Mobile Programming

Monday, September 30, 2013

Cloud Computing is Leading Innovation in Mobility

There has been a huge surge in the mobile computing ecosystem which has leveraged upon the diversity of cloud computing to become the mainstream medium of information sharing. According to a latest Global Technology Innovation survey conducted by KPMG, Cloud as well as mobility both are expected to continue to gain momentum as the most disruptive technologies. Moreover the survey also concludes that both these technologies would make a huge transformation in the consumer and business markets over the next three years.

There is a huge void that needs to be filled and ensure sustainability among core business operations. As mobility and cloud computing go hand in hand, the interdependence of both the technologies is creating new business models giving new horizons to legacy processes. One vital aspect in all of this is the evolution of mobile applications. There is no denying the fact that mobile cloud has helped developers create a seamless integration of backend data in real time. Taking advantage of cloud, custom mobile application development has been able to provide virtual access to complex software solutions which can operate in the cloud.

It is important to understand that cloud computing has given an edge of mobile app development by making it flexible and platform independent. As more and more platforms come into existence it had become difficult for developer to support their application on each one of them in order to have a diverse audience. But cloud computing along with HTML5 has made it possible for them to have a universal ecosystem of web applications that can run on any operating system irrespective of any constraints. Embedded with device independence, ease in access, and offering extensive security cloud has helped in redefining mobility as a host of proficient mobile solutions.

However efficient it might be, still there are various elements in mobile cloud that have hindered its universal adoption. The biggest problems faced with cloud services is the data integrity. A common example that many developers have faced is the back end data integration with iCloud. Although Apple has tried to address the issues of developers still there are few loopholes in the core architecture which is keeping the developers at bay to use iCloud services for the application’s backend services.

Enterprises have often targeted enhanced business agility for optimal applicability for mobile users. Keeping all the data in the cloud they are able to provide real time information access to employees for faster decision making. Moreover the location independence ensured enhanced productivity which in turn gives better profitability.

There are many tech leaders that select cloud, mobility and data analytics as the three pillar of modern technology that are driving business transformation for enterprises. This is the reason why almost all the fortune 500 companies have started to incorporate these technologies into their core business workflow.

Ranging from small developers to large enterprises, mobile cloud has helped each and everyone streamline their data inheritance and phase out all the redundant processes. As these technologies are evolving, new dimensions are emerging which are resulting in hybrid solutions.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Beware of Updating Your Apple Device to iOS 7


Apple would soon be pushing software update of iOS 7 to general public in a week or so. Often it has been seen that users jump the gun, by updating their phone as soon as a release gets public. By a software testing firm has come out with a warning that users must avoid updating their phones at the moment as it would leave most of their application redundant. According to uTest, there would be a range of applications that would crash on iOS 7 as developers are yet in implement the new code in their applications. apple has already directed developers to update their applications to have iOS 7 compatibility. Although developers have already been updating their applications, still there are a plethora of applications that are yet to be updated to support iOS7.

Almost 90 percent of the applications tested by the firm had some trouble working on iOS 7. This is a great issue and need to be taken into account before updating the device. These trouble include inaccurate formatting of icons as well as text and even app crashing itself. Although there have been a range of updates forwarded by Apple, this time the issue is different.when users moved from iOS 4 to 5 to 6, the core functionality of iOS was same and there were not much aesthetics changes to the operating system. But in iOS 7 Apple has given the overall cosmetic change to the OS resulting in performance issues and UI rendering issues.