In today’s world, Mobile phones have become an important accessory to be carried along with each and every individual. No more are the days, when usage of mobile phone was only restricted to just attend or respond back to the calls.
With the advancement in the technological world, each and every thing now seems to be on fingertips. And so, is the case with the mobile phone devices and applications. This has made companies involved in the custom software development process to be on a very high demand.
Now moving ahead further to know what mobile software development process is all about, let us start with the definition. ‘Mobile software development’ as the name suggests is basically concerned with the development of software or an application for small mobile devices. To name few of the small mobile devices we have mobile phones, personal digital assistants or enterprise digital assistants. The mobile software uses various platforms during the development phase. Now, the mobile software development is not only restricted to Windows mobile but they are also now developed on many other platforms like iphone, Android, Symbian, BREW and lot more. Each of these platforms are further associated with the development environment which acts as a tool for developer to write, test and deploy or install applications into the target based platform.
To start with the development of mobile software, the very first thing which comes into picture is the selection of the platform. Once the platform is selected and the software is developed, the next and the final thing is the installation of the software on different hand held devices. This software can be found as a pre-installed application on a mobile phone during the manufacturing phase or else it can also be installed by the end user via downloading feature available from various application stores or distribution centers.
Talking about the categorization of features of mobile application, we can classify the mobile applications broadly into two different categories:
3. Functional Applications.
4. Applications developed for entertainment purpose.
Functional applications are those which are used by many business oriented users. These applications help their businesses by making their business tasks as simple as they can be.
Applications manage the business tasks such as e-mailing and messaging by distributing out pre-defined automated responses thereby saving the effort for the end user. It also helps end users to carry around a bulk of their information without having to carry it in the form of files or papers.
On the other hand, applications developed for entertainment purpose are created with the sole motive of enjoyment so as to provide a good break to the users. Entertainment oriented applications basically involve games that include a huge and varying number of options for users to choose from.
Mobile software development has proved to be good way of increasing the revenue of a company. Moreover, this particular development is slowly expanding the field of software engineering. There can be so many different types of applications that can be development using the latest mobile application development technology that the variety itself will be amazing.
Author Resource:
Nick Thomas is the author of this article. He has been writing articles for many custom software development related organizations like Q3 technologies. Moreover, he has been actively involved in providing useful content writing material related tomobile software development .
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