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Next Frontier of Mobile App Market - Bots - Mobiloitte Blog. It’s 2016, you have probably heard about bots, it’s the next big thing in technology. Bots word comes from the robot which is the best example of AI (Artificial Intelligence). It makes our lives easier and take over the mobile apps. Nowadays smartphone users are facing app fatigue, because chat bots offer an easier user interface via apps that most users already have and use on their smart phones without having to download a number of apps. So, what is a bot exactly? Specifically, a bot is an app that performs automated tasks or operations without interruption of real human, such as setting an alarm, weather forecasting, online searching, and much more. A bunch of development companies is working to build chatbots or software that gives answers to customer queries automatically.
A report from Credence Research, the chatbot market was at $88.3 million in 2015. Now, entrepreneurs have started creating chatbots to engage their customers and employees. What Happened in Tech Today – Aug 09 - Mobiloitte Blog. 09 Aug 2016: Every day this world comes up with some new technological challenges and innovative announcements that delight the tech community. Collating some of the top news: Tech Word News Miomni Gaming Partners with Boyd Gaming to Launch Industry’s First Horse Racing App For the first time ever its state’s residents and tourists are able to wager on the world’s largest race and sports events in a single mobile application.
Over the past month, Boyd Gaming’s B Connected Sports & Race app — powered by Miomni Gaming — has allowed Boyd Gaming customers to bet on everything from the Triple Crown to the Euro 2016 soccer tournament. Source: PR Newswire Apple Store’s Scam Bitcoin Wallet Apps & Controversy Breadwallet team emphasized Apple’s “rigorous review” process, which takes much longer time than other mobile distribution platforms like Android’s Play Store but ensures a thorough and in-depth evaluation of the application. Source: Live Bitcoin News Source: Review Journal Source: SC Magazine. Social Media Event – How To Increase Website Traffic and Revenue - Mobiloitte Blog. Social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Email, Snapchat…..have become the crowded area and we have a lot of options to increase website traffic and business revenue. BCom Solutions is a digital marketing expert and organizing an event/workshop that tell us – how we can plan for an online business, not only save money in advertising and marketing but also increase revenue.
This workshop is starting – 9th of August in Auburn from 12:00PM to 1:00PM at BCom Solutions. In this event, digital marketing experts will help you to create an effective social media strategy that you could be implemented quickly without any headache. You can handle multiple social media platforms simultaneously and how to create attractive email newsletters for your valued customers that will get back to your store. With all above statistics, it has already proved that the revenue and website traffic generation via social media is optimum. Event – Learn how to create your own mCommerce Business! - Mobiloitte Blog. Ivan Lee, founder of Thai Express Group of Restaurants, has built an empire in just 6 years across Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, China, Australia, New Zealand and more.
He would like to share business strategy and plan with you through the event. The event will start on Wednesday, 10th of August 2016 from 16:00 and 17:30 (SGT) at VinVici in Singapore. Registered users can get a series of free internet business eBooks for your further reference after attending an event. Why you should attend the Mobile Commerce Business Event? To learn about the latest technologies that have exploded in the Asia marketDiscover how we can make money by leveraging on the latest technology trendAttendees can get an intelligent information from a true industry leader Doesn’t matter – you are attending an event or not. Beyond that mobile application is also a good resource for businesses. Thank you so much for attention and stay tuned with Mobiloitte for getting more information about this event!
10 Topnotch Cross Platform Mobile Development Tools for App Developers! - Mobiloitte Blog. Behind every successful man, there is a woman and behind every successful entrepreneur, there is a mobile application! The mobile app market is rising and mobile users spending 117% more time with their smart devices.
Interestingly enough, according to a recent Compound Annual Growth Rate of about 38%, thereby reaching $4.8 billion by 2017. Now, app developers have begun to take-off with cross-platform development tools. Large and medium-sized enterprises are increasingly adapting mobile apps and streamlining operations and processes. Some of the best cross-platform mobile app development tools available in 2016. If there is a tool I missed, make sure to a leave a comment and complete the development tools list: - Xamarin Xamarin is a great platform to develop complex and complicated mobile apps with a high-level of security.
