Thursday, 23 October 2014

How can mhealth Change the Health Care Service Delivery Paradigm?


The advert of mobility in health and fitness has fundamentally changed the patient to patient and patient to provider communications relationship for the healthcare industry. Represented an integrated system of health care, sometimes it breaks down barriers and the stigma associated with seeking out health services.

Mobile health is innovative because it changes the health care service in 360 degree, I would say. Besides, new mobile applications help clinicians in new initiatives to give millions of Americans access to their medical records online, keep a closer eye on patients' progress in things like diet and exercise, and nudging them to take action.

Here Are Present Five Of Those Insights 

1. More than 75 % of respondent like to use digital healthcare services as long as these meet their needs and provide the level of quality they expect. This assures digital channels like iPhone/ Android apps related to healthcare will embed in a well-thought-through multichannel concept.

2. Older patients prefer traditional digital channels such as websites and e-mail while younger patients are open to newer channels such as social media. Either to know more about services for acute and chronic conditions or to access to health-promotion and prevention services, mobile application development can be of great help.

3. There is certainly demand for mobile healthcare application that focus on prenatal health or those that could be classified as lifestyle app.

4. Efficiency, Accessibility and integration with other channels and highly innovative services are taken into account when designing digital-service offerings.

5. Regardless to the field, our generation believe in a comprehensive platform with offerings along the entire spectrum of customer services. In healthcare, patients most often cite “finding and scheduling physician appointments” as the most needed service. They do not require massive IT investments to get started.


As a whole thing, the healthcare industry is on the cusp of a third wave of IT adoption and therefore understanding the needs of patients can help pave the way.

Android 5.0 is official: the Top 5 Highlights of the Google’s Newest Version



Bended with a raft of new changes, the release of Android 5.0 Lollipop designed to be flexible to work on all the mobile devices and can be customized to fit the way you wish. It also gives developers the ability to create apps for screens of all sizes regardless to the device.

Here are a number of new features for visuals, user interfaces, web design, multi-tasking menu etc.

The New Material Design

Yes, of course it’s flat but it's heavily based on making every animation, ripples, and shadow look real which is something that most brands are shying away from and most importantly allows access for developers to use this for themselves on their apps. The idea is, no matter what device you're on, Android looks and bring consistency to the app world.

Notifications on Android L Are Getting an Overhaul

The notification panel is being merged with the lock screen and a simple swipe up takes you into the phone. Android 5.0 help users view and respond to messages directly from the lock screen. And, with Lollipop, the best part is incoming phone calls won't interrupt what you're watching or playing.

Security

Comes with “Factory Reset Protection” which is turned on to help protect data on lost or stolen devices Android Lollipop devices will come with encryption automatically. If the user wishes to activate this feature, they will be required to enter their Google login to factory reset the device and will work only when the phone pass code is enabled.

Interlocking apps

Google wants your apps to be able to talk to one another as in like to search for a place only to have it served up in Google Earth.

Music and Communication Applications 

This new Android 5.0 Lollipop has bolder graphics, improved audio, video and camera capabilities ensuring the music and communication applications provides an real-time experience to the user. Also, USB audio support is provided with USB audio devices into your Android device.

Summing up, Android 5.0 Lollipop comes on Nexus 6, Nexus 9 and Nexus Player and also on Nexus 4, 5, 7, 10 and Google Play edition devices in the coming weeks.

Mobile Apps to Impact Software Development: Insightful Feeds



The vivid usage of mobility for users and businesses has become one of the most challenging rupture the CIO technologies. The evolution of iPhone back in 2007 and the iPad in 2010 have yet to extract its full potential in most of the software and IT sectors of enterprises.

Today there is a process of transformation of apps geared exclusively to end-users to even perform actions like calling a taxi or validate traffic conditions. This post portrays how with a lot of innovation corporate apps can popularize explosively, not only as individual productivity tools but even be responsible for new business models of companies.

The Wave of Mobile Apps in Software Industry

Software architects should look at the apps as a central part of its strategy to create more modern systems. To meet that, mobile apps shouldn’t remind as miniature applications or simply a variant of an existing application, but a “new type of programs”. But this requires profound changes in current processes of systems development to mobile app development.

Intruding the maximum possible functionality

When a system becomes more complex, with upgrades in lengthy cycles, the harder it becomes to complete it besides raising the cost of maintenance. Why should the number of features need to exceed the customers' demands? This adds little or nothing to your business.

Simplicity Applied To Corporate Systems

In the world of apps, why take pain of adding more features to the system? Yes, you can create a new collection of apps but only after preserving its simplicity in the eyes of users.

"People-Centric" Design Rather Than "Process-Centric"

Goes by the definition, "process-centric" focus on the process and does not consider who the user at each moment. To achieve this, the app should use your entire technological potential, geolocation, access to contextual information and so on. Plus, it has to take into account how and where the users engage with the app.

To conclude, the paradigm of app development in the coming years involves with architecture and systems development to create new business solutions. Yes, it’s of course the world of apps.

How We Can Improve The Performance of Your Hybrid Mobile Application


A mobile apps performance is an overlooked and improperly-defined mobile project requirement but how do you define it? To be more specific, how is it possible to develop a high-performance mobile enterprise application?

An apps performance is measured on the basis of its

1. Loading and execution time, and

2. Responsiveness and Smoothness of User Interactions.

In this post, we shall focus on Apache Cordova hybrid mobile app- one of the most popular choices for mobile enterprise regardless to any industry.

Improve the App Loading Speed

Minimum Network Usage: In general, a mobile enterprise application, purely offline, is used to access server data or services because of its relatively slow and unstable network speed. Minimize network requests by cache static resources in your application or by preloading the required information when your application starts can certainly improve the loading speed.

