Recently, mobile gaming has been gaining a rather large share in terms of revenue. Gaming consoles/platforms and online gaming giants have dominated the game industry for the last decades, but with the enormous mobile gaming insurgents, change is definitely coming and change is welcome especially for avid gamers and enthusiasts.

Mobile games revenue forecast is predicted to increase up to $45 billion by 2018. Asia has been the leader in the industry since 2013, and is predicted to dominate the industry by up to 50% total revenue. Industry Analyst Vincent van Deelen stated, “This is simply not the case. We are also emphasizing that the recent results of individual high profile companies such as Rovio, King, DeNA and GREE are not necessarily indicative of the state of the mobile market as a whole. It is not in our interest to inflate market figures, but the hard facts have forced us to adjust our estimates upward. We have maintained our year-on-year growth rates toward 2017, ultimately leading to a $40Bn+ market share.”

In this regard, mobile game players have successfully gained large share in the market like most gaming console and online gaming companies. Indeed, this is good news for game development companies and their shareholders to put more focus and emphasis on this growing trend. Android games are also expected to be predictably higher in the coming years. Though, it is still a proven fact that iOS rakes in more revenue than Google Play despite the latter having massive download for freemium model type of games. But in a global perspective, Chinese app stores and android game downloads and revenue far exceeded iOS last 2014. North America, Europe and other Asian countries, such as Japan and South Korea have also ventured in the global trend. Reports show that mobile games now account for nearly 40% of the country’s total digital games revenue. With increased competition, smaller companies are also getting creative with the introduction of e-sports, multi-screen gaming and HTML5 mobile gaming, and the final trend is the rising popularity of downloading Android games for TV-based gaming. The top 7 companies  in the mobile gaming industry compete for the release of quality games to dominate further and not to get left behind in the scene. These are some of the most downloaded game apps:

1. aa

2. Agar.io

3. Angry Birds

4. Angry Birds Rio

5. Angry Birds Seasons

6. Angry Birds Space

7. Angry Birds Star Wars

8. Angry Birds Star Wars 2

9. Angry Birds Go!

10. Angry Birds 2

11. Ant Smasher: Best Free Game

12. Archery Master 3D

13. Asphalt 8: Airborne

14. Bad Piggies

15. Bad Piggies HD

16. Banana Kong

17. Basketball Stars

18. Blossom Blast Saga

19. Boom Beach

20. Brave Frontier

21. Bubble Witch Saga

22. Bubble Witch 2 Saga

23. Candy Crush Saga

24. Candy Crush Soda Saga

25. Cars: Fast as Lightning

26. Castle Clash: Age of Legends

27. Clash of Clans

28. Clash of Kings

29. Clash Royale

30. Color Switch

31. Criminal Case

32. Crossy Road

33. CSR Racing

34. Deer Hunter

35. Despicable Me

36. Diamond Dash

37. Diamond Digger Saga

38. Don’t Tap The White Tile

39. Dragon City

40. Drag Racing Classic

41. Dream League

42. Dumb Ways to Die

43. Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games

44. Extreme Car Driving Simulator

45. Fast Racing 3D

46. Frozen Freefall

47. Geometry Dash

48. Geometry Dash Lite

49. Farm Heroes Saga

50. FIFA 15 Ultimate

51. Flow Free

52. Fruit Ninja Free

53. Glow Hockey

54. Hay Day

55. Hearthstone Heroes of Warcraft

56. Hill Climb Racing

57. Hungry Shark

58. Jetpack Joyride

59. Jewels Saga

60. Magic Rush: Heroes

61. Minecraft: Pocket Edition

62. MORTAL KOMBAT X

63. My Talking Angela

64. My Talking Tom

65. Pou

66. 8 Ball Pool

67. Pet Rescue Saga

68. Piano Tiles 2 (Don’t Tap…2)

69. Plants vs. Zombies

70. Plants vs. Zombies 2

71. Real Racing 3

72. Score! Hero

73. Shadow Fight 2

74. SimCity BuildIt

75. Skater Boy

76. Slither.io

77. Smash Hit

78. Smurfs’ Village

79. Solitaire

80. Sonic Dash

81. Spider-man Unlimited

82. Stack

83. Star Girl

84. Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes

85. Subway Surfers

86. Summoners War

87. Talking Tom Bubble Shooter

88. Temple Run

89. Temple Run 2

90. Texas Holdem Poker Deluxe

91. The Simpsons: Tapped Out

92. Throne Rush

93. Traffic Racer

94. Traffic Rider

95. Trivia Crack

96. Vector

97. Zombie Tsunami

98. Z War

99. 2048

100. 2048 Number

This is a clear indicator that mobile gaming market share is expected to grow in the coming years.

