Developing A Successful Mobile App iOS and Android Mobile App Development ecosystem is growing at a very fast pace. The reduction in the prices of smartphones and internet, has substantially increased their demand and so does the market for mobile apps. There are close to 5M applications on iOS and Android play store put together, and this application market is expected to reach around $400B by 2026. There are many factors which have contributed to this humongous rise in the mobile apps demand however, the prominent one is the rise in the number of Cross Platform App Development frameworks. Mobile apps help businesses to brand and connect with customers by push notifications, customized offers, and gain insights on customer behavior. To leverage these benefits, many businesses want to build their own apps in this new-age digital economy. Although Android or iOS App Development is a time-consuming process, we are here to help you with the steps involved in a successful app development. 1. Application Objective: Application objective is the actual reason why the application is being developed. It is very important to have a clear objective in mind for making the application so that the team and people involved are focused and aligned in that direction and avoid wasting effort in creating un-necessary features. 2. Feature List: This is the next step after deciding on the Application Objective. Depending upon on the application objective, you decide on the important functionalities you want to have in the application to achieve the objective. Deciding limited but all-important features is important as that will save a lot of un-necessary development time and cost and will also refrain bombarding un-necessary features to the users. 3. Market and Gap Analysis: This is one of the important steps to making a successful application. Market research helps you to understand the good as well as bad offerings by the competition. Good offerings are the ones which you cannot miss to have in your application, and bad/missing features are the opportunities to distinguish your app from the competition. 4.Developing A Wire frame: Wireframes or mockups are rough high-level sketches of your application showcasing the aesthetics and application flow. 5. Technology Selection: Mobile And Web App Development uses many app development frameworks available in the market. There is native – which is platform specific, and hybrid – which is cross-platform way of application development. Depending upon the target audience, app features and budget you need to decide which application framework to be used for a successful mobile application development. 6. Application Development and Testing: This is the actual development stage when the designing and programming of the application is done. The output of the above stages is used to develop the application. The features, technology, objective, wire frames etc. are referred and kept in mind while developing the application. Once developed, the application is thoroughly tested to ensure its bug free and works as expected providing a seamless experience to the users. 7. Application Launch: At this stage you your application is finally ready to be launched into the market. You need to upload your applications in the App store (for iOS apps) and Google Play Store (for Android apps) from where the users download the mobile app. It is always good to plan some marketing activities for the quick success, downloads and acceptability of the app. Digital Marketing, Media Campaign, App Store Optimization are some of the well-known marketing strategies. CONCLUSION: Mobile app development is an expensive, effort intensive and long process. Pixel Values Technolabs, is globally renowned and one of the top-rated Software Development Company having expertise in developing all genres of mobile applications. We help and guide our clients in leveraging our extensive end-to-end mobile app development experience in developing their successful mobile app. Author Bio: Tauseef Anwar is the CEO of Pixel Values Technolabs, The Best Mobile App Development Company In India. Tauseef believes in making customer satisfaction as the top most priority and takes care of the Business Development and operations. An entrepreneur by heart, he is always ready to speak a few words or discuss the latest tech especially if it is mobile technology. Contact Information: Call us at 0712-6611379 OR 9822367795 Skype: Pixel_values Website: www.pixelvalues.com
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Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Are Changing The Way You Do Business
Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Are Changing The Way You Do Business With the rapid increase in the advancement of Mobile App Development Company their adoption of digitization everywhere, businesses are automating the human tasks which are mundane and don’t require distinguishing or remarkably different skills to perform the task. This helps business in keeping minimal manpower, without the constraints of location and has this technology work for them round the clock. Chatterbot or Chatbot is one such example of digitization. Chatbot is a computer program that simulates human conversation through voice commands, or text chats or both. Chatbots are also known as IM bot, bot, interactive agent, or artificial conversation entity. Some of the examples of this kind of virtually assisting applications are Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant, WeChat, and Facebook Messenger. Chatbot is designed and developed in such way that it is widely used by App Development Companies as it interacts with customers like humans assisting them in resolving their query. There are two ways in which chatbot functions, a) with set of defined guidelines and b) with Machine Learning. Chatbot with a set of defined guidelines works only in a specific way in which it is programmed. It has very limited intelligence in place and can only respond to a set of questions or vocabulary. An example of such kind of chatbot with defined guidelines is the initial conversation / message when you call/text customer care service if