Disruptive Innovation Using Mobile Apps

Mobile apps have surged in popularity in today’s age because of various reasons. They are flexible, powerful, versatile and fits the user’s needs perfectly well. But most importantly they are so popular because they bring about a fresh wave of innovation in the industry and disrupt the age old mannerisms and methodologies to make human lives better and more comfortable. Here is a montage of a few apps that we find were the most disruptive apps of all times.

Instagram

This is our favorite app and the pioneers among the other disruptive apps. This app has changed the way we perceive photos and share amongst us. The photo filters that it offers has been loved by smartphone users so much that it has led to a whole new genre of image processing apps providing such photo filters. 

Instagram has disrupted the usage of photos in general and has made casual photo snappers into professional photographic designers. It truly deserves to be one of the fastest growing companies on the planet with over 80 million users already using their service daily. 

Square

Co-founded by Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter, Square is creating a whole new level of financial interaction between businesses and customers. They have built an app for businesses around their unique POS system that can be plugged into your iPhone or iPad’s headphone jack and can be used to swipe a credit card to charge their customers. 

This is a new breakthrough and is leading us towards a world with no physical cash transfers. This is the highest form of disruptive innovation that a mobile app can bring about in the real world.

Dropbox

Dropbox is a file sharing portal using cloud computing. It lets you carry your files over your computer and your mobile devices and keeps them perfectly in sync. Having a mobile device with you and having the Dropbox app installed in it ensures that you’re never away from your important files.

This has taken the file sharing to a whole new level which is an amazing example of disruptive innovation. Gone are the days when you had to carry your files on a USB stick or a physical drive. 

Evernote

Writing notes and managing short term information is one of the most important tasks that we do on our smartphones. Evernote is an app that has enabled us to save notes beautifully and keep it saved and synched everywhere for us. 

It is one of the earliest and one of the coolest mobile apps to help us remember everything in our fast and quickly changing lives. 

Night Sky

Not many of you would have heard of this app like the other 4 mentioned above. Night sky is an app that lets you hold up your device up in the sky and identifies stars, planets and constellations for you and points them on your screen. How cool is that!

Never before any app has used the person’s GPS and the Compass so magnificently to come up with such beautiful and innovative app. It is a very clever and sweet app with a cocktail of augmented reality, astronomy and mobile apps.

We at Elan Emerging Technologies have been very enthusiastically developing mobile apps for iOS and Android platform related to photos editing, barcode scanning, payment processing, GPS-based, personal assistance, note taking, file sharing, etc. Our apps like Canson Digital, Document Viewer, Payquiqr, Arabic Notes, GoodPeopleRun, etc apps are excellent examples of apps providing such features. 

Questions to Ask the Mobile App Developers Before Building an App

Mobile app development has grown with leaps and bounds but with the upsurge, there have been many average and below average mobile application developers. If you want to get your app developed with reasonable time and money, one should take care before choosing an app developer. One should ask some relevant questions to the qualified candidates who are eager to work for you.

Get a list of apps that they have been developing or have been responsible for conceptualization to development. Take those links of the Apple's iOS App Store or Google Play depending on the type of app they have developed.

Once you gauge the skills, experience and vision of the developer, you would also ascertain whether they are fit enough to produce the type of mobile app you need. Additionally get a list of clients or client companies that they have been working for. Here you would get the idea if the developer actually managed to create the apps which they credit themselves for.

Check the references so that you can know for sure if they are reliable, responsive and even result-oriented. You need to gauge whether they can work under pressure or flinch with whatever duties they are allocated with.

Visiting a candidate's LinkedIn profile or a company's page on the site will give a deeper idea about their mutual connections along with their work ethic.

Always ask the developer about the smartphone they use, because that would give tremendous insight about the passion that the candidate has for the platform. If the developer is an iPhone developer, he or she needs to possess an iPhone because only then one will be able to play with the apps and tweak the settings and other stuff.

Ask the app developer if they know anything about monetizing the app. If you want to generate revenue with mobile app development then the developer needs to be conversant about the built-in features which will get them revenue from 99 cents to $4.99 depending on the app features.

The developer needs to know how to work around for display ads, in-app purchases and even subscriptions. Also the app development process is clearly affected by the communication process. The developer needs to be conveyed exactly how they want the app to function. The design and other requirements need to be sorted out well. Get the right communication medium for the same.  The apps to be developed need to have innovative and useful features which all depends on the developer's capabilities to deliver the best and also the most unique.

Mostly you would be the one who will have the final product. But for that to happen both the parties need to sign a written "copyright assignment" and state that you own the design, source code and even the dynamic content in the app.

