Exploring Best Features Of Android 11 Google has launched the third developer preview of its Android 11 version (just to remind the first Android 11 developer preview came in Feb and the second one came in March). Today we’ll explore some of the feature’s Android Mobile App Development has to offer in this developer review 3 and we can expect them in the final stable launch of Android 11. Important note, this is purely a developer preview and not a public beta, hence, it’s only available to download on Pixel phones and to install these updates you need to go through the process of flashing your phone. 1. Native Screen Recording: One of the important and easy to use feature some Android phones already have is the screen recording. In the drop-down setting shade, you see the screen recording option. Tapping this option, you’ll see a confirmation pop-up, selecting this will start the screen recording and will capture whatever you are doing on the phone. You can cancel the recording the anytime. 2. Message Bubbles: Like how Facebook Messenger’s chat heads work, Mobile App Development has also introduced a notification in the form of Floating bubble when you receive a message through the regular messages app. To enable this, just long-press a message notification and tap “show in a bubble”, and now you get your bubbles – any new messages will popup up as a window from this bubble. 3. Redesigned Notifications: One cool new feature in Android 11 is sorting of notifications into relevant groups. Hence, Android App Developers develop an operating system in which conversations will appear at the top in their own easy to read section, making it easier to quickly reply and carry on with your tasks. Adding some extra finesse, there’s also an element of transparency and gradients added to the recent update. 4. Back Gesture Sensitivity: The back gesture could be little annoying at times when it’s used to perform multiple similar tasks. Thankfully, Android 11 empowers you with two sliders, one each on the left and right side of the screen, to control the sensitivity of the ack gesture. 5. Single Time App Permissions: Google has always been known for enhanced security. With Android 11, Google has probably launched the biggest privacy-based feature. Single time app permission lets you tell an app it can only access your location just that one time you’re using the app, rather having to choose between ‘all the time’, ‘only when I’m using it’ or ‘never’. 6. Scheduling Dark Theme: Android 11 is reported to have the ability of scheduling when your device shifts to dark mode. You can either set a custom time or like so many apps and other Android phones you can also choose to have it come on at sunset and switch off at sunrise. 7. Pin Apps To Top Of Share Sheet: Finally, in Android 11 you’ll be able to pin apps and shortcuts to the Share Menu. This feature briefly appeared in the Android 10 build cycle but never made it to final release. But now it’s back and hopefully, this time the feature will remain. 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. 8. Muting Notifications During Video: I am sure it’s annoying to receive notification when you are capturing a memorable moment with your loved ones. With Android 11, you can mute the notification while recording the videos. 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. 9. Auto Revoke App Permissions: If you think you are not going to use an app after few months, then you can automatically revoke permissions such as camera, location, and more, from such apps. 10. Undoing Recently Cleared Apps: If you happen to accidentally clear an application, then now you can undo the same by quickly swiping down on the screen. There are many more subtle devices specific and Mobile App Developer focused changes which are published in Android developer review 3. We are expecting that many more features will come-up in the future Developer Previews which will happen between now and the Stable Android 11 launch. SO STAY TUNED!! 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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Embrace Digital Transformation With DevOps
Embrace Digital Transformation With DevOps In the recent years, something which has drawn everyone’s attention in Mobile App Development Company is DevOps. It’s a latest buzzword in the industry, however very few people know what exactly it is all about and have really excelled in implementing it. Successful implementation of DevOps means giving a leading edge to the organization in terms of competition, quality, market readiness, optimizing process etc. Today, in this blog, we’ll try to briefly describe what DevOps is. 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. DevOps is a culture in an IT industry that seeks to promote the collaboration between development and operation teams, which traditionally used to work in silos and create multiple problems in the project due to lack of communication and combined ownership. By removing these silos between different IT teams, DevOps proposes to improve the situation by adopting a product-centric approach that emphasizes automation and tooling to speed up, and make safer, the mechanical tasks of testing and deploying software. Above we have understood the ‘’why’’ of DevOps, now we’ll see ‘’who’’ all is involved in this. There are mainly 3 teams which are involved in any IT project, these are, the development team, QA team and the Operations team. Prior to the concept of DevOps, often these teams used to work in silos as none of them knew each other, and the coordination between them was virtually non-existent. Development team writes the code/module and then send it to the QA team for bugs identification, who in return send it back to the development team with defects to be fixed. At this point, the blame game starts between these 2 teams. Finally, after much deliberation, the module/code once approved by the earlier teams goes to the operations team, who has their own set of problems to handle. The friction between these teams unnecessarily stretches the development cycle, thus impacting the time to market of the product. At this point, DevOps helps in establishing a common understanding & communication between the Web Application Development Services cross functional teams right from the start of the project thus, nipping issues in the bud. Benefits Of DevOps: 1. Faster Time To Market: DevOps help in faster time to market for any software release. This also helps in improving the ROI and reduce the development costs. 