5 Most Popular Applications in India

Following are few applications which are rocking Indian public.

Whats App

The most popular cross-platform instant messaging app out there, it has started a new craze. WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. WhatsApp Messenger is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia and yes, those phones can all message each other!

Facebook

The official app, it is the most popular way to stay in touch on the social network. Get right to your favorite parts of Facebook with our standalone apps.

 

Twitter

Tweets are still in fashion, and the official app gets the dynamics of the Tweetosphere just right. Follow your interests: instant updates from your friends, industry experts, favorite celebrities, and what’s happening around the world. Get short bursts of timely information on the official Twitter app.

Dropbox

No more worrying about missing that one critical file ever again! Bring your files with you when you're on the go. Add files to your Favorites for fast, offline viewing. Easily upload photos and videos to Dropbox. Share freely with friends and family

Zomato

The ultimate application for the foodie! Menus, location, contact details & user reviews in a instant. On your mobile, Zomato is location aware and suggests to you the best restaurants around your location. All of Zomato's features - menus, pictures, reviews are available and supported fully on all mobile apps.

Understand Mobile Web Development

Mobile web development is an important concept that can be influential in the success of your online business. You required a responsive theme for this. A responsive theme uses a combination of a fluid layout and media queries to make the layout and content different on different-sized devices. It doesn't just work for mobile web development; responsive themes can change the look of a site on tablets or on really large screens, too.

Responsive design - Important Concepts

To get to grips with a responsive design, you'll need to understand the following web development concepts:

Fluid layout: This is a site layout that uses percentages for widths instead of pixels. The effect of this is that when the browser window changes width, so does the site.

Media queries: We use media queries to add extra changes to the CSS for devices of a particular width. The widths most commonly targeted are:

Mobile devices such as smart phones: These are 320px wide and 480px high, which means the width of the screen, will change when the device is turned around. It is imperative to note this before you get started with mobile web development.

Tablet devices: These vary in size but the screen on the iPad, which is by far the most commonly used, is 768px wide by 1024px high. Other tablets such as the Kindle Fire will be smaller.

Desktop computers: Their width ranges from 1024px and above. It's common to set a maximum width for our layout so that on very large screens (for example, over 1200px), the site doesn't lay out so far that it makes the content difficult to read.

Download Shush!

Are you sophisticated? Great application for you now! It’s really a nice apps for class, the office, movies and sleep. It’s one of the best Android apps of 2012.

Yes I am talking about Shush! — Shush! is different from other phone silencers. You can set Shush! to shut your smartphone’s volume off for an allotted time. After the allotted time is up, Shush! will turn your smartphone’s volume to whatever you like. When you set the timer you can also set the volume you’d like it turn to after the timer is complete. Those who are in meeting or are going to movie can turn Shush! On for how long the meeting/movie lasts and have their smartphone automatically turn back to previous volume settings. Quite a handy tool.

When you turn your ringer off for a movie, this app turns it back on afterwards. It's activated when you silence your ringer using the volume buttons. You don't need to remember a special app! Once your ringer is off, it asks you how long to stay silent. Never miss another important call.

Try download this application for your Android phone and if you find any problem try launching it manually first.

Importance of Database Mobile Application

It is the client or the customer who runs the business and not the business owner. A deeper insight would reveal that the data pertaining to these customers is very crucial for the business. The data related to other aspects of business management are equally important. If you want your business to be successful and run as desired towards achieving the set goals, the data base is an indispensable element.

Accesses to the data:

It is known that data can be stored either in a local storage device or an external server. Optimum efficiency of the mobile application is possible when it pertains to local data storage rather than external server. For a mobile application accessing a data from local data storage is easy. Moreover, the application is least concerned with the network connection. Mobile applications of this kind are very quick and make the user feel very comfortable.

