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General Mobile app development terms

Can you imagine the today’s world without mobile apps?

Of course your answer is NO.

We can’t imagine today’s world without the app, and especially without Mobile apps. Even we want to Book a movie

ticket, buy a mobile or to message someone, in every aspect of our fast running life we want to do it faster with apps in

Mobile.

Mobile app development is a complete process of developing a mobile app which includes writing code for it, making a

design for it to make it user friendly as well as to run it fast and fast in real machines such as Smartphones and Tablets.

Now, we talk about Mobile app development terms.

Are you of one of that who rub their head while heard the terms like SDK, OTA or I18n?

If yes, now you no need. We will explain you all the basic terms generally used in Mobile app development.

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Bangalore. We are the top Android app development companies in India and USA.

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Here we start explaining different mobile app development terms:

SDK – It refers to “Software Development Kit”, from its name you can understand that it is the set of tools that a

developers need to develop a mobile application. It consists programs for actually building things, simulators for testing

purposes to rectify an error, and anything else that a developer might need.

Android application package file (APK) – It’s a file format for the android platform used to distribute and install mobile

apps in the android supported devices.

OTA – An acronym that stands Over-The-Air Programming. This method is to distribute Software and Software Patches

over a wireless broadband connection to the device.

Mobile app API – Like APK, API is an acronym that refers to “Application Programming Interface”, it’s an interface which

provides the developers all the functionalities through the framework or SDK to develop a mobile app.

Location Based Services (LBS) – Many of mobile apps require to access users’ geographical location to provide the useful

content as well as best for them. Let’s try to understand it from an example, suppose you are looking for the nearest Food

Café, then the mobile app use LBS to provide results based on your current geographical location to help you to reach

there in minimum time.

Unique Device Identifier (UDID) – It is a string of alphanumeric code to uniquely identify your mobile device across the

globe. It is assigned by the mobile device manufacturer.

I18n – A short form of the word internationalization where 18 represents the number of letters between the first I and last

n of the word.

App Developer – We can say that he is an architect of mobile app, who develops an app to meet the user requirements or

for the result that a person wants from an app.

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Last but not the least, what is App?

App – Oh yes, The App. A short term used for application just like a software in the Desktop Computer, which is used to

perform some set of actions. The term “app” is popular with an emergence of Smartphones in which we install

applications to do some specific task, for example to play songs in mobile phones we have music player app.

Now I think you have a basic idea of the terms generally used in Mobile app development.

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Mobile game applications across various platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows and Blackberry.

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