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Android Wear

With Google Play services 7.3, one can easily extend the Android Wear network by connecting with different Wear devices to a single mobile device.

Here, we have found that the directed nature of MessageApi is challenged by new chances while the DataItems will be synced by the DataApi automatically across all nodes in the Wear network.  What node do you direct a message when the NodeApi turns displaying different nodes from getConnectedNodes()?

Exactly such thing is used for the new CapabilityApi, permitting various nodes for advertisement to deliver particular functionality.

Such thing enables to replace a generic NodeListener with more particular CapabilityListener for gathering connection outcomes and nodes list that available with specific functionality.

In this update, we also find the Sending and Receiving Messages training for exploring the new functionality. ChannelApi is another excellent addition for Android Wear that provides a bidirectional data connection between two nodes.

Moreover, if you want to add binary data to the data layer to sync all your devices then doing this with assets is one of the best ways. Its API focuses on sending larger binary data between specific nodes directly. It comes with two different forms, i.e. opening an OutputStream for streaming real time binary data and sending full files through the sendFile() method.

Google Fit

Now, developing fitness application becomes easy with fitness specific APIs available at Google Fit. It comes with recovering sensor data like gathering and storing activity data in Google Fit, current location and speed, aggregating saved data into a single view of the user’s fitness data.

A new method to the HistoryApi: readDailyTotal() is added by Google Play Services 7.3 to make recovering data process easy and up to date. Such thing combines data for a given DataType and providing a single DataPoint to its users.

Using this method doesn’t need any authentication for TYPE_STEP_COUNT_DELTA. It enables to recover the current number of steps from application either on Android Wear or mobile device.

Google Fit also extends an existing data types with granular nutrition information that includes cholesterol, protein, fat, etc. Taking information about the user’s diet, android developers can help them to stay more alert about their fitness and health

By leveraging these details about the user’s diet, developers can help users stay more informed about their health and fitness.

Location

LocationRequest is the main part of the FusedLocationProviderApi that summarize location’s frequency and type that you like to get. A small change to LocationRequest along with maximum waiting time for location updates through setMaxWaitTime().

Location update can be batched by the system by using a value that double than the requested interval to reduce batter usage and improve location accuracy. It is must to know to get good location data back for any ongoing location requests.

With SettingsApi, you can also confirm that user settings are best before placed in a LocationRequest. Moreover, it is not a best method for frequent monitoring.

Connecting to Google Play services

GoogleApiClient deliver a single connection state when users are connecting to single API or APIs. This thing made difficult for developer to work with APIs that are unavailable on all devices, like the Wearable API.

With this release, it becomes easier to work with APIs that unavailable with an addApiIfAvailable() method.  Through getConnectionResult(), one can easily retrieve the current state for each API to provide the best ways to check at runtime whether an API is available and connected.

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With constant advancement of the mobile world, smart-phones become hardwired into our day-to-day life. A lot of people seem more like artificial limbs compare to everyday devices. In a very short time period, the smart-phones have changed the entire world too.

Now even, web designers are thinking that how one will experience a website on a phone or table before they think about how they will see it on a desktop.

For now, applications have gone from single function interest to influential tools that enable users to do everything.

Today, the mobile world came so far since it first launched its smart-phone in the market. At that time, we were unaware about this huge success as no one has imagined that the mobile world will influence the whole world.

Well, Cisco has provided its predictions for where mobile and mobile data are going in the upcoming next years.

Let’s have a look at the forecasts and see where the industry is going:

It is expected that there will be approximately 1.5 mobile devices for every single person on this earth by 2019:

It is expected that by 2019, there will be 11.5 billion mobile connected devices, comprising M2M modules more than the world’s predictable population at that time 7.6 billion.

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Between 2014 and 2019 the worldwide mobile data traffic will boost nearly tenfold:

It is also estimated that the mobile data traffic will expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 57% from 2014 to 2019, accomplishing 24.3 exabytes per month by 2019.

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It is also predicted that there will be 26% of connections of 4G, but 68% of total traffic by 2019:

When it comes to talking about the 4G connection, it will generate 10 times more traffic on average than a non-4G connection by 2019.

More Than half of all the devices connected to the mobile network will be smart devices by 2019:

By 2019, more than half of the devices will be smart devices worldwide that up from 26% in 2014. In 2014, 88% of mobile data traffic originated from these smart-phones, and it is expected that by 2019, the vast majority of mobile data traffic will come from these types of devices.

Approximately 54% of all global mobile devices are mainly capable of connecting to an IPv6 mobile network by 2019:

By 2019, 6.2 billion devices will be IPv6-capable.

By 2019, it is predicated that mobile-connected tablets will make about double the traffic that generated by the whole global mobile network in 2014:

By 2019, the amount of mobile data traffic that generated by tablets will be 1.3 times higher than the total amount of global mobile data traffic in 2014.

By 2019, more than three-fourth of the world’s mobile data traffic will be video:

Between 2014 and 2019 mobile video will boost 13-fold, accounting for 72% of total mobile data traffic by the end of the forecast period.

