iPad App Development Extending Helping Hands In Education Of Disabled

Summary

It is fact that iPad is student friendly for educational purposes due to its peculiarities. If we want to help disable students through our iPad app programming approaches, we must know that what sort of iPad apps will help them, and what features we can offer through our designing and development process. We can take some examples from the App store too.

Introduction

However, we can’t say that iPhone can’t contribute much in education field due to its tiny size, but it is fact that iPad has some distinguish characteristics that make it a favorite gadget or computing device for all ages. Unlike laptop, it is lightweight device with good degree of mobility and processing power in compare to iPhone.

 It is best fit for the students of all levels and practical device for the classroom usage. Therefore, educationists are craving for some useful and quality iPad applications to ease their tasks. In order to meet such demand I would like to offer some valuable tips and real life examples of iPad apps that are meeting such requirements beautifully in this post.

 Today we will discuss about the disable students, with autism like deficiencies in particular. Big screen size and good graphics rendering abilities makes iPad the best fit for disables. Since iPad requires hand gestures so all iPad app developers thinking about the use cases of iPad in education of the disabled to give as much as relief for unorganized movements of fingers and thumbs on the screen. This is a kind of adaptability issue and we might have to face some more like issues in our iPad application programming and designing.

If we intended to assist disables, we should have perfect ideas that what kind of imparities they face? Alternatively, what are their ultimate needs from the applications? Unless we make highly adaptable iPad application for their use, they want get real benefits of our hard work at all. If we are going to iPad app development for pure educational institutions then we must have ideas about their curriculum or the courses we can cover for the universities by and large for disabled. In short, we have to align the courses or curriculum at some point.

For instance, for the students who have difficulties in social skills you will find Sosh like iPad app in App store. Moreover, we can go for the assistive word processor like iPad app programming to support students with disabilities. Here we can help them to accomplish their writing task by autosuggestions regarding to spelling and grammatical mistakes and further language related problems, of course, better than the simple MS word like functionality so they can easily understand the meaning of the complicated words and their usage in many complex situations.

Adding some speech and pictorial clues can do better job. For cognitive disabilities, adding videos along with audios can perform better tasks. Usage of Clicker Docs and SymbolSupport like iPad apps suggest the ways that we can go for such iPad app development.

Use Keynote and PowerPoint for Prototyping during iPad Application Development

Summary

Today we need rapid prototyping tools for our iPad developments, which can show things in real life like simulations and interactivity so testing and conveying our messages, become effective and save our lots of time and resourcing in addition. Keynote is one of such promising tools along with PowerPoint.

Introduction

For most of iPad App developers, the act of Professnal Pad Application development is much challenging than of iPhone development because of the several peculiarities of iPad like big screen size, heavy CPU, memory, etc. Therefore, iPad programming and designing is bit intricate than that of iPhone. Hence, we can say that designing process, particularly wireframes and prototyping are demanding in terms of time, efforts, and resources.

Initially, we were using pen and paper to draw prototypes and spending hours with team and clients to resolve the problems. Gradually, we have learnt to use graphic editing tools to show some more realistic images of our concepts and prospective UIs. However, creating still images are not enough in modern intricate designing so we have started taken help of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, etc. tools to form somewhat interactive and live prototypes. The use of such programming tools is not possible for all mobile developers.

Moreover, those tools are not capable to take instant user tests or sharing with other developers or teams was not possible. Therefore, today we need some highly interactive and innovative prototyping tools to do all things speedy and accurately.

In fact, there are plenty of advance prototyping tools available in the market, but Keynote is somewhat outstanding among them due to its powerful drawing tools, styles, and smart guides, locking and grouping. With master slides, you can re-use its components frequently and across the varying screens. You can add hyperlinks with click or tap enable actions. The slide transitions make cool interface animations instantly. With the use of Adobe CS applications, you can copy-paste graphics seamlessly.

If you want to see your audience a real demo of your prototypes with all possible interactivities, you can use PowerPoint to depict those cleverly without making your audience much boring with textual descriptions. In additions to these benefits, you can see these prototypes working on iPad itself so iPad developers can put them into drop box or export it into PDF format in iPad and run actual user experience testing with real users in the field.

