How much dependency do you have on mobile phones? The answer cannot be quantified, which means the amount of dependency is too large to be measured in units.According to the latest survey by Gallup,people check their mobile phones at least once in an hour for some or the other work.Reasons for Small Business to Invest in Mobile Apps:1. Usage and Impact of Apps in Everyday Routine:Have you ever wondered what do people use the most in mobile phones? Is it camera, maps, applications, gallery or music player? The answer is obvious and quite predictable: applications. This is because the world of apps has becomes so large that anything to everything is now possible on mobile phones with an appropriate app.2. Ubiquity of Mobile Apps: Be it booking a flight ticket, hotel room, table at a restaurant or shopping for clothes, footwear, medicines or grocery, you can do so with few taps on mobile phones. These trends are an alarm towards increasing usage of mobile apps and growing field of mobile app development.Why do Small Business Owners Hesitate in Getting an App Developed?There are multiple reasons why it is tedious for small businesses to come up with an app:

1. Lack of technical knowledge and skills required to build a mobile app
2. Designing an app that is appealing as well as useful to end users
3. Inculcating all necessary features in the app while keeping it user-friendly and simple to use
4. Overhead of developing apps for multiple platforms: iOS, Android and Windows

These are obviously not small obstacles to ignore, but consulting a well-known mobile app development company India brings down all these problems by providing a convincing and profitable solution.A well conducted research and proper guidance by top app developers is the key solution to underlying problems of building a business mobile app.Benefits with Mobile Apps1. Stay Connected with Customers in Real TimeApps being available through mobile phones and these gadgets being a quintessential item and carried everywhere, it is the best medium to reach out to customers anytime. Any sort of information or update can be broadcasted to your set of audience easily with real time notifications.What’s more is that you can be assured of getting the attention span of people as notification from apps usually are taken seriously and read.2. Increase Brand RecognitionYour business app is in front of eyes whenever the user unlocks screen of mobile phone. This means it is noticeable all the time and in memory of user deep inside. Whenever similar type of need arises, he/she can immediately relate you’re your business via that app.This eventually leads to your brand promotion by increasing awareness of your business among targeted audience.3. Increase Customer LoyaltyOut of many ways to promote your business including Facebook ads, banners, newspaper ads, selling coupons, email marketing, developing an app and making it available to Android, iOS and Windows user is a genuine and sincere approach. The noise of promotions and marketing eventually leads to losing of impact of business on customers. In such times, a mobile app is a way to make true connection with your audience and connect with them in a sensible way while being just a fingertip away.ConclusionThe cost to develop an app should be thought of as an initial investment that can reap fruitful results for businesses in future. No matter whether you own a small or enterprise level business, mobile app would add value to your existing business by its easy reachability and faster adoption rate....

Swift is the future of iOS app development. Ever since its launch, Swift has been the topic of discussion. More and more developers & companies are turning to Swift which is considered to be future of enterprise app development. Swift is a robust and intuitive programming language specifically for iOS, OS X, tvOS, and watchOS and known to provide immersive, responsive and secure enterprise applications.With Swift, writing code is interactive and fun. The syntax is concise and apps run fast. Swift empowers apps for mobile devices and Macs. The fact that contributes to the popularity of computer language is that Swift is open source. Now the entire developer community can contribute to the programming language.Advantages of SwiftiOS brings numbers of features that popularizes Swift application development:

Advanced error handling model provides clear, expressive syntax for catching and throwing errors.

New Objective-C features such as generics and nullability annotation to make Swift code even cleaner and safer.

Built-in availability checking to make it easy to build the best possible app for each target OS version.

Swift eliminates entire classes of unsafe code.

Features to make your code more expressive.

Using the incredibly high-performance LLVM compiler.