Deliver native experiencesReuse up to 96% of source codePerformance closes to nativeFull hardware support, etc. Expensive Xamarin license – $999 / Year PhoneGap Pros: Xamarin vs. Native Mobile Apps – 4 Things to Keep in Mind - Mobiloitte Blog. Xamarin vs. Native apps debate has spawned an endless argument among developers and confounded decision makers around the globe. And it is showing no signs of slowing down in the mobile app development market. Both platforms are either oversold or an under sold in most cases and many entrepreneurs and mobile app developers even fail to make informed decisions. The purpose of this post is to show the benefits and disadvantages of both Xamarin and Native applications and tell you when to use particular platform.
Now, we are discussing about the two contenders in the following way: Xamarin Platform: It is the most powerful solution for building awesome apps. Using Xamarin you can create native apps for multiple platforms via same IDE, API’s and language. Native Platform: Want to build an app for a single platform, then you need to consider Native platform. Looking Forward: Xamarin vs. Multi-Platform: Mobile Apps Development Time: Performance of an Application: Specific Framework/Tool:
When To And When Not To Use Phonegap for Mobile App Development? We have put some serious critique on using Titanium for cross platform app development considering both the opinion of the community (which is not very shiny) and the opinion of our own Titanium development team, which has proven rather well. Usually whenever Titanium is discarded as preferred cross platform development technology, almost every solution architect thinks of Phonegap.
Is this wise? Is Phonegap good enough to close the gaps left by Titanium? Let’s check… What is Cordova/Phonegap? Cordova is an open-source mobile app development framework which allows you to use common web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, without the need to master their dedicated programming languages. The applications execute within wrappers targeted to each platform, and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device’s sensors, data, and network status. Cordova/Phonegap is used mostly: What makes projects powered by Phonegap so unique? Best, AnDevCon | Google | Android | Firebase – from Mobiloitte’s Eye - Mobiloitte Blog. Starting 1st of August in Boston, AnDevCon conference has been a spectacular show of learning for Android developer community.
The conference has been a hit for sharing knowledge to developers on Firebase (a cloud service and backend as a service) as well as development tips, tricks, skills, newest tools, best practices, and creativity for developing an Android app. Day #1 The event started with registrations and refreshing coffees, which was followed with presentation on Firebase, a cloud and backend service, by Google developers themselves to the Android developer community. In a glimpse: Firebase is a service to make app development easier loaded with features like notifications, file storage, analytics, remote configuration, dynamic links, and lot more. The conference continued on explaining the analytics capabilities and secure authentication in speedy manner on Android apps. Day #2 Second big thing during the event to follow was a crowd-sourced Hackathon in Google Learning Zone. AppMobi, Appcelerator, or PhoneGap for Hybrid Mobile App Development? We are no longer talking about similar types of tools.
While there is continuous and ongoing debate about Titanium over Phonegap, adding AppMobi as another promising cross platform technology actually opens a difference between the 3 which can now clearly be distinguished. If your budget is strong enough to support dedicated mobile app for Android, iOS and Windows then no discussion is further needed about opting for native mobile app development.
If you currently consider cross-platform approach for your mobile app, this is the right reading for you.. Phonegap app development PhoneGap was started in Aug 2008, it’s been downloaded over 400,000 times and has thousands of apps in the various app stores around. Apps powered by Phonegap are in fact web apps written with HTML/CSS with native code wrapper which is uploaded on iTunes and Google Play.
Appcelerator app development Titanium uses a variation of HTML and JavaScript that is then compiled into Objective C. AppMobi app development Best, How Urja App is A Performance Tracking Competitive Platform for DISCOMS? - Mobiloitte Blog. To carry forward ‘Digital India’ campaign, the Ministry of Power has decided to build a creative and innovative ‘URJA’ app for citizens of India that aimed to check/track the performance of distribution companies (DISCOMS) via IT systems enabled under IPDS (R-APDRP) covering 1405 towns all over the India.
URJA mobile app is a digital initiative, with a vision to generate a sense of positive competition amongst the distribution utilities on different customer centric parameters like outage information, addressing consumer complaints, power reliability, timely release of connections, and much more. Besides, ranking of town is done based on monthly basis and consumers can make online bill payments. As per the Govt. of India – this app developed under Integrated Power Development Scheme, it is a priority programme of Ministry of Power for urban power distributions sector i.e. DISCOMS that aims at: - PFC Released Transparency on Web with Urja India Website - Mobiloitte Blog. Taking forward the momentum of Digital India (#DigitalIndia), Ministry of Power has released the web version of their URJA App under Urban Jyoti Abhiyan. The website was made live on 22nd of July 2016, and can be accessed on www.urjaindia.co.in The website is released as an effort to make electricity delivery & supply, power loss & theft, data transparency, and other useful information accessible to citizens of India via web browsers.
