Choosing a Suitable App Development Framework for your Business

The rapid rise of smartphone users enables businesses to focus on developing mobile apps for their customers alongside having a website. Today, mobile apps are used as a tool to improve sales and widen customer database. Ikea, a leading furniture retailer uses Virtual reality (VR) technology in its mobile app to influence customers purchasing capacity.  

A feature-rich app like Ikea can perform only with the right app development framework. The mobile app development frameworks fall under the following types: 

 

• Cross-Platform development frameworks
• Native Mobile development Frameworks

 

Cross-Platform Mobile App Development

The cross-platform app development framework is used for creating apps for more than a single platform. Most cross-platform app development frameworks support app development on Android and iOS platforms. Popular cross-platform mobile app development frameworks we use: 

• Ionic app development framework 
• Flutter app development framework
• Xamarine app development framework 
• AngularJS App Development Framework

 

Ionic: Ionic is a cross-platform app development framework built with Angular and Apache Cordova. The developers can use this single platform to develop apps for different operating systems. Mobile apps developed with Ionic runs on iOS and Android.

Additional Features:  

• Ionic mobile apps are developed using regular web technologies like Angular, CSS, and HTML. It depends on Cordova that facilitates the usage of the device’s native features. 
• No need to hire separate developers for Android and iOS. The single app fits with all the operating systems. 
• Iconic App development framework saves time and cost

Flutter: Oodles technologies is a Flutter App development company. Our flutter app developers are well versed with Dart programming language to facilitate faster mobile app development. In this article Flutter app development for android and iOS, we have listed some benefits of choosing Flutter app development for your business app. 

Xamarine: An open-source framework acquired by Microsoft in the year 2016. The framework is based on c#. Xamarine app development framework does not depend on web technologies rather compiles down to native code for individual platforms. 

Additional Features :

• Apps designed with Xamarine can achieve native app performance with little or no difference.
• Creates rich experiences using native UI elements.
• Facilitates sharing of 90% of the codebase across all platforms. 
• Developers can design a uniform UI across all platforms using Xamarin.Forms.

AngularJS: AngularJS framework handles complexities developers face in website designing. Applying AngularJS in frontend app development enables developers to progress faster and impress clients. The framework is backed by Google which gives the developers an opportunity to enhance the performance of their apps and make their apps more responsive. Read more benefits of AngularJS app development here: AngularJS for Frontend Development. 

React Native App Development Framework: We are a React Native app development company that provides a single integrated solution for web application development. The framework is compatible with third-party plugins and supports the efficient development of additional features with zero downtime. In our article Understanding the Advantages of React Native Apps, you will explore why we use this framework for designing most of our client apps. 

 

Native Mobile Development Framework

There are very few Native app development frameworks. These frameworks are usually created by the company that owns the mobile platform. 

 

Apple created the iOS SDK(Software Development Kit) customarily used with Xcode- an IDE. The Android SDK is used with Android Studio as the IDE of choice. The frameworks contain SDKs along with programming languages used with them. Kotlin or Java for Android and Swift and Objective-C for iOS. Native apps perform faster and are compatible with device hardware and native features like accelerometer or camera. Native apps can be expensive because businesses will require separate app developers to develop an app for their business.  The after maintenance cost of native apps is also high. 

Are you planning to get a mobile app to promote your business online? Get in touch with our mobile app development experts today. We use mobile app development frameworks only after evaluating your business requirements. Get in touch with our experts to know which framework can support your business requirements! 

Understanding the Advantages of React Native Apps

Online stores became popular when Amazon introduced its ecommerce platform for brick and mortar retailers to sell products to a wider audience. Web presence gives retailers and consumer brands to establish their brand presence worldwide. With the success of eCommerce and emergence of mobile platforms online businesses started reaching out to shoppers with mobile apps. Today, Google and Apple host more than two million applications on their respective app stores. It is anticipated that this data may increase to 5 million by 2022.

Mobile applications are in great demand since they enable consumer brands to effectively market their offerings using data captured by them. Banks, retailers, e-commerce companies, financial institutions, healthcare companies, and several other types of businesses are investing in mobile apps to provide on-the-go access to customers. The functioning of an application depends on the development framewor. The right framework can prevent an app from downtime and improve user engagement.

A popular framework among app developers is React Native. The framework was initially started as Facebook’s internal Hackathon Project in 2013 but later became a trending framework for iOs and Android mobile app development. React Native is effective for creating high-performance mobile apps that can serve a large number of users at any given point of time. React Native has risen in popularity among native app development companies to create feature loaded mobile apps for Android and iOS platforms. The platform is effective at building cross-platform applications.  Today, a number of applications are built on app stores with React Native.

Let Explore Some of the Popular Apps Built with React Native

Facebook’s AD Manager

Facebook Ad Manager is the first React Native app built by Facebook. This cross platform app is designed to handle the difference in date formats, ad formats, timezones, curriencies etc. The feature loaded app has got a clean interface, simple navigations and intuitive UX to provide users a smooth interface.

AirBnB

Those who have used AirBnB app can undoubtly praise it for it for its phenominal performance. AirBnB development team currently has 60 members working on React technology. The best part of this framework is that it enables developers to build reusable code easily and effectively.

