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Features and Compatibility of PHP 5.6.0

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The latest PHP version, PHP 5.6.0 has been released by the PHP Development Team and is made available in the market. Appropriate for web development, PHP is needed for scripting languages in websites. It is also used as a programming language used by thousands of websites all over the world.

 

Just after a year of releasing PHP 5.5.0, the PHP Development Team has come up with the flexible PHP 5.6.0. An upgraded version, it makes the work of PHP faster and more realistic. It has been loaded with several new features along with backward incompatible variations. The RPM of this version has been made accessible in Remi-php56 source for Enterprise Linux and Fedora.

 

The basic features of PHP 5.6.0

 

Website development has got a new life with the varied features of PHP 5.6.0

 

  • One of the important features of the upgraded version of PHP is its ease of implementing the Variadic function. The operator … can now be used instead of the complicated function: func_get_args().
  • One will get constant scalar terminologies and expressions. Numeric, string literals, constants are made readily available to the website developer. Previously PHP anticipated property declarations, constants and static value along with default function argument. All these have been done away with.
  • Using the keyword – use, web developers will get the support of importing constants and functions along with additional classes. The keyword ‘use const’ is for constants and ‘use function’ is for the functions.
  • The basic arithmetic operations have been modified and simplified. Before processing, conversion of operands of segments is done into integers.
  • The GNU Multiple Precision has been changed. Using GNU MP Library one can work with integers of random length. In PHP 5.6.0 the developer can use comparison, bitwise and arithmetic operator with GMP entities. It should be returned from GMP functions like the gmp_init(). The installation process is the same that is it can be installed by compiling GMP support with PHP using the option of : –with-gmp.
  • It is available with several built-in wrappers so as to use with the file system functions like copy(), fopen(), filesize() and file_exists(). It is for the different URL style protocols. Apart from the wrappers, a developer can record custom wrappers using the function: stream_wrapper_register().
  • The phpdbg has been integrated as a collaborative PHP debugger. Flexible breakpoints, Remote Debugging Support, Stepthrough debugging, Userland API and easy admittance to built-in eval(), Currently Executing Code.
  • The file upload size has been increased. Now any file measuring more than 2 gigabytes can easily be uploaded.
  • Exponential can be done using the operator: **
  • The codes $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is condemned and php://input has been made reusable.

Changes affecting compatibility

 

Several changes that affects compatibility of the website have been incorporated which are as follows:

 

  • Some new reserved keywords have been integrated.
  • The Array keys will not be overwritten while the array is being defined as a group of any class through the array literal. For example the array_merge() has been changed and it accepts only arrays. Warning signs are shown if any wrong array variable gets passed.
  • The GMP assets are now treated as objects.
  • Host names and Peer certificates are verified by stream wrappers through SSL/TLS by default.
  • Valid IVs and keys are required by the Mcrypt function.
  • While using the JSON syntax construing the function json_decode() becomes strict.
  • The function keys: strripos() and strrpos() use the complete string as needle.
  • Earlier the variable PATH_TRANSLATED was set indirectly under Apache2 SAPI. It is no longer the same as compared to that of PHP4.
  • Any kind of illegal or improper string offsets usage will cause E_ERROR. Earlier the sign E_WARNING used to be shown.
  • If an array is passed to any function, the array pointer inside the function would remain the same.

PHP 5.6.0 is very easy to use. Furthermore, all these features will reduce the workload of PHP Development Services Provider Team and increase the efficiency of any sort of Web Application Development Company.


Open Source Trends Rocking IT World

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Open Source software has undoubtedly become indispensable, especially in application development and IT infrastructure. Ironically most of the management personnel do not have an in depth idea of how Open Source software has played a vital role and changed the way software and infrastructure functions today.

Although open source’s is gradually demonstrating its calibre, its trends stay behind and are relatively unclear to the businesses and the consumers. This blog brings to you a few important ongoing trends in the Open Source arena.

 

Open Source – Gradual Acceptance:  Initially Software vendors were reluctant to accept open source as they often misunderstood the term and related open source to be synonymous with free software. Associated with this belief there was another notion that open source software caused increased security risks to networks as anybody could modify it and that it was not supported well.

But with the wide spread use of open source operating systems such as Linux and the popular open source web platform – LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack, the scenario gradually changed. As of today, there is wider acceptance to Open Source amongst Software vendors.

Open Source Trends Rocking IT World

Cloud Computing Stacks becoming popular: Many have turned to the Cloud and have started adopted the cloud computing stack – SaaS, PaaS, IaaS or hosted options. Popular Software – Microsoft Office 365 too is a partial cloud offering. Today the trend amongst the IT giants is that they would prefer to circumvent installation and maintenance of applications locally whenever that is likely.

 

Internet Giants contributing largely to open source:  Some of the major contributions from Google are – MapReduce, Angular JS, and cgroups. Yahoo has rendered Hadoop. Many other popular IT giants such as eBay, Twitter, LinkedIn etc have contributed largely and initiated many Open Source projects.  Cassandra and React have been valuable contributions by Facebook.

 

GitHub – where software germinates:  A robust code review, collaboration and code management tool for open source projects. It is the largest host of source code in the world with over 21 million repositories. GitHub has completely transformed how software development is evolving. GitHub believes that re-inventing the wheel is pointless. Instead why not reuse the code that someone else has already created and has agreed to share under a liberal open source license. This not only saves time but increases productivity. Who knows you may find something really close to what you need exactly on GitHub saving you days and nights of relentless coding effort.

 

High Risks and increasing Security Concerns: Open source security has been undergoing ups and downs all through for the last one year. OpenSSL is a popular open source service implementation using SSL and TLS protocols. The OpenSSL error named Heartbleed is huge and was not addressed for a couple of years. But when it was discovered it created havoc for the administrators. About 6 months later came the Shellshock bug.

 

Open source solutions are becoming easy targets due to their increasing popularity and importance so the industry has been forced to jointly finance projects like OpenSSL which is the backbone for more than tens of thousands of programs and services that allow SSL or TLS protocols.

GitHub’s Electron – Enabling quick and easy cross platform app development

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Today it has become easy for developers to build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies such as GitHub’s Electron. Electron is gradually acquiring increased popularity amongst the developers since it is an open source application shell for building Apps.

Big players such as Microsoft and Slack are taking advantage of Electron to build Visual Studio Code and using it for the desktop endpoints of its collaboration platform respectively. Electron has gained the likes of many major companies like Facebook, Docker and others, since it is one of the best and a thoughtful way of using Node.js and HTML uniquely to build and run cross platform desktop applications.

 

GitHub’s Electron - Enabling quick and easy cross platform app development

 

Inside the Electron: What is the Electron made up of internally? It composition is modular and simple. It has a Chromium frame that wraps JavaScript code running on Node.js. This way it becomes easy to bring familiar Web application technologies to the desktop, letting the developers quickly convert existing code into a desktop tool, with Node.js as it offers low-level API access to the operating system beneath.

Consider you have developed a single page web app that runs on Node.js, you have the option to build and deliver an Electron App. But if you have multiple windows in your Electron App, then they are all controlled by a single main process. Views are inaccessible by each other and hence all the required communication between multiple windows takes place only through the singular main process.

Electron is best used for rapidly creating complex apps as it was initially intended to work as the host for GitHub’s Atom development environment. Electron is flexible and lets the developers start with simple apps and then gradually helps them build more complex code over time.

 

Speed up development using Electron

If you develop an Electron app you will notice that it looks just like a Node.js module without major differences. But how is it packaged? It is packaged using the standard derivative of the NPM Packager. Similar to a typical packaging structure it has everything hosted in one directory tree of scripts along with HTML content. The code begins with ‘main.js’ script. This script manages windows and application events. All events may it be from windows or from the OS are handled for example closing the app without keeping any windows
or events open.

Like other coding environments GitHub helps developers get going with a prebuilt main.js, which can be utilized in the developers’ code. Since it is a prebuilt Electron download it makes the developer life easy and saves time and effort. There is an option to build your own environment from scratch if required using Electron as the need may be to ship it to a community or as a part of commercial software.

Developers have the flexibility to use built in Node.js modules along with some other very specific Electron modules that work for the underlying OS. If you are well versed with Node.js you will definitely have a short learning curve to pick up Electron quickly and understand how internal processes communicate.

There is a specific module named IPC which handles inter process communication. It can send messages in both manners asynchronously and synchronously. This makes it feasible to send content across windows that are isolated to the single main process. This is a method of sending events between different renderers utilizing main process as a message exchanging hub.

How to speed up the development process using the Electron? One option to speed up development is to take benefit of Electron’s support for native Node.js modules. Electron uses a different version of the V8 JavaScript engine, so look for a specific version before use. Developers are free to use the NPM directly once they have adjusted a set of environment variables.

 

Testing Electron Apps

Initially developers faced lot of issues while debugging Electron apps because unlike traditional development and testing environments Electron is not a part of that environment or the build chain. But the developers and testers can test code outside the shell via any conventional browser using the F12 debugging functions which they find very inconvenient.

As Electron app runs inside Chromium browser, you can use WebDriver testing framework to build automated test cases using build engine like selenium or using the tools in Jenkins.

Electron framework allows to play and make use of OS level features like:

  • 1.    The recent file options in Windows and OS X can be used for building editor like app in electron
  • 2.    You can make use of UI features like progress bars from toobar or desktop launching shortcuts in Linux.
  • 3.    The Windows media player toolbar can be used inside your app which can allow users to control playback when your app is minimized.

GitHub’s Electron framework (earlier and better known as Atom Shell) lets developers code and build cross platform desktop application using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Electron is a variant of io.js run-time which is fully focused on desktop applications instead of web servers. Frameworks such as the Electron have a long life because of their ability to let the developers check out new ideas on the Web before bringing them into fruition as desktop applications, while eliminating the need to change code to run on different platforms. Electron framework simplifies the distribution process, so it’s easy to update applications on the go. This reduces the headache and updating effort of the users as they always get the latest version for use.