Humble Requests to the Clients from a Team Of iPad Developers

You may have seen the numbers of posts giving tips, tricks and advices, but never have such requests on your notice. Anyway, we are a busy iPad developers team, a small team, which only prefers to work on some quality projects in order to fulfill appetite of bread-butter and some good endorsements from the clients at the end of the day.

By experiences, we know well that all clients are not alike and quality people in our eyes, but with some experiences, they get shape of a good client and prove a blessing for us like iPad application developers. Here we don’t have patience to wait for some more to get them experiences elsewhere and then come with us. Instead, we would like to teach them how to be good for an offshore team and get good return over your investment of time and money with some peace of mind.

The first and foremost request is that please come with all preparations that needed to explain your concept for iPad application development to us, be it preparing a well texted document or with some drawings or images from other apps for reference purposes or as good inspiration source. If you don’t have your concept clear in your own mind then how will you describe us effectively. During our long tenure as software developers, we have encountered many clients who stick on the phone and say us to note down all points they are going to describe for next half or one hour!

Therefore, our next humble request to our clients that to use Skype always to communicate with us, not its video chat but textual chat feature so we can see your texts in the feed whenever we need them to refer. Let me describe another benefit of Skype chat that when you put your concepts or ideas in texts you will realize its depth and effectiveness on the person at other end. Thus Skype chat will ease your work more.

If you think all sorts of communication through Skype then we say no, no because you need to give us daily instructions or periodic instructions through e-mail so we can refer them as per our convenience as well as we can share that e-mail among the development team so they can work on step-by-step. Similarly, we will give the revision or test of your app through e-mail so you can give your feedback as per your comfort and time. Therefore, e-mail communication is highly preferable in such instances and quick chat is for Skype.

Conclusion : 

Getting quality clients is a matter of luck at some point, but if we educate new comers properly, we can make them some good clients and make our lives easy for both, they and we.

iPad Education Application Development For E-Learning Courses

iPad is originally made for entertainers and e-readers who can carry this mobile devices with them anywhere and can fill their leisure with good moments. Sometime some inventions exceeding our expectations and the same happened with iPad. Therefore, it becomes one of the highly used and useful handheld device today. We can explore the possibilities of all iPhone apps on the iPad and some more specific to iPad.

Education category apps are belong to these specific criteria. Today we have a vast field of education particularly e-learning field is open for iPad application programming. As iPad has inherent capacities to present multimedia content in intuitive ways, we can take advantage of that and make e-learning a fun and easy that it is on its big sister devices like laptop and desktop. However, iPad has some limitations like gesture base operating, small size, different screen orientations, limited CPU power, memory power and connectivity; we have to overcome such problems smart ways and create some robust e-learning experiences.

We can create different types of e-learning content like keynote presentations, iBook and HTML5 based courses. If we take help of keynote presentation, we have to go for Mac OS to create this power point like presentation for iPad users and we can’t sell them outside the Apple store. Keynote application allows us to view, edit, and converting presentation in palatable formats like PDF, PPT, etc. However, you have limited distribution capacity but you can receive quality audience of Apple product users and monetize your work beautifully. The biggest drawback is security since this method allows any recipient to edit presentation.

Another convenient application for e-learning courses for iPad is iBooks Author. Here you can make your iPad development efforts to create textbooks with multimedia content like image galleries, video libraries, interactive charts and diagrams, 3D objects and a lot more. This application is free but work only on Mac and you again have to use iBookstore in Apple store for distribution.

Creating HTML 5 based e-learning courses for iPad is the most convenient and flexible approach since it allows you to use any operating platform and distribution system, but needs lots of HTML 5 programming expertise and experience at Expert iPad developer end. Albeit creating PPT presentation and converting them into HTML 5 option is easy but flexibility is limited, so custom development is not possible.