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By 2019 the average smartphone will make 4.0 GB of traffic per month:

Over the 2014 average of 819 MB per month, that’s a fivefold increase. However, the total smart-phone traffic will be 10.5 times higher than it is today with a CAGR of 60%.

With 72% CAGR, the Middle East and Africa will have the strongest mobile data traffic growth of any region:

The Central and Eastern Europe follow this region with 71% and Latin America at 59%.

So, these are some of the important predictions about the future of mobile and mobile data.

Below, you can find some of the major features of technical preview:

User Controls:

A lot of Windows 10 UI controls will find that how the customer is interacting with your application and make the befitting user-experience. For instance, on a laptop with a touch-screen, an application fly-out control will offer bigger touch-targets if tapped with touch.

Adaptive UX:

The all new Windows 10 offers the capability to make use of a single UI which can adapt from small to large screens. You can also go with this for developers with an existing Windows 8.1 app – removing your UI project and add the enhanced ViewStateManager to control how your UI adapts at runtime.

API Contracts:

You can immediately confirm if a Windows feature is obtainable instead of inferring based on the operating system version with Windows 10. Through this, you can easily check at runtime before you make a call to a related API if a Windows feature is obtainable on the device. The extension SDKs and API contracts enable users to adapt your code at runtime to provide user-experience, which will work right on the device.

Visual Studio tooling improvements:

Various improvements are there that you will want to check-out.

Help Resources For Developer

Microsoft has also released various resources along with the preview tooling. The released resources can help developers come up to speed on the new universal application platform capabilities:

What's New in Windows 10 Developers:

On the Windows Dev Center, the Windows 10 developer documentation is online, and this page offers a complete information on what's new in the documentation with links around the related topics.

Windows 10 Jumpstart Preview:

Give a first look at the forthcoming Jumpstart training content. These are such videos that can offer you with the information to bring a Windows 8.1 application up to Windows 10.

Code Samples:

Documentation code samples will be launched on GitHub new with Windows 10. Users are capable of searching an initial samples with more planned in order to co-occure with the Build Conference time-frame.

Get Started

To begin with the preview, you will require to join the Windows Insider Program, where you will get the instructions and downloads links in order to get your developer machine set-up.

Stay tuned with us to get more information on Windows 10 Developer Tooling Preview and its solutions as we will keeping up-dating you guys with essential information. In addition to this, you can also get support from our professional Windows developers for your any query.

With the constant rise in the mobile app development, you can see a quick acceptance across the globe. If you also have decided to begin with the development of mobile application, here you can find some mistakes that you should avoid while develop your first mobile application:

Ignoring Cross-Platform Development –

First and foremost mistake that a lot of developers and newbies made are ignoring cross-platform development. We all know that currently, iOS and android both have taken over the market while Windows as well as the BlackBerry are also trying to catch attention of users.

However, iOS is the most popular platform in the USA and Android OS is highest among its users across the world. So, if you are going to launch an application, make sure that you launch app that build on cross-platform because mobile OSs are popular for a particular time period, but people prefer the one that is latest and best. Thus, you should develop your app on cross-platform so that it runs on multiple platforms.

Neglecting the Touch Interface –

Various mobile applications have been failed due to neglecting the touch interface factor. Many a times, it happens that developers after these applications fail to know the different between among a mouse-based interface and a touch-based interface.

However, researchers also explained that a perfect dimension on which the users can precisely target the expected is 44px * 44px. On the hand, mouse-based interface is also good for small buttons as they are not working on the touch-based interface. Before getting your application development, it is must for you to keep differences in mind.

Ignoring the Connectivity Issues –

One of the biggest benefits that mobile apps provides to its customers is the instant data access from anywhere. However, these benefits turned into disadvantages when the applications are accessed from a place where data connection is weak.

Without a data connection, the mobile apps become valueless. It is also necessary that the mobile application must have the capability to handle the peeling data connection without getting hanged.

Thinking of Mobile as a Rationalized Experience –

It is extremely wrong for you to think mobile as a less popular experience as mobile phones as well as tablets are the rising devices in the world of internet. As compared to website, a mobile application is completely different. It is extremely different like in functionality, size, capacity and more, but equally important.

However, if you are thinking that why these mobile applications are popular is because the users can access them from anywhere, anytime through their mobile devices. These days, the desktop websites are also responsive that offers the users an experience more user-friendly than ever.

Neglecting the Agile Advance to Development –

It is extremely negative on the part of your app’s popularity if you ignore the importance of the agile approach. In the past, the linear approach of development where developers collect the information, develop the needs, jot down the requirements, develop specifications and then finally develop an application. With constant expanding of technology, a different and valuable approach is required.

So, these are the 5 major mistakes that you should while developing mobile applications. No matter what type and category application you are developing, you need to avoid these mistakes in order to develop successful applications. To know more information on mobile app development, you can click here.

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We all know that the requirements of every enterprise are different from other another and thus, you have to search out a solution to their particular concerns. There are many mobile app development challenges that developers may face when developing their application such as:

Development Technology, i.e. Native, Hybrid and Web

You might have read many articles that tell you that you have three development types of technologies, i.e. Native, Hybrid and Web. Many companies have enough knowledge of understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of each platform, yet they have confusion to choose one technology that provides more advantages for their business and can one-size-fits-all solution. Going with uninformed decision can result into the lackluster user experience, poor performance and huge expenditure.