 

Apps built using Electron

With Electron, developers can create cross platform desktop applications for the organization. Electron has been used to produce applications by major companies such as Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, and Docker.

 

Some open source apps that are built with Electron

 

Friends Peer to peer chat
Hearthdash Hearthstone tracker
Kart Frontend for RetroArch
Monu Process monitoring app
Mojibar Emoji searcher
Playback Experimental video player
ScreenCat WebRTC screensharing
Geojsonapp Preview geojson files
Menubar Create menubar apps
Yeoman App Scaffold projects

 

Get started with GitHub’s Electron

The first step is to download a prebuilt binary or use npm to install from the command line.

# Install the `electron` command globally

npm install electron-prebuilt -g

 

# Install as a development dependency

npm install electron-prebuilt –save-dev

 

There is a Quick Start Guide to refer to for developers. A large community creates and maintains projects and tools which can be read along with the related  documentation.

What Google’s Material Design is All About?

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In past few months, you probably are hearing the words “material design” popping up in many conversations. This concept is quite new— it came into light during the mid-summer and references an innovative design language from the individuals at Google.

 

However, material design is something more than merely an idea; it is probably to make designers to entirely juggle around with web and app design procedures. Many websites have already started to roll out design schemes making the use of material design documentation introduced by Google.

 

The idea of layering elements in a clean, user-interface isn’t a new concept. Though, Material Design takes it a pace further — merging a tangible experience with a bright and bold visual.

 

So now is the time to know what actually material design is and what are its real merits?

What is Material Design?
It’s a visual language designed by the Google’s design team at for assisting designers develop sites and apps that are handy, usable, accessible, and practical. The whole concept is based on a living document which is available publicly. For reflecting the changes in scope and technology the documentation is usually updated constantly.

Material design is crafted on a bunch of goals and principles which are simpler to think about than get done.

Material design objectives:

  • Develop a visual language that combines standard principles of decent yet amazing design with the modernization and possibility of science and technology.
  • Create a single underlying system allowing an integrated experience in different platforms and device sizes. Usually, mobile principles are basic, but mouse, voice, touch, and keyboard are all quality input methods that can indeed make a difference.

Material-Design-Perks

Material design principles:
Practical visual cues: The overall design is beached in reality and actually encouraged by design with ink and paper.

Bold, illustrative and intentional: Primary design procedure drives the visuals. Color, typography, grids, imagery space and scale guide the complete design. Color and type choices are usually bold and intentional. Elements live in distinct spaces with a lucid hierarchy.

Motion delivers meaning: The primary component of Material Design is the Animation, but it can’t simply be there for the cause of movement. Animations have to be in a single environment. The key focus should be on the designs that have to be incorporated with easy and simple transitions. The actions and movements should depict the physical world.

Motion delivers meaning: The primary component of Material Design is the Animation, but it can’t simply be there for the cause of movement. Animations have to be in a single environment. The key focus should be on the designs that have to be incorporated with easy and simple transitions. The actions and movements should depict the physical world.
There are several guiding factors for material design, simply breaking down into a diversity of particular concepts and treatments. The Google keeps on inventing things to make people’s life exciting. Google has recently come up with an interesting set of “rules” for how to do style, animation, components, layouts, patterns and usability.
4 Perks of Material Design
Materials Design is a latest design language introduced by Google. Probabilities are that you’ve previously bumped into materials layout in case you made use of Google products. The layout is aimed at unifying the expertise across systems and various size viewports. In the event, you are a layperson you might not actually notice much of a distinction between material and flat design techniques. The difference is based on the fact that the material design gives priority to the z-axis and utilizes levels. This distinction ultimately ends up reflecting in the brief.

Perks of the Material Design:

1. A smooth, clean and engaging interface
An interface created with the materials design requires minimum input signal procedure and provides the best and powerful production. Because many people currently use Google products every day, you are able to safely presume they are utilized to the user-experience. The magnetic sense to the tap is very engaging. Floating action button is inconspicuous and is constantly there to get a person to take any action at any point without any hassle.

2. A well-organized set of rules. Offers Consistency.
Material design offers a pre-identified set of concepts and styles; therefore you do not need to worry about describing the theory particulars to your designers. The language originated so that even a non-technical or designer person may quickly summarize, discuss and above all, get the speaking points without much of a learning curve. The principles presume that items are paper-cut-outs put into real life. It does an excellent job of supplying uniformity on all displays and viewport dimensions.

3. The effectual feel of the objects.
Frequent actions such as tap or mouse over should be responded by the ‘materials’ layered on the web pages. These responses indirectly show the users that they’re engaging with a virtual object and set off them to make a natural way of action.

4. Uses the best features from flat design and skeuomorphic.
Among the main different between material design and flat design is that the flat layout completely overlooks the “real life” science and lights. Digital components are created yet the developer wants to create them with no matter on what “world” might do to the component in case the things were real. In case, you are not fond of this strategy, material layout resolves this problem by using some things from the skeuomorphic strategy that will ease the way you look at the designs.

Conclusion
The idea behind the material design is overall an excellent one. The schemes are clear and fresh. But most seasoned developers likely do not want this amount of assistance. Inside the instruction manual, virtually every idea features a downloadable cheat.

The instruction manual is interesting to study, gets you believe and is a preview of things which will soon flood the internet. Perform using the theories, but don’t feel married to them. Layout, particularly when it involves trends and engineering, is shifting as rapidly as we are able to picture it.

The clean visual format and high functionality of the layout style may continue to arise and develop as designers — maybe not merely for Android — may lock on the theories. What could be a lot more fascinating is the appearance of layered interfaces is truly only an expansion of lots of the layout methods that have been increasingly rising in popularity for many years, including flat and minimalism.

Beacon: What Does It Mean For Retail Stores?

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From the past several years, along with all the excitement around e-commerce sphere, mobile has increasingly contributed towards the continued downfall of the brick-and-mortar sales, while the online shopping is constantly growing.

But, in so far as we would like to consider that in few years everything will turn as digital, it is crucial to comprehend that even in the U.S. where most of the retailers are omnichannel, 95% of retail businesses will still go on at the physical stores.

We observe a promising trend, a world where different offline and online shopping coexist instead of contending. If technologies and innovations to be held responsible for the online and offline division, it is now conveying the customers and retailers together like never before.

Today, the retailers have the amazing opportunity of exploring how technology can be leveraged for supplementing the offline shopping experiences, assisting customers discover products from retail, and develop the rich consumer experiences that get a feel for the changing consumer behavior and trend.
Welcome to the developing world of beacons. What exactly are Beacons? They are the small, battery-operated, and cost-effective wireless devices that incessantly pass on a straightforward low-energy Bluetooth signal stating:”Hi, this is me, here is my ID.” The available apps on smart phones can grasp these signals; execute different actions depending on the micro location, ID, time, proximity, and user’s perspective to offer rich appropriate and personalized experiences.

 

Beacon: What Does It Mean For Retail Stores?

 

1. Discover and connect: Locate the customers nearby, address them and direct them into your online store.

Consider the world where you could distinguish a potential client in the middle of the many individuals who stroll by your store; address them, make proper acquaintance and welcome them over to your store. Regardless of the possibility that your application is not running, beacons can awaken your applications.

 

2. Get engaged depending on the customer’s taste and preferences: Promote appropriate information on deals, products, and special offers.

In a world of digital marketing, how exactly can we fine -cast our brand’s messages to be more direct, precise, clear and efficient, so that we can satisfy our customers and don’t care about the ones who aren’t part of our target groups?
Interaction must be in coordination with the overall marketing strategy of the brand and must effortlessly combine to take benefit of the devices in immediacy, use known communications platforms to ensure that the customers are satisfied and comfortable, and are able to swing the focus ahead of the device to the messages.

 

3. Pleasant in-store experiences: Help consumers in getting particular items with in-store access.

Consumers go through the store to discover thousands of products, long walkways, the number of floors and less support staff. In this case, Beacons save energy, time, and resources by assisting customers get relevant and precise information quickly, deliver latest information based on the location as soon as the users walk around, notify on the products that are of higher interest, drive invention, ease and simplify checkout processes, and cut down the waiting lines with digital receipts and payments.

 

4. Handle insights: Find insights into customer behavior and feed them back into company’s CRM.

Discover footfall patterns, the amount of time spent, entry and exit data, visited locations, trends, repeat visits, heat maps, and history of purchases all in real time. Beacons assist in driving up customer engagement, improve efficiencies, develop loyalty solutions, and get actionable shopper insights.

 

5. Privacy, location services and no nuisance
The best part— Beacons themselves never gather any information or distribute any marketing messages to individual’s phone. Beacons broadcast an ID which the smartphone make use to recognize the context and location. So, effectively, beacons never trace you; instead, your phones trace a beacon.

The smartphone apps which use location should do a successful job in telling why and what they gather and have rules of deleting the history of an individual’s location. It is crucial to have the customer’s trust and own the apps delivering value for them to permit for the location services.

Beacons bring in a world of new potentials, and it is pretty natural that it’ll be broadly used and executed by different types of businesses, no matter big or small. A crucial thing to consider is that no one likes a nuisance, neither in the retail world nor online.

5 Reasons for Getting Excited About Design In 2016

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Instead of being raised quickly, prominence and digital design remains quite a trendy field to focus on.

Often there comes a new user interface that retains the excitement among people. For sure, this statement might be disagreed by a front-end who struggles hard to make a button work as it’s supposed to do, but overall there’s an obvious feeling of conspiracy around the work delivered by top designers and designing firms.

In the past few years, it has gradually become more noticeable that the number of screens with which designs should interact and the user numbers are simply going to rise. Furthermore, the growth looks to be exponential in the upcoming years. More technologies are going to be introduced for which a designer must be ready.

Here are some of the top reasons that are making designers excited for 2016.