2. Transparent: DevOps helps in establishing an early and better communication better communication channel/process between various teams, hence, leading to better transparency among the teams. 3. Early Error Detection: When teams are involved from the initial stage, you get the wholistic perspective of the project. Hence, understanding and foreseeing the issues at the initial stages is possible. 4. Continuous Release: Agile development requires continuous release of the software/app. DevOps helps in achieving this objective as teams are working in close collaboration in this setup. 5. Better Employee Engagement: With more interaction and better communication across teams, employees are happier, which ultimately increases their productivity. The Various Phases of DevOps Lifecycle Are: 1. Planning And Coding As the name suggest, planning of the features that needs to be included is discussed in detail in this planning phase. Once the planning is over, development is initiated which could be in any programming language. 2. Integration And Testing In this phase, continuous integration and continuous testing is carried out. Developer updates the changes the code in the standard directory which is shared with the testers. The Quality Assurance team then tests this code and provide continuous feedback to the developer. 3. Delivery This phase ensures that the code is always ready for release. Continuous delivery ensures that at any point in time, the code is in a state to be released successfully. 4. Monitoring And Feedback The entire process is closely monitored, and continuous feedback is provided to the respective team(s), so that the correction is done at the initial stages only, and no surprises are there in the last moment. Important Tools used in DevOps are: 1. Source code repository 2. Build server 3. Configuration management 4. Test Automation CONCLUSION: DevOps is changing the way we work with iPhone App Development and Android Mobile App Development thus giving development team an edge by using smart and automated processes to produce the best possible application. Now as the teams are coming together, the process is much faster and much more accurate that standardizes coding, testing, and other activities so that the final product contains secure, efficient, robust, and reliable code. 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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Choosing The Correct Technology For Your Enterprise Mobile Application Development
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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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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Plan your online business according to the new Design & Development Drifts in 2020
Plan your online business according to the new Design & Development Drifts in 2020 Web Application Development is considered as the most important element; it can make or break any online business. One needs to keep updated as per the latest design and development trends in the market. As we have already approached the end of 2019, so for sure the trend is going to change in 2020. In the globe, every business is different. Each business come with its own motto, set of rules, business model and revenue targets. It is thus very significant for the best choice to look for choices that outfit the finest for any business. Most of the enterprises subcontract their web development and design projects for healthier productivity, without having the proper choice of the latest industry pattern. Given below are few of the latest trends in Web Design and Development consider before making a choice for your next upcoming online venture Progressive Web Apps (PWA): PWA, is the most recent advancement in the web development industry, it allows a very fast web application loading time along with finest performance. Web development using PWA use’s recent web standards to allow for installation on the user’ computer or device. The look and feel of the PWA is almost like a native mobile application. Many websites have been moving to PWA since 2015.The best example of PWA is Twitter, which recently launched mobile.twitter.com as a PWA built with React and Node.js. User Behavior Tracking Applications: In this modern era of technology, Ever business wants to track the behavior of there online users. Business needs to convert these users into customers. A much deeper insight on how your website is approached by the end-users gives you an edge over your competitors and thus will help in bridging the gap between existing, non-returning and new customers. It not only help in recognizing the existing loopholes but also helps in correcting them due to which the website performance had laid down. It is always an advisable practice to have this web application. Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence has turned out to be one of the major web development trends in 2019. Artificial Intelligence is the only technology in the world which give the machine the ability to think like a human and graph out the activities like collecting and analyzing data to understand human emotions that will help in solving the most complex and challenging situations. Artificial intelligence is not a new entrant to the web design and development industry, Its is quite old but yet not lost its charm in the modern times. According to the research done by Forrester Research Company, it came out that more than 300% rise in the investment in artificial intelligence development was made in 2017 in comparison to 2016. Again not limiting to this, as per IDC estimation, the AI technology market seems to grow from $8 billion in 2016 to over $47 billion in the year 2020. UI/UX Motion An alluring and elevating UI/UX can give a boost to your online presence and enhance the website user experience. Thus, increasing user interaction and grip for the website which is the foremost important to any online business. Elevating user experience with convincing website designs can be propelled with webpage designing tools. For lesser bounce rates and optimization, embedding Motion UI could be the best practice of 2020. If you really want to take your business to the next level, don’t forget to Plan your online business according to the new Design & Development Drifts.You can also hire dedicated web app developers in order to perform complex tasks in simple ways. 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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