Security

It is quite difficult to maintain a high security level around applications and devices as there are many different devices and operating system variants are available. One can get huge opportunity through the ability of access information through mobile devices; however, there are companies afraid of this information being misused by other people.

Thus, there are some companies taking the invasive approach and secure their device by using Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions that improperly implemented can lead to a poor user experience. Moreover, employees are also not supporting enterprise control over their personal applications, devices, and information.

Such things put pressure on the IT team that has its hands full managing all devices that can be accessed its enterprise network. IT could be faced privacy issues and liability when cleaning an employee's device on their departure from the company.

User Experience

The user experience has been one of the major challenges with mobile application development. Some mobile app developers care for mobile devices as just another screen and expand enterprise applications to device without realizing behaviors and user interactions have huge difference. This will create an awkward experience for users that resulting in usage of the application and low adoption.

Back-end Integration

There are businesses having a complex IT infrastructure. They need mobile applications that become icing on their cake. Many a time, your application simply boosts the existing infrastructure by providing mobility without replacing any back-end system.

Such things will need a complex cross-platform coding and huge understanding of the client's business processes. Mobile developers, who don’t have domain expert, will face a sudden learning curve. Here, you require expertise in various sorts of programming along with spending more time of understanding of the client's existing IT infrastructure.

Multi-platform Compatibility

This should create problem at some point. There is some enterprises use one mobile platform while some uses different platforms. Mobile developers have to develop an application for various devices and mobile OS if BYOD has been implemented by the company.

One can have to analyze and decide the approach whether it is a time to create separate versions of the application for various operating systems or should you use HTML to develop native applications? One can get a concern attack when he/she consider the most enterprise mobile apps will be more complex than the projects you usually manage.

Screen Size

Usually, the screen size for a computer ranges from 13 to 15 inches while for mobile devices start at 3 inches and more and for tablet about 10 inches. One cannot able to place everything in from 13+ inches on mobile device’s screen. The minimalist approach has been adopted by many mobile developers that mean they are adding only those items, which are necessary for application’s functionality and will be added in the mobile version.

Recognize Pioneering Mobile Use Cases

When companies get an idea about app development, they typically begin with some basic needs like email on mobile devices, access to calendar and so on. Using of such cases don’t deliver real value although it is relevant and can be achieved easily. Moreover, there are some companies finding difficulty to identify mobile use cases and thus, it significantly impact on their defined business metrics.

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Here, you have tips for using Google’s auto suggest. You just have to go to Google and type “voice recorder app a” and check out the suggestion available. Retry with “voice recorder app b”, c, and so on.

Moving Toward Journalists/Bloggers

Are you seeking of pre-existing relationships? Have some people written about your partners, colleagues and investors? It is advisable to contact every possible and be choosy. You have to ask yourself some questions like:

Does their website have huge traffic?

Does a post have enough comments? What about FB likes/ tweets?

Would people are interested in your application those who are using your site?

You must have to come up with reasons for contacting them. However, you have to be honest that you are trying to get some experience as well. According to the PR agencies, it is a “needing an angle”.

You just have to tell them that the previous reviews are too good and it would be a “privilege to be reviewed by you”. It would be great to use softer language like “honest review” and “consider including”. Here, we have some external resource, check out below:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-05-17/mental-health-app/55268512/1

http://mashable.com/2008/04/10/get-your-startup-on-mashable/

http://seanblanda.com/confessions-of-a-tech-journalist-my-advice-to-startups-pitching-the-media/

Along with email, it would be great to contact them through call.

Search Useful Sites with Backlinks:

You can use SEOs tools like opensiteexplorer.org to see which site is linking to a particular site or URL. It is also best for promoting an application.

It is advisable for you to check who is connecting to your app’s official site. Here, you will find a game named as Monument Valley that contains links for 840 domains. Moreover, if you have created some game, then it would be great to contact some of them.

Google Alerts

Users will get an email from Google Alerts when something new on the given subjects gets published. It sends approximate within 24 hours. It provides time to contact with the writers so your email becomes reply instead of a cold email.

It is advisable to check your own brand to get joined in on any discussion. Additionally, you can also use Google Alerts to be informed whenever your rivals are featured in the review or in a new post. You can also contact the author of the article and offer your developed mobile application as a secondary option.

Moreover, you can also use Google Alerts to monitor for discussions related to your application, i.e. “best record pro app”.

Use Social Media to Search Influencer

It would be a great idea to promote your application by partnering with existing communities for promotion purpose. You can also approach the leaders and moderators, social media groups (Facebook) and so on.

Now, you have to check who is connecting with you through your competitors’ Facebook pages and after that, check out the people and see what other pages and apps like. If you are finding any relevant or non-competitors, then it is best to approach their moderators and developers.

Content Idea Generation

One of the securest approaches is to consider for solving the question of the people, who may require your application before they are looking to develop an application.

Search the problem you have.

Write the problem they are going to solve.

