The participation of mobile applications in smartphones is considered as a high-tech move and many people actually called it trans-tech. iPhone mobile applications have provided the world a more personal computing experience. iOS applications are like one entity which has been providing an innovative methods and products to this generation.
Today iOS applications are almost used in all major operational fields. A few years ago, people were drenched into traditional methods to book a taxi, banking operations. But, things become easier and efficient as soon as iPhone applications started emerging. Thus it has created a huge demand for iOS application development companies. Different types of frameworks and tools have made iPhone application easy and simple.
Today, individuals with limited technical knowledge can create a practical iOS application. The proper guidelines will help new iPhone app developers to take through the whole iOS app development process. Following are some essential tips:
Strength:
iOS is a huge application development platform. It involves huge scope and enormous opportunities for beginners to flourish their career. Swift and Objective-C are two largely used application development languages for iOS. Developers need to be perfect in technical terms of these two languages.
Both languages include complex syntax, API, and methods. Thus, developers should identify their ability to deal with Swift and Objective-C as it takes a lot of practice and experience to develop effective iOS app.
Rough Idea Of Application:
It is always a good practice to have a blueprint of application which developers are going to create. For example drawing the layout of application and its features speed up the development process. It is more beneficial when instead of a single person, a team is working on iOS application development. Because each member comes up with creative ideas. Using application ideas, developer/s can take a decision on-
1) What will be the primary and secondary actions of application?
2) How big should the elements on the screen be?
3) Flow of application
4) Information representation by each page (screen)
5) How will user navigate through the application?
This detailed planning will make development procedure easier and faster. Pre-development documentation helps developers to keep workflow of application development in right direction.
Application Design:
Application design acts as an interaction medium for users to access the application functionality. Responsive application design adds freshness and uniqueness to the applications. Developers should keep UI design simple and original rather than stretch it to excessive creativity. Also, the creation of screen thumbnails is good idea as it determines how each screen will appear when users actually go through the application. Developers can also use open source online tools that provide amazing UI designing components. Outline UI for application involves some crucial factors like-
1) Fingertips are generally larger and less accurate than a cursor. Developers should not add excessive controls on functional screen as it makes difficult to touch intended button/control
2) There must be sufficient space among the main application components
3) Developers must ensure how UI looks in both landscape and portrait views
The background and foreground color, font size and style
4) Excessive use of animation and images cause application to load at slower speed thus developers should take care of it
Cocoa Framework:
Development framework plays an important part in the creation of an application. Apple has provided numerous frameworks which allow new developers to learn iOS development without facing any difficulty. The rich collection of commands helps developers to make the application more professional. For example, Cocoa framework. This framework different APIs and features to develop applications for Mac OS and OS X. Developers can practice different things like:
1) On screen graphic designing
2) Encryption of important application data
3) Writing networking notes
4) Playback of audio and videos
5) Web page layouts and more
With Cocoa, application developers can optimize application source code as even complex syntax can be written in one line.
Xcode
iOS applications are developed with iOS SDK along with Xcode IDE. Xcode is not only the editor but also static support analysis tool for iOS applications. Xcode has the ability to detect bugs during the compilation of application source code. The auto-complete feature improves the debugging speed. It is generally easy to do all development seamlessly with Xcode.
Interface Builder
Interface builder is an application which allows developers to build interface visually. Developers can simply drag-and-drop built-in components to application’s interface. For example button, labels, scrollbars, sliders, lists etc. Beginner iPhone app developers can also use interface builder to link targets and actions performed on applications.
Conclusion
Thousands of applications get launched in App Store every day. To develop brand new iOS applications, beginners need to have strong monetization and marketing plan to make the success out of it. The ideas and strategies of developers should be creative in order to gain success and high profits in the market.
Ritesh
