Can you imagine the today’s world without mobile apps?
Of course your answer is NO.
We can’t imagine today’s world without the app, and especially without Mobile apps. Even we want to Book a movie ticket, buy a mobile or to message someone, in every aspect of our fast running life we want to do it faster with apps in Mobile.
Mobile application development is a complete process of developing a mobile app which includes writing code for it, making a design for it to make it user friendly as well as to run it fast and fast in real machines such as Smartphones and Tablets.
Now, we talk about Mobile app development terms.
Are you ofone of that who rub their head while heard the terms like SDK, OTA or I18n?
If yes, nowyou no need. We will explain you all the basic terms generally used in Mobile app development.
Quick note on Us: We are FuGenX Technologies, an award winning mobile apps development company in Bangalore. We are the leading iPhone andAndroid apps development companies in India and USA.
Here we startexplaining different mobile appdevelopment terms:
SDK– It refers to “Software DevelopmentKit”, from its name you can understand that it is the set of tools that adevelopers need to develop a mobile application. It consists programs foractually building things, simulators for testing purposes to rectify an error,and anything else that a developer might need.
Android application package file(APK) – It’s a fileformat for the android platform used to distribute and install mobile apps inthe android supported devices.
OTA– An acronym that standsOver-The-Air Programming. This method isto distribute Software and Software Patches over a wireless broadbandconnection to the device.
Mobile app API – Like APK, API is an acronym thatrefers to “Application Programming Interface”, it’s an interface which providesthe developers all the functionalities through the framework or SDK to developa mobile app.
Location Based Services (LBS) – Many of mobile apps require toaccess users’ geographical location to provide the useful content as well asbest for them. Let’s try to understand it from an example, suppose you arelooking for the nearest Food Café, then the mobile app use LBS to provideresults based on your current geographical location to help you to reach therein minimum time.
Unique Device Identifier (UDID) – It is a string of alphanumeric code touniquely identify your mobile device across the globe. It is assigned by themobile device manufacturer.
I18n – A short form of the word internationalization where 18 represents the number of letters between thefirst I and last n of the word.
App Developer– We can say that he is an architect of mobile app, who develops an app to meet the user requirements or for the result that a person wants from an app.
Bugs– It refers to the unusual behavior ofa mobile service or mobile app in the mobile devices.
Universal app– An app which has no restriction boundaries to run over a specific device like Mobile or Tablet, instead of this, it can run on any device that supports a specific platform. (Ex: - auniversal iOS app can run on iPhone, iPod and iPad)
Last but not the least, what is App?
App– Oh yes, The App. A short term used for application just like a software in the Desktop Computer, which is used to perform some set of actions. The term “app” is popular with an emergence of Smartphones in which we install applications to do some specific task, for example to play songs in mobile phones we have music player app. Now I think you have a basic idea of the terms generally used in Mobile app development.
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