any modern day business. The instruction asks you to press 1, 2, or 3 for specific tasks/queries, however, if you press 4 or asks a query which is not code programmatically, the system fails to resolve the query and would either proceed to repeat the command or transfer the caller to a human assistant. Chatbot with Machine Learning is designed and developed in such a way that it has Artificial Intelligence in place which helps it in continuous learning and growing it is also growing widely in Mobile Game Development. Such kind of chatbot is designed to self-learn by the way of new dialogues and words, and its accuracy keeps increasing with each reply. The use of such kind of chatbot has become very extensive in today’s dynamic world and its use varies from companies like Facebook to even to US Presidential elections. Depending upon the need and purpose of the business, there are different types of bots which are available and/or designed and developed. Few of the recommended AI based chatbot tools are: * Watson Assistant * Bold360 * Rulai * LivePerson * Inbenta * Ada * Vergic With the increasing financials around the human resources, and the need to answer customer queries 24×7 across locations, it is evident that AI chatbots are here to stay to benefit organizations dealing Web Application Development Services on their bottom-line. In the coming years we’ll see Chatbots getting used even by the smaller businesses, and AI chatbots will become smart enough to handle customer queries more emphatically. Author Bio: Tauseef Anwar is the CEO of Pixel Values Technolabs, The Best Mobile App Development Company In India Tauseef believes in making customer satisfaction the topmost priority and takes care of the Business Development and operations. An entrepreneur by heart, he is always ready to speak a few words or discuss the latest tech especially if it is mobile technology. Contact Information: Call us at 0712-6611379 OR 9822367795 Skype: Pixel_values Website: www.pixelvalues.com
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Xamarin Vs Flutter: Best cross-platform application development framework?
Xamarin Vs Flutter: Best cross-platform application development framework? In the last decade, there has been a tremendous growth in the mobile industry especially regarding the Mobile App Development, and this is increasing. According to one of the reports, there are more than 3 billion smartphone users in the world and this number is increasingly rapidly every year. Majority of these smartphone are based on either iOS platform backed by Apple, or Android platform backed by Google. There are number of programming languages which can be used to develop the mobile application in these platforms. Xamarin and Flutter are such cross-platform development frameworks, which can be used to develop a cross-platform application. As these are most trending and growing technologies, we have done a quick comparison of them to help you with the best choice for your next Cross-Platform App Development Framework Overview: Xamarin is one of the leading open source cross-platform development framework which uses C# as the programming language is backed by Microsoft. Xamarin was founded in 2011 and was acquired by Microsoft in 2016, which later made it an open source platform, and now it has become an integral part of the Xamarin Visual Studio IDE. Flutter is also an open source free cross-platform development framework tool which uses Dart as the programming language and is designed by Google to create high performance Android and iOS Mobile Applications. It provides a single code, which is also the case in Xamarin. Technical Architecture: For its iOS and Android platforms, Xamarin uses Mono as it execution environment. In iOS platform, Mono runs along with the Objective-C on UNIX kernel, however, in android it runs along with Android run time on Linux. As its backed by Microsoft, Microsoft has provided a detailed documentation to technical architecture used for Android and iOS in Xamarin.The Dart framework of Flutter uses Skia engine which is bigger in size as it has most of the components inbuilt and hence, usually doesn’t require a bridge to communicate with the native modules. The architecture of Flutter is explained in detailed in GitHub wiki. Overall, Flutter has a better technical architecture in place than Xamarin as it has most of the native components inbuilt in its framework itself. Community Support: Since Xamarin is an old cross-platform framework, it has huge community base all across the world. There’s a huge number of developers who uses Xamarin and hence, it is has a huge community forums to discuss the issues, problems, events, updates etc. Xamarin also actively organizes events like Xamarin development summit to keep its community active and strong. Though Flutter is new, but the growth it is shown is very promising. It actually started gaining developer’s attention only after 2017. Even Flutter is organizing events like meet-ups, conferences and Flutter Live to keep increasing it developer base. Though rapidly growing, Flutter has a developer base which is lot lesser than Xamarin. UI Design: Xamarin uses platform specific native UI components for the platform specific apps using Xamarin.android and Xamarin.iOS. Advantage of this approach is it provides greater amount of flexibility and native like look for the cross-platform apps.Flutter uses two different widgets for each of the platforms, for Android Mobile App Development it uses (Material widgets) and for iOS it uses (Cupertino Widgets). Using Skia graphics library, Flutter creates its own GUI components and hence, doesn’t use any native GU components. Hence, this is more advantageous to the developers for customization.Looking at the current rate of growth, undoubtedly Flutter is the future considering its feature richness and ease to use. The only advantage Xamarin has at this point in time the existing huge developer base and the strong community support, which we are sure Flutter will catch-up with in the coming years. Author Bio: Nimish Gupta is the Director (PMO) at Pixel Values Technolabs, The Best Mobile App Development Company In India. Nimish has over 13 years of experience in the Information Technology & Telecommunication industry. He has done lots of projects for the Government of India. He is very determined to ensure that solutions presented to the clients adopt the right technology and are scalable to adapt to new platform requirements of the ever-growing Information Technology industry. Contact Information: Call us at 0712-6611379 OR 9822367795 Skype: Pixel_values Website: www.pixelvalues.com