 

5 Reasons for Getting Excited About Design In 2016

 

#1: Tools, tools, and tools

Applications, tools, and software are turning our life much easier. Making use of tools in your designing work can minimize your efforts and time, and thus maximize your proclivity and productivity. Here’s a list of some tools that are going to help you incredibly:

  • Muse
  • Sketch
  • Affinity Designer
  • Draw.io
  • UXPin

 

#2: Anticipatory design

This design is turning out to be one of the most exciting and attention-grabbing new ideas on the UX horizon. These are the designs that will remove choices so as to provide more convenience.

Instead of offering lots of options and freedom of movement, it’s believed that designers must deliver some kind of anticipatory solutions to user problems —that is removing decision fatigue completely by cutting down the decisions.

 

#3: Home automation

Although, home automation is quite big, but in the upcoming years, it’s going to be bigger.

Today, there are lots of items available in the market connected to the Internet of Things (IoTs), including—

  • Dishwashers
  • HVAC units
  • Lighting
  • Flood sensors
  • Security systems
  • Smoke detectors
  • Garage door openers
  • Media players

These items are connected to cloud-based computing systems which can be easily controlled according to choices, whims, and routines.

 

#4: Big data integration

Big data integration is for the home automation.

A large amount of data people built by simply interacting with several interface is now easily accessible for scrutiny by individuals with the insights to gather, collate and examine it.

Big data are extremely helpful for knowing the user’s need, requirements, choices, desires and common problems. In a nutshell, it can be properly used to build a better design for every product, service or web offering.

Integrating big data can help in enhancing your designs.

 

#5: Trend of remote work

Now you can do and finish up all your work from the comfort of your own home. Everyone likes work from home, and there are several studies that have shown the below facts:

  • Work from home can boost productivity by 40%.
  • 80% employees believe remote work as a great benefit.
  • 95% polled that remote work can make a significant impact on employee retention.
  • Remote workers are willing to work even when sick.

Remote work can greatly reduce stress, boost productivity and improve job satisfaction. It will help you put your job as a great designer in a holistic perspective.

Progressive Web Apps: The Future of Upcoming Web Development?

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In this era of mobile technology, apps are faster than mobile websites. In earlier years this was one of the major conversations in Web, app publishing and development.

Instant Articles by Facebook is theoretically predicted to get more views in less time. Twitter and Google will launch the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project (AMP) early this year with thousands enormous publishers already on board.

These AMP and Articles seems to be just a patch on a universal problem, and certainly the websites and mobile Web applications are partially built for mobile.

We can see the overall architecture of the apps on PC as well as the desktop browser-based Web, by using these structural design developers and designers are speeding up the apps for mobile. This method can be seen in “binding” for native apps, and fond in PhoneGap (Apache Cordova, IE) where most of the websites and Web apps are coded in CSS and HTML and then “covered” with native structure and properties (since the API clings into a Smartphone OS and hardware).

The production word for these blends is “hybrid” apps. This approach of developing cross-platform & building the accurate, fast native and Web app practices is wrong.

Application development is perpetually growing developing. Moreover, from the spores and wrecks of the last generation come the inventions for the next.

For a new mobile age, a new and stable architecture is coming that will fill the gap between enactment of the Web and native apps and might finally deliver the solution to develop websites and apps that are fast and dependable for use.

 

Progressive Web Apps: The Future of Upcoming Web Development?

 

Progressive Web Apps: Real Idea behind It

Progressive Web Apps is an idea which initially introduced by Alex Russell, Google engineer in June 2015. TO put it briefly, progressive Web apps appear as tabs in Chrome and will become gradually more “app” as soon as more users use them, similarly where they can be joined on the phone’s home screen and have accessibility to application-like properties like offline use, properties and others. Progressive Web apps are connectable with a URL, entirely reactive and safe.
These 2 factors make progressive Web apps to function with more speed and add better functionalities; they are Service Workers and Application Shell Architecture.

To handle the performance of Web app the Service Workers cache the data, provide content and background functionality (such as push notifications). To make sites work offline, the Service Workers can assist in speeding up the data by, “capturing network requests to distribute programmatic or stored responses.”

Now the Developers have the flexibility of building progressive Web apps as of all the tools are available now, depending on the knowledge of development. Developers can build the necessary design elements and shell supported by web browsers like Firefox and Chrome, use of JavaScript, CSS and HTML with Service Workers. To call or populate the content, APIs will help developers make this work easy. For developers to code and dive into these progressive web apps, the tools and necessary elements are available.

Full Progressive App support will become more engaging & give more immersive experiences on the web. Building immersive apps using web technology does not require leaving the web itself. Progressive App design offers a way to create better experiences across devices and contexts within a single codebase, but it will require a broad change in our understanding and technology tools. Progressive Apps are our ticket out of the tab and future of development if only we reach for it. In any case exciting times lies ahead, keep watching this space.

The best Apple TV app ideas for 2016

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The better than ever Apple TV is the most recent device the “iHards” are foaming over and there’s justifiable purpose behind that. Essentially, engineers can transfer amusements and applications to the App Store for Apple TV simply the same way they accomplish for your iPhone and iPad.

Best yet, Apple TV accompanies another remote that has:

  • Glass touch surface
  • Siri voice communication
  • Accelerometer (faculties’ velocity of development)
  • Gyroscope (faculties’ introduction)

So as of now we see first-mover applications for the Apple TV that exploit this full suite of components.

 

The best Apple TV app ideas for 2016

 

How it will change the way individuals connect with TV

  • Apple TV challenges how we see TV.
  • Apple sees the eventual fate of TV as applications.
  • The usage of touch and development imply that applications can be more liquid and feel closer than even on iPhones or iPad.

Apple TV App Ideas

  1. An application that pulls from various news streams taking into account what new you’ve demonstrated enthusiasm for. This ministers your ideal 30-minutes news channel every night. No games or legislative issues if you do not need it.
  2. An application that transforms your TV into a fitness coach. By staying the sensor-stuffed remote in your pocket, the application could tell when you are moving and at what speed. The application would utilize live information sustained from the remote to tell the virtual PT on your screen to urge you to quit slacking, or enjoy a reprieve on the off chance that you require it.
  3. An application that has formulas joined to a regulated cooking video. Numerous individuals have the TV in perspective from the kitchen. Why not benefit from the moderate nourishment development with an application that has formulas joined to an orderly cooking video? The video would take up a large portion of the screen; however the fixings and composed technique could likewise be noticeable in the meantime. Cooking off the TV has never been less demanding.
  4. A caution application that dispatches into your customized morning custom. For instance, it could make you do 20 sit ups and fathom a mental riddle before killing. It could then demonstrate to all of you, your own objectives to propel you for an incredible begin to the day. You could customize this alert taking into account your optimal morning custom!
  5. A photograph screen saver. It has a photograph saver which pulls photographs from your associated iPhone and play them; with Spotify playing out of sight.
  6. A virtual fish tank that you can cooperate with.
  7. Kids love TV so; the potential business sector for training applications on TV is tremendous. An application could indicate Showing recordings with an intuitive common sense tests toward the end of every lesson. This could, for the most part, utilize voice acknowledgment to test information of substance. For example, they could be learning Japanese, and the handy toward the end says “how would you make proper acquaintance?”, moreover, the child utilizes the mic on the remote to say “Konnichiwa”.

 

Those are just some of the possible ideas from the vast ocean of oppurtunities. As the Apple TV ecosystem increases its reach the first movers will definitely hold an advantage over others. So what are you waiting for? Have an idea? Just reach us and Promatics’ seasoned iOS developers will assist you at every step in realing your dearm and make it a succes on the app store.


How Angular 2 is enticing More Developers?

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During the end of 2015, the AngularJS community publically announced the beta version of Angular 2. The changes were followed closely by the REST API development community. Angular is one of the most preferred frameworks for API developers to include a front-end to an API. The approach of Angular 2 is obviously less code and much better concepts. The framework leverages a component-based approach for achieving it. The syntax in related HTML templates has grown significantly. For sure, users of Angular 1 will make out a few concepts; however, there are a number of improvements to the execution.

 

How Angular 2 is enticing More Developers?

 

What makes Angular 2 Different and More Preferable by the Developers?

 

It’s incredible Speed & Performance

Angular 2 is significantly much faster than Angular 1 along with the enhanced support for quick initial loads using server-side pre-rendering, offline assemble for quick startup, and ultrafast variation detection and analysis caching for easy effective scrolling and snappy view shifts.

 

Cross Platform

Developers are increasingly getting inclined to Angular 2 since it offers the tools required to build apps for mobile web, Android, and iOS and desktops. Angular Universal allows server-side interpreting for quick initial views, particularly on the mobile web. NativeScript and Ionic allow you build both native and hybrid UI mobile applications. Web worker support helps in keeping your application User interface completely responsive irrespective of the time taken to load.

 

Sensitive & Simple

Get successful at your objective using easy-to-write, natural syntax. Angular 2 helps in reducing the overall complexity for developers: new, structure-rich templates are easily readable and very quick to understand at a single look only.

 

Perfect Upgrade From Angular 1

Developers can easily upgrade their Angular 1 application at their own speed by integrating it in Angular 2 components, pipes, directives, services and others with the use of ngUpgrade APIs.

 

Flexible Development

Developers get the flexibility of choosing the language. Besides full support for Dart, ES5, and TypeScript, Angular 2 works perfectly well and with ease with ES2015 and other languages that work together with JavaScript.

 

Full Routing

Angular 2 has designed sophisticated views like they have map URL paths to app components, and utilize advanced features such as sibling and nested routes. Angular 2 is capable of supporting the animation transitions, card stack navigation, and sluggish loading for mobile users. If you’re already using routing from an outdated Angular version, you can quickly and effortlessly shift to Angular 2 routing.

 

Dependency Injection
The new Angular 2 works well with powerful, yet easy-to-use dependency injection, letting developers keep with the modular apps without writing down the boring copy-paste code. Dependency injection helps developers in writing tests by making it simpler to inject test doubles.