You just have to think about unique subject and write its functionality in bullet points.

There are different methods for searching these questions beyond brainstorming such as:

You can use the Google autosuggest method that already mentioned above.

You can also search Quora by Googling like ““freelancing” site:www.quora.com/”.

Alternatively, you can also review forums that users may be browsing to search out the most popular questions.

Review Sites and “Best of” Lists

Here, we have a huge list of application review sites and other on Reddit. Those people, who have created games, can find a big list of Youtubers, who help to review games. However, here we have decided some extra tips to get good reviews.

Catch Incentivize reviews from those sites that allow hosting competitions

It would be great to get your application featured in monthly and category-based “best of” lists and reviews. You have to search for those sites, which featured on month’s best new releases/discoveries or adding best application in the provided “category”.

The “outdated content” method is one of the best approaches.

Check out the list of some reputed YouTubers below:

Bumpy McSquigums

Honey Bunny Games

Kujar3 Player

Mehrspieler

Ohmwrecker

It would be great to search out outdated “best of” lists by finding Google for terms like “best productivity apps 2015″ or by using Google’s “advanced search” feature that only displays outcomes that we publish before a particular date.

Getting Featured

If your application is Featured” on the App Store, it is a big achievement for you. Now, you have to incorporate it with something new that service providers, phone makers and Android/ iOS want to promote.

Such things include fingerprint scanners, new accessories, NFC, iCloud, new default apps or OS features.

Apple is always looking for exclusivity and different applications that support all its platforms. Sometimes, it is helpful to be only iOS.

You can also search for App Store managers on LinkedIn

There is no doubt application Store’s marketing team is looking for the best content and easily can be mailed at [email protected] as they are interested in knowing that how your application takes advantage of the latest technology and other details. Or you can also use targeted adverts at Apple employees on Facebook or Twitter.

Promote Your App through Content and Resources

You have to remember that what users and the sites are reading is important.

You have to stick to what you know about or write what other believes.

Content is of different types. It should be useful, funny, creative or notorious. 

You have to write content without promoting your products/services. Your 80% content should be good advice.

In order to promote your site, you can use backlink tools to check out who is connected to your site. Likewise, you can also paste other’s link into Topsy to see who is tweeting.

Cross-promotion with others

You can take help from your other competitors by cross-promoting your application to those, who have the same audiences/demographics like you. Such things can only be done by reaching out to other developers or managed through strong networks like Tapgage, Tapjoy, Tap for Tap, or Chartboost.

Users can’t have to bear single cost for platform like tapdaq that offers credits that you can earn and exchanged with an ease. You can do cross-promotion through free reciprocal advertising on your social media accounts or websites/ blogs.

Apple has banned Incentivized downloads of other apps that include advantages of downloading another application that you have published.

Many of us have a lot of creative ideas that we have planned to make a mobile application successful. We all have surety that we can easily design and develop an innovative and a unique mobile application that helps us a lot in getting huge reorganization worldwide.

But, there is a lot more that you should consider before you launch your application in the market. Let’s have a quick glance on steps that you should take before you launch your applications:

Giving a Right Name to the App –

Before you launch your application in the market, it is must for you to choose a right name for your application that gives app store a right idea about your application like what it does? Remember that you don’t cheat and give a fake name to your application – like “The Most Powerful App”.

Moreover, you can also check that the .com is obtainable or not, and the domain of your country and any other countries like .co.au in which you wanted to market your app particularly. In any case, if the name of your application is already taken by any unrelated to your app’s sector, you can deem utilizing something like exampleapp.com.

You should also check that a similar named app already exists on the web or not. The app store's search engine can auto-complete as customers type. Moreover, you can also avoid having trademarks and derivative names that borrowed from well-known titles.

Preparing the Application –

Initially, you will face the problem between iOS vs. Android. Today, there are lots of businesses, who choose iOS platform to develop their application. Usually, it is easier to begin with as there are very less devices to support. We all know that there are various Android devices that have different hardware capabilities.

While iPhone users are ready to pay for more when there is something good. Many of you all can’t develop a single application for both the platforms, so they can research on the target demographic and get to know which the devices that they are using more commonly.

If your application gets negative reviews and bugs, your application will lose the market, so make sure that you don’t launch a minimum viable product. For early feedback, you can give a look on closed beta launch. You can test an application on different hardware and revisions of operating systems.

Setting Pre-launch Fundamentals –

Before you launch an application, you will need a professional website to start with to generate hype. You can collect email addresses of interested people and develop a rush of downloads on launch and get it trending.

You’re going to need a dedicated website to start generating hype before launch. Collecting email addresses of interested users are essential and will create a surge of downloads on launch and get it trending. For mobile app websites, unbounce has published various templates. Though you are using the one or not, they are nice for motivation.

On your blog, you can also update a complete story from designing your app for tracking bugs. You can also develop a resource for other app developers and showcase your design inspiration and give away old icon sets.

Selecting Your keywords –

When you done with your application and about to launch it in the market, it is important that you define your keywords because keywords are a quick result of figuring out what words as well as phrases people can use to search for your application in the app stores. Make sure that you use the keyword in your application’s description, full-title and in the keywords section of iTunes.