If it was a decade back, then the term ‘SEO’ and web designing wouldn’t have gone parallel. But today the thing is something different. The web-smart world wants more from us and being exclusive is the first requirement of the customers. Webbing the business in a smart way along with decorating and designing the website for a fresh promotion is the new in nowadays.

Web designing incorporates a lot of strategical tasks and implementing them one by one enhances the front-end beauty of the website. It combines a lot of work with the frameworks, the programming languages, CMS or Content Management System, pre-decorated templates, web designing tools and hosting platform. On the other hand, it takes a lot of planning, sketch, graphical designing and strategy building for designing websites. A web design company deploys professional and experienced web designers who will perform all these tasks single-handedly.

The major job of a web designer is to produce the perfect UI & UX designs that will allure the viewers with its unique design. But, today, most of the web designers need to know about a little bit of SEO that will help them to understand its significance in terms of generating traffic to the website and allows them to comprehend its importance in the designing field.

SEO or Search Engine Optimization involves the process of optimizing the website by analyzing the site itself. This is connected to the designing and coding of the website for which the designers should be in the practice of these methods. So, that is why the designers should keep in mind certain things before designing the website.

Mobile Responsive Design

The demand for the mobile first designs has taken the interest of the consumers due to the major shift of searching methods from desktop to mobile. As the huge number of customers is using the smartphones nowadays and search almost everything from their smartphones instead of switching on their desktops and PCs, designing responsive websites has become a necessity for the entrepreneurs for increasing the visibility of their websites. The emergence of Google’s mobile-friendly algorithm has also facilitated the mobile responsive search results, pushing backward the nonresponsive websites in terms of amenity.

This has invoked the designers to use the mobile responsive templates and tools. The designers should use coding & programming that is utterly suited for mobile. The contents should be fit in the screen resolution of the mobile and the layout should be mobile first for the smooth access from the smartphones or cross platform devices.

URL Orientation

Search engines can’t find ambiguous and vague URL identity. The clear format of the URL makes your website SEO-friendly. With a perfect URL, the chances of getting the visibility to the viewers are more. Moreover, incorporating keyword phrases with the URL allows your users to identify and find the URLs easily and quickly. A designer should know about this so that they can easily collaborate with the SEO team of their respected companies.

Enhancement of the Website Speed

Improving the site speed is the major part of the SEO. Google’s algorithm supports the websites that have a good loading speed and disapproves the sites whose loading speed are worst! This is because the users don’t like websites with low loading speed and chances of the increase in the bouncing rate also raises up. Thus, improving the speed of your site is a much-needed thing, which can’t be optimized without the help of the designers. The speed augmentation process lies within the back-end service provided by the designers which include optimizing the database, minimizing HTTP requests, compressing images, reducing server requests, minifying resources, enabling the browser caches and accessing a CDN or Content Delivery Network.

Without the perfect knowledge of SEO and without the comprehension of the importance of site loading speed on SEO, the designers won’t understand its significance. So, for a perfect collaboration, the knowledge of site loading speed is required for the designers.

Pertinent Title Tags

Exclusive & relevant title tags are important for phrasing up an online document and those title tags are only used in the rich snippets aftermath. These title tags are displayed in the SERPs, on the browser, and on the external websites and should be smaller in size so that Google can easily catch them up.

Validated HTML5 And CSS3 Usage

HTML5 & CSS3 enables your website to fit in any resolution. HTML5 is advanced with much more features than the HTML and CSS3 enhance the downloading speed of the page. Authenticated HTML5 & CSS3 helps in implementing good coding that will optimize on-page SEO easily.

In most of the web design companies, the perfect collaboration of SEO and web designing teams is the major requirement because their harmony optimizes the entire website which results in bringing clarity on the front-end website with an aim of increasing more traffic and enhancement of conversion rate.

Both of these are right and describe a website display in a visitor browser’s window. In the matter of web design, a Standard Website actually adheres to the guidelines and rules instituted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to promote consistency in the design code that makes up the web page of any website. The advantages of this are:

1. Web pages can be displayed on a range of browsers and computers as well as newer technologies like iPad, Android, iPhones, PDA devices etc.
2. The use of CSS technology is one of these rules of the W3C. The use of CSS or Cascading Style Sheets reduces the page file width, which means faster page loading time and lower hosting costs.
3. Because of these standards, design changes can be made easily to the website by making the changes on just one style sheet, instead of editing every page on the website.
4. Search engines are able to access and index pages that adhere to W3C standards easily.

