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Mobile application development involves designing software that runs on smartphones. Developers create both the front-end user interface using XML layout files and the back-end functionality using Java code. The front-end obtains data from cloud-based back-end services via APIs. For example, a social media app's front-end would make calls to a third-party API to retrieve content, governed by a commercial agreement between the developer and API provider. Effective mobile apps have a user-friendly front-end and reliable back-end services that work seamlessly together.

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MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT Content

Mobile application development involves designing software that runs on smartphones. Developers create both the front-end user interface using XML layout files and the back-end functionality using Java code. The front-end obtains data from cloud-based back-end services via APIs. For example, a social media app's front-end would make calls to a third-party API to retrieve content, governed by a commercial agreement between the developer and API provider. Effective mobile apps have a user-friendly front-end and reliable back-end services that work seamlessly together.

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MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Mobile Application development is a process of designing and creating a mobile based


software. In simple words certain developer(s) designs, creates and develop a software
which would be functional on smartphones that every common man owns. Mobile
application mostly use mobile network connection or mobile system processor to be fully
functional. Some mobile application can be system friendly where as there are mobile
application that can do more harm to your mobile system. Best mobile application
development meaning to create mobile application that is useful, meaningful, serves your
purpose and of course system as well as user friendly.
Earlier there were many types of mobile application based on the platform they run. There
were java, Symbian, blackberry OS based mobile application but in this era of smartphones
the most used are Android and IOS based platform. The iOS platform is the operating system
that powers Apple's popular line of iPhone smartphones. The second is Android from
Google. The Android operating system is used not only by Google devices but also by many
other OEMs to build their own smartphones and other smart devices. While Apple uses its
iOS platform only for its own series of iPhones, Google shares its Android platform with
other developers and smartphone in exchange of they meet specific requirements such as
including certain Google applications on the devices they ship. Developers can build apps for
hundreds of millions of devices by targeting both of these platforms.
MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT CYCLE

There are two phase to mobile application development:


i. Mobile Application “Front end“
ii. The services “Cloud Back end”
FRONT-END VS. BACK-END

In the early days of the modern smartphone applications era, mobile applications went
through a similar evolution as first websites. At first, the applications and sites where wholly
contained within themselves and acted as little more than static advertisements for the
brand, company, product, or service.

 The front end is the visual part of the app that the user interacts with, and the back end,
which contains all the code that drives the app.
The front end is written using XML. I have never used XML before, but it is very similar to
HTML in that it is a mark-up language that uses nested tags as its programming structure.
Android uses several XML files to create the app’s front end. There is at least one XML
layout file for each activity (or several if you are supporting multiple device sizes), as well as
layout files for custom views. XML is also used to define constant strings that will be placed
in the layouts, such as the text on a button.
The back end is written in Java, which is great because it is a language that I am very familiar
with. You can use the Java standard library in addition to the Android library when coding
your app. This gives you access to a ton of pre-made objects, and the APIs are thoroughly
documented online by Oracle and Google.
INTERRELATION BETWEEN FRONT END & BACK END

The mobile front-end obtains the data from the back-end via a variety of service calls such
as APIs. In some cases, these APIs may be owned and operated by the same entity
developing the mobile application. In other cases, the API may be controlled by a third party
and access is granted to the mobile application via a commercial arrangement.

For example, a developer may obtain social media or advertising content by making calls to
media or advertising company services. In this case, a developer may have to sign a contract
in order to obtain credentials and a key that grants access to the API and governs how that
developer can use it, how much it will cost, or how frequently it may be called, or how much
data can be requested over what time period.

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