Add Mobility to Your Software Application

Modern mobile phones and smart phone devices have more resources in terms of memory, cpu, and storage than some of the early super computers did. This power can be harnessed in multiple ways, and today many application developers are looking for ways to take advantage of this mobile power either from a web application running on the mobile platform or through running a native mobile application.

With the release of the iPhone in mid-2007, people’s perceptions of how mobile applications should behave and interact with the user were drastically changed. As a mobile application developer, you were no longer limited to a tiny browser window that could not properly display advanced HTML and style sheet markup. The iPhone’s mobile Safari browser had the same WebKit-based rendering and JavaScript capability as its desktop counterpart, opening up a huge number of applications to mobile users that could not be properly displayed on mobile browsers before. About a year later Apple released the SDK for developing native iPhone applications which have access to all the power of the Unix-based operating system as well as integration with all the mobile aspects of the platform as well. Now applications can take advantage of the accelorometer, GPS, camera, and other features of the platform and provide an extremely rich user interface to the consumer.

Today, many manufacturers are following Apple’s lead, with Google creating a consortium around its open source Android platform and the recently open-sourced Symbian platform from Nokia’s end being the main competitors. The end result is that consumers will benefit from this competition and be able to enjoy powerful, rich applications that can finally take advantage of the resources on their mobile devices.

Call on Ayoka Mobile Application Development services to add mobility to your software application!