What are the elements of a standard website

The use of valid HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The publications related to each of these are considered foundational for a Standard Website. Although proprietary languages like Flash, Silverlight and XUL are mentioned with a view to discouraging proprietary works, and furthering the cause of openly produced vendor neutral language, the proposed standard document on HTML5 (latest version of HTML) contains many ‘intentional’ violations of other specifications because existing platforms are not adequate without these violations. Accessibility by people who are disabled, visually, hearing impaired, or who have muscle coordination problems is encouraged and an important part of web design today.

What are the easily recognizable features of a standard website

1. Logo in the top left
2. Contact us in the top right
3. Main navigation across the top of the website. Horizontal top navigation is a website standard
4. A homepage slideshow in the form of a carousel (same pictures repeating in a fixed sequence)
5. Merit suggestion high up on the home page
6. Visually prominent call to action on the home page
7. Search feature in the header
8. Sign up or register for email updates and social media icons like Facebook, Twitter etc. in the footer.
9. Responsive design (allowing for navigation and search)

Though these are the features, not all of them are present in a website. To quote Andy S. Tanenbaum, a computer scientist, ”the nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from”!

More importantly, the standards to be followed are

• Brand standards. Colors, tone and type are specific to every business and brand. Set up a style guide for your website
• Coding standards – Use programming standards set down by the W3C. This will ensure their visibility on standard browsers.
• Accessibility Standards have to be followed to make your website accessible to everyone. This is a basic human right recognized by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities.

Smartphones are a huge success story of the past two decades – and the devices get more powerful each year. Many businesses achieve significant benefits by using mobile technology – including those in both industrial and commercial markets. Deploying applications to mobile users involves a unique set of challenges and choices.

This article provides a background on the current mobile technologies available.

Types of Application for Mobile

The fundamental consideration with delivering business applications over mobile phones is the huge number of devices, and the wide variety of features on these.

Successful mobile application development often involves a combination of technologies and techniques. This is where a diverse skill set, together with an understanding of the mobile landscape, is essential to provide businesses not only with development services but also effective guidance in this time of accelerating change. The challenges at this stage in mobile technology are mirrored by an ever-increasing range of opportunities for businesses to implement new and improved processes.

In general, there are two main approaches to delivering business solutions over mobiles:

(1) Web

The mobile Web has undergone enormous advances over the past few years. According to recent research, around a third of adults in the UK are now using a smartphone – it seems fairly safe to assume that this will only continue to increase. Many more mobile users have some kind of internet access. Although the functionality of mobile Web browsers is now at a good level, there are still considerable restrictions in terms of network connectivity and speed – this is expected to improve over the next couple of years as 4G kicks in, but for the moment remains a serious constraint.

Many organisations create mobile versions of their sites and Web services, with minimised content designed to cope with mobile hardware and data connectivity limitations. One potentially valuable prospect in the mobile Web will be the advance of HTML5. This technology is still very much under development, but with major sites such as the Financial Times opting to use it rather than targeting specific mobile platforms it does look very promising. HTML5 offers a range of benefits including facilities for offline support, multi-media, interactivity and location awareness.

(2) Mobile Apps

Native mobile applications are software solutions deployed directly onto devices such as phones. Many mobile applications link to internet services, with the application, or “app”, handling user interaction natively. Mobile apps have the advantage that they provide a deep level of interactivity that is suited to device hardware – for example, using gestures or sensors like GPS. The difficulty with using mobile applications to deliver business services is the range of platforms in operation. As of early 2011, Google, Apple and RIM together occupy around 90% of the smartphone market. However, the mobile landscape is still in a state of change and there are other players including Windows and Palm – it would be unwise to make any predictions about how market share will look even in a matter of months as things stand.

Microsoft have replaced the Windows Mobile system with Windows Phone 7, with an increased focus on consumer use. Although Microsoft currently has a reduced position in terms of smartphone market share, the upcoming Mango release is looking very promising, and is being received quite well in early testing.

In terms of technologies for mobile apps, the list is long, and depends on which platform (or platforms) you choose to target. Among the most commonly used programming languages for mobile applications are Java, Objective C and C++. Each of the major platforms has a specific Software Development kit, with its own tools to help with the design, testing, debugging and deployment.

