Author posts Alex Bakman

Snappii Made Buttons Look Different

Snappii Made Buttons Look DifferentSnappii has added new cool feature to its mobile business apps. If you are interested not only in functionality but in design opportunities too this feature will satisfy your needs for sure. A couple of months ago the possibility to upload your own images for buttons was released. Now this has been even improved. You can change the size of buttons making them too small or really big covering approximately the full screen surface. Upload any picture from your PC or use search on the Web to choose the one you were looking for. The buttons can be made with or without round corners.

You will enjoy playing with the color themes of new-designed controls. Any color is available to highlight the background of an image when only text is left. The only limitation is that one color can be chosen actually, anyway it will be enough to make your app design harmonized. Dye your app look with vivid and rich colors to make it individual and attractive.
The solution of resizing will be the most useful especially for those who find it inconvenient to click on buttons inside mobile business apps due to low resolution on their devices. No more tiny and unclickable controls- make buttons as you fancy them.

This feature will help you create indeed beautiful and smart mobile business apps for you and your clients. Go to our site and check our new design of the buttons right now.

What Apps People Prefer To Spend Their Time On?

Lots of mobile business apps are downloaded per day, both from the Appstore and Android Market.

The idea of this survey was to see what mobile business apps people like most. What the chart to the left shows doesn”t surprise. No secret, most of all, engagement mobile business apps are hot today, especially games. Social networking takes the second place. These two app categories control 79% of all consumers” total app time. Consumers use these two categories more frequently, and for longer average session lengths, compared to other categories.

Frankly speaking both games and social networking mobile business apps are meant to help users spend their spare time interacting with their friends or just playing funny games while going somewhere and having nothing to do. Continue reading “What Apps People Prefer To Spend Their Time On?” »

Mobile Apps Go On Advancing

Step by step we became dependent on our mobile devices. Especially the smartest “filling” of them, I mean mobile mobile business apps, attracts our attention. People download,install and use them in large quantities.
In a recent report by the mobile analytics firm Flurry provided some evidence that the use of mobile mobile business apps has over taken the amount of time spend browsing the web.This startling conclusion confirms what a lot of people already knew, that mobile mobile business apps have made little niche in our lives.

Taking these stats into account we can assume how important for small businesses mobile mobile business apps can be. With the help of them you can easily:
-find business locations; Continue reading “Mobile Apps Go On Advancing” »

Portsmouth NH City Guide App

Portsmouth NH City Guide AppThe third-oldest city in the U.S., Portsmouth, New Hampshire is full of history, from its Georgian-style homes to its historic town center and museums. Portsmouth has lush parks where you can relax and take in the scenery around you. Enjoy biking, hiking and many other activities along this beautiful seacoast city. Water park lovers will be happy to know that Portsmouth is home to New England”s largest water park!

The town was founded in 1623, and a walk through Portland”s historic area feels like a stroll back in time to that era. “Residents” in period costume populate the area, and at three working crafts shops, you can watch coopers, boat builders and potters at work on 17th-century trades. Today, the historic district”s center, Strawbery Banke, consists of 10 downtown acres and 46 historic buildings, including Georgian-style homes that showcase18th-century prosperity. Some buildings have been restored with period furnishings and exhibits, and many are available for viewing and tours. Continue reading “Portsmouth NH City Guide App” »

Brief Review of Snappii Apps

for blogNautica is a US based apparel brand of the VF Corporation featuring primarily men”s sportswear. Nautica was founded in 1983 by clothing designer, David Chu, and a partner.
Today the world of Nautica represents both a rediscovery and reinterpretation of what Americans have always wanted to wear. Nautica is currently available in more than 64 countries with more than 170 Nautica branded stores worldwide.Getting familiarized with this brand has become even easier with the help of the new app made with Snappii. It can assist you to find out Nautica locations, take a look at new catalogues, take part in forum discussions,get the latest news about it and etc.

You can download it both from the Appstore and Android Market for free.
Nautica app is really worth being installed on you device, especially if you are a small fan of Nautica clothes and accessories.