Minimize The Number Of Requests: With Cordova plug-ins, it is possible to providing native access to the mobile applications. Perhaps, you will need to consider storing the content in the native layer and returning the content key back to the web tier. This way you would be able to retrieve the data by the key across the web and Cordova tiers.

Responsiveness and Smoothness of User Interactions

Leverage hardware-accelerated CSS:  By default, mobile applications of these days are known for their transition effects and animation due to the "education" of native user experience. The trick here is to delegate unnecessary Document Object Model depth of elements that are going to be transitioned and animated.

Keep It Simple: Despite the fact that CSS3 modules help us easily achieve wonderful styles and effects anything excessive actually kill the image performance of your application. Whilst designers keep on adding transparency and shadows to elements, excessive use of hardware acceleration can cause memory swapping, eventually affecting performance. So, better stay simple in graphics and style.




Thursday, 9 October 2014

Will the Android Ecosystem Grow Numb With the Apple's Big Day, this Christmas?


The global stats say more than 50% of apps available on both mobile OSs fail to entice users while the share of apps is being opened up only once have gone down from 26% in 2011 to 20% in 2014. By the release of the latest iOS, a radical departure from Apple's norm dig deep into that the Android ecosystem is expected to face a big hurt.  Does this mean Android's global dominance might take a hit? That’s what many of us say in recent times. But it is still a talk. Let’s check in detail about the growing controversies.

Where Does Apple Stands, Globally?

Apple has completely redesigned the interface and enlarged the iPhone. No one can ever beat the way how this smarty releases a product on the planet, and their marketing team knows how to build consumers into frenzy. Is it affecting the Android apps? Here's how it will unfold. Globally, Apple will see a minor rise in market share but yes, USA will see a significant rise in market share. The findings are derived from studies that measured the app usage that were downloaded in the third calendar quarter in last four years and tracks down which offers the best user experience.


IS Android Performing Better Than iOS?

Android apps are retentively much more visible while one-fourth of iOS apps are likely to be opened once and then never visited later. Better user interface, high availability of free-apps and larger screen size can be important reasons for higher retentivity in the former OS. But back in 2013, a report claims that iPhone users generated more mobile traffic than Android. Why because, Weather apps and social networking apps are least abandon while sports and gaming apps have the highest. Also, by 2016, it is expected the app market would double while the business and productivity app market is likely to be $58 million worth which is why Android developers are more focusing on user satisfaction and user engagement.

In precise, a release doesn’t matter when the audience poll stands high? All that you need is to develop a light weight apps that can generate more user engagement.



How to Boost Your Small Business with a Great App Platform



Whether it’s a student or corporate business head, it is good to start off with a platform that’s been widely used by hundreds of millions of users. Designed over the Linux kernel and launched by Google Android serves as world’s majorly used Smartphone OS and possesses sturdy scalable. The demand for Android mobile Application development has boosted tremendously owing to its strong popularity across the entire mobile domain and availability on a vast range of devices.

Let’s see what experts feel about developing an app in Android.

Factors to Choose Android Mobile Application Development

There are a numerous factors to choose Android mobile application development. This includes:

·         Founded on Linux which offers effortless accessibility to rich development environment

·         The overall time and cost for development and maintenance is less and has a considerable high user base


·         Offers substantial return on investments and higher revenues

·         Plenty of open source libraries available and the development tools are easy to use and integrate.

·         Unlike with strict guidelines in case of apple apps, Google Android is a very lenient system.

Besides, it’s the role played by app developers. The most successful mobile app developers understand the importance of performance, quality and robustness across the array of mobile devices that their customers use. In fact, over 17.7 million tests were run on 288 distinct Android hardware models for different versions. 

The goal for this research was to identify the most common problems and challenges that Android developer’s face. Four things an android app developer must consider:

·         Light weight apps can generate more user engagement.

·         Another factor that has an effect on engagement and app usage is UI.

·         All highly usage apps though available for free do generate revenue through ad-display. More the user’s interaction, higher the revenue counters.


Want to the app retention to continue to grow among users? The app market is flooded with personalized apps dealing developers offering solutions on the go. But picking the right one...


How Game-Based Education Can Impact Commercial Market


Driving force of education through documents may not be ready for game-based learning but then, people can accomplish with an open source game and teamwork says a recent research. Advanced educational apps can emphasis major improvements in a vast range of skills that include reading skills, vocabulary, comprehension, memory power, grammar, and cognitive skills.

The current challenge is that many commercial game developers are more focused on creating mobile apps geared toward adult consumers than designing games that have a positive impact on classroom learning. How does that impact business? Let’s read on.


Entertainment

When it comes to using educational games a common misunderstanding is that they are designed to simply entertain students. But that’s not true. In spite of the fact that game based educational technology is to provide a more effective learning experience but students to enjoy the learning process, it should becomes more entertaining.

Educational Concepts

Adequately capturing complex ideas is a challenge in education. This leads with creating a story involving a meaningful layer of education. Only professional developers with many creative ideas can make this happen; produce games that can teach students standard lessons as well as concepts that are a challenge to grasp.

Elaborating the Concepts

Many educators consider creating materials and educational games is one tool but requiring elaborating on concepts and ideas addressed within a game. It can also be used as part of a question and answer session and more so that more number of students can be invoked in the virtual world to its application in the real world.


It's of no surprise that in this technological age, educational games and the concept of game based learning is gaining more notoriety. Be it a commercial game app or learning game, the player is tasked with learning a combination of actions and responses. And, this requires creative game designers to build similar products in every discipline taking the role of education to a new height.