  The Power of Open SourceSwift is developed in the Open Source at swift.org. The source code, bug tracker and mailing list are available to everyone with regular updates. The strong and powerful community of developers are collaborating together to make Swift more powerful and amazing to use. Swift already has support for Apple and Linux with more platforms in pipeline.   ModernSwift combines latest research on programming with extensive experience in building Apple platforms. APIs in Swift are easier to read and maintain with a clean syntax. Codes are less prone to mistakes due to inferred types. Memory is managed automatically, which makes this language fun and easy-to-use.   Robust and FastEver since its conception, Swift was built to perform fast by using the high-performance LLVM compiler. Swift code is transformed into optimized native code to leverage the power of modern hardware. The syntax and standard library have been refined to make the most obvious way to write your code also perform the best.Considered a successor to both the C and Objective-C languages, Swift includes types, flow control, and operators. It also provides object-oriented features such as classes, protocols, and generics which provide Cocoa and Cocoa Touch developers the optimum performance and power needed.   Objective-C InteroperabilityWhether you are looking to create an entirely new application in Swift today or implement new features in your existing app to enhance the functionality, Swift can come to your rescue. Swift code can co-exist with Objective-C files in the same project, with full access to Objective-C API, making it easy to adopt.   Syntax ImprovementsNew syntax features allows writing expressive code and at the same time maintains consistency across the language. The SDKs have employed new Objective-C features to make Swift code even cleaner and safer.   Swift & Enterprise Application Development: Making the connectionWith Swift creating new waves, where does it leave enterprise app developers? Apple CEO Tim Cook refers Swift as the “the next big programming language,” developers will be building apps in “the next 20 years.” Now that’s a remarkable statement coming from Tim Cook. The true power comes from the words Open Source. Due to the simplicity of Swift compared to Objective-C, mobile app developers’ ability to create highly relevant and contextual apps increases by a great deal.   Businesses can utilize features in iOS apps to accelerate employee productivity and streamline processes in years to come. Swift provides the iOS app development community a whole new world of opportunities to influence a programming language that will be primarily used to create enterprise apps and apps that support Apple Watch.Want to build Application in Swift?
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Swift programming language, coming from the stables of Apple Inc. has brought in a new lease of life for iPhone app development - redefining the way enterprise mobile apps are built. Not only is it a “huge leap forward for the iOS ecosystem”, as quoted by Apple CEO, Tim Cook; Swift offers developers more opportunities to build apps using the latest technology. (more…)...

One of the biggest challenges facing enterprises today is the cost and time required to build mobile apps. After all, reaching out to your audience anytime, anywhere is crucial. However, learning a specific language for each platform can turn out to be a mind boggling task and add significant pressure on resources. And it is not just about learning new technologies; cost for deploying app for a particular platform could be an expensive proposition.But that’s going to change. If you have an app idea and don’t know how to code, it doesn’t matter anymore. Codeless development tools are gaining popularity. There are several cloud-based services that allow you to build mobile app with just a drag and drop interface for different platforms. You will be able to develop an app even without writing a single line of code.With codeless app development tools on their side, staff or users with very little app development experience can easily use drag and drop interface to add features without a single line of coding – including maps and Geolocation – into a mobile app.   Advantages of Drag and Drop Codeless ToolsFast Time-to-marketThe primary benefit of using codeless tools - no knowledge of complex code is needed. You don’t have to be a coding geek. Even non-technical staff can get involved in development of apps.If you want to streamline a manual or paper-based process and have an idea for an app that can help overcome the problem, your team can simply drag and drop to create a mobile app to address the problem. These codeless tools allow experienced app developers to totally focus on business apps that play a critical role in improving company’s revenue generating capabilities.Simplicity & Scalability The sheer simplicity of drag-and-drop tools means you can experiment and create prototype to promote your ideas. It allows organizations to test several concepts and check feasibility of mobile initiative to garner interest and support of senior management. Most tools also have the option of easy integration of cloud services. So you don’t need to worry about scalability.Reduced Development Costs Cost of app is directly proportional to complexity. Codeless tools allow companies or brands to get an app on different platforms without investing in a team of developers for a particular platform such as Android or iOS. In fact, even non-technical staff can work on the app.   Codeless Development: On the Flip SideTools are restrictive: Codeless tools allow use of tools and suites limited to the software in a predetermined manner. This might invariably lead to ignoring the preferences of users.Inefficient code: As developer will not be working in a platform's native language, the performance of the final code will be determined by the efficiency of the tool. This may result in inefficient coding that an experienced developer might not use.   Native Apps vs. Codeless App Development There is no denying that native apps rule as they are written for a specific platform. They can take advantage of operating system features typically installed on that platform. Native apps can leverage the device-specific hardware and software, which effectively means that native apps can take optimum advantage of the latest technology on mobile devices.For very simple apps codeless tools might work. However, what about the extremely complex and enterprise-level apps? Can the complex apps be developed with zero code? In case of enterprise-level apps, outsourcing to a leading mobile app development company seems like a feasible option.It still looks like native apps rule all the way when it comes to power and performance in enterprise level or apps demanding complex functionality.   Which Option Works for You?There is no magic formula and it completely depends on your business objectives. Before you begin with the app development process, it is important to analyze and ask questions.