Online Shopping Goes Mobile

for blogIBM Benchmark’s initial online retail figures are in for Christmas Day, and even for mobile devotees they are a stunner.
7% of all online sales were made from iPad. iPhone yields a little- it took 6.4% of sales. Android which came out from nowhere recently is in the 3rd place. 5% of customers used their Android devices to go shopping online.Of course, these figures don”t include mobile business apps and games downloaded from the Appstore and Android Market. Their number has increased as well. To make sure you can take a look at our previous blog posts.
Continue reading “Online Shopping Goes Mobile” »

How organizations can build and deliver mobile apps without having to retrain existing programming staff

How organizations can build and deliver mobile apps without having to retrain existing programming staff

 

The Mobile App Development Challenge…

 

In the face of a corporate BYOD strategy, today’s enterprise companies are being inundated with increasing customer and employee demands for custom enterprise mobile apps. These apps must be data rich, robust and integrated with corporate IT systems and they must work on any mobile device. But mobile app development presents difficult challenges with complex programming tools, cross platform requirements, lengthy development cycles and a shortage of trained mobile app programmers.

Mobile app development requires that existing IT developers learn many new programming languages and tools. Android and iOS SDK’s, Java, Javascript and Objective C are all required languages to develop mobile apps but the vast majority of programmers have not had the opportunity to gain these skills. Without this programming knowledge app requests are being addressed too slowly.

Another roadblock in enterprise mobile app development is the time and cost associated with cross platform development. Users are demanding integrated, native applications but there is no single mobile platform. The SDKs provided by Apple and Google only work for their own platforms. Developers must build apps for each platform separately, in different languages and with different tools. This can mean needing to hire two, or more, separate developers for each programming language which is a very costly proposition.

In addition, successful enterprise mobile app development requires a lot of prototyping and validation with users which is very time consuming and tedious with SDKs and frameworks. The tools are not productive when multiple revisions need to be turned around very quickly. As a result, some organizations have been using web based tools like Javascript and Mobile JQuery, which are faster than SDK’s, which are still too time consuming for app development. Web apps also have a number of limitations: they cannot access device features such the camera, they cannot access files to allow local databases, security is weak and they only really work in a connected mode where internet is present.

IT organizations are flooded with requests for app development and many organizations are resorting to rapid hiring of in-house mobile programmers or outsourcing options. Hiring new obile developers is challenging as they are costly, scarce, and in high demand. Outsourcing means giving up development control to resources that don’t have a clear understanding of the company or business. Ideally, companies want to use their existing programming teams, but the the majority of in-house developers have not yet had mobile app training nor is the time or money available for that to occur. “Most organizations do not have many trained developers in mobile programming technologies . This limited resource should be used to enable other programmers in the company to create mobile apps.

The mobile app development challenge is clear: The app backlog can only be addressed effectively if organizations can leverage their existing development teams to create mobile apps. SnAPPii is an online mobile app building platform created to allow companies of any size to easily and quickly make custom apps for their business without requiring any mobile programming skills.

 

The solution to the mobile app development challenge…

 

Utilizing the SnAPPii platform all developers can now build native apps without needing any training or experience in mobile programming. The visual drag, drop and configure method lets developers visually build once and Snappii can automatically create native apps for Android, iOS and HTML5. As a result, developers can work at a much higher level of abstraction with no source code is involved.

 

development-process

 

SnAPPii also provides a rich library of pre-built features and functionality for building sophisticated enterprise apps that access data from backend and cloud based servers. Organizations can leverage developers trained in mobile programming technologies to extend the Snappii platform even further with capabilities specific to their enterprise.

 

 

The Snappii library allows significantly faster and easier development of feature rich native apps than using SDKs or Frameworks. Development work that takes weeks or months to complete using SDKs can be done in just days with SnAPPii. App updates to all user devices can also be immediately distributed with the single click of a button.

 

prpgrammer productivity

 

Prototyping mobile apps is essential and needs to be done quickly. With SnAPPii, apps can be easily created, saved and immediately viewed on all smart devices. Just build in the editor, save, and review on your device!

 

Editor-to-Phone

 

Being able to rapidly build and test apps and receive immediate feedback enables cost-saving development that is 30 times faster than using traditional methods. The SnAPPii platform also acts as a content management system allowing continuous updates with immediate distribution and monitoring of performance and usability.

 

lifecycle

 

Utilizing the SnAPPii platform, organizations can address their backlog and leverage their existing programming staff to build and deliver robust enterprise mobile apps.

The SnAPPii platform is open online to all developers. Anyone can begin building an app in minutes and sophisticated app builds take just a few hours to produce. Try it free today!

