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In order to rapidly increase the number of applications available for Windows 10, Microsoft has just made a very surprising announcement, during the BUILD conference dedicated to developers: new development tools will be available in Windows 10, greatly facilitating the porting of iOS and Android applications.

Appostrophic reviews that if Windows has already partly caught up on iOS and Android; Microsoft intends to provide developers with a tool that will allow them to easily port their applications on its platform. If it is not entirely a question of emulation, as is the case of BlackBerry, on which applications can reuse code ranges characteristic of these two platforms as well as the original design. Windows will also quickly compatible with Java authoring tools and C ++ Android and with the Objective C, characteristic of iOS.

Logically, this measure will greatly facilitate porting applications on the platform, and should have a positive effect on the number of compatible applications.

Now, there is no way to run a native Android or iOS app in Windows 10 here since the developer will make the necessary changes through Visual Studio. However, these could be launched within the development tool designed by Microsoft and just add specific APIs to Windows applications (dynamic tiles, integration of Cortana, etc.) to enjoy an app fully. During the BUILD keynote, Terry Myerson, vice president in charge of Microsoft’s OS has demonstrated an encoded game under Xcode (Apple development platform) transformed within minutes into Visual Studio software, and therefore fully functional in Windows 10.

In short, with this policy of openness, Microsoft intends to convey a message: no matter the Windows 10 application store remains empty. The Redmond Company estimated that 1 billion terminals will run on Windows 10 in 3 years, and the operation seduction with developers starts now.

Of course, thanks to that Microsoft wants to quickly grow its ecosystem and thus fill a gap that is detrimental to it for many years. Appostrophic reviews that the code will cannot be as ‘clean’ as if the work was done manually, but it still is a quick and effective solution to bridge the gap between the three platforms.

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Appostrophic reviews that Apple Health iPhone application can track all types of fitness and health related data, and a variety of applications.

To allow Health to collect data of App Store applications, however, these applications will be granted permission to read and / or write to Health. Thus, health can maintain its absolutely private information and silos; if that’s what you want, but it can also act as a central repository and change all your data. Therefore, if you change between the followers of fitness, smartwatches, or applications, you have to start over from scratch each time. All your information goes with you.

Though it is important to note that not all apps of App Store are related to fitness HealthKit support, if an application does not support HealthKit, it cannot be used with Health.

What ‘read’ and ‘write’ access mean for Apple Health

Giving an App access to read the data means that you agree with that application pulling data that already exists in the implementation of the Health in your own application. For example, a tracker step could pull your step count history of every day Health and populate your own graphics with him, so you can keep writing where you left to go.

Similarly, giving a write data access to application means that you give permission to write new data to the application of Health. For example, a tracker step could push his own way to recount the implementation of Health.

Appostrophic reviews that giving a write data access to application means that you give permission to write new data to the application of Health. For example, a tracker step could push his own way to recount the implementation of Health.

For medical applications, due to privacy concerns, you may want to be careful with the grant read or write to Health. For followers of fitness, you may encounter problems of negligible privacy and grant read or write highly desirable.

How to control which applications can read and write data to the application of Health in iPhone

Start the application of Health in your iPhone.

Click on Sources in bottom navigation bar.

The Applications section lists all applications that you have installed that support the integration of Health. Tap where you want to set.

Enable or disable the data types you want the application to be able to control.

Appostrophic reviews that if there’s one thing Google can do is ‘manage its commercials’. And one of the main reasons why the tech giant is what it is today: the undisputed leader of the web. What other services offered by Google could be a source of revenue for the search giant?

The Google Play Store has become a hub of content that is incredibly popular, not only for applications but also for movies, music and books. It was natural that sooner or later Google decides to monetize even its store, and that’s how it announced the introduction of the contents ‘ad-supported’.

Appostrophic reviews that the advertisements in question will be present in the search results in the same way how ads are shown today in search results on Google web. So, soon users will see applications suggested at the top of the screen of the device, and will be identifiable because it will be marked with a small label ‘Ad’ in white on a yellow background.