Conclusion :-

iPad education application development is a promising field for mobile developers and we can create many different types of e-learning applications and courses using various techniques and applications available.

iPad Software Development—Some Crucial Aspects Part 2

iPad is gradually go to be in-thing in the modern society where tech-savvy people want everything on their fingertips. It is well versed that iPad software development is quite different from web as well as at some extent from the iPhone itself due to its size, hardware and functionalities. In part 1, we have seen about the project process which greatly affect the quality and deliverable in broad terms. Now in this part we will seen something about the risk management.

During iPad software development you sometime stuck with unpredictable problems, bugs and other intimidating things which not only slow your project speed and waste your valuable time and resources but affect your prestige in the market. However, predicting a problem in advance is not possible every time but not difficult in many cases so during planning phase try to chalk out the possible risks in the iPad software development process. For that you should have smart and experienced iPad developer team that can guess everything related to the project earlier and can draw your attentions towards the most possible risks that can arise at the particular stages of the iPad software development project.

Once you listed out the possibilities you can work on them to solve in earlier stages by allocating appropriate human as well as other resources. Another important thing is the frequent testing since the beginning so you can get foresight of the problems at earlier stages and can fix them before they grow at large scale and become a headache for you. This is the reason that seasoned developers always prefer standard coding practices attempting clean, compact and comprehensive coding so everything can be traced when anything goes wrong with the project.

 

iPad Software Development—Some Crucial Aspects Part 1

iPad is getting momentum with the release of iPad Mini and iPad 4 covering small size lovers as well as big size fans. Like iPhone now iPad too has separate category in App store and there are enough iPad  software available created by hard working iPad software development companies. Here hard work and domain expertise alone is not sufficient to attract a big download but there are many aspects which play crucial roles to make your idea a success legend in App store converting them into money.

When we talk about the iPad software development the development process itself is important because if developers or companies are not creating effective and appropriate development strategies then you would be in loss in terms of time and money. The good approach is to divide the development process into small phases and define the milestones so we can allocate required resources in better manner and can optimize the resources.

Through phased development you would have opportunities to revisit some portions to cleared roadblocks and run the tests to eliminate errors and bugs at earlier stages. If there is a loop hole in strategies you can revisit it at early stage and can define again or extend it further. Some of the agile methods iterate the phases in a loop manner so fragmentation of the process becomes more meaningful here in your iPad software development process.

The obvious advantage of the fragmentation of the process is to manage time line as some parts take more time and some less so you can arrange the work accordingly and can allocate resources accordingly.

iPad Apps Development India–Renew Apple Developers Certificate and Provisioning Profiles Part 1

When first iPad released the iPhone development companies in India have kicked off iPad apps development India immediately because now they have everything needed for iPad development. Now they are not only work for their clients but they create iPad apps for themselves and get some fortunes in App store. In due course iPad apps development India have register themselves as iOS developers in App store and likely facing all problems other face. In this we won’t discuss much about other problems but only iPad app testing related problems.

 This has been seen that when we going to testing our iPad app on a real iPad we are meeting with a horror in form of an error notification that your iPad doesn’t have a proper profile installation on it and you are going to check your profile but found nothing wrong with it because profile is not expire at all but the certificate it is tied so the profile stops working more. Actually figuring out that the developers certificate is expired is fighting a half battle and remaining half is to get new one. So we will see this process step-by-step.

 Finding expired certificate

To do this you have to take help of Keychain Access application and that you can get through your Mac application where you have to click on the Utilities folder. Once you entered in Keychain you will get a list of  certificates and the certificates needed for development would be named like iPad developer: [your_name] and iPad distribution: [your_name] and a red circle with an X is found in the middle that designate that it is expired now.

iPad Apps Development India–Renew Apple Developers Certificate and Provisioning Profiles Part 2

Testing iPad app for meticulous functionality is a prime task in iPad app development India and for that you need to have Apple developers certificate and provisioning profile alive. In last part we have seen that how to identify that your iPad developers certificate is dead and how to request a new one. Continue with the same we will look further for iPad apps development India project.

 In last part we learned that before requesting a new certificate we need to delete the older one which is dead. Once you cleared the dead certificate you have to generate a file to request a new one and that you can do by going to Keychain Access->Certificate Assistant->Request a Certificate from a Certificate Authority. Now you need to fill up some required information like a valid e-mail address and you name. Now choose ‘Saved to disk’ from the given options and then click to continue to save that file on your disk.