 

Legacy Browser Support

Beside the complete supporting latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, IE, Edge, and Safari, Angular 2 is even tested for outdated browsers including Android 4.1+ and IE9+.

 

Conclusion

The new changes and updates in Angular 2 offer developers several significant improvements. Since the concepts are considerably different from that of Angular 1, all the developers may be cautious in making the changes. Overall time and efforts invested in learning and knowing about the new ideas and actual structure of Angular 2 will surely be worthwhile.

DevOps Everything You Need to Know

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What is DevOps?

Collaboration, communication, and integration are the 3 key standards of the ever-growing, latest approach to software delivery popularly recognized as “DevOps.” Invented in the year 2009 by Patrick Debois, the term (development and operations) is an expansion of swift development scenarios that focuses on improving the overall software delivery process.

DevOps is a term for a set of ideas that, while not all new, have catalyzed into a development and are quickly spreading all through the technical group. Like any new and famous term, individuals have comparatively puzzled and at times conflicting impressions of what it is. Like “Quality” or “Responsive,” DevOps is a sufficiently expansive concept that it needs some subtlety to know completely it.
DevOps is the act of operations and advancement engineers taking part together in the whole administration lifecycle, from planning to design the improvement procedure to production support.

 

DevOps Everything You Need to Know

 

DevOps: The Next Generation of Agile

In 2009, more IT experts began to move far from the conventional waterfall strategy and started using nonlinear agile procedure by making every advancement stage independent and adding consistent testing at an early stage and all through the development phase.

Thus, this methodology upgraded productivity and trimmed down the risk by letting designers to roll prompt improvements before shipping to creation taking into account the consistent input they got. While agile techniques had constantly improved development, there was still a disparity in the process flow when it came to usage, which still grasped the waterfall approach. While improvement utilized agile to lower risk and build proficiency, deployment held tight to the linear waterfall structure, backing off delivery and leaving testing to the end of the procedure — a procedure that wrongfully split rights. This made tremendous bottlenecks in delivery cycles since developers would need to begin from the very starting point if an issue were found close to the end of sending.

 

DevOps Needs a Cultural Change

DevOps is neither a tool nor a strategy. It’s a social change. Change is dreaded all through most organizations of any type, so the selection of new approaches can be very difficult. Consequently, it is indispensable first to characterize the business requirement that brought the idea of the potential change and also the going with difficulties.

These days, organizations are relied upon to deliver rapidly perfect applications that emphasis on user experience, however without the right devices, applications, and conduct, this apparently easy task can transform into a confused mess. Eventually, flawed delivery interprets into missed business prospects.

DevOps culture can live merely in situations where everybody is going to play a part in the philosophy. It takes the right situational evaluation, technology and attitude to be succeeded in s/w development and delivery.

If everybody in an IT organization is in agreement and comprehends the power of clear and reliable correspondence and additionally the basic business objectives, then the sky’s the limit. Obviously, having a vast set of skills is valuable to each phase and feature of the procedure, as long as those lucky people are willing to be mutual team players.

 

DevOps Requires Multi-Skilled, Unified Teams

As seen above, interaction, communication, and collaboration are the crucial elements of featuring the concept of DevOps into any development and delivery environment. Developing multi-talented teams that are comprised of individual abilities (e.g., designers, system admins, testers, and developers) can add up awesome advantage, however without the right cooperation and state of mind, the skills are for all intents and purposes ineffective.

Often, when people understand that they can depend on other people, the group overall additionally moves more rapidly and productively, eventually leading to more satisfied clients.

The initial phase in a DevOps approach includes perceiving how s/w development, IT operations, and QA are commonly related to each other. As specified above, DevOps depends on cross-departmental mutual effort and open correspondence between the key players in the s/w delivery pipeline keeping in mind the end goal to support operational proficiency, consistency, and practicality. Incorporating and automating these components right on time in the process empowers groups to stream s/w delivery.

 

DevOps: The Future and Hope of Enterprise IT

Today’s business apps are questioned with the several complexities that keep growing from the utilization of different technologies, multiple databases, and numerous end-user devices, and DevOps may be the only and best feasible way of coping with such varied environments successfully.

At Promatics we have adopted DevOps for many projects and have established a center of excellence to further explore this methodology. You can also take advantage of DevOps by contacting Promatics and achieve more efficiency and respond to changing requirements more flexibly for your projects.

What needs to happen before IoT promise can be fulfilled?

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Internet of Things (IoT) has become a trending topic from few years, Industry Experts inside and outside of tech understand that it is a transformational concept with more exciting advancements like electric vehicles, mobility, and widespread sustainable energy advancements.

Internet of Things is one of the most important technology concepts since the internet itself that would change the way people and businesses interact with technology.

Recently, Gartner predicted that by 2020 there would be 25 billion connected devices, three for every human on the planet and Cisco predicting that number would be double. Industry analysts are predicting the market opportunity for IoT to explode into the trillions in the same period.

 

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GE’s Jeff Immelt said of IoT, “A locomotive today is a rolling data center. An aircraft engine is a flying data center. This is producing terabytes of data every day. This data can be used to give back to customers, to drive fuel-efficiency, better performance, better environmental performance. We can take the same technology and do it in our plants. So every investor of an industrial company ought to understand what their internet strategy is.”

But there are key questions to both the internet and the technology that need to be answered before the IoT promise can be fulfilled. Here are four areas that need to be addressed before the IoT revolution can begin in earnest.

 

The question of privacy

Surveys point out that one of the worries is the concern for privacy. How can personal information be kept private? George Orwell’s fear of ‘Big Brother is watching’ at home, at the workplace and in public places is a very real and big fear. The list of potential privacy breaches is long and getting wide scale acceptance of connected devices will not be easy.

 

The threat to security

The bigger question is to do with safety and security. How can attacks from interconnected devices be prevented? Will personal and public safety be compromised? Will an already unsafe world be prone to more terrorist attacks? Will Big Data Analytics reliably predict security threats with accuracy in high threat environments such as airports?

 

Unique IP address

Identification of all the connected devices is going to pose immense challenges. Unique IP addresses are crucial for cyber security, preventing crime and terror and also for measuring or optimizing the performance of the devices. Connectivity will need to be ensured. The task will be huge. Unless the capacity required is provided, IoT will be mired with delays, speed issues, unreliability and other bottlenecks.

 

Monitoring and tracking the devices

Tracking these devices and monitoring them to ensure that they are working well will require organizations of a different kind. Managing the billion IP addresses, the networks routing the data, generating real-time alerts for power outages, terror attacks or health related issues will be a huge challenge.

 

Connectivity

Connecting mobile phones has posed major connectivity challenges to the service providers. With money and time, the problem will be eventually resolved. However, for IoT the requirements will be very sophisticated and stricter in terms of the latency and bandwidth of the networks.

 

Interoperability

Getting billions of different devices from different providers to talk to each other is going to be a challenge that industry leaders have to resolve. The huge untapped opportunity should persuade business leaders to talk to one another. Until interoperability issues are solved, more than half the IoT opportunity will not be realized.

 

Maintenance and updates

How will devices be maintained? How will bugs be managed? Many internet components for industrial, healthcare, security and other applications will need to address the requirements of maintenance and updates. These need to have backward and forward compatibility or else soon a mess of thousands of redundant systems that do not work with or talk to one another will build up. Companies will find it impossible to maintain billions of such products worldwide.

 

Flexibility

IoT infrastructure will require platforms that have flexibility inbuilt into them. Investments will be huge and these will have to be made continuously over the years. How does one adapt to changes in the future? The only sensible way forward is to design open, integrated solutions that scale up and are flexible.

 

Ecosystem

The ecosystem in which the IoT companies operate will be very challenging and uncertain in the initial years. Consumer acceptance or resistance, unclear or nonexistent Government rules and regulations, environmental issues, extreme competition, requirements of creating and managing scale will lead to a lot of business turbulence. A few companies will survive after consolidation; others will die a quick and premature death. What will be the consequence of such turbulence on employment, work practices, heath?

 

Deciphering data

Let’s assume that all the data that IoT generates in future can be collected and stored. The problem we will face is what to do with all that data. With our current limitations, we cannot decipher such huge volumes of data and draw conclusions from it.

 

Power for the billions

How are we going to reliably power all the billions of connected devices? Existing electrical and battery solutions just cannot cope up. Nor can we hardwire so many devices.

 

Environmental impact

What will be the environmental impact of the production, use and end-of-life disposal of all these devices? Will the heavy metals and chemicals used in their manufacture contaminate landfills, dump yards and lead to chronic health issues on a massive scale? The fear is that with accelerated replacement cycles of routine devices, there could be a ten-fold increase in waste requiring disposal.
The plethora of concerns raised need serious discussion. Not all the problems can be fixed immediately. But agreement on an overall blueprint should emerge quickly and should not be left to chance.

All in all, the variety of challenges that need to be addressed will ensure continuous discussion and debate into the near future.

A Minimalist Guide To Web Assembly

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A web assembly is mainly a binary format for the web. It is all about making the web faster than ever. Many major vendors are collaborating with the same to design and implement this format on the web. The main aim is to improve the web performance by making advancements in the design of binary formats. Tool chains and compilers are the major components which are needed for the web assembly along with a proper browser which can implement the output. This format was created by Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla. It is mainly used for critical code performance and compiling languages other than JavaScript. The compilation starts right from the JavaScript code to the byte code and finally to the machine code. The main aim is to produce the machine code effectively and efficiently. A web assembly mainly has three advantages:

 

  • Web assembly can easily be added in JavaScript engines because it is of high level and almost similar to the parts of JavaScript. Instead of replacing the engines, it builds on the infrastructure of engines. This is overall good for the web ecosystem.
  • It leads to the execution of universal virtual machine. It can easily evaluate and accommodate to the languages which do not compile well with the Java script.
  • Web assembly helps in browser improvement. It means that the browsers will be able to understand the binary format and will be able to compile binary bundles which will compress smaller than the text JavaScript that we use today. The run time will become much faster depending upon the compiling time optimization.