The only weak point of mobile applications is that the designing and implementing part are very complex. A mobile application cannot work in isolation forever. There needs to be some exchange of data at one time or another between the application and the source of data. The data in the application has to be regularly updated and this becomes difficult especially when the application is not having any network connection. It usually takes more skills and longer time to develop mobile database applications.

Costing:

The mobile database applications have proved to be much cheaper than the online applications that depend on the browser for data. The dependency of the mobile data application is very limited while in case of online application the data is constantly sent and received between the server and the data storage device. One may feel that the cost of mobile database application is higher just because of the higher upfront cost but in the longer run it proves to be much affordable.

Applications For Busy Smartphone Users

Are you a busy Smartphone user? And also you are not able to manage your professional and personal life? Then keep following free applications in your Smartphone’s and live your life with ease:

Viggle (Free)

You no longer need to feel guilty about wasting the day away curled up on the couch watching television. With the Viggle iPhone app, you can get compensated from the likes of Amazon.com, Starbucks and the Gap merely for watching and checking in to many of your favorite programs. Viggle uses audio recognition technology similar to what is found in apps like IntoNow and Shazam to do much of the work for you. Just sit back and appreciate that you are getting rewarded for doing absolutely nothing.

Brewster (Free)

Keeping track of all your contacts across email, telephone numbers and social networks is challenging. Brewster is an uber contact management tool that syncs to your iPhone’s contact list, but also Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Gmail and Foursquare. The app has a simple and visually striking interface that showcases the images and names of your contacts as you scroll across the screen. Brewster will automatically determine your “Favorites” based on activity, and lets you easily search for contacts or create your own distinct lists.

Songza (Free)

Music streaming services like Pandora, Slacker and Spotify are changing the ways in which we consume music. Rather than listening to albums or pre-programmed playlists, we now have access to entire “stations” on our computers and mobile devices built around our favorite artists and songs. This year, the Songza app added a decidedly human touch to this kind of algorithmic-driven music curation with a major update that showcases playlists created for particular moods or times of day. Songza’s “Music Concierge” selections range from weekday “Office Crowd Pleasers”, to “Reading the Paper” on Sunday morning, to “Putting on Your Party Dress” on Friday night. You can also locate playlists built around most major bands and musical genres. Best of all, even after hundreds of hours of happy listening, I still haven’t heard an ad on the free service!

 

Smartphones And Applications

Industry statistics show that the number of people using smartphones is now at 60% and rising. Predictions show that by the year 2015, 90% of mobile users in developed countries will have a smartphone.

Types of apps developed

Due to the popularity of smartphones, software developers have emerged with ideas for app development for both everyday use and business. These smartphone apps have a variety of life application including money and financial management, management solutions and business planning, blogging and networking, advertisement, multimedia file sharing, GPS applications, leisure and entertainment, and educational purposes. Some of the most common applications of this nature are android business app and iPhone business app. Large and small companies can use these devices to link up with their clients to provide information and offer their services and products.

Development tools & Challenges

Currently, mobile app developers and software development companies have all the vital development tools to build top of the line smartphone solutions and offer users a rich mobile experience. With the constant growth of smartphone app market, it has now become normal business practice particularly for consumer goods, the media, food companies and automotive companies to build their own mobile applications to reach the public and clients in a new, fresh way. Both developers and publishers who focus on mobile app development come across various challenges including:

Reach fragmentation- Since market fragmentation is increasing, it is no longer enough for the mobile applications to adapt to one platform. To reach a wide target as possible, companies should consider multi-platform development. The companies should also settle on what platforms to begin with and how many to develop.

High cost- Development of smartphone is costly especially those that involve complex designs and procedures. Companies should consider developing the apps in-house rather than outsourcing to reduce cost and to better oversea the project.

Unmeasured risk- Most middle-sized or small companies have never published an application before hence do not have any idea of what the challenges might be like. It is logical then that these companies opt for ready-made solutions that have already been tested on the market. Developing just a simple smartphone app can take several months while complex and multi-platform apps can even take a year. The process is even slower when performed by developers from emerging markets.

