What is to be paid heed to while developing an iPhone web app?

It’s been few years now that Apple’s mobile apps have been driving massive interest influencing businesses worldwide to engage experts in developing an app that can present their product/services and promote brand. While quality of apps - primarily because of the fact that majority of the app publishers have given maximum attention to the detail, which has attracted the users - have resulted in a continued boost in popularity of iPhone/iPad versions, Apple continues to have strict control measure in place to ensure quality of the apps.

But strict control and an attention to detail devours a lot of development time, which in turn also makes iOS app the most expensive options among apps for different platforms (As the following image would suggest).

Now, while having a good User Interface detailing is not enough to sustain in the iOS app development market and it needs ingeniousness and practical understanding of the must-do, before even you get onto doing it! The price-point also makes the iOS app development a lot serious business:

So what should an app developer pay attention to?

Following are some of the best practices that a developer and a business commissioning the development must follow.

Be smart with the architecture: To make a complete application it is very important for an iPad or iPhone phone development services company to take smart architectural decisions so that it can be effectively put to use during the time of development. One should not try to integrate many features from many apps, only those needs to be integrated which are very much within Apple’s app development guidelines.

Performance holds the key: Apple mobile user from any country uses that kind of app very much which gives maximum performance. For example, the app should use minimum of system resources like battery; the UI design should be responsive enough, services like Wifi, Bluetooth, 3G, location services etc. So an iPhone apps development company in India or in any other country should importantly focus on performance. A very good component known as Model View Controller (MVC) which defines the structure of an app as a whole, which results to very good performance.

Devise responsiveness: On different device, the iOS operating system runs differently. So no matter you are an expert offering iPhone app development services from India or from any other country - it is not your geographical positioning that commands the quality of delivery but it is the challenge to develop an app that runs smoothly on the user’s device (no matter an iPad or iPhone – mini or of 5-inches) that regulates the eventual success. For an example, an app should run seamlessly on the latest iPads, iPhone 3GS/4G etc. If not separate design, at least a common structure should be presented to run on all devices. MVC has an inbuilt tool ‘UIView’ which uses the function of automatic geometry.

Compliance to standard approach: An iPhone phone development services company should always follow a standard administrative approach towards the development of an app. Starting from analyzing the requirement upto delivery of the app, every step should be well documented. One step that is always ignored is the ‘Testing’ phase. Module-wise testing and User interface testing holds much importance given the heightened expectations of the user. Often these phase leads to a lot of modifications in an app. Standard coding convention should be always followed.

A common procedure is to build with Xcode, which is nothing but combining all version control systems in a single component. So later on this Xcode can be used to access features.

Apple provides good support in the form of its documentations on app development. The developer or the company should choose wisely which documentation to be used for which purpose. Last but not the least it’s a must to ensure there a good understanding between the front-end designer and the back-end (programmer). Good team work often holds much importance in developing complex iOS apps.