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Google Maps Turns 15 Years, And Still Going Strong
Google Maps Turns 15 Years, And Still Going Strong On this day while we all celebrate the 15 years of one of the most used app in the world, Google Maps, we would like to share with you all a glimpse of the 15 years journey and what’s now on this special occasion which will keep Google Maps one of the most trusted and used location finder app around the world.15 years ago on 8th February Google Maps was conceived and designed in Sydney. 15 years ago Google Maps started with an idea of mapping the world together helping each one of us to go wherever we want to go. This objective and believe gradually increased the Google Maps reach, services, accuracy, and users download and trust. Today, as we celebrate 15 years of Google Maps, there are billions of users of this app every month across 220 countries using live traffic updates and many more features. Over these years, we have we have just seen this number is continuously increasing with the increasing number of updates this app has provided. To celebrate 15 years of Google Maps, Mr. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, has come up with some really interesting and user friendly features in the latest update. The latest update offers a fresh look to the app from inside out and gives you access to everything on your finger-tips. These updates are: Google Maps icon: On its 15th birthday, Google Maps icon gets a cool fresh icon replacing the solid-red “pins” with the four colours used in other Google logos. Explore: As the name suggest, this feature helps you to explore the nearby areas to grab lunch, find museum, landmarks, or live music. It provides you the information, ratings, reviews and more for about 200 million places around the world. Commute: This feature will let actual users to add actual information about locations to improve maps. Updates: Updates will keep you posted on the ‘must-see’ spots around the area of your interest. This also include the commuting features which provides you with departure and arrival times, wheelchair accessibility and many more such user-friendly features.Google continuously believes in enriching user experience and hence, keep evolving their Mobile App Development with new insights like recently introduced features of Temperature, Accessibility, Women’s section, Security On-board, and No. of carriages available. User can update their experiences here to keep this data as realistic and live as possible for fellow users.Recently, the most sought after feature in Google Maps has been that of the Live View. Google, with their state of art development shows you the live direction in Augmented Reality App Development by combining Machine Learning, real-world imagery and Smartphone sensors. This is still in evolving phase and is expected to be more robust and accurate in the coming updates and would help you with exact direction guidance in real time.Pixel Values Technolabs is an ISO 9001:2008 Certified Mobile App Development Company in India having great expertise in integration of Google maps in their development process. Author Bio: Nimish Gupta is the Director (PMO) at Pixel Values Technolabs, a top-rated Software Development Company in India. Nimish has over 13 years of experience in the Information Technology & Telecommunication industry. He has done lots of projects for the Government of India. He is very determined to ensure that solutions presented to the clients adopt the right technology and are scalable to adapt to new platform requirements of the ever-growing Information Technology industry. Contact Information: Call us at 0712-6611379 OR 9822367795 Skype: Pixel_values Website: www.pixelvalues.com
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Introduction Of PHP Laravel 6 And What Makes It More Unique To Become #1 Choice Of Web Developers
Introduction Of PHP Laravel 6 And What Makes It More Unique To Become #1 Choice Of Web Developers Introduction to PHP According to the global research, “The market share of PHP laravel framework enjoys the highest virtue with a whopping 25.85%.” It was first developed by Taylor Otwell in 2011. Soon after its launch, it became the ultimate choice for both developers and end user because of its clean, expressive and flawless syntax. Today Laravel is considered as the most advanced framework of the PHP language. Latest introduction of laravel 6 that has even made Web Application Development more easy compared o he previous versions. I have overall given a breath of fresh air to the developers with the powerful tools in the bag. What is Laravel? Laravel is one of the best, free and open-source PHP Web Development frameworks which are designed to deliver easy accessibility over the web application development or Laravel Application Development. Though Laravel is free and open-source, it doesn’t leave its community developers left alone and in every six months comes with new updates which makes the development faster, smoother, bug free and more robust. Following this ritual of continuous update, Laravel has come up with a new version Laravel 6. The moment Laravel 6 was announced, it gained tremendous popularity. Laravel has the similar design patterns as that of Symfony, and is a potential alternative to the CodeIgniter framework. What is new with Laravel 6? The latest version of the Laravel 6 comes highly feature rich, and it includes features such as: * Ignition: A new and smart error page. * Laravel UI: UI scaffolding logic such as Bootstrap or Vue is extracted in its own Laravel/UI package * Job Middleware: New feature allowing developers to wrap custom logic around the