How To Choose A Mobile Solution Developer?

Addiction of Smart Phones is increasing rapidly and it is now becoming a global phenomena. A survey done by Deloitte in year 2012 shows, there are around 562 millions smart phones owners, worldwide and in next 2 years these figures will increase dramatically.  When smart phone owners are increasing at this rate, creating business app early will be significant for business success and creating reliable customer base for your product. Many businesses has made mobile application to sell their services and products app but more than 50% of them got less or no attention by prospective consumer/user.

Creating a successful mobile app is not quite easy but a creative process that requires the mobile app developer an artistic and competent. He should hold great knowledge on different technologies and versatile with software development process. Developing mobile apps require the usage of one or more platforms like iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, J2ME Mobile, Windows Mobile, Symbian and more. Users can always gain advantages of mobile applications and long beach experience of mobile application developers helps developing startling applications for the clients worldwide.

Choosing right kind of mobile apps developer could be a piece of cake by following evaluation based on below points:

Experience:
By asking simple questions about kind of app you need and the knowledge level about domain is the key of getting right application. Ignoring this will not make your life easy and end up in explaining your requirements again and again. Developer will keep revising application to meet your expectation and extended timeline, increased cost and sometimes termination of the project might happen in result.

Past Work :
Ask for the type of applications released in the market. Verify and Download the application to evaluate their work from end user perspective, ease of use, quality of designs, help for user, speed of getting data from backend server etc. Design and simplicity play very critical role in acceptance of application by users. So it should be appealing, innovative, device friendly and fresh.

Development Process :
An experienced company always follows proven methods and company without process could cause project to fail. As a customer you might not aware what is this development process or think it is too technical, but it is really great to ask for document the process used in development and delivery. It must contain development and delivery flow chart, defect fixing cycle and after delivery support. Most of the Established and experienced companies follow these standard procedures that keeps you stay away from loads of bombshells. Developing process document will keep you aware about what to demand from a developer and when.

Testing Tools:
Customers always expects their product working as visualized and do not pay their heeds about technical details or any other aspects of development processes. Acceptance test cases and testing documents provided by development team can clearly clarify all user stories and business scenarios. Great care must be taken in revisions and corrections of test cases and should be done before finalizing the test cases; it will guarantee a great and successful product at the end.

Development team:
Before finalizing the project, a brief discussion with each one in developer team will be a great step. Team's relevant experience and technical know-how will be a win-win process towards putting a great product into the market. Prefer each one in team must have 3 to 5 years experience in developing mobile app.

Cost:
Lowest cost might not be always a perfect choice. Always ask number of man hours going to and also include hours for testing, project management, architecture, design and performance of the app. Most times these hours are not part of estimate and Client also not prefer to pay for these steps. Carefully these steps must be discussed with developer company and also hours to be included and then lowest cost should be chosen.

Along with great app, user acceptance of the app is very important for success and a developer knows how important it is to give great user experience and above steps explained will get you winning team and successful app.

About Author:
Mr Divyanand Gupta (founder & CEO of Vincent IT Inc) is an industry expert and Mobile Solution Architect and Prior to launch of Vincent IT , he had worked as a consultant at IBM, T-Mobile, Fed-Ex and Sprint-Nextel  and actively developing cutting edge business solutions to customers across the globe.

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Top Five Mobile Apps At Our Store On This Month

The field of mobiles is quite extensive and a range of mobiles starting from a general purpose to iphone, smartphone and many more are available. This tendency of people has changed the scenario and most of the web and software development companies are showing their keen interest to develop lucrative, user friendly and other sort of mobile applications.  If you are an iphone/ipad user, you will really have info about the various application stores like itunes, google play and so on.

Being into the web and software development from last 9 years, we also have extensive experience about the latest happenings and current trends of the market and this is the time to be mobilized. We have also been involved with the development of mobile apps from last few years and received great user attention. We have till yet developed various mobile apps for android, iphone, blackberry, symbian, windows phone and other.

Here are few apps that we have been developed:

 God Created World:

This application “God Created world“ is really has an essence and fantasy for the growing kids. This application is based on the seven days story of world creation by god. Each and every thing is well explained in a way to grasp them in easier way. Here in the same place quiz and fun games also exist as to keep your kid engaged each and every time with zeal to learn and do something. This application is also available in French, English and Chinese as well.

