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What Is The Key Points For Successful iOS Development?

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After the introduction of iOS platform and the application development possibilities, it has paved new business opportunities for the IT industries as well as individual developers.

With the rapidly growing app industry it has become demanding to keep track of changing technology.

Here we have come up with some major key points which should be kept in mind by the developer at the time of iOS application development.

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    1. Drive revenue for your business by integrating  ‘Geo-Targeted push Notification’, ‘Geo-Targeted Advertising’
    2. Integrate NFC (near field communication) system to your application.
    3. Use App analytics to monitor the app’s influence on the market. Target your audience and bring market specific features to you app.
    4. Avoid these flaws in your mobile app development
    5. Irrelevant push notification in the app
    6. Sending unnecessary “Rate my app” request to users
    7. Integrating Facebook and other social networking sites unnecessarily
    8. Avoid using full screen ads. Users hate this.
    9. Try to prefer building Native Apps for iPhones to web apps, because some web technologies are still not compatible with the iOS platform.
    10. Design intriguing UI to compel the user to use your app. Take inspiration from other successful Mobile application to generate similar experience for the users.
    11. iOS development supports numerous programming languages other than Objective-C, such as Ruby, JavaScript, Node.js etc. Choose the language you are comfortable with.
    12. Design your app so that it uses minimal battery power. Users are more concerned about the phone battery rather than the app itself.
    13. Develop cross-platform apps, so that it can be released for other mobile operating systems.
    14. Never build iPhone app that mimics the look and feel of other operating system.
    15. Never overdo the application animations and graphics.

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iOS applications are the fastest evolving apps in the app industry.

That’s why at Andolasoft, our iPhone application developers keep their skills updated with the latest technology and latest iOS releases to match the competitive market.

Here we develop engaging iPhone application to meet our customer’s business requirements.

Awesome Project collaboration Tool to Manage Your Project and Team

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When project development is in progress, practically each of the members may not meet face to face at a single workplace, neither the communication/documentation be available at the same location.

In order to overcome these hurdles, Andolasoft designed and developed a unique project collaboration tool called ‘Orangescrum’ with lots of facility and flexibility.

It is developed using CakePHP with very simple yet intuitive interfaces with easy-to-use functionalities which distinct it from other similar tools. It efficiently handles projects by maintaining effective communication among the project members with some brilliant features as discussed below

Orangescrum allows you to share files while assigning tasks to the developers for your projects. It is taken care of that the popular format (.doc, .docx, .xls, .html etc) are supported. This is extremely helpful for relating tasks with additional information in the form of documents.

  • Create and track all the task of a milestone from a single page. Milestones can be set as per the project deadline so that the stakeholders are alerted. Also tasks can be streamlined for each milestone and assigned them to concerned project members.
  • It uses a ticketing workflow to create a new task while addressing the issue. These tasks can then be assigned to specific team members in different phases. It facilitates to manage through various phases such as ‘NEW’, ‘WIP’, ‘START’ and ‘CLOSE’
  • It can also be used as a bug tracker or issue tracker. It includes filters and options to make issue tracking easier by assigning it to the concerned project members.
  • You can set email or mobile alerts to anyone involved in a project, which can be prioritized and targeted to concerned individuals. It also facilitates the receiver to reply directly from the web mail which is automatically updated in Orangescrum.
  • It includes the ‘Archive’ facility for safe storage of files and tasks. This feature helps to keep the files and task safe. These contents can later be retrieved at any time, unless it is removed permanently.

To know more about Orangescrum, please visit:  www.orangescrum.com

Why CakePHP is Popular? And The Role Of CakePHP Developer

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CakePHP is an open source PHP based rapid development framework. It offers great run-time infrastructure along with abundant set of libraries for CakePHP developers. Cake PHP development is supported by the MVC (Model View and Controller) architecture which differentiates the programming logic from the data presentation layer.

It also features other programming concepts like Front Controller, Association Data Mapping and Active Record. Along with these, there are numerous other features that make CakePHP one of the most preferred web development frameworks among others.

Let’s take a look at some features here

Wide Community:

CakePHP developers are supported by huge peers who make use of this framework. There are many contributors and programmers who share the community. For this reason, using the framework is simpler for development as well as for research.

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Reusability:

It facilitates the developers in saving a lot of efforts through PHP development. Because the programmer make use of a pre-written code for more than one project. In other words, they can focus on the logical and creative part of application whereas the tedious task of coding could be handled with ease.

Open Source:

The framework is open source, for which the CakePHP developers do not have to spend any amount in the process of development and have complete access to its source code. It also assists the developers in adding robustness and improves performance in web applications.

