Top Navigation Ideas for Mobile Apps

Posted by on May 16, 2019 · Leave a Comment 

Developers across the world will readily acknowledge the importance of navigation in web or even mobile app development. In fact, in our experience as dedicated developers for several projects at HireIndianProgrammers, we can certainly say that carelessly designed navigation will lead to a nightmare of a user experience. Ease of use, simplicity and speed are some of the things to look out for while designing navigation in mobile app development projects. With the proliferation of the smartphone, more people are browsing the internet from their handheld devices. This means there will be a need to develop websites customised for mobile.

To make matters more challenging, mobile app developers will have to cater to both Android and iOS. Clients hire android and iOS developers to design mobile applications correspondingly. In this blogpost, our mobile app developers in their journey to provide broader mobile app development services, seek to list out some of the top navigation ideas to the developer community. This may give different perspectives to both emerging and experienced mobile app developers while designing mobile applications, be it android or iOS.
 

Side Menu Navigation

This navigation design allows for more real estate in a user’s mobile screen and keeps things simple. The hamburger icon along with the transition effects is sure to amplify the visual appeal and smoothness of the navigation. Android developers can use the side menu for incorporating more responsiveness and minimum clicks.
 

Bottom Tab Navigation

Mobile app developers can use the bottom tab navigation for media applications like photos, videos and audio. For example, android developers can use it to for designing a gallery application that allows for neat categorisation of photos and videos and also enabling users to easily retrieve the same.
 

Colourful Navigation

The focus of this navigation design is on vibrant colours. Android developers can use this navigation element in those apps whose sole aim is fun and functionality – say a photo editing mobile application. Editing photos is fun and what better way to express this in an app.
 

Reach Navigation Search

Both iOS Developers and Android Developers can opt for this in app that is rooted in maximum utility. In this navigation, the search is included as part of the bottom tab and even simple filters are included within the tab. Developers can use this for simple searches within an application – for example photos app and also for advanced searches in e-commerce apps.
 

Interactive Navigation

As the name indicates, this navigation is used in highly interactive applications such as job portals. For instance, suppose a client hires an android developer to develop a new app for matchmaking consisting of a large database. The developer would do well to make use of interactive navigation at this juncture.

 

Google Newsstand Navigation

Developers and users alike might be familiar with Google newsstand. There are three different kinds of navigation built into it. The top focuses on topics and the bottom part focuses on the content. Developers of any OS can use this navigation design mainly for reading content applications such as blogs, news, current updates or affairs, random articles etc;
 

Side Navigation

Given that iOS emphasises on butter speed, developers, especially iOS developers can make use of this navigation to design mobile applications that calls for rapid browsing actions – like a file manager. Developers can insert the directory and other useful tools like copy, paste in the side bar which can expand and shrink by the click of the bottom arrow button. Clicking on an item will automatically shrink the side bar and opens up the item in full screen.

Hope you found this post useful. Check out our website where you will also find our list of completed mobile app development projects. Our developers at HireIndianProgrammers have provided mobile app development services for both android and iOS, separately and also simultaneously. If you wish to hire our mobile developers, contact us here now.

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What You Must Know About Progressive Web Apps

Posted by on April 1, 2019 · Leave a Comment 

With the emergence of smartphones in the past decade, internet  traffic has seen a major shift. Smartphones command more than half the internet usage – meaning more people access the internet from their mobiles  than other devices. However, statistics also show us that this doesn’t necessarily translate to more engagements and conversions.

As any person conducting business online including those who making a foray into mobile apps would know, engagement and conversion rates are very important and without it, the purpose of developing mobile apps, be it android or iOS, becomes irrelevant.

In this blogpost, our developers at HireIndianProgrammers make a case for Progressive Web Apps and why both android and iOS developers must readily make a transition and incorporate it into their future mobile app development services.
 

What are Progressive Web Apps (PWA)?

Progressive Web Apps are fairly new to the internet scene and they can be best thought of as a bridge/ link between mobile web and mobile apps. You need to be aware of just 3 criteria with respect to PWA. First, you need to be running under HTTPS and secondly you would need a web app manifest, app shell and thirdly a service worker. All these in conjunction would enable you to develop what is called a Progressive Web App.

The best thing is you can virtually convert any website into a PWA using the above three criteria.

Here’s why companies providing mobile app development services must make a beeline for PWA:

Doesn’t depend on Connectivity – This means that you grant users the boon of accessing your business products offline too – a possible game-changer for businesses due to the addition of new customers located in remote areas.

Very Secure – Because they run under HTTPS, mobile developers and business people alike can be rest assured that PWA are generally more secure than mobile websites. What’s more? PWA are also much faster and battery efficient than conventional mobile apps.