EMSTV For iPad:

This mobile application EMSTV is all about a news channel that keeps you stay updated about the news of surround and stay tuned. With this application, you can watch video clips and coverage of major news events and also can rate your experience with your favorite news video. This mobile application support various languages like English, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Catalan, Czech, German, Japanese, Russian, Simplified and Traditional Chinese and other.

 Bhakti Aarti Sangrah:

Bhakti aarti sangrah is a collection of popular aarti, chalisha, stuti, kawach, mantras and festival special songs. With this mobile app, you will be able to access different kind of songs of various god and goddess. This mobile application is also available in various languages including english, catalan, czech, danish, dutch, french, german, italian, japanese, korean, polish, portuguese, russian, simplified chinese, slovak, spanish, swedish and traditional Chinese.

USA vs DEBT:

This mobile application “USA vsDEBT” is a debt calculator that enables guidance and a tool to manage debt in better way. It provides in-depth analysis of installment and duration for the person looking for new debt or struggling with an older one.  This application is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

Vincent Mortgage Calculator:

This mortgage calculator is an easier way to identify a perfect match. IT is not a calculator but you can be able to identify the package of five calculators inbuilt with it. With this calculator you can compare mortgage, loan and four loans at a time. This calculator also supports various languages and compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

Attention E-Commerce Business Owners, The Time Is To Be Mobilized….

Times before, when there was no technology in grooming and nobody even heard about it, the term business was still alive. Although in the era of 19^th century, the economy of various countries including United States underwent an economic makeover marked by the budding of industry. A technical outburst of technical innovation came into existence into the late 19 century and fueled an economical growth. Further in to the mid and late of 1980s, internet started taking a wide expansion to Australia and Europe and Asia also influenced from the same in late of 1980 and early 1990s. Since the mid of 1990s, internet was started coming into boom and fully changed the style of trade and even traditions too.

Now with the internet a great flexibility and global reach is also overseen. Due to its innovative approach, a number of successful business giants (e.g. Amazon, Amway, eBay etc) came into their existence and changed the way of doing sales worldwide. As the payment and delivery methods advanced, it has removed the barriers of placing order from any corner of the world and making payment into assorted currencies. Internet has also opened the doors of accessing education and other opportunities and in less than 5 years almost every business become online, globally. The business advancement and mobile communication started increasing parallel and reached to its next stage with the introduction of smart phones via Black Berry. Blackberry gained immense approach via year 2005 and reach on the hands on most business owners. Now IOS, Android and Windows bring all computing and power of WWW and e-commerce to the hand held smart phone mobile and to the reach of common people worldwide.

Now medical, education, travel, medicine, sports, defense, training, research and almost every field is accessible via mobiles and it has increased sales by more than 30% in first month. Also it is advisable that better planning and mutual understanding of online buyers might augment the sales up to 100 percent or more just via mobiles.

With the advancement of internet and its extravagance, it is really possible for a potential customer to come up at your website via their mobile device and trying to put their orders. A normal e-commerce web page seem a bit of more heavy for a mobile user and might cause for excessive data usage during such activities and all order options might not work properly and thus create a different user experience. Mobile applications and mobile websites work very well in this sequence and really able to cover a wide range of mobile users across the globe without even making the thing blown up.

Mobile website and mobile applications (android, iphone etc...) are must have and onetime cost but it is must do investment to endow with an ease to users while placing any order or just browsing through to compare the services or products. The use of online marketing resources is also essential and advisable as they augments the visibility of your developed app and lets the world know about it. Once you have finished the development of your mobile app and want to make it user accessible, just provide a download option with a description of “how it works” along with its supportable operating systems to make it easeful to users. All you need to represent it in a way to make sense for mobile users and further with an ease of downloading easily via their phones. 

About Author:

Divyanand Gupta is an all time mobile and web technology consultant. He has been involved with the web and mobile application development for different platforms from last 14 years and consistently working in the same field under the name of Vincent IT Inc - A leading mobile and web applications provider worldwide with its head office in Austin, Tx.

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