iPhone Application Development and iPhone Game Development Scenario

Being .NET developer, I had never thought of working so deeply in mobile application development. From the day I have entered to learn about iPhone Application Development and iPhone Game Development, I have never looked back. It took me about 20 days to get totally involve in iPhone Application Development process and get use to methods. To learn iPhone Application Development, it took some training from the people who have already worked in it and some of my own R&D. Since then I have developed about 50 Apps by myself and hoping to develop more.

iPhone Application Development comprise of 2 to 3 steps

a) Understanding Requirements
b) Understanding User Flow
c) Actual Development

First we need to understand the requirements and make user flow accordingly. User flow means the way user is going to use the app or the way you want to guide user through app, and then the actual development starts. Same is for iPhone Game Development. There is a story line, plot, game logic and main features, depends on the type of game you develop.

iPhone Application Development is being done using three important tools, you need MAC, iOS SDK and yes a device to test developed iPhone App. For iPhone Game Development, there are also third party software available on paid basis which enables you to port graphics and game for iOS, like Unity. It take some time to learn them but once you are done it is easier to develop game in their environment and port it than to make it from scratch up in iOS SDK. Well, on the other hand iPhone Application Development is better to be done in iOS and take care while using any third party API, as Apple might reject your app because of that.

Apple has recently launched iOS 5 Beta 4 and we are waiting for it to have final release. It has many features which includes iCloud based development. This will surely bring new era of sharing and storing your data and for developers working in iPhone Application Development and iPhone Game Development to develop more exciting apps.

iPhone Application Develoment: New Era in Mobile Computing by Morpheous

Apple has opened new frontiers with launching iPhone and iPad. It really has begun the Mobile Computing and Apps development race. iphone application develoment is the field which is now talk of the town and cities and countries. Once there was OS named Symbian, in which we have supposed to develop mobile apps and games. But it never evolved neither it became developer friendly. You must be an astronaut and programming in Symbian was surely a rocket science. Then, the change came, Apple has proved with iphone application develoment that, it’s not only easy to work with but also to understand the system and due to system support only one device, there is not testing of apps needed for different devices with different screens and features, unlike Symbian.

Apple launched its first iOS SDK in mid 2008 and since then it has been upgraded to many revisions or versions, providing new features to iPhone Apps Programmer each time. iphone application develoment is done in Objective-C language and has somewhat similar interface like visual basic. Where you have Graphical User Interface for Form building and other is coding interface. For iPhone Apps Programmer, there is well defined file structure to follow; so that you can just connect the pieces right and rest of the things are taken care by compliers.

Third and Most important part of the iOS or you can say Latest iOS 5 SDK is its simulator, where iPhone Apps programmer can build and check the application he has developed like testing it in device. iphone application develoment environment also provides option for porting the apps directly to device for testing via the SDK, and that is very beneficial to remove and bugs or unknown force closes. As hardware is getting more and more advance, like the newly added multi-tasking feature to new model, Apple has made sure it brings new and latest things on platter for both User and Apps Programmer.

iPhone Apps Development has surpassed the development done in Symbian or any other mobile platform in just few months and so far it’s biggest success Apple has achieved so far. There was one question everybody had at Launch of iPhone, what after 1 year or after you use all native apps? With simple answer to it: Apps, Develop more and more apps. And with it came the new breed called iPhone Apps Programmer, specializing in iPhone Apps Development and satisfying the ever growing hunger of different types of Applications and Games.

Iphone apps development a New Generation Choice

From its launch on late 2007, iOS SDK has made it possible to develop applications just like native iphone applications. From very basic SDK to latest version 4.3.3 Apple has made sure that it remains developer friendly and stays in available framework. iphone apps development has not only passed all expectations but also maintained its consistency and quality during the basic development stage to advance stage.

Apple has initially restricted many features and which latterly made available to developers to play with, which has been a bad news in market for some time, but yet it is so far the best mobile application toolkit existed. iphone app development toolkit does not only comprise of development for iphone applications but also lets you test it in given simulator and on Apple iphone device. And this made it easy for iphone developers to develop and deliver best quality and bug free iphone app. iphone apps development tools are easy to use and SDK user interface is not that hard to catch-up, I can say even its easier then what it was at the launched time.

Apple iOS SDK used for iphone apps development is based on programming language ObjectiveC and is somewhat familiar with C and C++. Due to its own development library and development environment, developing for iphone has its own touch. The iphone simulator I have mentioned before can be used as onscreen GUI tool to see exactly how your iphone application will behave on device. iPhone Simulator has same look and feel as of the original iphone device. During the development of iphone application, developer can check it instantly on the simulator and solve the bugs of change the coding or designing accordingly. In iphone apps development it is just like writing in WYSIWYG editor, where what you see in development phase is what you will get on iphone device as an iphone application.

Application designing for iphone apps development is also another tool that has been provided as GUI, where iphone application developers can drag and drop components and then do coding according to their use. Apple has made sure that iphone apps development is restricted enough, so that it cannot be copied or created or sold without using iOS or Apple App store. iPhone device has also been sold based on the restriction of Apple’s policy to keep the app development on their native MAC OS using their hardware and their development kit. I hope this information on iphone apps development will help iphone apps programmer understand the Apple iphone apps development basic scenario both user and developer point of view.