iPhone App Development, Android Apps & more

IPhone’s growing popularity has been largely attributed to Apple’s innovation and revolutionary approach to technology. The cool features and easy customization makes iPhone one of the most in demand smart phones today. With the continued increase of iPhone sales, the number of consumers accessing the internet using their smart phones also increases. This makes it a viable niche market for businesses to tap into. Creating a business app for iPhone is definitely a practical idea for companies who want to create a new niche for their businesses.

In order to give app developers better opportunity, Google has finally launched the official Google+ page solely for Android Developers. The open community is for developers to be fully motivated in participating and setting up collaborative efforts among developers in creating Android apps in line with the current consumer demand in the market. The objective of Google is to provide an improved and unified experience while using the Android platform when creating apps both for third party app developers and manufacturers.

Although a lot of people particularly Kindle Fire owners awaited for the long overdue Kindle update from Amazon, it actually did more than update the tablet and improve its interface. The Kindle Fire 6.2.1 Update ruined the one click rooting method which developers introduced at the XDA Developer’s Forum. Although Kindle Fire users can still keep their root by blocking the online update which Amazon started to push last week, those who have unwittingly updated their tablets may have to invest some effort to re – root their tablets.

RIM (Research In Motion) is set to release its BlackBerry PlayBook 0s 2.0 this coming February and developers must make sure that their apps are ready for this tablet when the launch date is announced. With RIM preparing its tablet’s market introduction, the company encourages all BlackBerry app developer to test their old and new apps with the new OS version to evaluate its compatibility to guarantee better and seamless end user experience.

Last October, Google introduced the Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich for Android based smart phones and tablets. The new Android platform from Google has two purposes and these are to improve the tablet user experience and to have unified software for tablet and smart phone devices. Before Android 4.0, majority of Google tablets ran on Honeycomb version (Android 3.0) but Google’s attempts seemed to be hurried and imperfect in their aim to compete with Apple’s iPad.

And while there are lots of promising investments when it comes to iPad app development, iPad app developers need to understand all the basic requirements of iPad app development and learn the objects and the expectations of the market. When a client asks for a specific application coupled with detailed requirements, developers need to make sure that these requirements are fulfilled. For example, if a client want in iPad app that will allow remote shopping to be convenient, the iPad app developer must understand all the things that will be needed to develop a shopping app in line with the specific requirements of the clients.

Android app developers face big changes in writing apps for Android. Google android blog provides valuable resources for Android app developers. Android Design is where all Android app developers gather together and according to Christian Robertson, the Android Design is more like "the place to learn about principles, building blocks, and patterns for creating world-class Android user interfaces.