execution of queued jobs * Lazy Collections: New feature leveraging PHP generators to empower you to seamlessly work with very large datasets * Support for Semantic Versioning * Compatibility with Vapor * Improved Authorization Responses Future of PHP PHP is simple, highly scalable and efficient programming language which is successfully available for years now. As PHP is very flexible, it’s easy to write code in it. With the super strong developer community base and availability of continuous updates it is one of the highly preferred enterprise web development languages. Hence, considering the wide acceptance and critical we see a robust future ahead for PHP. Pixel Values Technolabs is one of the top Mobile App Development Company providing Digital Marketing services to the clients worldwide along with the mobile and web app development services. Conclusion: All the high class features of Laravel 6 have made it one of the most loved frameworks. Being open source even PHP provides an extensive community support to its users, which makes it approachable and understandable by all its users. Hence finding PHP Developers to work on this framework is not a big deal. We at Pixel Values Technolabs have skilled and experienced development, which can turn your ideas into reality. Pixel Values Technolabs is one of the top Mobile App Development Company providing Digital Marketing services to the clients worldwide along with the mobile and web app development services. Author Bio: Nimish Gupta is the Director (PMO) at Pixel Values Technolabs,The Best Mobile App Development Company In India. Nimish has over 13 years of experience in the Information Technology & Telecommunication industry. He has done lots of projects for the Government of India. He is very determined to ensure that solutions presented to the clients adopt the right technology and are scalable to adapt to new platform requirements of the ever-growing Information Technology industry. Contact Information: Call us at 0712-6611379 OR 9822367795 Skype: Pixel_values Website: www.pixelvalues.com
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Cross-Platform App Development Framework
Cross-Platform App Development Framework Today approximately 2 million apps exist on Google Play and App Store respectively. In this ever-evolving Mobile App Development ecosystem, this number is expected to increase by 180% by 2020.In such a competitive and ever evolving world, no company can risk missing their presence on either platform. The challenge to this is the cost of development, maintenance and up-gradation of the native apps. Hence, to counter these challenges cross-platform app development has emerged as the first choice of businesses so that with single code base the app can be developed for Android and iOS. What is Cross-App Platform Framework? Cross-platform App Development frameworks provide developers with the ability to code only once which runs on multiple platforms, thereby enabling them to release a product/software faster, safer and with better quality. What’s the Difference between Native and Cross-Platform App Development? The Benefits of Cross-Platform App development: Native v/s cross-platform is an eternal altercation which has divided the tech community for years now. However, as it’s a debatable topic, some experts prefer native apps over cross-platform apps, on the other hand, some experts prefer the other way round.Since both these App Development technologies are in a constant state of evolution this topic needs to be revisited from time to time to check which of these options is currently leading the game. Cross-Platform Mobile Development Comparison: Now that we have seen the importance of cross-platform development frameworks, let’s review the available frameworks, which are – Flutter, React Native and Xamarin. Xamarin It’s a cross-platform framework with C# and native platform libraries wrapped in a .NET layer, consisting of three major components: Xamarin Platform, Xamarin Cloud, and Xamarin Insights.Xamarin Platform offers APIs, controls, runtime engines, encryption, authentication, virtual machines, and much more. Xamarin Cloud offers automated testing platform on multiple devices, whereas, Xamarin Insights is a monitoring tool that helps developers in tracking application crashes and exceptions. React Native React Native is an open source mobile development framework allowing developers to develop iOS and Android applications with JavaScript and a handful of native component APIs. The React Native framework implements a selection of native UI components, means the applications will look like native apps and in fact if done correctly, a React Native app is hardly distinguishable from a native app. Scenarios where substantial customization is needed, the advantage of working within React Native’s abstraction layer lessens to the point where in some cases developing the app natively would be more beneficial. Futter Flutter is Google’s mobile app development SDK which comes with a complete framework, widgets, and tools, thus, giving developers an easy way to build and deploy visually impressive, fast processing mobile apps on both Android and iOS App Development platforms, hence, one codebase for both platforms. Flutter uses Dart and a collection of native widgets to create stunning cross platform apps.It’s developed and supported by Google and has already gained a lot of popularity and strong community presence, hence, Flutter is considered the best tool for cross platform mobile development. Mobile application development platforms comparison Now that you’re well equipped with all the information, depending upon your project need you can select the best way to develop cross platform mobile apps in your case. You can choose either Flutter, Xamarin, React Native, or a native mobile app development framework. Author Bio: Tauseef Anwar is the CEO of Pixel Values Technolabs, The Best Mobile App Development Company In India. Tauseef believes in making customer satisfaction as the top most priority and takes care of the Business Development and operations. An entrepreneur by heart, he is always ready to speak a few words or discuss the latest tech especially if it is mobile technology. Contact Information: Call us at 0712-6611379 OR 9822367795 Skype: Pixel_values Website: www.pixelvalues.com