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HOW TO CREATE WEB ASSEMBLY CODE

It is very easy to create the web assembly code. All you need id to write the code manually and use into the textual representation. Then you have to use the binary output using the programmes. After this, you need a compiler which can combine mainly C++ into the web assembly. Now the question arises that which compliers must be used to build the web assembly programmes. Web assembly mainly focuses on C++ but as it is evolving, it will support more languages, for instance, GCC. The web assembly community is, therefore, collaborating with more complier vendors as mentioned above by taking their input into consideration and side by side working with them on ABI matters.

Undoubtedly, web assembly will enable many languages to comply on the web but JavaScript will be the most prominent language having the highest momentum on the web. In a number of configurations, web assembly, and JavaScript shall be used together.

 

FEATURES OF WEB ASSEMBLY

 

1) IT IS NOT REPLACING THE JAVASCRIPT: Many developers doubt that web assembly is designed to replace the JavaScript but it is not so .It has been designed to compliment to the JavaScript language instead of replacing it. JavaScript has become increasingly popular among the developers as well as the tool vendors but web assembly will mainly complement it, catering to the needs of the developers by serving as a compiler target. Since web assembly is supported by all the major browser developers, therefore this is made to represent a low-level code and facilitate the missing features which are otherwise absent in the JavaScript.

 

2) IT IS DEVELOPED BY JOINT EFFORTS: The web assembly is not being developed by a single vendor but it is a cumulative effort. The company Mozilla encompassing very good developers facilitated this service in the form of asm.js to serve as a compiler target. Apart from this, Google worked on the Native client (NACL) which is again a binary format for the web based on LLVM. Web assembly was, therefore, a joint effort providing a browser complier target enabling a bright future.

 

3) IT IS COMPATIBLE BACKWARDS: Backward compatibility has been an essential feature of the web. All the prototypes will be available for all the browsers.
4) FEATURES WILL BE MORE ENHANCED THAN JAVASCRIPT: The features of web assembly will be more advanced than JavaScript. It means that you can expect the initial versions with better loading time. The web assembly will result in improvements because the binary format will be more faster than the textual representation of asm.js. Some of the improvements which can be expected are dynamic linking, stack inspections, DOM integration, full threading support, integrated garbage collection and multi-process support. All these things will be really hard to compile using the JavaScript. Web assembly will, therefore, serve as a very versatile platform for the languages that support these features.

 

5) READILY AVAILABLE: All the benefits of the web assembly can be provided in the future. This has been the result of years of experience implementing asm.js and NACL and all the benefits of the implementation shall be provided readily by web assembly. Web assembly has been developed as an up gradation in addition to the current solutions, so if you want to use some benefits right now then asm.js is one of the best solutions that you can go for.

 

Despite many efforts, web assembly still remains as a work in progress. Developers need to innovate and experiment with the browser implementations and provide valuable feedback to cover the entire specification.

Are frameworks the new programming languages?

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In the 1980s, the most straightforward approach to begin a geek battle was to announce that your most loved programming dialect was ideal. C, Pascal, Fortran, Lotus, Lisp? Developers invested hours clarifying precisely why their specific method for creating an if-then-else provision was better than your way.

 

Are frameworks the new programming languages?

 

That was then. Today, fights including sentence structure and logical structure are to a great extent over in light of the fact that the world has joined on a couple of straightforward measures. The contrasts between the semicolons, brackets, and so forth in C, Java, and JavaScript are minor. Fascinating civil arguments about writing terminations still exist, yet most are disputable in light of the fact that robotization is shutting the crevice. In the event that you don’t care for determining an information sort, there’s a decent risk the PC will have the capacity to derive precisely what you implied. In the event that your manager needs JavaScript yet you like Java, a cross-compiler will change over the greater part of your statically wrote Java into minified JavaScript, prepared to keep running in a program. Why battle when innovation has our backs?

Today, the fascinating activity is in structures. When I sat down with other employees at Johns Hopkins College to arrange out another course, structures ruled the discussion. Is Precise superior to anything Ash? Is Node.js all that?
A Study Course have been composed that would investigate the engineering of the most essential programming bundles that are the establishment of the Web. This was the focal point of the activity, deserving of a study course that would investigate the engineering of the most vital programming bundles bracing today’s Web.

In this sense, systems are the new programming dialects. They are the place the most recent thoughts, theories, and items of common sense of cutting edge coding are found. Some fire out, however numerous are turning into the new central building squares of programming. Here are seven features filling the system pattern – and making structures the new most loved hotbed for geek battles.

 

Most coding is hanging together APIs

Some time ago composition programming implied sending the greater part of your insight into the programming dialect to crush the most out of the code. It seemed well and good to ace the unpredictability of pointers, capacities, and degree – the nature of the code relied on upon making the best decision. Nowadays robotization handles quite a bit of this. On the off chance that you leave useless proclamations in the code, don’t stress. The compiler strips out dead code. On the off chance that you leave pointers dangling, the junk jockey will most likely make sense of it.

Also, the act of coding is diverse at this point. Most code is presently a long line of Programming interface calls. There’s periodic reformatting of the information in the middle of Programming interface calls, however even those occupations are generally taken care of by different APIs. A fortunate few get the chance to compose cunning, piece slamming, pointer-juggling code for the guts of our machines, however the greater part of us work with the higher layers. We essentially run funnel between APIs.

As a result of this current, it’s more vital to see how a Programming interface carries on and what it can do. Which information structures does it acknowledge? How do the calculations act when the information set becomes bigger? Questions like these are more integral to today’s modifying than ones about linguistic structure or dialect. In reality, there are currently various instruments that make it easy to call a routine in one dialect from another. It’s generally easy to connection C libraries to Java code, for example. Understanding the APIs is what is important.

 

The shoulders of mammoths merit remaining on

Envision you’ve turned into a follower of Erlang or another new dialect. You choose it offers the best stage for composing a steady, sans bug application. This is a pleasant assessment, however it could take years for you to change all the code accessible for Java or PHP into your most recent dialect of decision. Without a doubt, your code could end up being significantly better, yet is that value the additional time?

Structures let us influence the diligent work of the individuals who preceded us. We dislike the design they picked and we may contend over usage subtle elements, however it’s more productive to smother our grumblings and figure out how to live with the distinctions. It’s such a great amount of less demanding to acquire all the great and the awful of the code base through a system. Taking the macho course by composing everything yourself in your most loved new dialect as opposed to one of its more prevalent systems won’t permit you to appreciate the cream of your new decision as fast as it would to just concede to the structure producers and their APIs.

 

Knowing the design is the thing that matters, not the linguistic structure

At the point when the greater part of the coding is hanging together Programming interface calls, there’s very little favourable position in taking in the eccentricities of the dialect. Of course, you could turn into a specialist on how Java introduces static fields in the articles; however you would be vastly improved off making sense of how to influence the force of Lucene or JavaDB or some other heap of code. You could invest months finding of improving schedules of C compilers, however taking in the ins and outs of the most recent Apple centre library will truly make your code shout. You’ll get much further taking in the particular points of interest of the system than the linguistic structure of the dialect on which the structure rests.

The vast majority of our code invests the greater part of its energy in the inward circles of libraries. Getting the points of interest of the dialect right can help, yet comprehending what’s happening in the libraries can pay off significantly.

 

Calculations overwhelm

Taking in a programming dialect can help you juggle the information stashed in the variables, yet that exclusive takes you as such. The genuine obstacle is getting the calculations right, and those are typically characterized and executed by the structures.

Numerous software engineers comprehend its perilous and inefficient to invest energy re-actualizing standard calculations and information structures. Without a doubt, you may have the capacity to tune it a bit to your requirements, yet you chance committing unpretentious errors. Structures have been generally tried throughout the years. They speak to our aggregate interest in a product base. There aren’t numerous case of when it move out of the framework hurl aside the diligent work of others, and manufacture an algorithmic lodge with your own two hands.

The right approach is to analyze the frameworks and make sense of how to use them further reinforcing your best favourable luck. On the off chance that you pick the wrong information structure, you could transform a direct employment into one that takes a period that is a quadratic capacity of the information size. That is a major bother once you become famous online.

Why ‘Mobile First’ may already be outdated?

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“Mobile first” and “mobile only” these terms are coming over the years now. It all started before the iPhone the software building people hacked the brains, processes, and the companies and ensure that the only thing which we start thinking is “mobile first” and not the “web first”. The impact of “mobile first” is a huge one even it brings the books, courses, and conferences about it. It sounds like the “mobile first” is the future of us. But, this is just a flow of technology. Has anyone thought that whether this is true or not? Is really the “mobile first” our future? And if it is true, then why the entire successful mobile businesses have been building web apps designed recently for larger screens? I guess here, the thing which matters is the screen and not the devices. That is why now the mobile app-drive companies building the complementary web pages for the use of the larger screen.

 

Screens matter and not the devices-

Well about screen we still cannot stay firm on one size. A few months before, phones and tablets are the most popular amongst the people. When the new category of Phablet was about to launch all the people laughed at it. But then Phablet became the most popular device. It even stagnates the sales of the tablet. So, new things with different screen keep coming and the ideal screen size still not fixed.

 

Why ‘Mobile First’ may already be outdated?

 

So what exactly the mobile is all about? Is it about devices? Are we obsessed with it? Is it right to get obsessed with the specific device? Lots of questions and definitely it will open the number of answers and opinions. Conceptually the mobile is not about devices. It just gives an access to consume and publish the information. Also, to be fair obsessing about some specific devices is not right. Technology gets changed at every moment and we cannot imagine what we will see the next thing coming. With the advanced technology surely the new things or devices which introduce in the market are well advanced as compared to the earlier devices available in the market. Then how can we get obsessed with the single device?

