Mobile Programming

Mobile Programming

1. Mobile App

   • An application is a program that is installed on a mobile device
   • allows the user to perform tasks from there with ease and optimal performance

2. Usability

   • the quality attribute that assesses how easy a system interface is to use
   • Usability contributes to the effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in which specified users achieve specified goals.

3. Mobile Programming

   • process to making software different devices
   • The software can be preinstalled on the device, downloaded from a mobile app store or accessed through a mobile web browser

4. Emulator

   • Emulators like BlueStacks make it possible to use Android apps on Windows and Mac.
   • In computing, an emulator is software that allows programs or video games to be run on a different platform than the one for which they were originally written.

5. Native Apps

   • Are installed through an application store
   • They are developed specifically for one platform

6. Bug

   • errors or failures that occur in software programming
   • When this happens, users have to either find a way to avoid using the bug code or get a patch from the code's creators.

7. User Interface

   • the graphical and usually touch-sensitive display on a mobile device
   • allows to interact with the device's apps, features, content and functions.

8. Source Code

   • Source code is the language or string of words, numbers, letters and symbols that a computer programmer uses.
   • An example of source code is someone using HTML code to create a screen.

9. Responsive Design

   • is a web development approach that creates dynamic changes to the appearance of a website,
   • page elements reshuffle as the viewport grows or shrinks

10. Mobile application development platform

    • is a type of software that allows a business to rapidly build, test and perhaps deploy mobile apps
    • A business can either build its own mobile application development platform or buy one of them

11. Mobile operating system

    • allows smartphones, tablet PCs and other devices to run applications and programs
    • A mobile OS typically starts up when a device powers on, presenting a screen with icons or tiles that present information and provide application access.