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Usage & implementation Of Offline Functionality In Mobile Application Development
Usage & implementation Of Offline Functionality In Mobile Application Development There are more mobile devices in the world than the total number of computers and television units combined. With the rapid adoption of smartphones and tablets, there’s a radical change in the way how the majority of business owners deliver their services or products to clients: they consider mobile apps as a way to the significant improvement of their customer service. We belong to a time where users are dependent on apps in turn; these apps are dependent on internet connectivity for running all functionalities. This dependency of mobile apps on the internet restricts its access and makes it difficult to use in different locations. ‘Offline-first’ is a development approach ensuring that an app works as smooth offline as it does online. Creating an offline-first app, in the right context, ensures a more reliable and faster experience, retaining users and providing a better user experience for your customers. With forward-planning, user-first thinking, and offline-first approach, it’s possible to offer a fast and high-quality user experience “offline”. Making an App work Offline? Most apps require an internet connection, but as they often access the data that doesn’t change frequently, apps don’t really need to be connected to internet all the times. Hence, in such apps, an ‘always-on’ connection to the server is not needed. If an app only has to go to the server when it needs to, rather than all the time, it will be faster and more reliable. ‘Offline-first’ apps make it possible to move content off the server and onto the phone only when needed. Thus, providing fast access to the users and increasing their user experience. An example of the same is any online shopping app which you’re trying to access from a remote poor internet location. In a traditional online app, filling your cart needs the app to go back and forth to the server all the time: because of the poor connection, it’s slow and frustrating. Offline-first moves the content (the shopping app’s directory of products) to the app, thus speeding up the shopping experience. You only need to go online to complete the payment and schedule of the delivery. By moving some of the server-stored content to the app, the whole user experience is faster, smoother and more reliable. Should your app be offline-first? It is a very context specific whether your app should be offline-first. Below mentioned are the three most common reasons for going offlineUsage of your app in areas of poor connectivity: For mobile app development in offline mode, it is important to consider if the app is likely going to be used in areas of poor signal or with limited WiFi connectivity. A happy app without any network hindrance makes the life of a user easier, it is even relevant for users who travel frequently and cannot depend on having a reliable mobile signal. Enterprise-focused productivity apps are one such candidate that can help make our lives a little bit easier and more productive Huge directory of content in your app, accessible via a search function: One cannot depend on slow or unreliable web connection while searching large volumes of online data; it can be time-consuming and can result in a user experience that’s slow and frustrating. This problem is not limited to shopping apps but also affect other mobile game development, utility. To improve your UX in terms of accessibility and speed it is recommended to implement lightweight version of an online database. Your app has limited features and does not require online functionality: It is worth realizing whether your app needs an internet connection for performing its key features. Many applications need go back to internet each time they log a menu option, even ones you consume regularly. Such processes make the app slower and users who want to perform simple operation, in a single transaction this is definitely not helpful for them. As a feasible option data could be downloaded to the app periodically, thus making the UX smoother and fast. Pixel Values Technolabs is one of the top Mobile App Development Company providing Digital Marketing services to the clients worldwide along with the mobile and web app development services. Development of an app offline shows a mobile app design and development challenge but for certain apps gains made in user experience outweighed the costs of offline-first thinking.Not just one, there are many offline apps that made the lives of people simple and easier, success stories even when the internet is absent: Netflix Even in poor connection Netflix started entertaining its users across the globe by allowing its accessibility. As announced, one can download their favorite TV shows and movies on their mobile device using internet and watch them later anytime/anywhere being offline. Google Maps Google Maps a web based service is a best example of offline app which allows users to download pre-set area of their map and then allow them to access detailed maps and directions from anywhere. In case of emergency users can navigate on Google maps without internet connection. Conclusion With offline-first approach no matter what the quality of the internet connection is, the performance of your app will be stable which is indeed the most important for the user experience. Author Bio: Tauseef Anwar is the CEO of Pixel Values Technolabs, The Best Mobile App Development Company In India. Tauseef believes in making customer satisfaction as the top most priority and takes care of the Business Development and operations. An entrepreneur by heart, he is always ready to speak a few words or discuss the latest tech especially if it is mobile technology. Contact Information: Call us at 0712-6611379 OR 9822367795 Skype: Pixel_values Website: www.pixelvalues.com
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