developers who wish to create 320x480 (or 480x320) websites for

iPhones. iPhone can only be used with OS X 10.4.7 and later.

• BlackBerry Simulator- You can use a variety of official BlackBerry simulators to

simulate the functionality of authentic BlackBerry products. It allows you to test

the compatibility of the BlackBerry software, trackwheel, and keyboard with the

application.

• Windows UI Automation – To test applications using the Microsoft UI

Automation technology requires Windows Automation API 3.0. It comes pre installed with Windows Server 2008 R2 or later versions. You can also install it

using Windows Update or download it from the Microsoft Website.

• MobiOne Developer is a mobile Web integrated developer environment (IDE) for

Windows. It allows developers to develop, test, debug and package mobile Web

apps for various devices, including the iPhone, Android, iPhone, and Palm Pre.

MobiOne Developer officially ended in 2014

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About the Creator

Ayomide Rotimi Precious

Web Developer, Blogger, Creative Thinker, Social media enthusiast. A strong conceptual and creative thinker with a keen interest in everything related to the internet.

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