However, you can also do is see what words your competitors have use in their full app names or often they have used in their descriptions. Moreover, if you can also consult Google’s Keywords tool so that you can find out the variation of keywords with the most searches and suggestions for related keywords.

You also remember that you do not go with the most difficult keywords as you should try to look at how many search results your selected keywords have. You can also give a quick glance on how many downloads/reviews those results have as that’s the thing that you have to beat.

So, above mentioned steps are must consider before you launch your application in the market as these steps can help you to successfully launch your app and get expected success.

To get more information on mobile app development and its considerations, stay connected with us as we will come up with more new information very soon.

Additionally, you also have to ensure that it outputs other versions that support the same core functionality for older browsers. HTML5 developers can able to implement an outstanding mobile strategy by taking advantage of next-generation HTML5 technology.

With this, users will see overall positive reviews, repeat visits and user engaging as well. Apart from, there are many reasons to adopt HTML5 programming language in your development task. Continue reading the post to know more information.

Richer Experiences with CSS3

We have experience plug-ins such as Flash and Sliverlight for the last  decades. Presently, it has changed completely as some of the new styling features have been added by CSS3. Like, we can now able to add shadows, gradients and even transform and animate sites with no JavaScript or images. Moreover, CSS code is also shown in Listing 5 that applies many new the CSS3 formatting rules, rounded corners, text shadows, and a gradient.

Now, elements can be easily animated and converted that means you can easily contort elements such as a clown with a bag of balloons. Moreover, you can also apply such transformations with smooth animations as modern browsers support animations within the committed time- frame.

HTML5 Standards Make Support Easier

We all know that the web designer and developers have gained huge expertise in dealing with issue like cross-browser compatibility. Due to the problem related to IE 6 and 7, IE gets a lot of difficulty. However, the latest versions are combined as it defines a set of standards by HTML5 that developers are thinking to stumble upon.

Right now, they are competing with many factors like performance, history management, developer tools, and so on even if, many companies are implementing custom interfaces and features into their browsers. That doesn’t mean that every vendor is limited to trying latest features. In fact, they can develop some latest features and submit them for consistency.

Clean Coding

If you love to code clean, then HTML5 is your favorite programming language. Using this language, you can simply write clear and descriptive code, semantic code that enables you to separate meaning of content and style.

Below given is a simple header code with navigation:

<div id="header">

<h1>Header Text</h1>

<div id="nav">

<ul>

<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>

</ul>

</div>

</div>

Are you finding this code simple and clean? However, with HTML5, you can make such code even simpler. Check it out:

<header>

<h1>Header Text</h1>

<nav>

<ul>

<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>

</ul>

</nav>

</header>

Moreover, developers can able to treat their “divitis” and “classitis” with HTML5 by using semantic and HTML5 for describing your content. Previously, developers can only use div’s for block of content, but now, they are blessed with the new <header>, <footer>, <section>, <article>, <nav> and <aside> tags that allow them to code markup cleaner and keep their CSS better planned.

HTML5 is Occurrence

We all know that HTML5 has become a loose marketing term like Ajax and Web 2.0 regardless of its main browser vendors are supporting the standard. We know that they have their own agendas and reasons, but HTML5 is the leader of the market due to its browser compatibility and improvement at a rapid pace.

Native Video and Audio Support

The <audio> and <video> elements are new HTML5 elements that streamline multimedia content excellently. Here, you will find each tag works like the <img> tag where you have to specify a source, width and height. One of the best things about these tags are it can be dressed up excellent. Just developers have to use different media for encoding formats so that one can easily create a minimal set of files to stream.

Cross-Platform Game Development

Now, a cross-platform reality with HTML5 and <canvas> the element becomes the previously exclusive domain of Flash and Silverlight games. There are many companies like Rovio, Disney, etc. are developing mobile games using HTML5.

Atari has blessed with an online arcade that contains many classic games that represented in pure HTML5 versions. It is possible to combine new HTML5 functionality like the <canvas> tag with an improved JavaScript engines and can also make use of GPU and push graphics.

Fragmentation

Fragmentation is one of the biggest issues that mostly faced with native and web applications when we are developing applications. There are about 15+ mobile browsers and each is available in different versions and supporting different levels.

Using HTML5, you have to face the challenges of creating an application for different platforms with native. Thus, we can say that fragmentation is a bit poorer than it is natively.

Update App Faster

One of the best advantages of HTML application is it updates faster. One cannot have to wait for new update every time. So, you can easily push your web update rather than waiting for Google, Apple and Microsoft.

Provide Better Website Structure

One can have to know that web designing is all about to add proper content. Strange, but it is true that content is considered as the down line. With the help of HTML5 elements, you can simply create amazing layout according to your needs. Like <article>, you can also find a collection of code that makes sense when you are removing from the rest of the page.

Doctype

<!DOCTYPE html> - this we call, doctype. Adding this code, we don’t have to add or subtract long unreadable line of code or tags that filled with doctype attributes. Developers just have to type it out and their work is done. It is one of the fabulous things in HTML5 that works in every browser clear back to the dreaded IE6.

