4. Implementation 4.1 mobile website or application When we are planning to establish a mobile presence for PAAC one of the first considerations that will likely come to mind is whether we want to create a mobile application for users to download (app) or a mobile website, or perhaps both. Mobile websites and apps can look very similar at first-glance, and determining which is most suited to PAAC’s needs will depend upon a number of factors, including target audiences, available budget, intended purpose and required features. Both applications and mobile websites are accessed on handheld devices such as smartphones (e.g. iPhone, Android and Blackberry) and tablets. Mobile websites A mobile website is similar to any other website …show more content…
* Upgradability – Mobile Websites Can Be Updated Instantly A mobile website is much more dynamic than an app in terms of pure flexibility to update content. If you want to change the design or content of a mobile website you simply publish the edit once and the changes are immediately visible; updating an app on the other hand requires the updates to be pushed to users, which then must be downloaded in order to update the app on each type of device. * Reach – Mobile Websites Have Broader Reach Because a mobile website is accessible across platforms and can be easily shared among users, as well as search engines, it has far greater reach capability than a native app. * Time and Cost - Mobile Websites are Easier and Less Expensive Last but certainly not least, mobile website development is considerably more time and cost-effective than development of a native app, especially if you need to have a presence on different platforms (requiring development of multiple apps). Our choice Considering that the types of mobile phones owned by PAAC’s target users are diverse and the budget of PAAC is limited, developing mobile websites is more feasible than developing mobile applications. Developing mobile websites is relative cheap and easy to deploy. Moreover, we can embed the mobile website into an application at a later stage of development for
Mobile application development started long time ago, around ten years back. But although the development of mobile applications was done long ago, their popularity has increased since the apple store by iphone has been developed in 2008. Ever since the marketers have spread the apps
Another valid point is, that when making such an app it becomes a social and professional issues, as the app can only run on android devices and we all know not everybody uses an android phone, its stated that 33.33% of the smartphone users are IPhone users which is not a great amount as 67% of other users are other smartphone companies including android. (Heusen, 2016)
There are mobile applications for just about everything. There are “apps” for games, social networking, banking, shopping, web browsers, word processors, weather, GPS,
We have been asked by a client to design a program for them to be supported by both the Android OS & IoS. This is a retail outlet called Bailey’s Outdoor Store that sells camping supplies. They currently have an online website that has been success for the past ten years but they want to have an application for smart devices.
Currently mobile apps are directly helping the retail brands in boosting their sales through serving huge number of prospective customers. Groupon, Amazon, eBay, etc like big names of web are the most beneficial businesses who gained so much through releasing their own mobile apps. iOS App Store and Google Play are the prominent channels for app distribution.
Have you asked yourself this question recently? Smart phones and other mobile devices are fast becoming the preferred method of Internet access; if you haven’t already got a mobile website, you need to get one soon.
Over the past few years, the use of smartphones has been on the rise. In order to keep up with this day and age, businesses and companies everywhere should have a mobile website that is simple to understand and easy to find. When you are on the go, you most likely are not carrying a laptop and probably
Have you really thought about the user interface (UI) and the user experience (UX) of the mobile application or the website of your business? Well, if you have not, its high time you start considering these vital aspects of web branding and presence. The website and apps with outstanding user experience and user interface have a lot of active and outspoken users. If you want your clients to become loyal to your brand, app, and site, you have to make more investment in the user interface and user experience of your business site or/and mobile application.
Half of the searches made through Google were made using smartphones. If you want to bank on this fact, you need to make your website mobile-friendly. In short, you need a website that has an optimized mobile experience for tablet and mobile phone users.
"I could feel the move towards portable web when the iPhone 4 was discharged two years prior. Presently, the cost of cell phones with Android frameworks has dropped essentially to wind up
With the fairly recent and wide adoption of social media and networking sites, mobile devices have become more affordable and hence more readily accessible. And it is expected that mobile computing will continue to grow in 2012, owing to an increase in the number of devices in use, lower prices in emerging markets, and an explosion of apps for both personal and business use.
I would like to propose my new idea about expanding out to designing mobile applications for our clientele that will do all the things needed from the website at ease and accessibility of using a mobile phone, and lets face it everyone now-a-days has a mobile phone that can run applications which would make some things a lot easier such as banking, store locating etc.
A good number of businesses have been compelled to modify their business processes so as to accommodate the rapidly evolving mobile technology. For instance, there are thousands of applications for both android and iOS platforms than can be exploited by businesses to perform innumerable tasks and processes. Essentially, this has motivated businesses to redesign their desktop platforms and the Web to run on mobile devices with the help of mobile applications, such as iPhone, iPad, and Android applications. Therefore, the implication of mobile devices in the modern world of business is getting clearer, considering the impact they’ve had on social media networking sites (Jabeur, Zeadally & Sayed, 2013).
There aren’t any wrong ways to deal with this new challenge, but there are some methods that have been shown to be more effective than others. Before modifying your website or building a companion website it’s important to determine what the clients will wish to accomplish on your mobile site. They will either be looking to save time or locate information.
Mobile applications are now capable of running on many different forms of hardware. At first they were commonly deployed onto the first “smartphones” however today, a mobile application can be found on anything from a Television to a Watch. In basic a brief definition of a mobile application would be