Google will initially test the app Ad-supported, and will involve only applications from developers who already use the Google platform to promote themselves. Appostrophic reviews that it’s important to note that at this time the ads will appear only in the search results and not on any other section of the store, such as the home page or pages of the categories.

Moreover, Appostrophic reviews that Google Play now reaches more than 1 billion people on Android devices in more than 190 countries, helping a number of developers to raise awareness of its work and by bringing companies to their customers. Last year, Google has paid more than $ 7 billion to developers who have deployed applications and games on Google Play. “We remain committed as ever to make Google Play the best place to find great apps, games and other entertainment” Google wrote in the Android Developers Blog.

Therefore Appostrophic Reviews, in the coming weeks, a limited set of users will begin to see the ads for a pilot group of advertisers that already pay to serve ads in the search results of Google for their applications. “We will have more to share in the coming months about the expansion of this program and will review the results and feedback,” says the blog post. “We believe that the ads in the research will be a useful addition to Google Play for users and developers, and we hope this will bring even more success for our developer community.”

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We see that mobile texting (SMS) seems to have already left for History. As smartphones become increasingly popular day by day, someone came up with the system of free instant messaging and millions of mobile users were gifted with IM applications. Perhaps it is, for many of us, the best invention of the mobile phone.

With the matter of time, many messaging apps have penetrated into the lime light and in this case, Appostrophic reviews the top best instant messaging applications around the globe;

WhatsApp

Appostrophic reviews, if there is an application that has managed to attract the most of the audience and has become almost the standard messaging tool, that’s Whatsapp. Since, we could not forget the omnipresence of WhatsApp, for which lately we’ve known that it has 400 million active users. And now has even doubled the number of users, in fact has more active users than twitter.

This is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows users to share messages across multiple mobile platforms like Android and iPhone without any boundaries. The reasons why it still holds the rank of best messaging app is because, it is used by almost everyone. Second, this year, it has added many interesting things like push-to-talk messages in a very comfortable way, or videos editing before being sent.

WeChat

Appostrophic reviews from various studies that the messaging app ‘WeChat’ is the fifth most used application on the globe. However, it is also believed that the biggest mobile communication application globally has originated from the biggest mobile market of the world (China). Moreover, Appostrophic reviews that one of the pros of this app is that it allows free calls and video calls between users of the app.

LINE

This app is considered as the largest competitor of Whatsapp so far, and is already the top among the IM apps in Japan and Korea. LINE has more than 140 million users worldwide and is used in over 230 countries. The app has recently taken a giant step by allowing free calls to landlines in some Latin American countries. From its unique features, Appostrophic reviews that it imitates Facebook chat and is available for all mobile platforms.

One crucial goal of any growing business is to retain customers. In this world there are more than 2 million mobile applications in which potential customers of our apps have enough time to find what offer they are looking for. And on finding it, uninstall the application and get another installed. That is why the 20% of the apps have only been used once. Appostrophic Reviews that the challenge is not only that our application is not uninstalled, but that how many of the users use it.

According to the study conducted by Distimo, if any app fails to get back the app user in seven days from installation, it has a 60% chance to return to never open. At this point, it is time for app publisher to reconsider the importance of retaining the mobile users. It is crucial to acquire many users (and there are several strategies for it) but before that, we must know how to retain them. The process that every developer should follow before prioritizing user acquisition is to improve retention of those who already have. This way we ensure that we don’t lose any money or users in the future. Thus, how can we improve retention of the users? Appostrophic Reviews various designed processes that help app publishers to maintain customer retention. For this, every app developer must follow customer retention steps to increase their user retention.

Define funnels and KPIs

Before starting work retention we have to know exactly the way to acquire users, what steps are followed for these users to become paying users and what are those best KPIs (indicators) that analyzed within our app.