Now, Microsoft is going to begin with testing versions of its program on devices that runs on Android OS. Microsoft's corporate vice president for Office marketing, John Case said that the latest releases show Microsoft is working on creating its programs the go-to productivity apps on "all platforms, devices and properties."

It is Chief Executive Satya Nadella's efforts to make Microsoft product supportable with all platforms in order to reboot the company in the mobile era. Office is one of the best parts of strategy than other properties on any mobile devices. After Nadella took over in February 2014, the first of Office applications for Apple's iPad is released by the company.

This week, a deal is smacked by Microsoft with the cloud-storage service Dropbox for storing files for the Office 365 subscription service of the tech giant. Case said, more than 40 million downloads of iOS apps have had since their release. Now, Microsoft will offer all the basic features for free to the app users for encouraging people to use Office apps on the iPhone and iPad.

Previously, users can only read files of the Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps in their iOS device, but they can create and edit documents without any cost. Those users, who want to use these new free features, will have to sign in to their Microsoft account. Even, they have to still pay for more advanced features like some of the data are difficult analysis tools in Excel.

If you are the existing user of the iOS Office apps, you have to download the latest update to access the newly free features. The test copies of the iOS versions of the applications are provided by Microsoft to The Washington Post that hasn’t been significantly changed. The paywall terms of Microsoft have been changed in response to user feedback, said Case. It is expected that more people will encourage using this app.

Moving towards Android, Microsoft starts testing Office apps for Android devices via an application-only testing process. The company wants to test Office suite widely before releasing as the device is more varied than iOS products. It is expected that apps will hit in the store in the first quarter of 2015.

Office 365 subscription:

The “core Office experiences” are going free is called by Microsoft and it would be worth asking: what does a subscription get you in the Office mobile apps? Microsoft calls these “premium features” and details for the same are as follows:

Microsoft Word for iOS with Its Features:

Portrait To Landscape Orientation

Columns

Section Breaks

A few authoring features of Track Changes

Advanced editing of text

Advanced editing of charts

Advanced editing of tables

Advanced editing of pictures

Business document editing

Microsoft Excel for iOS with Its Features:

Customize Pivot Tables

Advanced editing of text

Advanced editing of charts

Advanced editing of pictures

Business document editing

Microsoft PowerPoint for iOS with Its Features

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Initially, when the company launched this new and high-end device, the design of it seemed outlandish, but after some time period, I understood that Blackberry is quite serious about competing for the enterprise customer.

We all know that BlackBerry is always popular for its hardware QWERTY keyboards, but when it moved one step further by launching BlackBerry 10 OS, consumer-focused touchscreen devices were launched first.

This high-end tablet is giving tough challenge to the smart-phone status quo with its big square touchscreen and touch-enabled keyboard. BlackBerry Passport, a mind-blowing tablet, comes with a large square touch-screen, which offers an amazing viewing and reading experience, allowing you to get wider vision.

Specially designed to give a better web browsing, editing, reading, apps and maps experience, the device satisfies your comprehensive range of needs. This all new yet compelling device known for taking iconic keyboard to the next level as its physical keyboard offers you more typing accuracy and gives you more screen space for viewing.

Being a touch-enabled device, user is allowed to perform various functions right on the keyboard, and the best thing about this device is it is responsive to touch, so users can easily scroll web pages, flick to the type or slide along with different keys to move the cursor.

Let’s Give a Quick Look To Its Amazing Features

QWERTY Keyboard –

As we all know that Blackberry has always offered best hardware QWERTY keyboards, and now the company has taken it to the next level by launching Passport. Being the finest hardware keyboard ever developed for a mobile device, this Blackberry Passport tablet is fantastic when it comes to its comprehensive range of features.

Your Personal Assistant –

When it comes to BlackBerry Passport’s personal assistant, it enables users you manage their contacts, emails, calendar and other BlackBerry 10 features via text and voice commands. Moreover, users are also able to execute tasks quickly like responding to vital emails, scheduling meetings and getting directions.

Fast & Responsive Browser –

On BlackBerry 10, the Blackberry browser has been completely reinvented in order to help out in quick browsing, reading and sharing online content. You can have a look on a full desktop web page on your screen with the new BlackBerry Passport as it quickly loads pages making web pages easier to read.

A Comprehensive Range of Specifications

Cameras: 13-megapixel rear with optical image stabilization (OIS), and a 2 megapixel front facing

Processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 2.2 GHz quad-core CPU and Adreno 330, 450MHz GPU

Battery capacity: 3,450 mAh with advertised 24 hours UMTS talk time and 91 hours of audio playback

Display: 4.5-inch square Gorilla Glass 3 LCD display with 1440 x 1440 pixel resolution (453 pixels-per-inch)

Dimensions: 128 x 90.3 x 9.3mm, and 196 grams (6.91 ounces)

RAM: 3GB

Radios: 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, near-field communications (NFC), GPS, FM radio

Storage capacity: 32 GB internal with MicroSD card slot

So, these were some of the best features and specs of Blackberry Passport tablet that allow you to get an incredible experience that you ever get from any other device.