The complexity of mobile application development is such that targeting even a single platform involves extensive testing. Some businesses maximise on development resources by balancing native user interaction with cross-platform resources at the back-end, in which case a mobile app can effectively function as an interface for a Web application.

SMS

Aside from targeting specific mobile platforms through software and Web development, there are additional ways to exploit mobile contexts for some business processes – SMS is one such case. In this model, services are delivered as SMS text messages. This has the benefit of generally working across all phones, and payment can be handled via users bills – but it’s a very limited form of interaction. SMS also has a problem that message delivery is not guaranteed. Integrating SMS message handling into Web applications is quite simple – and support for processing SMS messages from users is widely available.

About Android

Google’s Android operating system is going from strength to strength at the moment. Having initially been seen as a platform of interest mainly to geeks, Android now occupies around a third of smartphone market share. Android’s growth is partly down to the openness of the platform, which is available on phones across the market range and from various hardware manufacturers, making it accessible to a more diverse range of users than iPhone.

Apps available through the Android Market are also subject to very little control, which produces a great deal of variety and flexibility but naturally results in a higher proportion of poor quality applications in circulation.

Google’s approach is the opposite of Apple – which retains significant control over its mobile phone operating system. Google’s initial idea was to make a new phone operating system which would be open and free. Their hope was that this would encourage innovative development of both phones and applications. Google has invested in Android because it expected that Web searches would increasingly happen on mobiles, and it wanted to be able to advertise to mobile users.

Although Google’s position within the mobile world seems very strong right now, it is still difficult to say how things are going to progress. In terms of users and applications, Android has, in the past, been seen by many as more focused on consumer services than enterprise use when compared with Apple and RIM, but there is some evidence that this is changing. The Android system is offering a good level of integration with business services such as Microsoft Exchange, and the open nature of the platform makes integrating with existing enterprise applications potentially less troublesome than for certain competitors.

About iPhone

The iPhone was of course in a dominant position as the advance of the smartphone took shape, and the platform is still in a very powerful place. Although business users naturally tended toward Blackberry in the past, both iPhone and Android have continued to make considerable headway for enterprise as well as consumer use, while Blackberry has started catering more to the consumer user as well. The result is that all three of the major smartphone platforms are now occupying some of the same space.

The iPhone offers support for external business utilities such as Microsoft Exchange and, unlike Android, iPhone apps are subject to serious vetting before users can deploy them. The natural downside to this increased level of control over the platform as a whole is a lack of flexibility, but for business applications the plus side is a very high guarantee of quality and reliability for the end user – and ultimately for any business processes being implemented through the technology.

With the hugely popular visual designs and interaction models the brand is famous for, the iPhone is certainly an attractive platform for commercial applications. Apple have been responsible for developing innovative features whose success has prompted other platforms to emulate them, such as multi-touch interaction.

There are some serious considerations with iPhone development:

• Apple does not permit users to directly install applications onto the iPhone – all applications must be bought from the Apple Store, and Apple takes a 30% cut. There may be some way around this in the future, but at present we are not aware of it.
• For certain applications the fragility, financial value and battery life of the iPhone may pose problems.

Of course, these obstacles apply mostly to commercial / industrial applications. They are not particularly a problem in terms of creating end-user applications. Blueberry has the Objective C skills necessary to develop iPhone programs, and we would be very interested in discussing this with customers.

Although iPhone has lost considerable smartphone ground to both Blackberry and Android, it is generally still seen as the platform to beat, and continues to be a market leader in many ways.

About RIM Blackberry

RIM’s Blackberry platform was long regarded as the mobile system of choice for business and professional users, a perception that still persists to a certain degree. Over the past few years Blackberry has also made significant advances in the consumer market, introducing handsets that have proven especially popular among young smartphone users.

Like Android, Blackberry hardware is very varied, so users can access mobile sites and applications via differing screen sizes and controls – increasing the complexity in any development project. The Blackberry platform delivers a wealth of enterprise services as standard, with Blackberry Enterprise Server seen as a major asset for corporate users. Email on Blackberry is particularly strong, so users who are dependent on a high level of security and reliability in messaging (and communications in general) naturally tend towards this platform.

While iPhones are focused on touchscreen interaction, as are Android devices to a slightly lesser degree, Blackberry handsets are most likely to provide hardware keyboards for text input. This can be a key aspect in the potential of the platform for certain application categories.

A possible issue for mobile Web applications targeted at Blackberry is that the Web browsers on the system have, in the past, been significantly less advanced than those on both iPhone and Android. However, more recent models have addressed this issue by including the latest WebKit browser

Native apps can be deployed through the Blackberry App World marketplace, which has, to date, not occupied as central a role for users as the app stores on iPhone and Android, although the brand is clearly focusing extensive efforts on developing this aspect of usage.

About Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7 represent Microsoft’s foray into the mobile world, which has enjoyed varying degrees of success in the consumer and industrial markets.

From the consumer point of view, at the moment some of the high end smartphone brands such as HTC and LG are producing handsets with the Windows Phone operating system deployed on them, with networks including O2 and Orange providing mobile services. Nokia and Windows have reached a major deal in which the manufacturer is dropping its Symbian platform entirely to focus on Windows as its operating system of choice.

In 2011, Microsoft is due to release a major new version of the mobile Windows platform named Mango. This much anticipated release could alter the position of Microsoft drastically within the mobile world, partly on account of the Nokia partnership and partly since the system is set to include a number of new features such as increased support for HTML5.

At the same time, Windows Mobile has also been adopted strongly by manufacturers of industrial PDAs and mobiles – portable computing device products designed for commercial rather than consumer use. This has seen Microsoft exploring various industrial contexts for mobile processing, with Windows Mobile 6.5 particularly successful in such environments, and hardware produced by various manufacturers including Motorola. Windows Mobile is therefore a natural choice for many mobile workplace needs, including warehouse and delivery services.

From a development perspective, Windows Mobile has very strong advantages. Microsoft has provided a rich platform of development tools – including the C# language, which is much easier to use than C used on other mobiles. Microsoft also includes tools for communication between software on the phone and central servers, and they even include a small database engine.

The strong development tools and wide availability of different devices make Windows Mobile a particularly valuable platform for delivering business applications. At Blueberry we have a uniquely high level of expertise on Windows Mobile systems, so are well positioned to deliver solutions on this platform.

Mobile Solutions

Blueberry Consultants ( http://www.bbconsult.co.uk ) has the development skills to build and deploy applications targeted at any of the mobile platforms and hardware manufacturers in use today, having developed a diverse range of mobile projects, including many on Windows. The team is also well placed to provide tailored approaches involving multiple technologies and programming languages where necessary.

With our skills in Web and client-server development, we can design a complete system that integrates field staff and office workers. Whatever your business process or context, Blueberry has the expertise to provide bespoke, comprehensive solutions to mobile integration, enhancing not only communication but also efficiency and productivity.

The industry of computer science is flourishing in the global world, and the best aspect is it pays off excellent! There has been, and is always, the demand for qualified, sharp and intellectual engineers and that is the reason why youngsters are learning codes as it is the most appealing option. However, with new skills coming up in the industry, youngsters are finding it difficult to understand the ways to start.

When you are about to start, you need to know in brief about the programming languages. You definitely need to make efforts to master in the respected language (one or more), and the result will be a high paying job on your platter in the leading industry. Let us have a quick look at the 6 most popular and rewarding web programming languages of 2016 that you can go for.

1. HTML/HTML5

• It is the latest or advanced version of Hypertext Markup Language which includes behaviors, new attributes and elements.

• It helps with enhanced flexibility, offers features of- offline editing, drag/drop, improved messaging, and elimination of outdated attributes.

• Offers high speed optimization, styling, 2D and 3D graphics, connectivity, multimedia and integrated performance.

2. CSS/CSS3

• It is simple and easy to learn, and it compatible with any older versions.

• It has a speedy development, features can be changed easily, has a compatible browser and independent platform.

• Easy to add animations and images, texts and borders, which enhances overall appearance.

• Testing features is now easy with the latest version of CSS.

• New tools helping designers to experiment with their creations.

3. JavaScript

• It is not Java, rather is the powerful language which helps in enhancing the web pages. The JavaScript helps in adding effects in the various web pages, in creating functionality games and also in popping up messages.

• This is a worldwide used scripting language which works best with many major and popular browsers.

• It is used as the base in many new technology which helps in real time communication.

• Learning JavaScript is important for all, it helps in creating interactive pages.

• It has an excellent user interface that offers you to make fresh images, add scripts or animations, and make creative profiles.

4. JQuery

• It is an excellent language to learn for many web developers, both newbies and experienced.

• It can be used easily even with complex projects and can be combined with other languages as well.

• It has a huge library consisting of different functionalities which can be used.

• Easy to go through tutorials and documents, best for a beginner to learn.

• One can create Ajax templates using user friendly interface.

• Many plug-ins are readily available that helps in high speed development.

5. PHP

• All web developers should have knowledge in PHP language of programming, which is a popular and effective platform.

