Why retailers, online stores and ecommerce businesses need mobile app development companies as long-term partner

Keeping ahead is the name of the digital game. Joining hands with a mobile apps development company to maintain the presence on the smartphones, is the key.

Retail apps are for customer retention and to be used by regular customers. Even beyond the experience, mobile apps are great for keeping brand recognition high. Recent surveys shows that retainers using the mobiles apps are actually selling better than the other stores, which did not use apps. In the modern business scenario, retailers must enter in a long-term partnership with mobile apps development companies, to stay ahead of the competition.

There are a few clear and sustainable advantages –

To create customer loyalty by getting smart, innovated apps that bring forth value for the customer.

To facilitate research and purchase of your retail items in-store and out.

Mobile App Development Company

Some reasons for developing a mobile app, are the following

Creating a mobile shopping app is relatively easy with a good mobile applications development company

Many of the retailers already have a mobile app, which are creating a better brand recall

Along with developing mobile app, you should also get a professional HTML5 development company to optimize your website for mobile.

While the penetration of mobile devices, is rising in an incredible manner, a mobile retail application is literally indispensable to your retail company. Mobile commerce has come to stay and will grow to gigantic proportions in the coming years. Retailers cannot afford not having a mobile-optimized website and a mobile app of their own.

A professional mobile app development company can help the retailer to gain today’s mobile buyer interest, loyalty and shopping power. Today’s consumers who are infused with the mobile mindset want to access on their mobile devices the shopping list they created online, order products, or see peer reviews. In short, the consumer behavior is fast changing and the retailer has to keep pace with them. With the assistance an expert mobile app developer, you can provide your customer a more personal and fun shopping experience right in his/her phone. More over the company can provide your app many value added features. Rush to build mobile app, before your competition does.

Author is a senior business analyst and an expert in native mobile app development.

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The process of mobile application development across the world encounters one common problem, which is choosing the right platform for development of the mobile application. There are many options available because of multiple mobile platforms, the best is perhaps cross-platform mobile development. In the current competitive world, one cannot stick to a single platform, as mobile apps supporting multiple platforms have become the demand of the present era.

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Mobile Application Development

Cross-platform mobile app development involves developing the mobile application in one common language and the end code could be then seamlessly imported in multiple platforms. Hiring cross-platform app development company for the development of your mobile app is a way to reach out to the larger market along with saving time and money.

There has been a rising demand for development and deployment of app and it is only going to increase in the coming years. The requirement to develop and deploy more apps would mean that cross-Platform mobile app development would be in high demand. As per the reports the cross-platform mobile app development is having an annual compound growth rate of 38%, which would mean reaching $4.8 billion level by the year 2017. The demand for enterprise mobility solutions and enterprise app development would also increase and around 20 million enterprise apps would be developed by 2018.

The mobile app development tools plays an eminent part in the process of mobile app development. As per the current report the top 10 enterprise Cross-platform mobile app development tools are Xamarin, PhoneGap, Appcelerator, iFactr, Kony, SAP, Alpha Software, 5App, FeedHenry and Sencha.

Benefits of hiring Cross-Platform Mobile Development Company

Hiring a Cross-platform mobile development company will bring you with multiple benefits.

Cost effective

Apps would be Enterprise ready

Reaching out to a wider market

Single time development

User of every mobile platform would be able to use the application

Support provided for different languages

Technologies to look for :

Cross-platform mobile app development is not as simple as it sounds. Developing a versatile cross-platform mobile app requires knowledge skills and experience. When you partner with a Cross-platform mobile app development company, the experience and expert resources works towards the development of flawless application which will provide the users with a smooth experience. More over the process of cross-platform mobile app development is cost-effective and  delivered within the given time frame.

A cross-platform mobile development company works on the following:

PhoneGap

Xamarin

Adobe Flex mobile development kit

Titanium Appcelerator

HTML5/ CSS3 development

Sencha touch

JQuery mobile

JavaScriptMVC

Knockout JS

The most eminent Cross-Platform mobile app frameworks are PhoneGap, Rhomobile and Titanium.

PhoneGap App Development

PhoneGap is free and open source software (FOSS) which is used for developing cross-platform apps for iPhone, iTouch, Blackberry, Android, iPad, Android, Symbian and Plam. It is the only mobile platform known for supporting 7 platforms. The coding languages used includes HTML and JavaScript and this cross-platform mobile app development platform can access hardware features like GPS, accelerometer, camera, sound and many more. The various features PhoneGap Cross-platform mobile app development are:

HTML5 and JavaScript

Accessing the native apps

Multi-platform deployment of the apps

Benefiting from the PhoneGap built

Implementing PhoneGap plug-in

Rhomobile App Development

One of the most used cross-platform mobile app development tool used for development of mobile app for iPhone, Android, RIM, Symbian and windows mobile. The features of Rhomobile are:

It is an open source copy based framework

RhoHub which helps in hosting of the development environment

RhoSync which is a standalone server that helps in keeping the data intact in the user's mobile device

The components of RhoSync are framework synchronization, RESt API, administration web console and presence of asynchronous job system.

Titanium Development

One of the most preferred platform for cross-platform mobile app development. Titanium mobile app development implements JavaScript Syntax with custom API, along with the methods that gets transformed and cross-compiled to Objective-C and Java. There are fours parts for Titanium application:

• HTML/CSS/ JavaScript code used for making logical code application and UI
• Presence of APIs which help in accessing the native functionality of the device
• Presence of language-OS bridge for compiling the web codes
• The run time shell for packaging the application for cross-platform distribution

MobileAPPtelligence is an award winning cross platform mobile development company, specializes in the development of cross-Platform mobile apps. Write us to know more about our services.