Also, with technology, there is no such thing that only one will sufficient. Like iOS and Android OS. Both are important. Getting obsessed with phone versus tablet is not right either. As with time, both got merged and came up with Phablet. So, this all shows us that, obsessing with one specific device is not right because it is evolving continuously. All the things which we do are for getting the information. So it is clear that the information we get is through the screens and not through the devices.

Well, if we think about the one thing which is constant with all this frequently changing scenario of devices and screen size is a big screen. No matter what device has come to the market and what technology and features it has but big screens are never going to be outdated. It is the only screen size on which we can depend on. Even in this digital era and fast changing pace of screens the dominant screen for work- place is still a large one. We cannot do everything on the small screen. To do some particular work the big screens are the better option. Thus, whether it is laptop or monitor, at home or the workplace, big screens have their own impact and this will never change. So, overall it is not just about mobile first, but it is about big screens and small ones both.

 

Is “Mobile Only” a small niche of consumer business?

Many consumer services use mobile devices more than the desktop devices. For many people, most of the time their mobile screen is their primary screen. But it is not a universal pattern. And the new screens which are coming are not of phones only. Mobile screens may still be the most important and dominant thing for many people, but it is not the only one. Thus, if the things which matter are screens and not the devices then this clears that “Mobile only” businesses may be a small niche of consumer businesses.

 

Supporting role of “Mobile” for Business software-

For business software, the first preference will be the larger screen rather than the mobile screen. Because, for the software for getting the work done like, slack, Google Docs, etc. the larger screen is the most important one. The mobile app here plays the different role to the large screens app more specifically the secondary role. The mobile app plays the supporting role to the large screens and thus for the business software.

 

Long Term Failure for the “Mobile” Service Business-

The “Mobile” Service Businesses are setting and pitching themselves as “Mobile only” or ‘Mobile first” such as mobile marketing services. But these businesses are setting themselves for the short term success because they are targeting the small screen specifically for mobile. And the screen scenario changes frequently. For the long term success, the businesses have to offer the complete service for across all the screens. Offering the service for ‘mobile only’ is a temporary state in which we are now but it will change and then the ‘mobile’ service Businesses will have to face the long-term failure.

 

Focus on Job and Screens not on the devices-

Never ever focus on the device. If not the ‘mobile first’ or ‘mobile only’ then what is to focus for? Well the most better and right approach is focusing on the JOB and then on the Screens. Not matter what device come and go in the market. And doesn’t even matter what is popular outside. But focusing on what type of jobs the users try to do and serving them accordingly is the best way. Rather than thinking and targeting the specific device, it is always fruitful to think about the screen which best suit for the input and also the screen which best suit for the output. This will go for the long term purpose and will cover all the essential thing of for the marketing.

Many people may have the different opinion on this topic. They may have their own experiences for backing their ideas. But it is the market after all. It is uncertain. The important thing in the marketing is to target and focus on the right thing. With concern to “mobile only” or ‘mobile first’, both are for short term. It will stay till the temporary state of mobile only products will there. Once it gets changed, then the whole scenario will get change. That is why the “Mobile First” may already be outdated.

This uncertainty of “Mobile only” or “Mobile first” products has guessed by some of the mobile driven companies. That is why those companies are building web pages for use on large screens. Even the most successful businesses of mobile driven are also getting their web apps designed for the larger screens. They have understood the importance of big screen and how the large screens are always better for many types of input. Even big screens are the most preferred choice for most of the people at a time. The businesses are clear now that it is not about devices, but about the screens that matter.

How mobile application development will change to face the challenge of Internet of Things?

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Internet of Things has moved to the center stage and becomes the motivating force of the tech industry since 2014. The connected devices are mostly being deployed in the organizations and by 2020 this may grow to 1.7 billion. The organizations will adopt and integrate the IoT into their businesses at an extraordinary speed. About operating and transforming the organization’s processes the mobile application development has created the initial shift and now this digital information will be embed even more deeply by the IoT. When the organizations start implementing the embedded devices and have developed the applications for taking the advantage of the embedded devices, the number of lessons may be well taken into the consideration which has learned from the mobility of the enterprise.

 

How mobile application development will change to face the challenge of Internet of Things?

 

The smartphones and the tablets were the focus point of the enterprise mobility solutions to the date. In spite of the domination of these smart devices many organizations will start the planning and experimentation of the connected devices which are more sensor-enabled and wearable.

In the spaces of the consumer and enterprise both this further clouding endures to play a major role. Certainly over the time, to see how the IoT, mobile, and cloud will meet and subsequently how they will get adapted to the world which is increasingly connected, data-driven and user-centric will continue by the organization will be an interesting one. From the early days of smartphones and mobile apps, there are some good lessons which can be learned like

It is all about the data and not about the device. Enamoring with the competencies of the smart devices, sensor-enabled “things” and the wearable is easy, but managing the data which the device will create and consume is the main task.

The connected devices which are continually increasing generate the massive workloads of the data. To manage this securely and efficiently the use of back-end integration has become progressively essential. For the mobile application devlopment projects the designing of the back-end connections for the scalability and reusability is not stranger but for the IoT this becomes vital.

As the mobile and IoT projects are expanding the security remains one of the top concerns rather than being an obstacle. In terms of including the authentication, encryption, and the access of the data the security goes far beyond the device in considering in the case of mobile. Along with this, it also has to consider that throughout the whole technology stack the security supports to the mobile and IoT software application development cycles.

The speed will be the critical point in the IoT too, as it is in the mobile from which the businesses will expect the acceleration of the innovation and transformation. For the solution to address the challenges which IoT initiatives creates the platforms like Mobile-Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) and the mobile application provides the stages which enable the secure connections to the back-end data sources. In shaping the IoT architectures the platforms will play the key role for these connected devices which centralize and manage the multiple back-end connections and also, will be able to share and re-use throughout the different applications.

However, besides the methods which accelerate the mobile projects, the IT will subsequently continue to maintain and manage the existing legacy systems which will also provide the legacy system for the continuity in the vital areas which includes the infrastructure, governance, and the security. Today, with the publicity of the IoT achieved the motion; the organizations need to keep themselves well-informed about the demands of the mobility and IoT, it will be fascinating to see how the organizations will be able to keep it.


The psychology associated with change and our reactions to shifts in social networks

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A couple of months ago the logo of Instagram was changed. Some liked it. Others hated it. But the memes began to flow.

The company owned by Facebook moved ahead from its outdated camera icon and adopted a new, low key design right through its collection of products – Instagram, Boomerang, Layout, and Hyperlapse. The changes in design swept all through the Instagram app as well. The company explained in a blog post that the simpler design will put more focus on the users’ photos and videos without changing the way they navigate the app.

 

The psychology associated with change and our reactions to shifts in social networks

 

Over the last 5 years, the community of Instagram has evolved from a place for sharing filtered photos to a place with so much extra things. It is an international community of interests to share over 80 million photos and videos daily. Their reorganized look reveals how lively and varied the storytelling has become.

This renovation could indicate the commencement of an era of quick change as Instagram keeps on shifting towards its algorithmic timeline. Besides, it seems this will not be the last time for Instagram to send the Internet into meltdown in 2016.

But what are the reasons for which social networks get the feeling to make a change in their design and functionality? And what are the ways in which users react?

Let us dig up.

 

Why social networks make changes (and why we go on rushing back)

When a certain social network changes considerably – by the use of an algorithm to determine what content we are going to see, or totally shifting the design, for instance – it is basically taking a control element away from the users and shifting the product they fell in love with. This kind of changes is likely to meet with some pushback.

Nevertheless, time and again, these huge, far-reaching changes are made with keeping the interest of the user in mind. For instance, when Facebook released the timeline for the first time, it was not welcomed kindly by certain users, but today the timeline chooses content from friends rather than brands, and it makes our Facebook feeds palatable. Lacking the algorithm, possibly we would be shown 1,500 pieces of content a day on Facebook, which means we would probably fail to see vital updates from family and close friends.

 

Why social networks have to change

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology made a study in which they explored the factors that can destroy a social network. They discovered that though networks such as Friendster and MySpace had tens, or even, hundreds of millions of registered users, the bonds between users were not very strong. In fact, users had the feeling of a looser affiliation with the networks.

When networks get bigger, they become increasingly cluttered and we start missing out on a number of very important content from our close friends. Social networks find this to be a problem.

As Instagram declared they started to trial an algorithmic timeline, they stated that the majority of users overlook approximately 70 percent of their feeds. Then Instagram co-founder explained that this is about ensuring that the 30 percent you notice is the best possible 30 percent.

By making sure we notice content from the 30 percent of accounts of our closest affiliation, Instagram can go on growing, simultaneously keeping the community feeling close-knit.

 

What this signifies for brands

Brands are frequently most affected by major changes to social networks. Essential updates habitually boost user experience and incline towards showing content that are from family and friends, rather than ads or branded content.

Important changes signify that brands are required to modify their strategies. When a network attains maturity, brands normally will not get the same exposure as they do at the time of developing towards the mainstream. At Buffer, this is called the Law of the Double-Peak.

This is to say that when a social network is rising and expanding towards mainstream popularity, the vital opportunity for brands are likely to be organic reach. But as the network attains critical mass, organic reach falls and the vital marketing opportunities have a tendency to be through paid channels.

The transition of networks from organic reach to paid channels happens for a couple of reasons. One is Contend overload. As networks expand our feeds become more and more cluttered, and this makes it hard for us to locate the content that is most important to us. If advertisers wish that their content should appear beside the vital updates from our closest ones, they will have to pay making their advert relevant.

The other reason is maturing of the business. When start-ups develop, they have to start bringing in revenue, and on the whole, their most important resource is user eyeballs. For marketers and brands, it is imperative to keep an eye on how networks are evolving and changing as they develop.

