The ever growing use of mobile phones, and more specifically smartphones, offers developers unique opportunities for creating smartphone apps and smartphone application development tools which increase their profits and raise brand awareness. The rapid development of 3G Internet, GPS means that more and more customers are choosing smartphones as a reliable tool for business communication, shopping and leisure.

The most targeted operating systems at present are Apple OS 4.0, RIM’s BlackBerry 5.0 and Google Android. Other systems, though developing more slowly, still provide ample opportunities on the smartphone software development market. With the high speed development of various app development tools and creating smartphone apps, the whole smartphone application development process seems less complicated and is more efficient now than ever.

Smartphone Application Development Tools

Before being distributed to final users, Apple’s native iPhone apps are constructed with the help of Apple Objective C language using Xcode and then submitted to App Store. At the same time, there are a number of other third party development tools which allow development by means of other programming languages such as Lua, Javascript or Flash CS5. These third party tools support several features peculiar to the iPhone, namely multi touch input or accelerometer.

Applications for Blackberry can be built with the Blackberry JDE plug-in for Eclipse using the Java language. If the developer is not experienced enough in developing apps, there is an optional way of building apps using Javascript based Phonegap. Android is also Java based using Eclipse IDE with the Android Development Tools Plugin. Google doesn’t monitor apps which can be constructed for Android, yet it may remove any harmful app should it pose threat to the system operation.

Based on http://ezinearticles.com/?Smartphone-Application-Development-Outlook&id=3526629

Tags: Android, Apple, Blackberry, mobile, smartphones, wireless

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