Analyze data

The previous step has allowed us to gather all the information necessary to determine the critical points of the app. Now it’s time to discuss how we can best overcome them and begin to define how to prioritize.

User First

Similarly we must analyze the data we get from the application, you also need to talk with users to see firsthand what they like to see in the app, what bothers them most and what information they would like. This last point is very important as it will allow us to know the information that users would like to receive in the app: rankings, tips to overcome the screen, data value etc.

Notifications

As important is to know what information to share with the user and how will that information is strategic for the company and app sharing. The app developer should also be interested to notify if he has made improvements in the app or have launched a similar app. Thus, it is crucial to use notifications wisely. Most importantly make sure that you give your customers the opportunity to opt into notifications and experiment using various styles and messages for your notifications.

Channels

Are we interested only contact users through the app? Will we have a section specifically for it? Will we use push-notifications to invite the user to enter the app again? Or, will we use channels outside the application, as may be the e-mail marketing? If any app developer does not ponder over these questions than its time to define what will be the best channels to communicate with the user without us being intrusive, with the goal of getting the users back into application use. Using strong communities like Facebook and Twitter work as the best foundation to increase user retention for your app.

Spread the word for Special Deals

Mobile apps are the best source to distribute discounts and coupons to the most loyal customers. This can be done with new QR code or discount coupon that is further integrated with another mobile app. The more you spread the word of special offers of a mobile app, the greater it intensifies the effect and encourage new customers to boost your app sales.

Prioritize

Once we know that there is information that we would share from corporate and strategic point of view and there is also information that interests the user to have more hooked to our app. At this point we will prioritize what we will share and through which channels. Using new dynamics within the app also helps to promote your app specifically if you offer rewards within a game app. There have been various game app dynamics discussed in this classic post of Techcrunch.

Facebook for Android is being updated to show new feature ‘Trends’ on the official application. This feature has been available in 2014 to users on web browser and now come to the official application for Android. Appostrophic reviews that this new feature is launched to let the users explore the material from disparate sources and different perspectives. The feature is first seen only on Android handsets, for users in the United States and Facebook assures, it will soon also be available for iOS and other countries.

With this news feature, users can now be aware of news, articles, videos and publications being in trend at that time. This is a good way to stay informed while querying friends’ publications, family and pages to which it continues. Appostrophic reviews that when a user will tap on the trending topics, there is a discussion organized in up to five sections;

Items-shown as news organizations covering the story.

The History- shows posts of people who are part of the story itself.

Friends and Groups- shows what other people in the user’s network say.

Near the scene-shows posts of people who are close to where the story unfolds.

Live Feed -feed with posts showing real-time sequence of the reactions of people around the world.

For example, articles, show you the original coverage of news agencies;  In the story gives the perception of the actual participants;  Friends & Groups gives you the smack talk of your own social network;  Near the scene shows you messages and Live Feed close observers give an interpretation of streaming the entire scene.

The new section Trending and Trends show, along with the message updates from your friends and groups to this story. Furthermore, if you want to explore how this feature is going to work, you can watch the video here.

As being the largest social network platform, Facebook always represents tremendous opportunities for app developers who want to engage with massive audience in a short time span. Appostrophic Application Development Company also considers Facebook as much faster platform to promote any business or brand. Appostrophic app developers know that that Facebook application development requires a thorough knowledge of using Facebook platform, and are skilled enough to promote any app project through this social medium.

Today we see that smartphones have become an indispensable tool for millions of people. The proliferation of mobile devices and platforms represent the technological changes which directly affect certain levels. With having a best strategic use of mobile platforms, companies must decide how the application will become more efficient. Inevitably, this task falls to the developers, who face the challenge of developing mobile applications. It is not an easy challenge for app developers when we consider the number of mobile devices and platforms in the world.

