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App Development
Pre-Processing
• What are Apps? • Types of Apps
• Categories of Apps • Where to get Apps From?
• What is App Development? • Platforms for Building Apps
• Creating an App
With the amazing advancements and developments in information technology and engineering sciences,
we have come to rely on computers for most of our day-to-day activities. With the advent of laptops
and smartphones, we have started using computers in almost everything we do – communicate with
someone, listen to music, watch videos, manage our schedule, snap pictures, or just pass time playing
games. Whatever you do with a computer, there is an app for it. Let us learn about apps and how they
are created.
WHAT ARE APPS?
The word ‘app’ is an abbreviation for ‘application’. It’s a software that
can run through a web browser or offline on your computer and on
a smartphone, tablet, or other electronic devices, including smart
TVs and smartwatches. Apps may or may not require a connection to
the Internet. App is a modern term for software, and it is most often
used in reference to a mobile application or software that runs on a
website. It’s typically used to describe anything that isn’t a full-fledged
computer program meant to run on a PC, but most large software
nowadays have an app for them.
TYPES OF APPS
There are three main types of mobile apps:
• Native
• Web
• Hybrid
Native Apps
Native apps are present on the device and are accessed through icons on the device home screen.
Native apps are installed through an application store, such as Google Play store or Apple’s App store.
They are developed specifically for one platform and can take full advantage of all the device features
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