Archive for the ‘Smartphone application’ Category

Few interesting facts on mobile app & mobile site

Friday, July 20th, 2012

Usage of mobile devices is growing rampantly, so do use of mobile website and smartphone apps. Recent study revealed few interesting facts about mobile app and mobile websites. They are as follows,

# By 2014, mobile user will exceed desktop user.

# 87% of the population has mobile device globally!!

# 22% of this mobile users uses mobile website at least once in a month.

# The  usage is growing at the rate of 9%/year.

# At the end of last year, 30 billion downloads made of mobile apps.

# Well those above mentioned statements may sound very optimistic but there is another concerning fact :( . Mobile users are very impatient. They have maximum patience of 5 seconds to see the website/app loading. Study says, if the app/site does not load within 5 seconds, more than 50% users leave the app/site.

# Hmm, you need to plan how to create a fast mobile site/app.  Well low latency network is a quick solution but the application development demands much more to create an optimized site.

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We can work together to catch the tantalizing market. A high speed mobile site or mobile app.

Pros and cons of hybrid mobile apps

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

Benefits:

1) Just need HTML5/CSS3/Javascript skills along with basic knowledge of Objective-C or Java..
2) Single code runs in all platforms (iOS, Android, Windows 7, mobile web) which makes our lives easy and saves lot of man-hours.
3) You can easily create build files(.app/.apk) for testing in itouch or iphone or in droid phones.
4) You can still take advantage of distribution and integrated payment via the App Store or Android Market

Drawbacks:
1) Poor performance while interacting with device parameters like camera, folders etc. For developing games its also a pain in hybrid platform. You can implement caching or leverage some 3rd party solutions (i.e. Sibblingz) for native graphics acceleration but for the most part a native app is much faster/smoother than hybrid web app
2) UI is always been a problem with hybrid app. You will miss lot of prebuilt effects for touch/scroll. While working with native app you can bring those effects easily. Now a days, jquerymobile brought some fresh air though for adopting effects in hybrid environment.

Android sdk installation problem

Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

During android sdk installation (.exe) at windows, you will find android SDK setup refuses to proceed, because it doesn’t find the JDK installation even if the computer has JDK installed.

Here is an easy trick. Press the Back button on the SDK error screen that tells you that the EXE couldn’t detect the JDK. Then press Next. It will just install the sdk easily. Who knows this will happen? Funny !!

- Jay