Web Development
Mobile Apps Development
What is mobile application development?
Mobile application development is the process to making software for smartphones and digital assistants, most commonly for Android and iOS. Mobile application development is the set of processes and procedures involved in writing software for small, wireless computing devices, such as smartphones and other hand-held devices. Like web application development, mobile application development has its roots in more traditional software development. One critical difference, however, is that mobile apps are often written specifically to take advantage of the unique features of a particular mobile device. For example, a gaming app might be written to take advantage of the iPhone's accelerometer or a mobile health app might be written to take advantage of a smartwatch's temperature sensor.
Types of mobile applications
- Native applications. These applications are built using integrated development environments (IDEs) and languages for mobile OSes such as Apple iOS or Google Android. Native apps enable you to customize necessary features, but they can be more costly than other technologies.
- Hybrid apps. These are web apps that act like native apps. They are developed using technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
- Progressive web apps. A PWA is a website that looks and behaves as if it is a mobile app. These applications are developed with web technologies such as Facebook React.
- Encapsulated apps. An encapsulated app runs within a container app. Products such as the Microsoft Power App drag-and-drop app creation tool enable less experienced developers to build a mobile application rapidly. But the lack of isolation from the core OS, OS lock-in, and the relative newness could pose problems.
- Frameworks and libraries. You can use this reusable code written by someone else to accelerate your development of a mobile app.