Why Do We Need Smartphones?

for blogChristmas week is behind. It is the very time to take a look at the achieved results.
According to the survey about 7 m. new Android and iPhone devices were sold during Christmas week. To play with their new toys and test them users downloaded a bunch of mobile business apps. It was the first time when the number of donwloaded mobile business apps exceeded 1 billion per one week. Between December 25-31 people downloaded 1.2 billion of mobile business apps from Appstore and Android Market. In comparison with previous December weeks the figure increased up to 60%.

One more interesting fact is that almost the half of all downloads occurred in USA. You can compare it with the other countries given in the image.

These figures just stress the idea that mobile business apps become the hottest thing users want to have on the devices, it seems to be one of the most decisive factors of having Android phones or iPhones at all. Continue reading “Why Do We Need Smartphones?” »

When Digital World Turns Out To Be Real

QRQR codes, or “Quick Response” codes, are a mechanism to codify data for quick recognition. They’ve been used in package tracking applications for some time, and apparently they’re hugely popular with mobile phone users in Japan and become even more popular due to their unlimited possibilities. Now it is invading the rest part of the world. Snap a picture of a QR code with your phone’s camera, and your phone can then decode the info and do something useful — usually load up a URL contained within the code to alleviate the tedium of typing.
You may soon see QR Codes in a magazine advert, on a billboard, a web page or even on someone’s t-shirt. Once it is in your cell phone, it may give you details about that business (allowing users to search for nearby locations), or details about the person wearing the t-shirt, show you a URL which you can click to see a trailer for a movie, or it may give you a coupon which you can use in a local outlet. Continue reading “When Digital World Turns Out To Be Real” »

Our Indespensable Helpers in Household Duties

for blogWhile holidays people are wholly busy with preparation for the holiday. Shopping is one of the things which takes much time and sometimes becomes even tiresome. But not any more according to the survey. At first people started using computing hardware to make orders via internet. Instead of going shopping they just stayed at home and still bought what they needed.
The trend has undergone a change. Now mobile devices seem to be most used for shopping especially in the cases when they have no access to their PCs. The flexibility and availability of devices have made them an indespensable tool for solving everyday tasks. For example, it was found that during Christmas, 24 percent of shoppers visiting retail websites were on mobile devices. This result can”t help impressing. The figures will change and still more folks will find it easier and more comfortable to use their mobile devices instead of getting stuck in traffic jams and wasting time. By the way you can order an item while driving as well. Appreciate your time, there are more serious things than going shopping in our lives.

What Expects Us In Future?

for blogIn the era of high technologies mobile devices are becoming more and more necessary and spreading widely all over the world. According to survey stats iphones today are available in 123 countries and it goes without saying that their number will just increase in the nearest future. Concerning particular kinds of media the figures don”t seem to be so optmistic first of all it goes about TV via iTunes which is on only in 6 countries and music is spread in 51 countries. Only one thing combines all countries using mobile gadgets and this is a mobile app. It is easy to download, install and then regularly run on your device. As the experience shows, pretty soon time spent on mobile business apps will be quite comparable with the time people spend on books and music using their devices.Apps are media. Not only are they a form of media in the way that consumer software and games have always been considered media. But increasingly, they are also subsuming other forms of media.
Continue reading “What Expects Us In Future?” »

True Story From Snappii User

True Story From Snappii UserYesterday was the most important and happiest day of the year, the day when all the members of the family traditionally gather together at the table which is close to be broken under the pressure of tastiest food and drinks. It is a high time to exchange gifts as well.

I was as usual absorbed with my work and totally forgot about looking for gifts for my friends. No, don”t think I”m absent-minded and unreliable guy. I bought gifts for most of my relatives and acquaintances but still, you know it”s difficult to keep them all in mind, so some of the presents I was going to buy straight before Christmas Eve. I was rushing through the shops full of souvenirs, toys and the similar stuff but still it wasn”t the thing I was looking for. Suddenly my iPhone gave a squeak and I decided to figure out what it was. I rummaged in my pockets and finally got it out of it. It was a message and namely a notification sent from one of the convenient stores not far from my house. They were offering great amount of things which could be really good presents and by the way there were discounts. I went straight there and bought all what was needed. Then none of my friends left deprived. I saved my time and money and satisfied came back home earlier than it was expected. Continue reading “True Story From Snappii User” »

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