• The web can be expanded easily and within less time, and even with fewer efforts applied.

• It is the foundation language for many management systems.

• It is a profitable language which helps to many programmers and developers.

• The Hypertext Pre Processor language is for scripting which runs on any server and help in creating the pages which are previously in HTML format.

• It is a popular programming language and provides many advanced tools for the programmers and new learners.

6. MySQL

• In order to execute on Oracle, SQL Microsoft, one needs to learn about SQL language.

• The Standard Query Language will help in gaining proficiency which works in multifaceted and huge data bases.

• After JavaScript, MySQL is most commonly used by the worldwide developers.

• It helps to be used by small and big business, universities and also banks.

• A lot of mobile phone applications have SQL database access and various popular apps have been developed on it.

Conclusion:

So, what have you decided? Which programming language you want to learn as a beginner? Well, if you like getting into the field of web development then the best language suitable for you to learn will be JavaScript, irrespective of you like or not. On the other side, if you wish to go with the backend development of web then learn SQL language. If you are looking forward to make mine data websites then you can learn the Python language.

In addition to this, if you are looking to work in a company then you can learn Java. For building any things or for any jobs, you can start learning SQL, which is even good for Math students. So, now that everything is explained clearly to you, it is your decision to make on what programming language you wish to learn. Have a happy time in learning, and you will eventually earn huge profits from any language you choose.

Web development is technically advancing year after year. Many different platforms are available to develop websites. The latest and the popular one is responsive web designing. It is one of the largest achievements in the web development field because responsive design is a web design that creates a flexible website. In short, it allows sites to react to the size of a user's screen.

After the welcome of smartphones and tablets, a great amount of online users have shifted to mobile browsing. Therefore, software engineers have introduced a responsive design platform that allows websites to adjust in all types of screen resolutions. Whether it is a mobile screen or a laptop screen, websites can easily adjust to every screen size to provide the best browsing experience. It was 2013 when responsive designing was introduced first. It has created a big revolution in the web world. Here are some great benefits of responsive web design to go through.

• Supper Flexible: Sites with responsive design are very flexible as explained above. The content, images and even videos, loaded in a site can easily adjust to small screens of mobiles and tablets. The images and the grids of such sites are fluid. Just as liquid easily spreads out, the content of such sites also spread easily.
• Reach to a Vast Range of Audiences: According to a survey, 40% of online users like to browse sites in their tablets or mobiles. It means if your site is not mobile friendly, you are losing a great deal of audiences. Capture them by considering responsive web design. It enhances the site traffic rate by increasing its visibility.
• Enhancing Offline Browsing Experience: There is no cut in the screen size. It means all content is visible. The HTML5 offline browsing capability of responsive sites allows easy access in one go. Even in the absence of network, it is possible to move the browsed web page to get the best view of it.
• No Need of Getting an Additional Mobile Friendly Site: It saves your money that you might plan to spend on creating an additional mobile friendly website. It is an old trend to own two types of websites, one for system browsing and another for mobile browsing. Your one site is enough to operate in both the platforms which is a great saving of money as well as time.
• Valuable SEO Campaign: Maintaining a mobile friendly site and a desktop friendly site, means duplicate content which is hate by Google. Having one responsive site does not promote duplicate content. You can make your SEO campaign successful and effective with it. Google has given a green signal to such type of site creation.
• Saving Cost and Time in Management of Your Site: It is natural that when you have one website, you can easily manage it. Saving money as well as time can be possible. A single site management is not lengthy. You can find top quality assistance in website maintenance at an affordable price.

These are top benefits of responsive website designing.

There are so many channels forecasting weather, newspapers, and other bulletins predicting about today and tomorrow’s climatic conditions. But, most felt for the need of an application on the go, through which they can know about exact climate conditions of their location. While there are web apps existent for the same, most are not fulfilling the purpose. Either they are providing with too much information, which makes thing complicated or there are just fluffy small icons that do not provide enough information when clicked. A serious web app for forecasting means a free application which can make serious predictions with just one click on forecasting. Here take a look how you can create a downright web application for weather forecasting.

• Designing: There are a bunch of designing ideas for such application. But, only go for those that are can give results with minimum clicks. While keeping the app simple is the key here, showing only temperature, rain/thunderstorm, humidity percentage, cloudy/sunny will do. However, that needs to be accurate with the location from where the user logs in.
• Logic: The API response from the weather applications is a critical thing to look at. It needs to assured by getting the latitude and longitude of the visitor or user to fully able to provide with the climate information on the go. The easiest way of doing that was using HTML5 Geolocation API that was quite simple and straightforward. Further, the major condition for creating such application is learning how to access all the parts of returned JSON data from the API response.

