iPad can be considered major step taken by any IT company so far for serious tablet base computing. With ever growing demand of Apps, iPad Application Development and iPad Game Development is now in demand in latest IT mobile application development scenario. With latest releases and updates by Apple every month, it’s a cat and mouse game for developers to catch-up the new changes come in each update for iPad Application Development and also iPad Game Development. We will review in this article about the technology and features of both types of development and what it takes to deliver the high quality games.
iPad Application Development is somewhat same like developing for iPhone. It uses the same Xcode and user interface which is used to develop iPhone Apps. iPad Application Development though contains some different container and also major difference comes when designing graphics for the apps. Graphics needed to be designed 2x in the size than what is designed for iPhone. Another obvious difference is simulator to test applications. iPad Application Development is about creating business, utility, sports, medical and other types of apps which are either informative or interactive. Where you can push and pull data from servers and display different info or save it to server or in the device inputs given by user.
iPad Game Development is on the other hand is more complex than iPad Application Development. For iPad Game Development, or say any game development, one needs to be good at math and physics. Well not all game are complex but if game you are developing fall into the category of RPG or FPS etc. than it really is going to ask more than just simple logical code or use of base iOS SDK. iPad Game Development comprise of engines like Cocos 2D or Unity 3D, which are use generally to make a game play, plot and characters and later on ported to SDK for more intense coding and compiling. Unlike application development, game development asks for more intense testing and bug fixing due to higher end graphics and more complex user flows. All depends on the complexity of the game that needs to be developed.
With release of iPad2 and latest iOS 4.3, the power of apps has been shown off. From web based features usage of the day to day info to usage of Apps, apps platform has been an extra ordinary successful way to provide great tablet base computing interface. With iOS 5 waiting to be launched in third quarter and upcoming devices, we are assured that iPad Application Development and iPad Game Development would be more interesting and will include more features for better tableting.
