What is Mobile App Development?

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Software development is one of the fastest growing industries in the world right now. However, when most people think of software development, they probably are thinking of someone making software for computers. Mobile app development is a very similar process, but just focuses on creating positive experiences for users with smaller screens.

What is Mobile App Development?

Mobile app development is simply the creation of software (apps) for mobile devices. There are many methods for creating these apps and a number of programming languages used to create them.

Native Mobile Apps

Native mobile apps are created in a programming language that is “native” to the platform the app will work on. For example, a native app for iOS is either written in Objective-C or Swift, as these are the native languages for iOS apps. Native apps are hosted in your device’s app store and are installed directly on your device.

Native apps are generally more expensive to create, because each platform requires its own codebase to be written and maintained separately. There are a number of benefits to using native apps over cross-platform apps, though.

Native apps allow for total control of the app itself and give more access to the device’s built-in…