 

Why users continue to come back to social networks in spite of changes

In the year 2014, Penn State and UC Irvine researchers published a study on the ways users react to significant changes on social networks. Their chosen subject was one of the major controversial social media updates: the Facebook timeline.

Applying ‘coping theory’ to measure users’ reaction to the change, the researchers showed that 78% of the initial reactions of users were concentrated on how they saw the change to affect them personally.

64 percent of the initial reactions showed some stress signs, and just 20 percent considered the change to be a positive one. The first cause of stress was due to loss of familiarity, and the next was due to loss of control. The study found that Facebook users by and large were against the change and conveyed a sense of loss simply because the new interface was not the old one they were used to.

The study discovered that we look at ourselves as more than simple users with social networks. The Facebook users strongly felt that they were the Facebook user community, not the products. So, Facebook would not succeed without their constant use and customer loyalty.

Most of the people the study surveyed (64%) concentrated on attempting to change the environment by asking Facebook to go back to the way it used to be, as against trying to find out their way around the new Facebook timeline.

Certain users made threats to stop their association with the social network, but the study found that eventually, when there were only two coping strategies available – to accept or to leave – the huge majority accepted the change and went on to use Facebook.

As the Timeline rollout, Facebook has gone from strength to strength. In all probability, Instagram will meet with the same fate when its algorithm based feed launches later in 2016. Some users will cuddle it, others will be against it; but only few will abandon it.

Social networks, our favourite apps and products – all are going to change, as change generally signifies improvement. It is a necessity for innovation and this leads to the survival. At times the change fits well with us and at times it does not. However, the most important point is that we have to adapt to these changes if we wish to carry on maximizing the potential of social networks.

Uncovering the Secrets of Health Problems by Apple Research Kit

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There is nothing new that the doctors around us are using the mobile phone, iPhone to change the traditional way that we think about health. Apps produced with Research Kit are already producing many discoveries and unveiled the medical insight at a speed and level that are unimaginable even a few years back. That success has encouraged widening up the provision or possibility from medical research to personal care with the introduction of Care Kit that is a framework for the developers to build new apps that will help to manage your own well-being on the daily basis.

 

Uncovering the Secrets of Health Problems by Apple Research Kit

 

What is the function of the Research Kit?

For the medical researcher, it is the first step to the battling disease that is to understand it. Research Kit helps the researchers to attain that objective. It helps to join up the participants and carry out the studies.  Since its introduction, the amount of data collected, and the insight gained that has been innovative. Research Kit has made it easy for the clients to sign up for and participate in a study by using iPhone that is already with you. You will no need to travel to a hospital or can take the facility to complete tasks and fill out the questionnaires. In place of that, you can perform the activities by using the advanced sensors in iPhone for generating the incredibly precise data wherever you are this will providing a source of information that is more objective than ever before.

 

Function of iPhone in healthcare

There is no doubt that iPhone is a ground-breaking device and it is not limited to a periphery of gaming and social apps. Today it has become a must device in the field of medical science and in other areas where iPhone plays a vital role.  In this present scenario of the market mobile or iPhone is used for personal care that is an appointment to the doctor or saloon or booking the ticket of flights, restaurant everywhere this device has become very important.

People are very much accustomed with iPhone and they use it in every walk of their life. They like to measure their healthcare data with iPhone before they visit the doctor. There is another plus point that people have become more conscious about their health especially when they have the device to them and they know how to get information regarding the subjects’ data they want to know.

 

Devices used in Research Kit

The device like Fit Bit is the beginning in the healthcare industry and with the arrival of Research Kit things have become perfect over the period. Fit Bit is a physical activity tracker that is designed to help the people. By using this device people have become more active, they eat their diet properly, they sleep perfectly that helps to turn the people into a healthier person. It is seen that iPhones flashlight has reduced the use of torch of the doctors and it is a good sign for a futuristic vision of mobility. You can expect that in near future many medical problems will be solved by using this Apple’s Research Kit framework. Day by day the new devices and operating systems will be enough to handle motion, camera movements, face detection, and touch.

 

Functions that facilitate the people

This Apple’s Research Kit framework helps you in different ways such as:

  •    Surveys
  •    Consent
  •    Active Tasks
  •    Bringing patients better post-surgical care
  •    Managing chronic conditions day by day
  •    Easier way to manage diabetes
  •    Taking research out of the lab into the real world

The biggest challenge that medical researchers face is recruiting the participants. Only a few people come forward and allow themselves for the study. But a maximum number of people using iPhone around the world that means that these apps built on Research Kit can enroll the participants and gather data in bigger numbers than before. You can collect the information on the regular basis or even in hourly basis. You can collect the information daily and can take care of your health on the basis of the data.

 

Use of Research Kit in different diseases

In a short period of time, the apps built on Research Kit become a helping device to the medical institutions and help to enroll an unprecedented number of participants in their studies. In this, the researchers are gaining because they gain insight and discover correlations that were impossible before.

 

Parkinson’s disease

This device provides a clear picture of Parkinson’s disease to the researchers so that they can understand the Parkinson’s disease by using the gyroscope and other iPhone features to measure balance, dexterity, gait, and memory. Researcher gets the greater insight into the factors that makes symptoms in better or in worse like sleep, mood, and exercise.

 

Predict Seizures

The Apple Watch helps to the researchers by predicting seizures before they take place. EpiWatch app is a device that helps people to track it accurately the onset and duration of seizure in real time, creating a correlation between episode history and medication. Participants can get the impending seizure by tapping on Apple Watch.

 

Asthma

You can use GPS feature in iPhone, you can get the information of Asthma. The Asthma Health app helps participants better manage their condition by giving real-time information on areas with poor air quality.  The study track pattern is on an individual basis, the researchers expect to discover new ways to personalize the treatment.

 

Diabetes

For the diabetic patients, it is very much helpful. You have to use the gyroscope and accelerometer in your iPhone to measure the movement, along with self-reports of food intake and medication fulfillment, the GlucoSuccess app helps the researchers to study the relationship between glucose levels and activity, diet, and treatment. There are different types and sub-types of diabetes, some of the diseases are more responsive to the app.

 

Hepatitis C

There are certain diseases that have become common to the human beings. The researchers use a combination of health metrics including activity levels and heart rate along with surveys on symptoms and treatment, the CTracker gives the researchers an insight into how the Hepatitis C virus and current medications affect the patient’s life.

 

SleepHealth

Researchers are using this SleepHealth app to identify connections between sleep habits and conditions like diabetes, obesity, COPD, heart disease and depression. The researchers use the sensors in Apple Watch. The SleepHealth app tests give the daytime alertness and measures the data against self-reported sleep patterns and sleep quality.

There are many more diseases where this app is used. In each case, it proves helpful to the researchers and they get an insight of the diseases and its medication that ultimately proves to be helpful to the people. In this way, it shows that people have become more conscious about their health.

 

Better care of health

Just a few years back we could not dream of such life. Today people have become prone to different diseases. Sometimes they come across with such diseases that they have never heard before. The research works are developing day by day to give support and help to the people. With the right apparatus, you can play an active role in managing your own health. Research Kit and Care Kit both are helpful to the patients and researchers both because in both the cases iPhone app is needed to get the proper result.

Why Chatbot Development could be the Next Big Thing for the Tech industry

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Until a few years ago, technology companies focused on providing a user-friendly interface for humans to interact. But the current trend is to present an interface which is not only user-friendly but also has artificial intelligence. With bots showing the capability to do specific tasks, messenger apps are slowly embracing to chatbots. But unlike what most think, chatbots are revolutionizing the technology in a big unprecedented manner.

Chatbots are software applications which serve functions related to simulated conversation.

 

Why Chatbot Development could be the Next Big Thing for the Tech industry

 

Historically, it can be traced to Alan Turing, the man behind the Turing Machine & the Turing test. ELIZA (1966) & PARRY (1972) are considered as the first chatbots. They were specifically designed to simulate human language and nothing more. Chatbot development was stagnant for a very long period of time until the last decade, especially with the emergence of SMS, messenger apps, and smart devices.

In the real world, humans interact using natural language. We do not use any mechanism like commands/buttons or at times we do not even use the proper grammar associated with the language.

Although initially many language processing applications faced many challenges due to these reasons, technology advances have resolved most if not all of the initial challenges. Similar to bots, chatbots can process information and learn from them. But unlike bots, chatbots use natural language for processing. Humans find it easy to interact with any interface if it was based on natural communication and not on any other mechanisms. This potential has made chatbot developments to be one of the growing trends among messenger developers.

 

What exactly are the benefits of the chat bot app development?

  • Availability of chatbot messenger platforms: Most tech companies have developed their artificial intelligence powered messaging chat bot platforms. Users need not abandon one application for a different application in order to obtain the additional capabilities of those apps. The additional app capabilities can simply be integrated with all the messenger platforms with minimal inconvenience to the users.
  • The Next Generation Apps: On an hourly basis, new apps are launched replacing older apps with better functionalities and more importantly with additional artificial intelligence. When it comes to messengers, chatbot developers also develop apps/enhance functionalities of existing apps to get the best of the artificial intelligence. More and more apps are moving towards chatbot-based services so that the interactions are based on natural language.
  • Accustomed Apps are slowly disappearing: Because of the interaction mechanisms involved in the older apps, the number of apps that are regularly used has been decreasing. The overloading of apps, also known as app fatigue, are causing people to abandon apps due to boredom as well as due to older interaction mechanisms.

 

Chatbot categorization

 

Chatbots can be classified in two different ways:

 

1. Bots working within apps

Bots working within apps are implemented to perform specific tasks or to automate interaction between the app and the users. These Bots are recommended to business ventures that already have a large user base.

 

2. Bots functioning within messengers

These bots work in messengers that support bots. Unlike the other category of bots, these bots are cost-friendly. These bots can serve better for the business that is yet to have a large user base.

 

How does chatbot function?

Texts are the sole input for chatbots to complete their assignments. Chatbots understand text-based messages in two ways , namely strict commands & NLP(Natural Language processing) .

