Monday 7 May 2012

Android Game Development and iPhone Game Development – Device Perspective Part 1

I have discussed about iPhone Game Development and Android Game Development before, but bit long time ago. So, let’s give it a fresh look and see if there any change in the scenario or methodology and is iPhone Game Development still a pleasant thing in the market and first choice for clients? I hope this article will be useful to you in deciding of converting your game idea into reality.

I have been writing articles from some time now, being in the famous apps and iPhone Game Development and Android Game Development company Morpheous it has been privilege to share some information on the experience we have in the company about the apps and game development. As we work in open environment, I have been always helped by my colleagues about putting all useful links together and joining the dots, and I will be always thankful to those who help and inspire me in writing all this. So, let’s come to the point. What is that which makes iPhone Game Development and Android Game Development different? What is that which makes iPhone games anybody’s first choice before launching their games in other platforms?

Answer is simple, Device and App Store. But this does not mean that the scenario is as same as 6 months before when I wrote same article explaining the market share and development feasibility from iPhone Game Development and Android Game Development perspective. People are loyal to whatever Apple has rolled out so far and they did have retained their customers well. But the trend is changing and if Apple will not do something more on the look and feel of their hardware, then soon they might have to face the revise trend. As Samsung jumping in with all guns, it’s now became cut throat competition, and sales of Samsung based smartphones are ever increasing. With takeover of Nokia, Samsung has not only made itself a smartphone giant but has projected Android OS as their main stream mobile phone OS with even disregarding their own Bada.

This can be a game changer. Apple must take steps more carefully and blocking features to its users might not just work as well as it did from the beginning. With Samsung devices becoming more and more powerful, it is really more interesting to see what Apple will bring on their main stream iPhone device on next update. I will put more info on iPhone Game Development and Android Game Development from hardware perspective in my next article, till then Happy Gaming!!!

Thursday 3 May 2012

Android Application Development - The Next Gen Smartphones Are Upon Us


The use of Android based smartphones is flourishing, with thousands of Android apps being already developed by now. In a very short span of time, large number of mobile manufacturers is getting associated with Android. According to the recent study, the Android smartphone market is growing at an impressive rate of 32 per cent every month, with new handsets being released every other time. Industry experts believe this detonation owes much to the popularity of the Samsung S II, MotoBLUR, Motorola Droid, certain HTC models, and the open-source nature of the operating System. The biggest advantage of Android application development is that applications are built on an open source platform so the android developers do not encounter precincts that other smartphone platforms generally face. Android also presents an open market place to the third party Android application developers for immediate publishing and feedback. And most importantly Android teams can provide Android application development on any platform like Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

Some of the best handpicked Android apps are listed below: Google Voice Advanced Task Killer Dropbox Evernote DroidAnalytics Documents To Go Amazon Kindle Places Directory Tripit Seesmic FCC Speedtest Astro File Manager Gist TED Mobile Pandora Got To Do Shazam Dial Zero Google Goggles Google Sky Map Tricorder FxCamera Photoshop Mobile Bump Barcode Scanner Some of the latest functionalities in Android application development that have recently become popular include Cloud based service integration that enables the companies to efficiently manage IT and also extend its reach using mobile apps, another is Location based services where companies can get a LBS app on Android where in the application can find out the location of the customer via GPS and give them the detailed information they are looking for, and many more. It is also said that android phones will become credit cards in near future and people will be able to purchase things with the help of the android phones. This will act as a starting step to e-Commerce companies to extend them on the mobile platform which will make shopping easy and fun for the customer. Additionally, if we talk about Android market which is the Android App store, Distimo Research Company says that it has shown a significant growth over the years when it comes to download of applications and it has also been predicted that the growth will be tremendous in coming years. Android application development is expected to reinvigorate sales with its additional features and low cost.