What is the process of making an iPhone application?
Apps used in the
Apple’s iPhone have a big market. Various kinds of apps related to
entertainment, social networking, games, health and many more. They
are very popular and used worldwide.
Applications in the
apple iPhone are based on iOS. These apps are developed by several
steps, which are:
Idea – First you
need an idea for you application. As they say, it all starts from a
great idea. First, you must think, what will be the purpose of your
app. It may depend on your client’s requirements. You can involve
your users to get more ideas. When you form an idea about your app,
you can move on the planning step.
Plan – Once you
decide the purpose of the project, you can start planning. Collect
your resources and materials and also plan your expectations. You
must plan your marketing strategy also.
Graphic Design – You
have to decide the design of your application. Designer can do the
work for you. It includes the style, view, fonts, colors etc. You can
discuss with the designers, how to make the design more user
friendly. These apps will be used on iPhones, which is a touch phone,
so they should be easier to use on the screen. The design, whether it
is landscape or portrait, must be decided in this step too. The
design must be simple too, so that the users do not get confused. If
you are planning this app for both iPhone and iPad, then make sure
that the design is compatible with both devices.
Development – These
applications cannot be developed without the help of Software
Development Kit For iPhone (SDK) and Xcode. These are the developer
tools for building any kind of app. The Xcode 4 of apple includes
many tools such as SDK and Xcode IDE for the coding and debugging of
your app. In it, interface builder is used for designing the user
interface. There are many other tools included in it for making the
project better.
Deploy or Release –
With building your application in Xcode, you need to deploy it. For
that, you must get a distribution certificate and provisioning
profile. Admin within your developer program membership can create
this certificate for you. Provisioning profile authorizes your apps
with their IDs. Without this profile, user cannot use the
application. In distribution between the users, a web server or third
party mobile device management solution can help you.
Recently tech giant
Apple introduced its own programming language called ‘Swift’. It
is future programming language for iOS and OS X projects. It can work
side by side with Objective-C. The iPhone app developers in New York
and all over the world are welcoming this new language. It can
make coding easier and more fun to work with.
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