While following the above means you are halfway successful in making of a proper weather forecasting app, here take a look at the core features you need to include in it.

• Account registration: You need to put a feature for registering for an account to get the forecast. So, this will enable the application to get the location from the users one time and forecast it straightway every time they log into the application.
• Weather news: Not just location-based predictions, but enable your app to give weather news of various other regions and countries. There are many who are in need to know about the weather conditions, any unfavourable changes of a region by sitting at some other corner of the world. So, make your app capable of fetching all weather-related news from around the world and provide them in one section of the application.
• Forecasting by city names: Apart from weather forecasts of the real-time location, keep an option for knowing daily and tomorrow forecasts of the different cities. This will help frequent long-distant travellers, especially the business travellers to prepare themselves for their visits.
• Miscellaneous features: There are many additional features apart from the basic features that you need to include in your web application, to make it an upright weather forecasting application. Weather maps, forecasting length (1 day, 2 days, and so on), Heat index, Dew point, Wind speed, Moon Phases, Sunrise/Sunset times, Widgets are to name a few.

Well, that was our checklist and guide for you! If it is clear to you, then wait no more. Launch your own web application for perfect weather forecasting and help people stay alert to any harsh or favourable climatic conditions on the go.

Black box

Let’s assume that an application is a black box. For now, let’s ignore the question of its category (games, business, education, lifestyle), as it’s not really important at this point. Moreover, let’s assume our application is written natively for a given mobile platform (e.g. iOS – Swift, Objective-C, Android – Java, Kotlin) with the use of the best software practices and project templates. I believe that if you’re considering software efficiency it’s pointless to go into the details of cross-platform solutions as e.g. Xamarin or hybrid ones using HTML5. That’s even if, in the case of simple software, we can assume that the efficiency of a solution based on Xamarin will be comparative to the native language.

I’m aware of the fact that I won’t be able to discuss all aspects of efficiency of mobile applications and factors shaping it. However, I’d like to focus on the most important ones.

Devices

The first and probably the most frequently forgotten factor concerns the devices themselves. Depending on the platform and version of available software, it’s useful to put together a list of devices on which the software will ultimately be installed.

Those devices not only determine the user interface, but mainly how particular software layers will operate on older mobile devices. These can include devices with worse units (weaker processor, less RAM). You should also consider the availability of the devices, especially those older ones. Most frequently, programmers use simulators, additionally one or two mobile devices. This should be a warning signal for testers to start their tests with the oldest devices. Negligence can lead to expensive rewriting of functionalities which operate incorrectly on particular devices due to efficiency reasons. In any case, this doesn’t justify the programmers, who often copy the wrong project templates out of laziness, and start the applications only on the newest devices – ones that deal with processing complicated operations without any problems. In such cases, we usually learn about efficiency-related inconveniencies from the final user.

Networking

Another point comprises networking and, in particular, when and how often the application uses the Internet connection. The most frequent errors directly affecting performance result from the app asking the server for data too often, or a bad structure of storing the data in cache. Here, the best solution turns out to be planning generating data well, whenever it is necessary, and caching server answers.

Data-generating operations should be executed asynchronously – by not blocking the main thread, which is responsible for rendering the user interface. While downloading images, one should remember two things: to save them on the hard disk and about proper compression.

Moreover, it’s also worth ensuring that the application operates well offline, unless it’s not required in the specification included in the documentation. From my experience, problems sometimes occur due to a lack of explicit information that the application is to operate oï¬ï¿½ine. Sometimes, re-developing an already complex application can be very risky, as this can generate additional errors (which are difficult to solve). I think that this problem concerns developing the layer of communication with the server in business more so than in games, which, as can be assumed, should operate oï¬ï¿½ine. By ‘offline’ I also mean a poor Internet connection, such as 3G or EDGE, which isn’t always 100% sufficient.

We should also consider the effectiveness of the server’s communicative layer. It’s particularly important when our application generates a high traffic of questions regarding the server part. The problem can be further complicated due to e.g. audio or video streaming. Unfortunately, in this case, we don’t always have a direct impact through ongoing development. Nevertheless, I think it’s good to have this in mind as well.

Third parties

The third point involves the use of libraries of external companies. This has become very popular recently. Anyone who’s dealt with a large project that involved libraries which weren’t updated on an ongoing basis (especially the open source ones!) will know what I am talking about. They facilitate the development process and accelerate it, especially if they’re complex. They provide functionalities that would usually take a lot of time to be written by a programmer from scratch.