Chatbots that strictly rely on strict commands are very less in today’s market. These chatbots only respond to commands that are recognized by them.

Today’s market mostly has chatbots that rely on natural language processing. Strict commands are not required for them in order to synthesize the inputs. Instead, they would need the users to interact with them in the most natural way possible.

 

Technology behind Chatbot

We can broadly divide the existing technologies behind chatbots into APIs and machine learning technologies.

 

APIs

In areas, where the chatbots need to work with TUI(Textual User Interface),the interaction is mainly based on text commands. And in such cases, in order to facilitate the interaction between the user and interface, the only action required is to integrate the specific API. API would then make it possible to interact with the user, respond to the queries and perform the specific tasks.

 

Machine Learning

Chatbots can also make use of machine learning. By means of interpreting data based on previous interaction, recognition of data & speech and making use of machine learning technologies, chatbots can be smarter while interacting with users in a more natural language-based command.

 

Development Tools available for chatbot developments

 

Several development tools are available for chatbot creation and these could be classified mainly into two:

 

1. Tools which need some programming knowledge

One of the best examples for this category is Pandorabots. Developers need to have prior knowledge in programming and would have to program in certain areas if not in all .Although design and development could be time consuming, these tools can help in better integration with apps and also in better customization compared to other methods.

 

2. Tools which need no prior programming knowledge

Example for this type of tools is Chatfuel. Chatbot development tools which require no prior programming knowledge usually have step by step guidance or wizard to help in the development of chatbot. Steps provided by these tools are mostly user-friendly and easy to follow. Faster design and development are possible with help of these tools.

 

Chatbots- the era for a better interface

From the development perspective, we could see a surge in chatbots thanks to the wide range of tools, many of which that do not require any programming or coding skills. More and more native applications could be replaced by chatbots in near future. The advantages of which are:

 

Chatbots are capable of learning from users

  • The less need for a user interface.
  • Creation and updating of native applications can have considerable expenses.
  • Efforts could be large as well.
  • Installation of a native app requires considerable marketing and convincing upon the user. These are not required in case of chatbots.

 

Perhaps, the advent of a new exciting time for technology is here thanks to chatbots. Users would no longer be confined to constraints of graphical user interfaces. We do foresee a future in which we do not need to adjust our communication for technology, rather would have the technology adapt to our ways and norms and be more useful & effective than ever before. All these thanks to the chatbots and the benefits it brings onboard. Experienced App developers and mobile app development companies like Promatics Technologies have already embraced this technology and are working actively on chatbot development for clients worldwide.

Top 10 features of Progressive Web Apps that can compete against mobile apps

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So what exactly is a progressive web app? How different is it from a web app? Well, a progressive web app is a website built like an app. But what’s unique about this website is that it gives the exact look and feel of an app. These “apps” can be installed by users and receive push notifications similar to other apps. They can also be used offline. But one considerable difference does exist between progressive web apps and native apps- that is unlike native apps progressive web apps cannot provide access to all features of a smartphone.

Similar to other applications, the capabilities of progressive web apps have increased with the advent of new technologies and betterment of existing technologies. It seems the demands for progressive web apps have increased as many users are increasingly losing interest in native apps and moving to others. Many surveys and analysis point to the fact there is a good sign of users adopting the progressive web apps and instant apps over the native apps. With top enterprises and business interested in investing and adopting new technologies to attract new customers and retain existing customers, progressive website apps could perhaps be the way forward.

Top app development companies have understood the potential of progressive web apps. With the power combination of both the website and app, the progressive web app is perhaps the next big thing for app developers.

Now let us look at the top ten powerful characteristics of progressive web apps, which could provide severe competition against mobile apps.

 

Top 10 features of Progressive Web Apps that can compete against mobile apps

 

Feature 1: Combined power of Website & App

Apps are perfectly optimized for smart devices including mobile screens and websites do auto-updates without looking for the user permission to accomplish the same. These two important qualities are well possessed by progressive web apps.

 

Feature 2: App Store not required

Similar to a website, we do not need any of the app stores to publish the progressive web app. This independence truly helps in bringing quick updates and improvements to the progressive web apps.

 

Feature 3: Superior performance

When compared with other apps, progressive web apps comes with the latest innovative technologies which deliver both speed and efficient content. So they are far superior in performance.

 

Feature 4: Offline work mode

One of the biggest benefits of using progressive web apps is that they can work on both offline and online mode, which is not possible with other apps. Progressive web apps can load the contents faster than the websites and also store the specific content in an offline mode. Users could check on the content in progressive web apps whenever they would need them without connecting to the internet.

 

Feature 5: Secure features

Progressive web apps are safe from attacks, hacks, spoofs and any other types of insecurity as they make use of TLS connections and get served through them.

 

Feature 6: Push notifications

A website cannot send alerts or push notification to the users but an app can do that. Earlier, this capability was restricted to apps alone, but with the advent of progressive website apps, they too now possess the push notification capabilities.

 

Feature 7: Search engine access

Similar to the website, progressive web apps have access to search engines. Users can optimize the keywords and content for the progressive web apps just as in
websites.

 

Feature 8: Addition to Home Screen

Another feature borrowed from websites, adding a particular page to the home screen of the progressive home screen is conveniently very easy. Similar to the bookmarking feature present in browsers, these apps allow users to add other  apps on the home screen so they conveniently check out the apps every now and then.

 

Feature 9: Quick repairs

Another big advantage with progressive web apps is in fixing bugs and in releasing updates. With absolutely no need to approach users for their permission nor wait for approval from app stores to permit the changes, any quick fixes or releases can be done quickly in case of progressive web apps.

 

Feature 10: High conversion and retention rates

Many organizations that have moved to progressive web apps see a dramatic rise in conversion and retention rates. Many do acknowledge that users love and use more of the progressive web apps compared to native apps.

 

Conclusion

With these characteristics, progressive web apps do look a threat to native apps. Sooner than later, many brands will realize the power of progressive web apps and they would definitely love to have the qualities of both an app and website. For the app developers, the only advice would be to quickly learn on progressive web apps.

Mobile App Development Trends That’ll Continue to Rule in 2017

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The tremendous increase in the smartphone usage is very helpful, if you are a digital marketer or app development company.

From the past couple of years’ technologies are changing frequently. Companies using web application moved to mobile application. Mobile application expanded to different platforms and different technologies and categories. Rapid change and advancement in technology, results in change of development methodologies, which made development companies to adjust accordingly.

After our research here we bring you the list of few trends that are likely to rule the era of mobile application development in 2017.

 

Mobile App Development Trends That’ll Continue to Rule in 2017

 

1. UX will gain more attention

Over a long decade since web and mobile came into spotlight, designers come across several design patterns, which need to be implemented either in your mobile application. With the advancement of technology, this practise of enhancing the user experience will grow further.

Designers spend sleepless nights to think about the user experience that user of mobile app finds attractive and creative. However, with the coming year UI is going to be enhanced more with fresh and creative ideas.

Our team at Promatics, is ready to adapt to new features and deliver best results, helping you to revolutionize your mobile application.

 

2. Application Security

With the advancement of technology, hackers will switch to mobility. Hackers already disrupted the eco-system of web application by their unethical activities including data breaching and in coming years you need to take precautionary measures to save your mobile app from being targeted by hackers.
In the coming year, business of mobile application security is going to expand at its most.

 

3. Augmented and Virtual Reality

Overall if entire year is considered, 2016 has been very impressive as far as AR and VR technologies are concerned.  Companies have started to give their best effort in enhancing and creating a history in this technology. One of such example has given birth to a game based on virtual Reality- Pokemon Go. Google’s VR came into light this year and since this is in spotlight now, in coming year it will be enhanced more.

However, this is not only limited to gaming industry but also has potential to intensify various sectors including retail shopping, restaurant business, automobile industry etc.

 

4. Hands free devices and wearable’s will rise

Till now there has been considerable growth in connected and hands free devices’ which are connected to mobile application. Such devices range from wearable digital watch, health monitor device, fitness devices etc. All these devices are connected to mobile application.

In coming year, this trend is going to expand and various companies will try something new in different fields. So, 2017 is going to bring amazing gadgets which will surely leave people shocked.

Big leaders such as Apple, Google are trying to attain a benchmark in wearable technology. Such as fitness tracking device can be replaced by fitness tracking application. No doubt this technology is going to make such things, which will be a choice for users.

 

5. Rise of Enterprise Mobile Apps

This year, companies have shown interest in adapting to enterprise mobility solutions wherein they moved to mobile application for better employee engagement and workplace optimization.

Enterprise mobile apps have proven to be a boon in the corporate environment which facilitates employee to work from remote location. Companies using enterprise mobile apps have registered a rise in productivity.

Till now, not only large corporate but also small enterprises have shown interest towards enterprise mobile apps for their business to gain more employee satisfaction and to streamline work operations.

Since a considerable rise has been noted in the past so coming years more company will move towards enterprise mobile apps. So this is not going to fall down but it is going to enhance and rise amazingly.

 

6. Messaging App will climb up

We have seen a considerable rise in the messaging app such as Viber, Facebook, Whatsapp etc. Such mobile applications has picked up a remarkable speed in terms of getting user attention in 2016, Since this trend has recently came in demand so in coming year this trend is going to rise more. Companies in this business will try their luck in messaging domain, as they will try to bring something new for users.

 

7. Era of Mobile Payment

Till now we have seen many channels contributing in financial transaction on the go. Recently people came across many such applications such as PayTM, Freecharge etc. This channel of payment has succeeded to attract people in a huge mass. Companies will try their luck to introduce new applications which can contribute towards financial transactions in a digital way.

 

Apart from the above domains mentioned above, there are ample number of ideas and categories in which entrepreneurs will try their luck to develop applications. Innovations and ideas in any field including mobile application development is never going to be down. World is moving towards digital era and mobility is something which gathers people in a huge mass.

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