Appostrophic reviews that the debate for native apps, web apps, or hybrid, seems endless. Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages, the trick is to know: what is the ideal form for each case, before the app launch and its development. And the decision depends not only on how easy or difficult it is to develop the application itself, but also on factors, the weight you want to give to the user experience, performance, agility and maintenance ability to update the application itself or the information contained therein.

Native Application development

Native applications are built to be installed on specific platforms of iOs and Android, with the use of specific software development kit (SDK) platform. Example of such applications involves the apps for iPhone and iPad that are designed for iOS platform and are written in Xcode / Objective-C. When it comes to native app development, there are certain advantages app owners must know before using the native language. These advantages involve;

Greater interface speed

Full control of the sensor device

Optimal user experience

Development of logic to functionalize offline

Management of data security

Integration with backend enterprise

Push notification

In-app advertising from native mobile app networks

The native applications written for one platform cannot be implemented in another, i.e. a native application designed specifically for Android cannot be installed on an iPhone.

Another feature of these applications is that they offer faster performance and direct access to native device services, however, this speed requires additional resources to develop and maintain the platform, which increases the price and has more time.

You can say that native apps are the best choice for game app development, as it gives a rich user experience. Also, you have to highlight the safety of this type of applications from those developed in HTML5. Unlike native applications, HTML5 data cached or encrypted in this language cannot be protected, with easier access code and can get corrupt. Critics of this approach say that the cost is too high for two reasons: The first is that there is a process of separate development in which the code base and skill set required for each platform. The second is that programmers are harder to find and are more expensive.

Appostrophic application Development Company also believes that Native development involves specific skills and capacity to develop on the most popular operating systems: iOS, Android, Windows Phone. Appostrophic app developers recommend native mobile apps to our clients as native ones give utmost user-experience and accessibility. Appostrophic recommends native apps for businesses and enterprises as it gives them an advantage of push notification which is the most effective need for app marketing.

Appostrophic reviews the very recent app feature from Facebook app, ‘I’m voter’, and that app has been proved to increase voter’s turnout in U.S election 2014. Facebook activates a button to encourage participation in the recent U.S election.

According to reports, it is reviewed that after Facebook launched this app feature, the button “I am a voter” appears in the news feed of Facebook. Users who log on using their phones can see the message. With the option of Free to click, users can highlight their voting status to their friends, without noting its decision. Even by clicking the button, Appostrophic reviews that users could post a status announcing they were “voting in the U.S. 2014 General Election.” The status linked to an app used for locating polling places.

Moreover, Appostrophic reviews that Facebook has launched a similar app for the previous elections of 2010, and the posted voting status was crossed with the real voters’ data. This helped the analysts to evaluate who actually turned voters up at the polls. But what matters here is: Does posting the status really increase voter turnover? Appostrophic reviewed industry reports and found that it actually did;

Facebook manipulated the news, nearly two million US users during the presidential election in 2012 without their knowledge. This manipulation led to a 3% increase in the number of voters. According to industry report from ‘Mother Jones’ ; it is found that during the 3 months time period before the U.S presidential Election Day 2012, Facebook has changed its news section when 1.9 million U.S users started sharing messages of prominent news articles that are uploaded by their instead of sharing the usual personal messages.

Appostrophic reviewed from the study that the effect was felt more by casual Facebook users, who paid more attention to this kind of motivation by government information. Facebook did not warn users about the psychological experiment, but actually managed to increase voter turnout by 3%. According to Michael Buckley, vice president of global communications business in Facebook, the objective of this test was to see how they users reacted to the sections of top stories of the day.  However, it is not the first time Facebook makes psychological experiments about its users without their knowledge.

Furthermore, Appostrophic reviews the researchers concluded that the Facebook graphic directly mobilized 60,000 voters (thanks to the ripple effect), and ultimately caused an additional 340,000 votes to be cast on the Election day 2014, as explained by the New Republic. However, this showed that although this Facebook feature is meant to be for scientific use, but its evidence that social media can have such a strong impact on people’s mental state.