Best Touch Phones

iPhone
Apple's iPhone has outstanding touch screens. It featured a touch screen interface with no additional keyboard attached, so all typing was done directly on the screen. The iPhone was groundbreaking in the mobile phone industry. It popularized the idea of apps on your mobile phone. Apps are programs you install and run on your phone to perform a variety of tasks, ranging from counting calories to keeping track of grocery lists. Apple also created a new market for third party app developers through its public API program. Once a developer is accepted into the program, he can write apps for iPhones and sell those apps through Apple's App Store.
 
Droid
Motorola introduced the Droid phone which comes with Google's mobile interface and platform, voice-to-text and voice search features, Gmail, Google Maps, satellite navigation and a sliding keyboard so you can type on either the keyboard or the touch screen. Like the iPhone, the Droid has thousands of apps available you can download and install. You can connect to other email accounts like Yahoo or your corporate account and sync contacts from email and social networking accounts to your phone's contact list.


Focus
The Samsung Focus is one of the Windows Phone 7 phones. It's the new platform from Microsoft designed to compete with iPhone and Droid. The Windows Phone 7 platform includes many of the Microsoft products, such as Internet Explorer, Outlook email, the Bing search engine, Zune music libraries and Xbox LIVE gaming. You can open, create and edit Microsoft Office documents, like Word, Excel and others in the Microsoft Office suite. It has a 4-inch screen display, a camera and connects to social media accounts. You can download and watch TV shows and search for a variety of apps and games to install.

Awesome Windows Mobile Applications

Windows Smart Phones are making their place in the market. Evolutions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 phone has created Windows apps platform stronger. Few Windows based Applications are very cool to use. They are following:

Skyfire
One of the best browsers that is available in the market, that makes your browsing experience fast and one of the very few browsers that support Flash 10, Silverlight and Windows Media videos. With these features a user can stream videos in YouTube, Hulu, and many other online video streaming sites. It has pretty amazing features like, it supports Javascripts and Ajax. With Skyfire you can, not only follow twitter updates but also give Facebook updates and view your RSS feed content.

Netflix
A cool app for all the movie buffs and people who are hooked on to Sitcoms, here is Netflix for you. You can watch movies and stream TV shows online in your mobile. You can browse for TV shows and even search for movies that have just released, with your windows phone.

Fring
Fring supports majority of the chat services, with easy file transfer and a simple interface. It supports Twitter and Facebook, in fact it gives loads of options to stay connected with your friends who are online, i.e. from Twitter to Yahoo messenger and it even allows you to make calls through Skype. It is one of the coolest mobile apps you must have for your phone.

Best New Android Applications

In Play Google market, it’s very difficult to choose the best one list.Almost every application has its own significance in the market as well as usage. Following are the latest exciting new entrants in the Android circuit. This is just chosen from my side of best apps list:

WaveSecure
One thing that always weighs on the mind of a cell phone user is the security of his costly gadget and protection of data that exists on it. The latest version of WavesSecure provides you with everything that you need with respect to data security and phone security. It lets you back up data and track down your phone in case it’s stolen.

The Eye
One of the most creative and most useful apps, the Eye, like the Eye of Sauron from Lord of the rings, watches over everyone and tracks their locations for you. It is the perfect application to track family members and especially children who have the program installed on their Android phones.

Google Goggles
Make maximum use of your high resolution Android phone camera to know find out information about any landmark, book or brand. This is made possible by Google Goggles. Use your Android phone camera to look at the world through Google Goggles, as it displays information about objects that it detects through the camera. The latest version of the program can even identify wines for you.

Titanium Backup
This is one of best file backup solutions on the Android platform. With Titanium Backup installed, you don't need to worry about losing your precious data.

OnTheFly
If you are a frequent flier, OnTheFly is your complete air traffic ticket booking solution. It lets you search for ticket fares according to very specific search parameters; making your job easier.