Showing posts with label Cross-Platform Mobile Development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cross-Platform Mobile Development. Show all posts

07 March, 2013

Titanium App Development Services


Appcelerator Titanium is a popular choice for creating cross-platform mobile, tablet, and desktop apps. Titanium lets you build full-featured iOS, Android, mobile web (and soon BlackBerry) apps. Titanium apps have access to native device API and use truly native widgets. What’s more, Titanium development is also a lot faster than Objective-C or Java development.

Mindfire Solutions is a top Titanium Mobile app development company offering expert Titanium development services. Mindfire has one of the largest teams of Titanium certified app developers in India. Mindfire’s expert Titanium developers have successfully delivered a number of cool and engaging Titanium cross-platform apps for their global clients.

Take for example the Titanium pregnancy app for iPhone and Android created by Mindfire. Our clients had a pregnancy app built for iPhone users which was very popular. However, being confined to only the iOS platform, the app covered only a part of our client's target audience. In order to reach the large number of Android users, our clients decided to create the next version of their popular pregnancy app targeting both iOS and Android platforms and adding a host of new features in the process.

Our clients had the choice of creating two separate “native” versions of the app – one for iOS (using Objective-C) and the other for Android (using Java). However, our clients realized that targeting users across platforms creating native apps for each in turn would entail a lot of development time, expenses, and maintenance effort which could easily become economically prohibitive.

The natural alternative was to go in for cross-platform mobile development wherein you create the mobile app once and deploy it to multiple popular platforms. There are many cross-platform mobile development frameworks available in the market today but not everything is created alike – they differ in the manner in which they accomplish the common goal of cross-platform compatibility. 

For our clients’ business needs, we zeroed in on titanium app development which is one of the top cross-platform mobile development choices in the world today owing to its ability to create full-featured native apps with access to platform APIs and hardware features. Mindfire's Titanium developers rose to the challenge of creating a better cross-platform app targeting both iOS and Android than its iOS predecessor with half a million app-store downloads. The new cross-platform app could now be used by millions of Android users worldwide in addition to the iPhone ones.

The Titanium app was ready much faster than its Objective-C and Java versions would have been. It was just as feature-rich and easy-to-use as its native counterparts would have been. The technical choices made by our experienced Titanium developers (such as the use of Amazon Web Services to store user data and Urban Airship for push notification) resulted in an app that was light, fast, and with great user experience. 

If you want to do cool Titanium Apps and need some Titanium development help, get in touch with Mindfire Solutions today – call +1 248-686-1424 or email sales at mindfiresolutions dot com – to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of Mindfire’s Titanium developers to bring your cool mobile app ideas to life.

18 February, 2013

Why Cross-Platform Mobile App Development helps?


This article is a brief introduction to the rationale behind and rise of cross-platform mobile app development and introduces the reader to some of the most popular cross-platform mobile development approaches in use today.

Mobile Mobile Everywhere
We are moving towards a future dominated by ubiquitous mobile usage. Mobile devices touch almost all aspects of modern life. Customers are getting increasingly mobile-savvy and businesses around the world are gearing up by creating new and innovative mobile apps for every conceivable reason. 

Keeping pace with the velocity of demand, a number of mobile platforms have been introduced over the years. However, only a few of them – iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry – have been able to hold their own and grow up to command respectable market share. The mobile landscape is in a constant state of flux, witnessing tectonic shifts with dynamic balance of power amongst the top mobile platforms. If you want to develop a mobile app today, you have an array of development options: native and cross-platform mobile development (including web and hybrid ways).

Native Apps
You may choose to create your app as a “native” app targeted to a specific mobile platform. For example, you can create an iOS app using Objective C or an Android app using Java. Native apps have excellent performance and integration but also prohibitively high costs associated with the development and maintenance of multiple platform-specific app versions (you have to create and maintain separate apps for iOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry … phew!)

Web Apps
Mobile “apps” implemented as websites give you broader reach and better standardization. These try to look like mobile apps but they aren’t really so (they are just websites). These use the familiar paradigm of a web server and a web browser sharing between them the responsibility of executing application logic and executing/rendering UI respectively. You can either create standard web apps or client-side ones using tools such as jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch. In any case, these “apps” would have no app store distribution, have limited access to hardware features and APIs, and provide inferior rich-media performance.

Hybrid Apps
Hybrid apps let you code once (like native apps) and deploy to multiple platforms (like web apps). An increasing number of cross-platform mobile app development frameworks are in use today that let you quickly create high-quality mobile apps simultaneously targeting multiple mobile platforms, such as iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS, Bada, etc. Considering adoption rates and number of apps created, some of the most popular cross-platform mobile development frameworks are Appcelerator Titanium, Adobe PhoneGap, and Motorola RhoMobile. Some of these cross-platform mobile app development frameworks can create apps with truly native widgets and with access to native hardware features & APIs. 

Cross-Platform App Development
Companies like Mindfire Solutions provide expert cross-platform app development services using Titanium, PhoneGap, RhoMobile, etc. The dedicated Titanium, PhoneGap, and RhoMobile teams at Mindfire have a strong track record of developing powerful and engaging cross-platform mobile apps for global clients across diverse industry domains. If you want to do cool cross-platform mobile apps and need some development help, get in touch with Mindfire today – call +1 248-686-1424 or email sales at mindfiresolutions dot com – to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of Mindfire’s cross-platform app development experts to bring your cool mobile app ideas to life.