 Now surf for certificate section of the iOS provisioning portal and upload the file and now receive the valid certificate. After uploading you have to wait for sometime and refreshed the existing screen so that can issue the certificate. Now hold off on downloading the certificate. Select the distribution tab in the section of certificate and repeat the same process again to ensure that you have a certificate to distribute apps too. Now again hold off on downloading the certificate and go to provisioning section and edit and modify for the profile you want to use to code sign your apps and check mark next to your new certificate and submit the changes.

 Now repeat the same process on distribution tab for distribution profile and launch the iPad configuration utility.

iPad Software Programming—Some Useful Code Editors On the Fly Part 1

When you are on the road or on the sky and you need to do some coding for your iPad software programming project with help of iPad itself or with laptop here are some useful code editors which really can help you in  iPad software programming tasks especially for web app development as it let you do coding with prevalent programming languages. So let’s take a brief overview of such useful tools.

 Code To Go

This editor will allows you for iOS 3 or later version coding for your iPad software programming on the fly. Its main features are:

This tool allows you to write, save and load code locally as well as in DropBox when you are connected with internet. This tool supports wide range of languages nearly 50 languages including C, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, etc. If you eager to show the results of your coding you can run the code and use Ideone.com to see the results. If you want to add your coding doing on the fly in your existing project in your computer you can upload files directly to your computer using the app syncing page in iTunes. If you want to add an additional raw of commonly used keys to the default keyboard you can do it with touching the setting button at the top right of the initial language screen and can customize it.

 Code Monkey

Same the way it is also compatible with iOS3 or later versions. This tool is not a full UML editor but it can work at satisfactory level in a programmers notebook paradigm including class diagram support, a RPN capable calculator, extension cheat sheet and a design pattern reference. This tool supports multiple class diagrams, classes, derivatives, dependency and realization relationships between them. Moreover classes and relationships have names, descriptions and stereotypes.

Take Proper Approach To Secure A Definite Success In iPad App Development

There are plenty of iPad applications are available in the App store and people can search whatever they want and their most of the needs are fulfilled with those existing apps. Now question is that why developers and entrepreneurs are constantly carry iPad app development. Are they still think that they will earn some fortunes in App store?

The answer is that they may or may not, and that depends on many factors. Let’s go logically as Apple is releasing new version of iPad each year and in case of iPad Mini it has broken its rule and put six month earlier in the market. Each new version is coming with new and advance features and functionality at hardware side. Same the way Apple is releasing iOS version on the same evolution path. These advancements fuel the iPad development industry as each new version need plenty of new iPad applications.

Therefore, it is mandatory for Expert iPad Application developers to learn quickly new technologies for each new versions of iPad as well as iOS and know the tricks and tweaks to do coding to leverage the benefits of new features and functionality. Here creativity of the iPad developers is matters much because with new features the expectations of the end users of iPad is increasing further. Moreover, the use of iPad is increasing in business sectors as well as at the professional level so there are enough complexities and diversities in the needs of iPad applications.

To meet such bespoken requirements iPad programmers have to carry thorough research over the targeted audience. Deep knowledge of industry or the niche of the iPad apps is greatly helpful to achieve desired success. There are some more things that need to be considered during iPad apps programming and those are usability of the apps, over all look and feel of the apps and finally user experiences with apps. If we don’t impress app users at first with attractive graphics and layout which are clearly seen in the screen shots of the app they won’t read its description. Same the way if we miss to see that how your app is useful for them and can solve their problems or add some value in their day-to-day life they won’t stay on your page/description for longer.

Same is true for the user experiences as once they use your apps and get frustration they won’t give you good ranking and will write negative review thus you will lost your further business.

Conclusion :-

With each new version of iPad new features and functionality arrive and increasing complexities in the development, moreover the expectations of the end users are increasing now and meeting their requirements are challenging for the iPad developers so they have to take proper approach in development to secure success.