So What Mobile Platform Should I Start With?
You’ve decided your business needs a mobile application. Whether planning to provide service for customers or an enterprise solution to boost employees’ productivity, the first question of development is: Which platform?
We will review the big players on the market – RIM’s BlackBerry OS, Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS and attempt to point out factors to consider when making that decision.
5 Steps to Get Your Mobile Application in the Spotlight
Simply developing a cool app is not enough to ensure it stands out in the highly competitive environment of mobile applications. In order to bring your app to the stoplights of the red carpet, you must scream out loud and announce to the world you’re out there.
What I’m trying to say is that the uniqueness of an app is not the only prerequisite for popularity, although it does help. Equally important, if not more so, is the way you announce your presence, and who you announce it to.
Knowledge of your target market, and hence your audience, is crucial for your app’s presentation. Using the right channels and speaking to the right people are keys to success.
Less is More – Challenges in Designing UI for Mobile Apps
Having spent years designing UIs for desktops we try to apply all learnt tips and tricks in UI design for mobile apps, but here comes trouble. Surely principles in preliminary research and usability are the same, but designing UIs for mobile apps has certain specifics which set some limits.
The handset isn’t a miniature desktop
Usually we emphasize small screens, less memory and less processor power as the properties of mobile devices which differentiate them from desktop computers, but there are other key factors requiring different approach in mobile app UI design. Those can generally be called “mobile user mental models”. Mental models refer to the way users behave in a particular situation, expect things to work or the tasks they attempt to complete.
Using Fledge for Testing BlackBerry Applications
Recently I was working on one of our products, scribe2go, which is being addressed at businesses and features a BlackBerry edition as well. My job was to organize the mobile application testing process, and identify the automation tools to be used. Which in the BlackBerry case was a simple and straightforward job – we decided to go mainstream with Fledge.
Below is a short summary of my experience with Fledge, which you might find useful if you plan to test BlackBerry applications.
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