While we marvel in the ease of touching a button on the phone or tablet and opening up an app, we often don’t think about just what goes into getting that app to open up so magically. App development is one of the most impressive technological advancements and it has endless potentials for the future.
Applications can be anything, from booking a hotel overseas to browsing social media or playing an addictive game for hours. Behind the convenience ad ease-of-use of apps, there are whole teams of app developers working endlessly to bring these to life.
From thinking of app ideas to refining concepts and creating user roadmaps, app developers have many stages to through before an app can be launched. After the prototype stage has been approved and the app is ready to be progressed, it must have a written design behind it. The language behind app design is called coding.
Coding is the latest buzzword in the technological world and it has endless potentials. Java and PHP coding language involves the ‘words’ that get an app up and running on the iOS or Android platform. The good news is that coding can be learnt by just about anyone, and it certainly has plenty of good uses available with it.
Coding is a fundamental step in app development. Before the actual coding begins and the language unfolds itself to create the app, tests must be written first. Remember that in this stage, bugs are inevitable and testing is a productive way to reduce mistakes when they occur.
Writing tests does take some time and requires lots of attention to detail, but it makes a big difference later on. Getting into the habit of test-driven development will help to build an empire of apps later on.
For the actual coding part, just about all iOS and Android mobile app platforms use the Objective-C coding language. This is within the Cocoa framework. An integrated development environment (IDE), called Xcode for Macs, is also essential for coding.
For people new to app development, coding can be learnt online. It takes a few test runs to get things under wraps, but once the language is understood, coding has endless potentials and benefits.
It is important to remember that the coding step of developing app comes much later on. Whether you are a beginner or experienced in app development, there are many other stages to cover, from the idea to the prototype, before the write up can begin. Also, apps and the language behind them are something that need regular maintenance and updating. The coding language is always evolving and changing the face of apps. For this reason, remember to keep evolving and updating your app so that it doesn’t fall behind.