As a final point, Google’s Android 5.0 L is here and it stands for Lollipop that first come on the latest Nexus devices like Nexus 6, Nexus 9 and Nexus Player. According to chief executive of Android, it is the largest and most ambitious release of Android till date.

With the launch of Android 5.0, Google has promised a new and innovative take on its mobile OS. Being the most powerful mobile OS, it will be first obtainable on the new Nexus smart-phones, followed by earlier nexus and Google Play Edition devices.

The all new Android 5.0 considered as a biggest OS, featuring enhancements to the overall design, features, and battery life. Let’s have a look at the top features of Google Android’s 5.0 Lollipop:

Key Features of Android 5.0 Lollipop –

Enhanced Battery Life – Google has claimed that by upgrading to Android 5.0 on the same device, users can extend the battery life by up to 90 minutes. Don’t you think it is a completely best? Well, it means a lot as Technical did an experience by upgrading Android L and noticed a 30% increase in battery life. We all love to get more battery life, and if it is possible for a free upgrade to Android 5.0, it is like winning millions for android users.

Improved Notifications – Android 5.0 will boost the way you are receiving notifications. And you are also allowed to choose important messages and hide essential content. Moreover, you can also choose people to whom you want to give special priority. Now, you will not get disturbed while playing games and watching movies with phone calls and you can easily see all the important notifications by just simply tapping the top of the screen.

Multiple Device Compatibility – The best thing about this mobile OS is that it will support devices with different screen sizes like smart-watches, cars, TVs, wearables and so on. It is specially designed flexibly so that all the android device users can experience this high-end OS on their device. According to Google, it is built as per user’s needs.

Performance Boost-up – Along with the visual as well as UI improvements, Lollipop 5.0 also provides additional horsepower hidden under the hood. When it comes to performance booster, ART is a new Android runtime, which promises to increase performance up to four times. It will better be supported for 64-bit devices, graphics performance and more.

Improved Camera – Google Android 5.0 makes it simple to support different camera features like fine settings tuning, burst mode and so on. Users are allowed to click full resolution frames approximately 30fps and can shoot in raw formats such as Bayer RAW and YUV. Android users will also get support for UHD 4K video playback, tunneled video for better quality video playback on android TV. To control settings, Lollipop OS is also adding professional features like lens and flash per individual frame.

Enhanced Security – Now, it becomes extremely easy for you to unlock your phone without entering a PIN or trace a pattern as Android 5.0 makes it simple. Now, you can also make use of the Android watch to unlock your phone through immediacy. This new OS also comes with an option to have your data automatically encrypted. You can also find a new guest user mode, enabling you to develop multiple accounts on one device.

So, these were some of the top and exclusive features of Android 5.0 Lollipop that you should check-out to know how Google has worked hard to serve its users exceptionally.

Don’t know what questions to ask? Not to worry as here we have mentioned 5 important and most excellent questions that help you to hire mobile application developers for your development task.

Can I See Your Portfolio?

All experienced mobile app developers will have portfolio and thus, you can see their work to identify their qualities and expertise. Don’t just check that, but download it and check User interface, functionality, features, and support. Moreover, it is also good to review previously developed application and client testimonials to idea about their capabilities. Even, you can check whether they have created applications within or similar to your industry or not.

What Platforms You Choose To Develop App?

It is bit difficult to choose a platform for developing applications. However, it is best to first target iOS and Android users. If you are thinking to develop application for every platform, then cross-platform app development is the best option. For that, you have to hire professional mobile app development team rather than developer.

Who Will Own the App?

Generally, the owner of the application owns the rights, however, you have to clarify with the developer about the copyrights of the developed application. It is advisable to contract that includes confidentiality, copyright assignment, specification of owning an app’s design, content and source code, charges of development, delivery time and so on.

Can My App Be Monetized?

It is worth asking about how can be monetized application to gain a return on your investment or enjoy additional revenue. Additional skills can be also taken by monetizing an app and thus, it is required knowing upfront that might be in the developer’s capabilities.

You can implement below given suggestions to monetize your application, such as Charging for application, advertisement, develop a ‘freemium’ app that has charges when users are unlocking additional features.

Can I Quit contract, if I am not happy with How Your Project Is Progressing?

It is advisable to discuss this point. If you are not happy with their way of working or their project’s progress then you have ability to quit from the agreement. Ensure to discuss about taking ownership of the work when you are not happy with designing or coding task.

To gain huge success in the market, most of the businesses are adopting mobile application as it is one of the best ways to expand their business globally. When it comes to mobile application, iPhone is on the top of the race and win the highest ROI rate as per the recent survey.

Undeniably, iPhone application developing and coding in it is quite difficult as well as time consuming process, so it is quite expensive for small businesses to adopt. But, it is extremely best way for them to leverage a complete range of benefits for their business.

However, if you have decided to go with iPhone application development, first of all, you should get enough knowledge and information about this platform and its community. If you don’t gather some information about the platform and do not know how to deal with tech-savvy people, you will end-up hiring a wrong developer for your project.

For small businesses, a professionally built iPhone application can help them to reach out their customers. Their customers can simply connect with their business and get a lot of information about their products and services. Using the application, they can browse through different products, read the bar codes, know different options and much more.

