Thursday 8 May 2014

The Advantages of PHP Website Development

With the growing fame of web development services, Hypertext Preprocessor or PHP has shot up to its popularity. This popular programming language is widely used for developing dynamic websites. Due to the several benefits of PHP, it is widely used in more than 20 million websites and finds application in more than a million of web servers. Custom web design and development is simple with PHP, and the language is supported on a number of open source development tools like Zen Cart, OS Commerce, Magneto, Joomla, Wordpress and many more. PHP Website Development helps to create dynamic WebPages, various other web product solutions such as shopping cards, web calendars, CMS and more. Despite that PHP language has an inbuilt memory optimization it never overloads the servers however enhances the processing speed of the servers.

PHP can be effortlessly embedded even into HTML and dynamic visual applications like Flash and Ajax which can be easily integrated with PHP this in turn accounts for further recognition of PHP Web development service. Its compatibility to several databases like Oracle, Informix, and MySQL makes PHP the most popular and one of the most reliable programming languages. A PHP utilized and developed website requires lower code usage and boasts a memory expanding option. Gathering outside object codes is very rare in PHP based applications.

Currently most of the business houses choose PHP Website Development as it benefits in cutting down both the time as well as the effort of creating an attractive website. PHP is compatible with all most all operating systems and can be used to make client-side GUI applications and command-line scripting.

PHP Website Development is agile, free and stable which guarantees secure interface. A PHP based application is quite simple to work upon. In fact hardly any external plug-ins is required to run programs rather than can be executed wholly by the server which requires almost nothing from the end users.

This scripting language can be easily integrated in various dynamic visual applications like Flash, Ajax and the PHP library allows creation of some creative graphical effects. Moreover PHP website development is cost effective. PHP is available free of cost (under PHP General Public License)

iOS is the first and foremost choice of most of the software and mobile developers

We know that iOS is the first and foremost choice of most of the software and mobile developers. The reasons may be various for example it may be high probability of application development cost. Android dominates almost globally in numbers and can be rightly called as second position to iOS. These two platforms are completely different mobile platforms with completely different approaches and philosophies to mobile software development.

Android is an open-source platform which is based on Linux platform which is present among a legion of devices. They are not limited to smartphones and tablets. Android can also run on TV sets, cameras, smart watches, laptops and even refrigerators. As compared to iOS which runs on a very limited number of consumer devices, Android has a wider range of possible use which is an open platform for many innovative apps some of which would be clearly restricted by Apple's guidelines.

Android is truly open in every function of the word: it works with a number of instruction set architectures (such as ARM, x86, MIPS), and can be custom-made and bifurcated to specific needs and tasks. There are many such firmware replacements for Android devices as CyanogenMod and other such Android versions as Fire OS. The one which is produced by Amazon for their popular Kindle Fire tablet range. Users of these tablets are a specific audience to Amazon and Amazon provides them with a separate application store. There are many ways of obtaining Android apps on a device either from alternative stores (e.g. Samsung Apps or GetJar), and other facts stating the openness of the platform.

Android customization can be done for specialized tasks for example it can disable certain native device functions to make the device securely serve one peculiar task. This is neither simple nor inexpensive but Android makes it possible. Although the main programming language for Android is Java Android allows the code written in other languages like C and C++. This means that millions of lines of code written and tested before by numerous developers can be used for Android apps.

 The flaw to this nature of Android begins with the distinction of devices. Corporations are permitted to build mobile devices with different performance capabilities, specifications in general as well as screen sizes and resolutions which lead to fragmentation of devices and versions.

 While Apple's iOS device range is limited to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch Android runs on various gadget models which provide completely different user experience. Inexpensive Android devices tend to have limited resources and main drawbacks are weak performance, low-resolution screens. User experience on high-end Androids differs remarkably. Depending on the devices a developer wants to build for there is very much opportunity for designers: adjusting UI for different screen sizes and resolutions. As a result it takes comparably more time to create an Android app.

Tuesday 6 May 2014

All about Mobile Application Development

Mobile Application Development is the process of building, developing software and application programs for smart phones and devices. These application and software programs are either installed already during the mobile device's manufacture or need to be purchased from software providers for mobile phones and then installed on to their phone it also can be downloaded directly from the mobile phone by accessing through its web browser (via its HTTP functionality that uses client- and server-side processing) In fact, this article describes what mobile application development is all about.

The application programs for smart phones are designed, developed and built to run on the most well-known mobile device platforms and environments today. Popular among them are the Android OS, Apple iOS, Blackberry OS, Windows Mobile and the Symbian OS. These execution environments only support the codes, binaries that will correspond to its operating system. The common factor among most of these smart phones is the ARM processors. Utilizing the commonly used ARM Architecture the codes and binaries of the mobile app are executed on machine format by the devices processor. Development of mobile apps though still has to be done using tools for specific mobile operating systems.

During development it is mandatory to determine and do an analysis of what platforms or environments to use for the development of mobile phone applications and programs. Utilizing mobile software development gives the programmer exposure to the different tools enables the programmer to write the faster code, test it, and later on deploy the mobile app for various mobile phones and their operating systems. Some of the well known development environments for mobile application development include the following: Android, Aqua, Adobe AIR, .NET Framework Application Craft, Battery Tech, Corona SDK Blackberry, Canappi, CloudPact, Java ME, Macromedia Flash Lite, Meme IDE, Symbian, Windows Mobile, iOS SDK and the webOS.

After every development phase the developed modules of the mobile application must undergo a procedure of test and quality assurance to determine whether it is functionally according to the requirements. The project team will normally have at least one of its members to perform the testing and functionality checks. For mobile application development, some of the mobile application test environments which is utilized for the iPhone, android, Blackberry operating systems and Windows

Google Android Emulator
Official Android SDK Emulator
MobiOne
iPhoney; and
Blackberry Stimulator