Test the app by running it on the smartphone The developer needs to make sure to weed out any glitches. The bugs need to be fixed quickly by the developer.

The developer then needs to deliver the app to an app store for the multi-step process approval. Settle with the developer if you can pay the total fee upfront or pay the person by the hour.

Elan Emerging Technologies is a mobile application development company, and have skilled mobile app developers team who has expertise on windows phone app development and android application too.

Mobile application Development and the Web World - The Convergence!

Mobile application development is always in demand and the need for innovative applications is growing day by day. The newness quotient is critical for many companies nowadays. Mobile app development companies has also commenced on a large scale for mobile devices including PDAs and digital assistants other than mobile phones which has a large number of mobile platforms to contend with. Developers make use of JAVA ME (J2ME), Symbian, Android and iOS for mobile app development and each has its own distinctive set of features. Mobile applications are created and tested in each of the mobile environments.

Mobile app development requires great skill and talent on the part of the developer along with rich imagination. Companies who are in this field offer Windows Phone Development, iPhone Mobile Apps Development, Symbian App Development, Blackberry App Development and Android App Development. But iOS and Android are the ruling platforms in terms of popularity among the masses.

Mobile app development companies have experienced mobile developers in their arsenal who are well versed with different industries, needs of the market and multiple mobile applications which are trending in the market. The developers are required to be experts in developing apps otherwise they might get lost in the frenzy of the app market. Based on broad experience in developing mobile applications, the companies hire the best and the most experienced. Software engineers mostly create apps related to major platforms including J2ME, Blackberry, iPhone and versatile mobile applications pertaining to business are the most in demand. There are types of apps which are in vogue including utilities, travel, games etc. The truly unique and infectious apps are the ones which get a lot of media and attention from all including critics and analysts. Angry Birds was one phenomenon which caught up with the real world too and one can see the craze coming into real world too. There are some companies which are particularly adept in creating enterprise apps which can get an employee to get connected with the ERP system of your organization. This setup is essential for mobile workers who are in constant need for real-time updates. Smartphones in recent times are well equipped to host powerful applications for the benefit of their customers.

The deployment process of Web-based technologies is quick and that helps developers but some believe that web technologies welcome phishing and fraud since hackers can easily thwart security.

Sometimes even mobile web based solutions are face problems similar to desktop apps. These solutions also have to face browser incompatibilities and even the slow progress of web standards. Apps developed in native technologies have achieved a great deal of success. The problem with native technologies is that they are based on decade-old technologies which are why they look unnecessarily complex compared to the simple technologies on which they are based on. Developing a native application for multiple mobile platforms skills and is extremely complex too. The native technologies are sure to fail some part of the future since they do not grab the whole market which cross platform technologies can. It is important for mobile developers to resort to cross platform technologies for mobile app development and encourage use of Titanium and PhoneGap.

Mobility and the business model involving mobile apps

Mobility has revolutionized the concept of mobile apps and their distribution. The business models present a decade back gave way to the fantastic “ring tone” business model which was launched some years back to the mobile apps downloads initiated by Apple, there has been constant innovation. The ringtone business model allowed people to change numerous ringtones and even telecom providers could see long term business prospects here. The model is still continued today, but the revenue has decreased due to the apps model.

With the changing business models in various areas related to mobility, the developers have managed to develop new types of options for more opportunities to market. Angry Birds became a viral sensation since it had universal appeal and was uncomplicated to start out. Different age groups could enjoy the game and hence it was one of cult games launched in recent times. There are incredible number of mobile apps found in various mobile platforms related to different markets and domains. One should be aware of the market and its needs before venturing into the mobile application development model since the degree of competition is high and one should envision good ROI for every app being churned out. It should prove enough for the “in-app” payment.

The business model with mobile apps has helped Apple to break world records in terms of its smart phone sales. The demand for mobile apps is constantly high and there is constant innovation to boost the user base.

Mobile application development has time and again proved technologically complex with new frontiers to cross with requirements related to new utilities. Attention needs to be given to converge multiple platforms and smart phones for better accessibility and ease of use. Different security standards need to be met and the costs should be within limits.

Low-end mobile phones mostly have limited features and do not have the necessary screen resolution and hardware power for mobile web development. Hence the need of the hour is to bring more and more features to be embedded in low-end mobiles so that a huge audience is benefitted.

Mobile developers also need to think about compatibility issues and its accessibility by a variety of smart phones of different platforms. There is a rich tapestry of variation in mobile websites which is congruent with mobile features and applications of today’s smart phone world. Mobile sites and apps need to be in accordance to the needs and requirements of end clients for better success.