Moreover, they can also get huge help in exploring different ideas as they just need to come-up with a unique idea and look for exclusive ways in which an idea can work in an application. One of the best helps you can do for your customers in which they are facing a problem.

Make sure to develop one such application that solves their problems and offer a particular service. By delivering an application that suffices their needs, you can boost the productivity and gain good ROI for your business.

Currently, OpenSignal is one of the biggest independent sources of data on the speed as well as coverage of mobile phone across the world. OpenSignal is well-known for gathering information from users and open it to anyone instead of relying on coverage maps offered by the networks. Through this, they can easily see that which one offers the best coverage where they are.

OpenSignal’s by-product of this is garnering various extra data, which provides important imminent into the state-of-play across the mobile kingdom. When it comes to such things, it comprises things like 4G coverage and the number of different device-types. It has seen 18796 ‘different Android devices’ as per the OpenSignal’s data and it is up from 11868 compared to last year.

In order to collect this information, the company has surveyed the last 682000 devices to install the app so that it will be easy and fairly representative of the Android ecosystem. But it is also sure that this number would naturally increase as there are various new Android devices that have been launched in the last 12 months. Well, it is also true that already obtainable devices are not going to vanish from the earth.

You may feel surprisingly after knowing that Samsung is ruling the Android world as the company dominate the market with 43%, while Sony stands at second with a mere 4% that helps show the gulf between Samsung and the rest. Well, other companies like Motorola, Huawei and LG were also among the next most popular android handsets. According to OpenSignal’s information, approximately 12 out of the 13 most common android devices are from Samsung.

The company also together data from both the companies Google and Apple offering complete glance of the state-of-play. Approximately, 20.9% of Android users are on KitKat (4.4), and most of the android users are on at least Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) and very least preserving with Gingerbread or Froyo.

As per the Apple’s own data, iOS 7 sits at 91% while iOS 6 at 8% and measly 1% people are still using an old-fashioned incarnation of Apple’s mobile operating system. Well, OpenSignal’s report makes for interesting reading and pulls on some extra existing data offered by third-party sources, comprising the correlation between fragmentation and GDP per capita.

Developing Android Apps - a free online training course announced by Google

Android Fundamentals that motive at developers, who doesn’t have knowledge about Android and also “maybe even new to mobile.” This course is planned along with online education site Udacity that allows Google to map out its roots to Stanford University.

The $10 million in prize money is lacked by the new training course as far as inducements go and offered in 2007 by the first developer challenge. However, Google is thinking that developers are looking for a larger pot at the end of the Android programming rainbow.

The course intro promises, “As Android continues to grow beyond smartphones, it will become the brains behind invisible, ubiquitous cloud-connected computing”. “The skills you learn in this course will help you build awesome apps for smartphones and tablets today, and propel you towards exciting opportunities in Android's future.”

Such type of opportunities was focused in the last month’s Google I/O developers conference in which company has made plans to make Google as the part of everyone’s life in the form of mobile devices, car devices and so on.

Android TV, Android Auto, Android Wear, Google Fit, the Internet of Things that has the next huge phrase of Android development in the consumer dominion. Apple is also giving tough competition to Android in every one of those markets, whether it is for consumers or developers.

It is not a co-incidence that the company reveals a new design philosophy and platform at the same in which Google displayed its plans for these new markets. This platform is better known as Material Design that helps to create a consistent Android user experience across multiple devices and platforms and make the development process easier than before.

The platform isn’t enough, knows Google. One can have to require applications for their mobile computing device and that needs good android programmers. Over 25,000 people have enrolled since the two days of announcing this 8-week training course with Udacity. So, if you want to enroll in this program then get up and participate now.

Moreover, it is the main field of various cross-platform app development tools like Rhodes, Apache Cordova and many more. The main solution of the success of the HTML5 web application tool is the flexibility, which gives the developer in all cases including UI, using scripts, development and many more.

In this blog, you can find some reasons to use HTML5 for developing mobile games and other applications:

Enclosure of Fully-fledged Features:

It is highly essential for all the developers to attach with a single utility with lots of features as with different domains of applications obtainable in the market. Currently, HTML5 is one of the best platforms that seem perfect platform to launch something, which could alter lots of things in rapid duration.

With improved utility launched at the Chrome store, there have been wonderful applications, which have given a wide hike to HTML5 development. Well, the main cause behind this is the transition of web applications and cross-linking user-interfaces, which can be produced despite of giving add-on features within the app.

Cross-Browser Compatibility:

When it comes to talk about the best feature of HTML5, its compatibility is the first word that comes in everyone’s mind because the same HTML5 app can be used on different mobile platforms like iOS, Android,Windows Phone, Blackberry and more.

Many people have the illusion that developing an HTML5 application takes more time as compare to developing a native app, but it saves your lots of time and energy.

Perfect Solution for Emerging Markets:

Today, the mobile market is constantly emerging as there are lots of new technologies are introduced by different companies, so HTML5 is one such solution that suffices the needs of users. With this high-end solution, one can do lots of things like developing innovative games and other application that droll the mind of users.

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