Gyroscope

Gyroscope is another successful app designed using React Native. The app integrates easily with the HealthKit and enables users to track their physical fitness. The feature loaded app tracks heart rate, steps and activities like stepping stairs, weightloss, meditation, productivity, and more. The cross platform app displays the data in simple and card mode. The tracked data can be used for analysing daily/weekly/monthly reports using easy to navigate windows.

Let’s explore some of the benefits of React Native apps

Offers Flexiblity of Working

React is a JavaScript library that provides an easy interface to develop web and mobile applications. Native mobile app developers use React Native’s framework to develop single page applications (SPAs) or build innovative app functionalities easily.

 

Comprehensive Development

React Native provides software developers a single integrated solution for web application development. The framework is compatible with third party plugins and supports efficient development of additional features with zero downtime. It also enables developers to use MVVM (Model View View-Model) patterns, dependency injection, REST actions, data binding, inbuilt templating using HTML and built-in unit testing APIs to build all essential app features.

Allows the creation of isomorphic apps

Isomorphic JavaScript app enables the developers to use the same code for server and client-side components of an app. It is an app development methodology that essentially accelerates the rendering performance on the server. The framework also enhances the capabilities of search engines to index web pages with better UX. React Native app developers can use this framework to effectively create components that work with utmost efficient on both client as well as server side.

 

Enables Live and Hot Reloading

1. Live and hot reloading can be made possible with React Native application development. In live reloading an application reloads and refreshes when changes are made to it. The process provides new file to the simulator, which automatcally reloads the app directly from the start.
2. Hot reloading is about Hot Module Replacement (HMR). It refreshes the file without literally loosing the state of the app. The actions can be performed by simply pressing Ctrl + S keys to save  changes. The HMR intermediator inserts the updated files in the required location even when the app is in a running state. The advantage of hot reloading is that it enables developers to make changes in the source code without recompiling the app.

 

Simplified UI

In comparison to other app development frameworks like AngularJS or MeteorJS, React appears more like a JavaScript library than a framework. The open source framework enables developers to create a sequence of actions with this framework to build responsive and interactive mobile applications. It enables developers to understand the end results of UI simply by reading HTML and Javascript components. React’s interactive and flexible interface is effective for customizing pre-built components.

The React.js development framework supports development of data-intensive, real-time web and mobile applications. Developers can reuse codes and pre-designed components to build apps efficiently. It eliminates the need to hire more developers and reduce development cost-effectively. High performance, responsiveness, and agility are the key benefits of React.js mobile app development.  It offers effective processing to prevent downtime.

Are you looking for apps loaded with features essential for the success of your business? Get in touch with our React Native developers for simple yet scalable applications. We are an experienced React Native App Development Company that thoroughly evaluates your business idea with market research. Our developers follow the latest trends and technologies to develop native apps that are fast, intuitive and engaging. We provide mobile app development services using frameworks like React.js, Angular.js, Mean Stack, and more. Get in touch with us today!

 

Mobile App Development Company

Oodles Technologies, a prominent Mobile App Development Company in India, we have a team of professional Mobile application developers with hands-on experience in building top-notch apps. We stand out for our innovative approach and deliver the best-in-class application development services to the clients across the globe at affordable and competitive market rates. Get a full spectrum of our services and solutions for building seamless applications based on highly-secured framework and technologies. We also offer post-launch support and assistance to our valuable clients so that they could effortlessly stay ahead of the trends.

Reasons Why Your Mobile Applications Crash

Development of an application still stays a tedious task for mobile developers as it takes a lot of time for them to develop an app. In spite of such dedication, various application crash as and when they are launched. In one of the recent researches by Dimensional Research, it was found that 61% of smartphone users expect their mobile apps to start within a short span of 4 seconds. Whereas 49% of mobile app users want their applications to start in just 2 seconds. It was also concluded that if a smartphone user finds a particular app crashing or freezing they uninstall that app immediately.

Mobile applications have made things easier for users. But in case of an app that crashes frequently, it becomes really annoying. So in order to prevent the crashing of mobile applications we have listed below a few reasons that are responsible for its performance:

Memory Management

One of the biggest problems MOBILE APP DEVELOPERS face is Memory Management. A mobile application might be spinning too many threads and draining a phone's resources, which leads to crashing. It is impossible for any application to use the complete resource of the phone. If an app freezes a phone, it means there are some conflicting elements or programming codes in it. Software developers should develop applications which do not occupy a huge part of a phone’s memory.

Read more at - HTTPS://WWW.OODLESTECHNOLOGIES.COM/BLOGS/REASONS-WHY-YOUR-MOBILE-APPLICATIONS-CRASH

Progressive Web Apps Showing a New Paradigm To App Development

The prime motive of corporates today is to look for potential customers using smartphones. Mobile phone users are increasing at a rapid rate. As per some reports, worldwide users will touch the 3 billion mark by the second quarter of 2020. To enhance user interaction and UX, companies are investing a huge amount of resources and money in building Progressive Mobile Apps.

In this digital age, almost everyone is linked with the Internet in some way or another. A large number of people can’t even imagine their life without these applications. Hence, companies those who want to be in the competition left with no option available other than Progressive Web Application. It merges the best components of the native applications and mobile sites by minimizing their flaws.

Read more at - https://www.oodlestechnologies.com/blogs/Progressive-Web-Apps-Showing-a-New-Paradigm-To-App-Development