Ease of Use – PWAs remove the need for app stores giving users the option to install and add them right to the home-screen, ultimately giving more control to the user. The high responsiveness of the PWA means that users will prefer them over mobile apps or sites any day, thereby leading to more conversion rates. No irritation, whatsoever.

One step ahead of Mobile Websites – Developing websites, both for the desktop and mobile to provide a seamless experience can prove to be a challenge. PWAs on the other hand have the capability to integrate with the user’s smartphone through push notifications. The existence of the app shell boosts the look significantly. They also provide app like interactions primarily navigations making it easy for the user.

Higher Engagements – Because they are far easier to share with the outside world – a one click process, Progressive Web Apps are sure to crank up the engagement for businesses.

 

Conclusion

All of the special features of Progressive Web Apps enable them to become much more desirable for mobile app development service companies to create ground breaking applications, thanks to its checking of several boxes – speed, security, convenience and so on.

Are you looking for any mobile app developers to develop exciting mobile applications? Look no further, you can now hire mobile app developers at HireIndianProgrammers and acquire our expert services without any messy contracts.

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Things to do prior to launching your mobile app

Posted by on March 19, 2019 · Leave a Comment 

Smartphone usage has increased massively in the last decade such that people are more likely to achieve just about anything with the help of their mobiles. Therefore, having a mobile app for your business can be very rewarding if done the right way. But before heading out to develop one, it is important to take a moment and consider website optimisation.

HireIndianProgrammers being in the mobile app development services space in India for quite some time, our developers understand the significance of a flawless website experience. You must do everything you can to make your customers, old and new to stay for a longer time, leading to higher signup conversions. In this blogpost, we shall provide insights into how you can best fix to website before launching your mobile app.

We are going to look at improving two aspects that are integral for a user’s satisfaction while browsing through your site namely loading time (Speed) and ease of use (User Interface).

 

Image Compression

Having a lot of visuals can take a toll on the loading time of your site. Agreed, they are crucial for user engagement but surely not at the cost of sluggishness. Fret not, for there are a number of tools to handle image optimisation such as ImageFlow, Cloudinaryetc;

 

Keep your website simple

The last thing that users want is to search for simple things while going through your cluttered website. Keep it simple and easy on the eyes. Follow a lean structure – this can be achieved if you take a moment and analyse the typical in-website operations by your customers.

In addition to a standard homepage and categories, having a dedicated section of FAQs will prove to be beneficial.

 

Eliminate Bad Links

No one likes to click on a link and find themselves in a dead end. This is true even for redirected links too. Moreover, this will multiply the irritant factor in case of mobile devices. Using tools like Broken Link Checker will solve the same.

 

De-plugin

There are a wide range of plugins for a variety of purposes and while they are very useful, having too many of them running at the same time can take a hit on your website speed.

Decide on the essential plugins that is actually required. Try clubbing plugins with an all-in-one solution. Our android developers recommend to restrict it to within 10 depending on your host.

 

Design Content Meticulously

Yes, this is true and assumes much more significance if you want your mobile app to stand out. Clear out anything that seek to create distractions. Removing excess content and replacing them instead with short videos will reward you more. People tend to find it easier to watch a video than going through a large content.

 

All things Minified

Our iOS developers refer to the process of minification which removes the redundant data in your website without affecting the speed and user experience.

For instance, plugins like Autoptimise removes the unnecessary Javascript code, line breaks etc thereby effectively removing the website content. Also, it would serve you well to remove any unwanted special effects, sidebars and the like.

 

Compress your Text

If your website is one that relies heavily on text, then text compression can boost your website speed immensely. You can achieve this with multiple tools like Gzip or plugins like WP Rocket.

 

Pay Attention to Slider Images

This is a pretty common issue faced by most users while browsing. Sliders or banners with multiple images tend to bring down the speed by a notch. They readily present an image of sluggishness and turn off interested customers. So keep it to a minimum.

 

Revisit your Javascript

Large codes of javascript can considerably slow down your website, especially in mobiles. Codesplitting can be implemented using tools such as Parcel, which breaks the javascript bundles, achieving faster deliveries as and when the user needs it.

 

Do a test

All said and done, wouldn’t it be more satisfying if you had some tools for testing our website? This would enable you to see where you are going wrong and address the same.

Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool is a popular tool that measures your page loading speed – both in the web and mobile. What’s more? It also gives suggestions on areas to improve.

With that, we come to the end of this post. You can now hire a programmer from our company (HireIndianProgrammers) for all your website conundrums.

For more queries, contact us here.

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