Some of the roles of CakePHP developers include

    • Manage development efforts and framework efficiently
    • Support product releases
    • Ability to handle lot of projects in less time
    • Overall review of the quality & progress of the work
    • Support stable user growth

Conclusion

Here at Andolasoft we provide our customers with a unique and up-to-date approach towards their Web-app development. We design and develop intriguing web applications using PHP/CakePHP. We follow agile development approach to deliver project on time and within budget to our customer

Android’s Fragmentation – Still A Problem For Android Developers

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android1Google’s Android possesses a major flaw in its OS development, which is a fragmentation issue. For this reason, one android OS version still remains isolated from other androids OS version.

It offers a wide range of hardware and software options for the developers, which in turn increases the time of development and causes complications for application design.

From the latest survey of devices in the last two weeks, Google found that only 10% of android owners are running the latest version of the OS, and almost half (47%) are still using “Gingerbread” i.e. the version 2.33.

Android Developers have been challenged by Android’s open nature from the beginning. In addition, the release of OS updates to all the available hardware is dependent on a wide range of sources.

For such reasons, Android developers have now targeted their Android application development for devices that run the Gingerbread platform and later, which is now on over 80% of Android devices.

Mobile Developers have faced even the worse fragmentation issues during the early days of development. With numerous hardware variants, developing an app for a group of devices was almost impossible.

With Android, the fragmentation issue is more troublesome because of the advanced features which only a fraction of devices support it. This situation continuously drives the developers to focus on the hardware-specific abilities of smartphones.

At Andolasoft we develop the most intriguing android mobile applications for individuals and from start-ups to established companies.

We have team of experienced android developers who are skilled to develop innovative apps for all versions of android devices. Some of our apps showcased in the Google marketplace at:

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Security Flaws Persist in Java 7u10 Update

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Java DevelopmentOracle has released new updates for Java with security enhancements for better performance.

This new release of Java SE 7 update 10 is now certified for both Windows 8 and Mac OS X operating systems.

These updates include the ability to use the control panel to prevent Java applications from running in browsers, as well as to set a level of security for unsigned applets, Java FX applications, and Java Web Start applications.

It also adds a dialogue box to warn people when Java plug-in updates are available for download.

But the update of JDK 7u10 has failed to fix some major security troubles and have brought only minor improvements, experts say.

Andrew Storms, the director of security operations at ncircle quoted “New features notwithstanding, Oracle still has a long way to go to improve security” referring to the fact that the hackers are aware that most people do not keep the Java plug-in up to date, hence leaving old flaws open to misuse by the trespassers and attackers.

HP’s security research division reported that in the year 2011 an attack integrated with the black hole toolkit had more than 75 percent success rate for the attackers.

According to the reports it is also said that for large businesses and Industries, only a full-time IT security staff will be able to figure out the new settings help and if managed centrally from Microsoft Active Directory or other directory servers.

Storms also stated “Without this access, the new settings will essentially be useless to enterprise IT teams” and pointed out that consumers are not worrying to update Java; they are unwilling to learn the uses control panel.

Besides the security flaws, other fixes include Windows command line issues, the ability to allow sandbox warning banner to grant access.

What is the Importance of Filters in Rails

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In Ruby on Rails development, filters play a vital role. They are the methods executed ‘before’, ‘after’  or  ‘around’ a controller action.

For example, one filter might check to see if the user has the credentials to access that particular controller or action.

Filters are inherited, so if you set a filter on ‘ApplicationController’, it would run on every controller in your application.

Below is an example to explain how a filter can be used to restrict a non-logged in user to access specified actions in a controller

Step#1

  • In Application controller write the following block of code according to the requirement.
def user_login_required
 if !session[:username]
 flash[:notice] = "Oops you need to login!"
 redirect_to :controller => "user_sessions", :action => "new"
 end
end

Step#2

  • Now write the before_filter block in the controller you want to restrict the not registered users. You can also restrict particular actions of a controller by writing the action name.
class UsersController < ApplicationController
 before_filter :user_login_required, :only => [:profile]
 def profile
 [Your code block goes here]
 end
end

In the above block the ‘before_filter’ restrict the not registered user to access
the profile page and redirect them to login page. We can also restrict multiple
actions by writing like this

before_filter :user_login_required, :only => [:profile,:edit]

In this case the filter is applied to only these two methods of a particular controller.

before_filter :user_login_required, :except => [:index,:show]

In this case the filter is applied to all other actions except index and show
action of a particular controller.

If you write the before_filter block in the “ApplicationController” then the
filter will be applied to all the controllers.

Planning anything on Ruby on Rails? Talk to Andolasoft’s experts to get a clearer idea.