![]() That’s an incredible number of different phones, tablets, screens and other hardware. There are 24K unique Android devices and counting. If your team is going to develop mobile apps though, your hand will be forced. Microsoft is the undisputed king of the enterprise, and many IT organizations have traditionally been hesitant to bring Apple Macs and OS X into the mix. And Apple’s XCode only runs on Apple computers. Unless you are strictly building a mobile-friendly web page, at some point your mobile project will get loaded into and compiled with XCode. Hiring kit: Android developer (TechRepublic Premium) Mobility must-readsīest unified communications platform providers ![]() While it is common today to write both Android and iOS apps using a common framework, at the end of the day, iOS apps will only build on an Apple Mac - period, end of story. ![]() SEE: Learn how to create mobile apps with this deal from TechRepublic Academy.Īs a technology leader of an in-house development team, it’s important you understand those things unique to mobile application development, so you can set your team up for success. While developing mobile apps is definitely more accessible to IT teams and technology generalists in recent years, mobile app development does still have some special considerations. If you are a CIO, and you have an in-house development team, there is an expectation that the team has some mobile capabilities.īuilding any kind of software application requires tool chains and processes. What’s more, mobile app development is no longer the sole domain of mobile app speciality studios. SEE: Explore TechRepublic Premium’s mobile app development policy. Organizations no longer ask if they need a mobile app, but rather how and where to leverage mobile apps to drive everything from cost savings and workflow efficiencies to engagement and employee satisfaction. With a bifurcated ecosystem (Android and iOS), smartphone users have more than 5 million apps to choose from. If your company had a need for a mobile app, and that was a big if, you hired a mobile app studio to build, launch and sustain it for you.įast-forward to 2022 and we have a vastly different mobile app landscape. In the early years of mobile, developing mobile apps was the domain of mobile app speciality studios. When Apple’s App Store opened its digital doors for business in 2008 to third-party developers, it launched with just 500 apps. Streamline your IT mobile app delivery pipelineĭiscover the best practices to get your mobile apps out of your developers’ hands and into production with the proven, repeatable process in this article.
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