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Smart Mobile Developers Using Cutting-Edge Mobile Development Tools Part 2

In previous part 1, I have thoroughly discussed about the two major cross-platform tools for the mobile developers to create robust apps with least investment of time, resources, and hard-earned money of their patrons. Now, in this episode I would like to bet on the browser based apps or can term web apps for mobiles, which are now giving excellent native like user experiences due to enhanced HTML5, CSS3, and advance JavaScript.

Visual App Builder– Sencha Architect

Sencha Architect comes with ready-to-go features and interface based on HTML5 so any web developer familiar with HTML5, CSS3, and advance JavaScript can go to coding and create some outstanding outcomes for multiple platforms like iPhone, Kindle Fire, BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows mobile apps programming easily.

This framework is capable to manage the layouts, widget managements, and event juggling easily because it has options to select themes, UI components, and user extension to get custom results with desired features and functionality.

Technically code is runs in WebKit supported browsers, means almost all modern mobile browsers. You can turn code into the native like app by wrapping them with PhoneGap or Corodova like tools for awesome native like user experiences.

Mine of Mobile Development Tools—AppGvyer

This company has made a number of useful tools for the mobile developer community in contemporary ways where it supports the PhoneGap with an awesome extension call Steroid. Same the way Prototyper is another product that create tools to glue a few pages together into the flexible prototypes where you can test your ideas before jumping into the development ship.

Steroid has Hybrid UI so you can get excellent native like user experiences without much wetting your legs in CSS and JavaScript. Instead you can banking on HTML5 through simple JavaScript API. The most alluring offering is its easy sharing using a QR code so you can go at any extent to test your product.

Juggle the Data using Firebase

Today our all mobile apps have either fatty database or critical data at security point of views. Therefore, safely storing and sharing all the data or information needs especial tools and Firebase is providing exclusively. Mobile application developer has to setup the project and Firebase will manage the rest by setting up a key-value store.

This tool will give you a powerful API to store and sync your data in real-time, not only this, but also offer offline support and will update your data while your devices restore the connectivity. Its full-featured libraries support all major web and mobile platforms as well as offer seamless binding for most popular frameworks for mobile development including cross-platforms and native ones using its REST API.

Besides these, collaboration with Firebase is simpler as its particularly tuned to push changes made by all team members working on the app. Thus, you have easy backend development and let you focus on frontend more.

Apart from the above described cross-platform and supporting extension tools, there are some more modern popular mobile app development aides and that we will discuss in our final part. Thanks for reading in advance.

 

Be Smart While Hiring Mobile App Talent

To know the latest news about what is going on today in the IT job market check your mobile device and mobile web. You will get to know about the latest trend. The numbers of mobile web connected devices are increasing day by day very rapidly. Mobile development for iOS and Android both are increasing on a fast pace and they are considered as today’s newest tech skills. On an average, tech pros with the mobile development skills are getting four to five job offers per day.

The constant fast-paced growth in mobile market the demand is exceeding the supply. The trouble arising for the companies is how to get the mobile skills in form of mobile designers and mobile programmers from the market as quickly as possible to accomplish their mobile strategies. Following are a few ideas, with their help recruiters and IT professionals can handle this issue efficiently.

Join Hands with Marketing

The marketing function of the business increases more and more interest in the mobility and it will put behind the IT departments in terms of technology investment in the near future. It is a great change seen as for the first time in the history the marketing department is spending more on technology solutions then IT department to earn revenues and shareholder values. A remarkable amount of competition is seen at the marketing level for the technology resources. Therefore, it is imperative to take help of marketing department and their experience in hiring mobile developers with desired skills sets.

Be On Your Feet

Planning to hire a tech pro with the mobile development skills, be ready on your feet, and just jump on any opportunity you see. Companies need to act and make decisions as quickly as possible and prepare aligned budgets and keep people ready.

Go Old School

Mobile development skills tech pros are getting into the lime light lately due to the shortage of skilled tech pros. In order to find tech pros with the mobile development skills the companies need to go old school way. As due to the shortage of tech pros, it is very difficult to find a suitable one. If you want to find a tech pro with mobile development skills, activate your networks with the help of staff, peers and colleagues.

Encourage Your Present Staff

It is quite difficult to hunt down a tech pro with mobile development skills due to the shortage of skilled tech pros in the market. However, companies to overcome this hurdle can encourage their own present staff and help them take interest and learn mobile development skills. This will reduce the burden of finding a tech pro and will develop your own staff skills. Just give your staff an opportunity and see them succeed. However, you need to invest in the resources that help them to learn and grant enough time to learn new skills.

Stay A Step Ahead

Companies can also do is provide their staff with the latest technologies in the market and encourage them to learn it. A few people in the staff will give in to curiosity, they will also try acquiring new skills in mobility, and it will benefit the company. Therefore, identifying right prospective candidates and righteously encouraging them to acquire such tough skills demanding some patience and commitments from you.