The development itself can be supported with additional devices. These can enable proper monitoring – of the efficiency of application, occurrences of breakdowns and an app’s sudden closing, or additional logging of application’s events. Such devices include e.g.: Fabric, Crashlytics, Flurry, HockeyApp, AppDynamics, New Relic. They should be added and used from the beginning of the project.

Summary

To sum up, we should remember that all elements listed herein make a whole and ultimately determine how the application is seen by the final user. The efficiency influences user interface as well as their general feelings related with using the application. Therefore, we should not let them feel the need to immediately uninstall our newly developed software or, even worse, feel that they have an old phone and they should replace it.

Do you have an idea for a web app, but don’t have the programming knowledge or the budget to hire a developer? In this article, we’ll discuss the main tools you’ll need to build the first version of your app. You don’t need to be an expert, but you do need to learn the basics.

To start with, you need an application stack. What’s that? It’s the main software that will power your app. Most people use the LAMP stack. This stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL,and PHP.

Linux is the operating system and Apache is the web server. You don’t have to know much about these to build a basic web app. Just know that you’ll need them.

MySQL is the Database Management System (DMS). This is where you’ll store your user’s data. Don’t worry if you don’t know what this is. Just keep in mind that you’ll need to learn the basics of MySQL – at least how to create a database and user.

PHP is the server-side programming language. You use this to create the business logic for your app. You don’t have to be a programming expert, but you do need to know the basics. You don’t have to program everything from scratch though. Instead, make use of a PHP application framework, such as CodeIgniter. This lets you concentrate on creating the specific code for your app, instead of the low-level code that’s included in every web app.

LAMP is your basic application stack, but you also need to know some other technologies. One is HTML5/CSS3. These let you create your user interface. Again, you don’t have to be an expert to start building your web app. You just need to know the basics.

But you don’t want to create your user interface from scratch. There is no reason to do that. You should use a front-end framework, such as Bootstrap. This is a library of user interface elements, such as forms, tables, alerts, and more. You can use this framework to make your app look professional.

You can build a web app using just these technologies, but if you want to build a better, more modern app, you should also learn JavaScript (a client-side programming language) as well as some JavaScript libraries, such as jQuery.

These will make your app look more like a desktop app, which people expect these days. Again, it’s not necessary, but you can learn the basics of these technologies to really take your app to the next level.

No doubt this sounds like a lot of work. But you don’t have to become an expert in all these technologies to create your first web app. Just spend a couple days on each technology, and then start creating your app. If you need to learn something else, you can pick it up as you go.

Browsers: What do they have in common (except maybe for being the “internet button”)? They can’t distinguish malicious content from benign. As this flaw had to be tackled, content security was introduced.

What causes content to become malicious?

Much of this malicious content can either be cross-site scripting (XSS) or clickjacking. Clickjacking, as the term suggests, is a form of hiding a hyperlink in another website’s clickable content. This way, the user is lured to actions he is unaware of, makes clicks he never intended and potentially reveals valuable or even confidential information to the attacker.

Cross-site scripting on the other hand, can prove a lot more dangerous as it accounts for 84% of security issues. Cross-site scripting falls into the category of code injection, as the malicious person embeds content in the website and accesses all information under the umbrella of the legitimate site.

These two constitute the most common attackers of a website bypassing the same origin policy. This policy is an important security aspect of the web world, as its mechanism is that it links two web pages only if they share the same origin. In practice, that means that if someone injects malicious content in one web page it cannot access another page’s information.

What can I do as a beginner?

This model ensures data confidentiality as the website owner provides secure, trusted and hence whitelisted sources of content and covers a wide array of types such as HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, images, audio files and many others. The Content Security Policy standard allows owners to predefine the content of their website whether it ‘d be inline scripts, or resources. Each page can have a standard security policy in order to minimise the damage in such cases where an attacker has already injected malicious content. For example, there are many ways the owner can specify which content is safe and hence which one can load in each page without problems. The most usual among those are:

1) Trust only scripts from the same source via HTTPS

2) Images loaded should come from a particular CDN

3) Frames or inline scripts should not be allowed

4) Only allow fonts from Google Fonts

Content security policy standard was first introduced in 2004 and has evolved accordingly ever since, with the majority of browsers complying with it. It is a “must-have” tool particularly for online businesses that implement user accounts such as e-shops, banks or social media.