It highlights the rank of DISCOMS (electricity distribution companies) based on how they are performing compared to others in the country, states and cities. URJA India website launched under Urban Jyoti Abhiyan aims to bring clarity on performance of electricity distribution companies (DISCOMS) by ranking them on below mentioned factors: During the conference of Power Ministers in Goa on 16th and 17th of June Power, Coal and Reusable Energy Minister of India, Shri.
Piyush Goyal, launched URJA App for Android platform. UI v/s UX: What should Matter More for Your Mobile App? With the swift burgeoning tech-savvy world, we have already seen design and functionality of web/mobile apps become more and more intricate as well as an increase a number of start-ups appearing. In this competitive world, how start-up organizations would manage. Have you any idea – what should matter more for your mobile apps User Experience or User Interface? If you are a start-up firm, then you need to consider both in the right balance. If you are focusing on any one from UX and UI, then you can’t target your audiences properly. Users use mobile apps just for their satisfaction, not to brainstorm. If your enterprise application focuses more on user experience and less on interface, it means an application is not good in a perspective of look and feel. In this modern era, the core gadgets like smartphones, laptops and tablets have become an essential in our professional and personal lives in order to execute tasks successfully.
What’s more important for UX and UI? Trends of Mobile Games like Pokemon, Star Knight & Parallel Kingdom. Gaming has been a popular pastime for many young people since the Atari first made its debut. Since then it has evolved from two tone colour graphics and simplistic play to life-like animation and near total immersive gaming experiences involving hundreds or even thousands of people playing and competing online. Today, console brands like Xbox and PlayStation are household names but there is a new player in the game and it’s not a console. Mobile gaming apps are the up and coming rising star of the gaming world with many mobile game developers hoping to cash in on the sudden popularity of gaming on mobile devices.
But why are so many people paying to play on a mobile device when they could have a more immersive experience on a console? The first answer is convenience. Speed is another factor in the rising popularity of mobile gaming apps. Pricing also benefits the mobile gamer in comparison to consoles. Pokemon Go is the biggest mobile gaming application and free-to-play available. Great News for iOS Users: Google iOS App Supports Accelerated Mobile Pages. Reading on the mobile web is slow, unwieldy and hindering experience. Not any more! Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is a way to create web pages for static content that allows the pages to load much faster as compared to regular HTML. Do you know Facebook has rolled out with an AMP project viz., Facebook Instant Articles, where publishers can hand over an incredibly swift and responsive reading experience for Facebook users. There’s great news for iOS users as well with Google updating its iOS application with some new features including support for AMP.
With AMP, new articles will load instantly and trim down loading time. iOS users can thus save their time and get the information swiftly. According to a post by Google on their official blog, the company is going to start listing with AMP for faster mobile searching and reading experience. Faster Loading Page: Nowadays, organizations are spending a huge amount of money just to ensure a faster loading page. How to Make Money with Your iPhone, Android or Mobile App? | Gary Hermann.
The 5 Most Common Mistakes That Ionic Developers Make. Ionic has almost completed 3 years in the current marketplace and it is an open source SDK (Software Development Kit) used for developing hybrid mobile applications. At the moment, one million applications are built on Ionic framework and hence an ever increasing a number of Ionic developers. Ionic developers often experience challenges during mobile app development.
Most of these challenges are however avoidable and attributed to sheer ignorance or overlooking of some features they can use to create awesome and bug-free apps. Basis the case studies available in public domain and experiential learning, the following mistakes have been identified that many developers make: #1 Overlook enabling of Native Scrolling Feature: - Scrolling Events feature is mainly used for enhancing the performance and user experience. . #2 Not use Ionic CLI for Synchronization: - Ionic CLI (Command Line Interface) provide great features like platforms and plugins as per application needs. Which one is Interesting to Learn: Ruby on Rails or AngularJS?
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