iPhone mobile App Development Services helps to transform your innovative iOS mobile app idea into reality. As per the present scenario, iOS app development is going to dominate the consumer market. Companies understand the necessity of mobile applications that help boost their business into branching out to newer heights of revenue and consumer reach. You can employ various resources for getting your mobile app developed or you can hire a third-party company for a mobile app development solution.
It’s true that iOS provides a smoother user experience to users. However, the iOS Developer Community is also backing its platform with a whopping 64% of developers who are dedicated iOS resources in the market. This implies that the word in the Developer market is that iOS is the popular choice. With a large pool of resources available, you get to select, handpick, and finalize the type of resources you want for your iOS App Development Services as per the expertise, scope, budget, and time constraints of your project.
With 5 million apps available for download, 2 million applications are available on the Apple App Store. This statistic alone itself provides an insight on the level of popularity for iPhone App Development. On average, around 1,082 apps are released daily and waits for a good response from users. It is all about providing functionality that is appealing, easy to use, and most of all some practical use to the customers. If you get it right, your app is a winner in the market and slowly gains momentum for becoming a popular choice for download in the market.
Various types of iOS Apps Available
The types of available applications running on the iOS platform are uncountable. Sometimes, an idea just grows on a user base: for example, Dubsmash while at times, the idea is an instant hit from the time it is launched in the market, for example WhatsApp.
The app preference is based on gender and specific age groups. Many mobile users prefer downloading games on their mobile apps as means for playing, relaxing, teaming with friends, and just killing time. In 2019, it has been mostly about being online in the most important way: socially. Thanks to various filters and taking pictures/selfies, the personal image and becoming an instant overnight celebrity on social media has been the biggest thing/trend for 2019. As a result, the most major downloadable apps have been in the social media category (32%), while game apps are second with 10% and messaging apps also at 10% of the total.
Some of the noteworthy game apps that have been extremely popular in 2020 are:
- PUBG
- Call of Duty
- Game of Thrones
- Minecraft
- Stranger Things
Social Media Apps are also a very predominant category as app favorites. In this list, the following social media apps have been consumer favorites.
- Facebook Messenger
- YouTube
Top Grossing Apps in 2020 have been:
- TikTok
- YouTube
- Tencent Video
- Tinder
- iQIYI
- Netflix
- Disney+
What language is used to build iOS apps?
There are several native languages that can be used for this purpose including Swift, Objective-C, React Native, or Xamarin. The latter two languages are cross-platform native languages. You must use the Xcode platform to develop iOS apps, on the next version that is now available on the beta release, Xcode 4 also supports C++. It is also now possible to use OCaml for developing iOS applications.
Is it easy to develop iOS apps?
Apple’s IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for both Mac and iOS apps is Xcode. It is free and you can download it from Apple’s site. It is supposedly much easier to work with and use, so if you are totally new to iOS development it is a good place to start. Apart from this, the iOS Developer Community is flourishing with a lot of accessible free-floating knowledge that is shared between resources.
iOS mobile app development services and offerings
Our priority is to help businesses build meaningful iOS applications from ideation to maintenance through our various iOS app development services.
Product Lifecycle Management
By leveraging our digital capability and architecture, we manage the whole lifecycle of application development from scratch to product submission at App Store.
Custom App Development
Our iOS experts build comprehensive and fully customized iOS applications that analyse your business needs, which will help your business to maximize ROI.
Our talented designers have knowledge and experience to design visually beautiful UI/UX for your applications, following the iOS human interface guidelines.
Automation
We ensure high standards of app quality through rigorous, strategic testing methods to make it error-free and improve your app's performance.
Security
We help you to secure the confidentiality of your app’s sensitive information and deliver it faster and more efficiently.
Support and Maintenance
We help you to reduce your support and maintenance costs by monitoring your application, app store support, and giving your app a competitive edge.
Migration and Upgradation
We help you to improve and migrate your existing iOS apps with the latest technologies - version, language, hardware, and software.
iPad App Development
Our iPad app developers utilize modern technology to conceptualize and build custom iPad applications for your business.
Apple Watch Development
We specialize in building customized, creative, and responsive WatchOS apps that easily connect with wearable devices.
Apple TV App Development
Our developers build scalable tvOS apps leveraging iOS frameworks, and technologies to redefine user experience on Apple TV.
iOS App Development Process
Usually, there are five main phases in an app development cycle.
- Planning Phase – Before launching an app, it is important to have a clear focus: what challenges does the mobile app solve, who is the target audience, what features to include, and so on. Besides, it is important to carry out comprehensive market research to ensure the app would be competitive in its market or market niche. The planning phase also includes arranging all the requirements needed in the subsequent phases of the app development process.
- Design Phase – In this phase, the design team comes up with the user interface and user experience, that is, the looks, feel, and navigation. The design is then carried over to mobile app developers.
- Development Phase – This phase of the app development process flow involves creating a functional app from the existing design.
- Testing Phase – When the development is finished, it is obligatory to test the application. QA engineers review the app to make sure it functions seamlessly and has no bugs.
- App Launch & Maintenance – Once the app is tested and reviewed by the client, it can be launched release to market. However, this does not end the app development process steps since every application requires continued maintenance and needs to be updated often to address the quickly changing customer demands. So, this phase simply marks the beginning of another development cycle.
Major iOS App Designing Tools:
- Invision
- Balsamiq
- Mocks
- Acorn
- Appgyver
Major iOS App Programming (development) Languages:
- Objective-C
- C
- Swift
Major iOS App Testing Tools:
- XCTest
- OCmock
- KIF
- Specta
- Kiwi
iOS app development tools and technologies refer to a diverse set of tools and programming languages that are used to develop apps for iPhone and iPad devices alike. The tools and technologies are specific to each task involved in iPhone and iPad app development. The tasks include wireframing, design, development (creating code with programming languages), and testing, while the app submission is a post-development task, which does not require the use of any tools.
Xcode is an integrated development environment (IDE), which contains a suite of software development tools developed by Apple for building software or app for iOS and OS X.
Having an on-demand app idea?
We have a team of developers having experience in on-demand apps. Our team is developing scalable and prominent solution in iOS and Android of different complexities. Feel free to comment or write us in case of any queries.