What is a Mobile application development and how to develop an app?
Mobile app development is the creation of software that is intended to run on mobile devices and is optimized to take advantage of the unique features and hardware of those products.
The types of mobile apps that developers create include native apps, hybrid apps, and HTML5 apps.
The mobile app development business is expected to grow to nearly $ 600 billion by 2020.
Status 200 is a well-known mobile application development company in Pakistan.
How to develop a mobile app
There are two ways to think about modern mobile app development, as well as how to categorize mobile devices into two common categories. Native development and cross-platform development.
Native development
This method of developing mobile apps describes how to build apps for a particular mobile operating system using specialized tools.
To develop apps for iOS, you need to code in either Objective-C or Swift with XCode, an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) dedicated to MacOS.
Apps for Android devices are developed in Java using the Android SDK (Software Development Kit), which runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
There are several reasons to develop a native mobile app for each mobile OS, including speed, security, and reliability. The big drawback is that when developing both iOS and Android apps, you basically have to create the whole thing twice.
Cross-platform development
This type of development uses the framework to build the app once and then create both iOS and Android versions. Here is a list of some of the most popular frameworks.
ion
Ionic is an open-source framework used to develop mobile applications. It provides a variety of tools and services for building mobile UIs with a native look and feel. A native wrapper is required to run the Ionic framework on mobile devices.
Apache Cordova
Apache Cordova, officially known as PhoneGap, is a mobile development framework originally created by Nitobe. Currently owned by Adobe Systems. With this framework, developers don’t need to know Java or Swift, they only need to know basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
React native
React Native is Facebook’s cross-platform mobile app development framework. Like React, React Native allows developers to build mobile apps using JSX and JavaScript derivatives. Although the learning curve is steeper than other frameworks like Apache Cordova, React Native allows developers to take advantage of the more native features of devices such as cameras without additional plugins.
Mobile operating system
iOS (iPhone, iPad, Apple TV)
iOS is a mobile operating system developed and distributed by Apple Inc. Originally released with the iPhone in 2007, it now works with many other devices such as the iPod Touch, iPad, and Apple TV.
iOS shares the same roots as the macOS operating system used on modern Apple computers.
Android
Android is an open-source Linux-based mobile operating system. Android was developed by the Open Handset Alliance, led by Google and featuring contributions from many other companies.
Originally developed for phones, today’s Android powers everything from tablets and smartwatches to smart devices such as refrigerators.