What is your budget?

What is the technical strength of your development team?

Which platform do you want to target?

  Both native and codeless app development come with their strengths and drawbacks. It is up to you to decide which option works well for you.  ...

iOS 9 brings the focus back on “refinements” at every level. The latest operating system is not a complete overhaul, rather focuses on improvements that takes user experience to the next level. It is about stable performance and reliability. The core focus is to allow users to do lot more in their day-to-day lives.Released on September 16, iOS 9 has already crossed the 20% adoption rate threshold. In contrast comparison, it took Android 5.0 Lollipop nearly nine months to accomplish the same feat.Given the relatively high adoption rate, it is about time for app developers to change gears and update their apps to leverage iOS 9’s host of new features such as Spotlight search, a much more proactive SIRI, multitasking on iPad, and support for 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus.   1. Search APIsThe Search API is one of the most significant improvements for developers in iOS 9. Now with this feature, users can enter terms into iPhones or iPads and apps will show relevant results. This is a very helpful feature as it eliminates burden from users to find out top app they might be looking for. The new search API will offer developers deep linking feature that will be able to easily get search results from third-party apps with just a tap.The three main features of new search APIs are:

The NSUserActivity class, which is mainly designed for viewed app content

The Core Spotlight framework, which is primarily for app content

Web markup, designed for apps with content reflected on a website

  Deep linking feature allows users to access the content they are searching for without the need of opening separate apps to access content. This new feature brings users to the content.   2. 3D TouchApple recently launched iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus in its annual September event. With the arrival of Apple’s latest new gadgets, developers can now take advantage of the new 3D Touch features that adds an entire new perspective to UI.This feature senses how deeply you press the display and lets you complete essentials tasks quickly and in an effortless manner. 3D Touch introduces Peek and Pop which lets you preview and act on all types of content - without the need of actually opening it. When you decide to open content, just press a little deeper to Pop into what you are peeking.Developers can take advantage of the new feature with a very simple API as a new property in UITouch. A UITouch object represents the location, size, movement, and force of a finger on the screen for a particular event.This API capitalizes on the possibility of new functionality in apps, such as additional control options fine-grained control or alternative to the tap-and-hold.In addition to the UITouch APIs, Apple has also provided two new sets of classes adding 3D Touch functionality to apps: UIPreviewAction and UIApplicationShortcutItem.UIPreviewAction allows to present content in a preview action or peek quick action when a user swipes the peek upward. This new way unlocks a world of new possibilities by allowing a quick glance at app-specific content, such as email, images, or even websites.UIApplicationShortcutItem objects offer an incredible new feature on the iOS Home screen, offering users quick access to parts of application directly from the device's home screen. Overall, the introduction of 3D Touch presents a new age of interaction with iOS apps.   3. App ThinningThis is a biggie for developers. App Thinning optimizes the install of iOS and watchOS apps to use less device space. With App Thinning, users will only download parts of the binary relevant to the user which primarily depends on the device used.App Thinning has three main components:

App Slicing: Slicing is the process of creating and delivering variants of the app bundle for different target devices.

On Demand Resources (ODR): Resources hosted by the App Store that can be accessed after the user has downloaded the app.

Bitcode: Incorporating Bitcode allows Apple to re-optimize the app’s binary in the future without having to submit a new version.

  4. Contacts APIApple has finally provided a full object oriented API via two new frameworks: Contacts and ContactsUI, replacing the Address Book and Address Book UI frameworks. This new API is relatively easy compared to the old approach.   5. App Transport SecurityWhether you are creating a new app or updating your existing iOS app, you should adopt App Transport Security (ATS) that applies best practices for secure connections between an app and its back end. ATS is easy to adopt and prevents accidental disclosure.If you’re developing a new app, use HTTPS exclusively. If you have an existing app, use HTTPS as much as possible right now. Also, try to come up with a plan to migrate the rest of your app quickly.Got an iOS app idea, but don’t know where to start? Take a step in the right direction; get in touch with us now. You can discuss with our expert iOS app developers for a free quote....