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Introduction to Mobile Applications

Mobile Applications
A mobile applications, most commonly referred to as an App, is a
type of application software designed to run on a mobile, device, such
as a smartphone or tablets, computer. Mobile application frequently
serve to provide users with similar services to those accessed on PC.
Apps are generally small, individual software units with limited
function. A mobile application also may be known as an App, web
app, online app, iPhone app or smart phone app.

Apps are divided into two broad categories:

1. Native Apps
2. Web Apps

1. Native Apps
Native Apps are built for specific mobile operating system,
usually ios or android. Native Apps enjoy better performance
and more finely tuned user interface (UI), and usually need to
pass a much stricter development and quality assurance process
before they are released.

2. Web Apps
Web apps are used in HTML or CSS and required minimum
device memory since they are run through a browser. The user is
redirected on a specific web page and all information is saved
on a server based database. Web apps required a stable
connection to be used.

There are several types of apps currently available.

1. Gaming Apps:
The equivalent of computer video games, they are among the most
popular types of apps. They account for one-third of all app
download and three-fourth of all consumer spending.
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2. Productivity Apps:
These focus on improving business efficiency by easing various
task such sending image, tracking work progress, booking hotels
and much more.

3. Lifestyle and Entertainment Apps:

Increasingly popular these encompass many aspect of personal
lifestyle and socialization such as complicating on a social media,
as well as sharing (and watching) videos. Some of the most widely
known apps such as Netflix, Facebook, Tiktok, etc.

History of Mobile Phones

Mobile phones, particularly the smartphones that have become our

inseparable companions today, are relatively new.

However, the history of mobile phones goes back to 1908 when a US

patent was issued in Kentucky for a wireless telephone. Mobile
phones were invented as early as the 1940's when engineers working
at AT&T developed cells for mobile phone base stations. The very
first mobile phones at all. They were two way radios that allowed
people like taxi drivers and the emergency services to communicate.

Instead of relying on base stations with separate cells (and the signal
being passed from one cell to another), the first mobile phones
networks involved one very powerful base station covering a much
wider area.

Motorola, on 3 April 1973 were first company to mass produce the

first handheld mobile phone. These early mobile phones are often
referred to as OG mobile phones (or zero generation mobile phones).
Most phones today rely on 3G or 4G mobile technology.

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History of Mobile Applications
 Mobile communication is so integrated into our lives that many
people feel uncomfortable without a cell phone.
 Once upon a time, the most popular function of phones were
calling and sending texts
 A smartphone is a multifunctional device that not only
communicates, but helps to learn, earn and have fun.
 Typically they were small arcade games ring tone editors,
calculators and calendars and so forth.
 The beginning of the new millennium saw a rapid market
evolution of mobile content and applications
 This is made possible by the development of mobile applications
 Mobile applications date back to the end of the twentieth century
 Manufactures tried to make their products more attractive for
customers by introducing more and more applications
 Mobile users demand more choice, more opportunities to
customize their phones and more functionality
 The Motorola DynaTAC8000X was the first commercially
available cell phone
 First marked in 1983, it was 13*1.75*3.5 inches in dimension,
weighed about 2.5 pounds, and allowed you to talk for a little
more than half an hour.
 First generation mobile phone were designed and developed by
the handset manufactures
 Nokia was famous for putting the 1970s video game Snake on
some of its earliest phones. Other followed adding games like
pong, Tetris and Tic-Tac-Toe.
 These early phones changed the way people thought about
communication. As mobile phones prices dropped, batteries
improved, reception areas grew and more and more people began
carrying these handy devices
 By the end of 90s, professional websites were design and
developed which loads texts, images, audio, videos through the
help of web browsers
 Mobile application development depends on different operating
system, which are designed with the help of different
programming languages

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  Mobile Applications are developed for operating system like
android, ios, windows

Google play store

 Google Play, also branded as the google play store and formally
Android Market, is a digital distribution service operated and
developed by Google.
 It serves as the official app store for certified devices running on
the Android operating systems and it's derivations as well as
chrome OS, allowing users to browse and download
applications developed with the Android software development
kit (SOW) and published through Google.
 Google Play also serves as a digital media store, offering music,
books, movies and television. Content that has been purchased
on Google Play movies and TV and Google Play books can be
accessed on the web browser and through the Android and ios
apps.
 Applications are available through Google Play either free of
charge or at cost.
 Google Play was launched on October 22, 2008 as Android
Market, later on, on March 6, 2017 it was renamed as Google
play.
 The Google play store had over 82 billion app downloads in
2016 and reached over 3.5 million apps published in 2017 while
after a purge of apps is back to over 3 million.

App Store
 An app store is any digital storefront intended to allow search
and review of software titles or other media offered for sale
electronically. Critically the application storefront itself provides
a secure, uniform experience that automates the electronic
purchase, decryption and installation of software applications or
other digital media.
 App store typically organizes the app they offer based on the
functions provided by the app (including games, multimedia
productivity), the device for which the app was designed and the
operating system on which the app will run.

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  Due to its popularity, the term "appstore" (first used by the
electronic app and later popularized by Apple's App store for ios
devices) has frequently been used as a generic trade to refer to
other distribution platforms of a similar nature. Apple asserted
trademark claims over the phrase and filled a trademark
registration for "Appstore" on July 2008 with an initial 500
application available. The number of apps peaked at around 2.2
million in 2017.
 The app store is an app store platform developed and maintained
by Apple Inc. for mobile apps on its Ios and iPad OS operating
system.

Windows Store
 Windows Phone Store (previously windows market place) was an
app store, developed by Microsoft Corporation for windows phone
letting users installing various apps on their device.
 It initially launched with windows phone 7 in October 2010.
 With the rollout of windows phone 7.2, Microsoft unveiled the
online marketplace that offers over the air installation of apps/
 In August 2012, Microsoft renamed windows phone Market place
to windows phone store.
 In 2015, Microsoft announced that windows phone store would be
killed out and replaced by windows store which would act as a
unified store for all windows powered device
 Windows phone store supported credit card purchases, operator
billing and ad-supported content.
 The store also featured a "try-before-you—buy" option, where the
user had an option to download a trial or demo for a commercial
app.

Mobile applications and Application Software

Mobile Applications

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  Mobile Application usually come to mind when someone says
'app'.
 They are made for mobile devices, are downloaded on 'app
stores' like iTunes and Google play and are accessed through an
icon on your phones desktop.
 App are the software designed for a single purpose and performs
a single function. Creating these can be challenging for a
developer as different mobile apps need to be created for apple,
android and blackberry and for the most part the code can't be
shared between device platforms.
 Instagram, Facebook, Many and social media sites all have
mobile application. Today, when most people think 'apps' they
see smart phones, tablets and icon.

Application software
 Application Software are the software which are designed to
perform a variety of functions
 It is designed to perform specific task to benefit individuals,
organizations and businesses. Some application software is quite
generic providing basic functionality to a broad base of users.
 Generic application software includes programs like databases,
word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail servers and other types of
programs that are accessed by the masses.

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