The mobile industry is fast growing with various innovation occuring day after day after.More mobile application software are now been created nowadays on the platform of mobile devices hence there is a need for application builders and developers to learn about mobile application software development.
According to WIKIPEDIA "Mobile application software development" is the process by which application software is developed for handheld devices, such as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones. These applications can be pre-installed on phones during manufacturing, downloaded by customers from various mobile software distribution platforms , or transformed as web applications using server-side or client-side processing (e.g. JavaScript) to provide an "application-like" experience within a Web browser.
Today their are numerous method and platform for application development for different mobile operating system,however some platform supports development of application which can work with several mobile OS while some don't.
Here are some of the methods for developing mobile application software as compiled from the internet.
Using VISUAL STUDIO
Visual Studio dates back to April 1995 (Version 4.0) and today its still widely in use for creating websites,web applications and mobile application.
visual studio can be used for the development of mobile application softwares in many ways which include
1.Building mobile apps for the web using responsive design in the sense that the layout and content is designed to adapt to various screen sizes
and this can be achieved by selecting a new asp.net template>web form project then you will see that bootstrap is already installed in the NuGet Packages section by default.
There is change in appearance according to the screen size of the device browser.
By examining the different master pages and included references you can make your own ASP.NET project use responsive web design. For further reading, please read this article by Katrien De Graeve.
source http://developer.telerik.com/featured/5-ways-to-build-mobile-apps-with-visual-studio/
THERE ARE OTHER METHODS TO USE for creating mobile application within this environment such as ;
web technology
native technology
Hybrid App which tends combine the technology of web and native apps
MORE METHODS TO FOLLOW
source http://developer.telerik.com/featured/5-ways-to-build-mobile-apps-with-visual-studio/
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