Wednesday, June 17, 2020

WEB DEVELOPMENT VS MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT

In the world full of softwares for almost everything, there was a new wave of apps (or applications). Although a few inventions were made in the 1990s but the concept got a wider perspective in the last 15 years.
Web was a major development and has evolved a lot in terms of innovation, technology and the easy access. Webpages and websites are built by javascript and HTML which are simpler and complex in its own way.
Web was first a simple way to convey the relevant information to the person, but now it gives information in innovative and interesting way, like pictures, videos and attachments to different pages. Earlier it used to be single page, but now websites are developed as multiple pages.

HISTORY

Web development was an invention of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web in 1989. Being the child of computer scientists he had this in him. But no one had ever imagined that it would be such a big achievement until it turned out the major source of work and one of the finest inventions in the tech industry. Web development is the process of making websites or web pages on the internet. The websites we scroll through nowdays are the complex, interactive and attracting form of persuading people. This form of advertisement helps businesses a lot. The main function of websites is to convey a specific information or detail to the learner.
As far as mobile app development is concerned, using apps is a much easier, appealing and evolved form of sending information to the targeted audience. Apps are easier to operate and more convenient to access. App development includes all the procedures which enable us to access the information which will be available to the customer on their phones (other wireless connecting devices). The R&D department of IBM firstly came up with this idea in 1993 but it became accessible roughly 20 years later.

TODAY: THE WORLD FULL OF PROSPECTS

As we all know, the major work nowdays is done through internet and the latest technology. The most powerful invention ‘microsoft’ has a new version now as google sheets, docs which are a bit more convenient than the earlier form as the information gets updated automatically, which was a drawback earlier and we all have gone through that phase where we worked the whole day and end up not saving the document and regretting it that mistake the rest of the life. Apps are the future as they are more convenient, easily accessible and just a click away.
Mobile app development itself is a big task and it generated around 529,000 direct jobs in 2013 as per an analyst report.
As per the current situation, there were around 4.5 billion installs in the first quarter of 2019. The sales of smartphones are expected to double up to around 900 million units by 2022. This creates a huge room for apps to flourish and create room for the app developers by raising the demand for their skill set.
We know web development is the concrete foundation for all the development related to internet, but for the next few decades, apps are the future for prosperity and more money.

Features of web development

It is not an easy task to build a website from scratch, it involves a long procedure, complex coding, and the creativity to present it in an effective way. A web developer has to be a game player, problem solver and a team leader too. A perfect website includes proper documentation, concrete layout, catchy graphics and the most important: relevant and correct information.

Features of app development

It seems like an easier task, but mobile app development is a hectic task. A mobile app developer has to be creative, intelligent and smart at the same time. Making an app includes a lot of challenges like creating it as per varying sizes, providing it to all platforms and then market the app to reach a wide user base.
An app developer has to make sure that the app looks catchy, trendy and new in its own way, should provide crisp information and the most important security.
Although the working, operation and target audience is different, but the premises for both the cases are quite similar. Both require analysis, strategy, development and monitoring at its best. In both the cases, regulating the process is required and monitoring in a major task.

Difference between web development and mobile app development

Each coin has two sides, let us look at both and then come to a conclusion.
App development is the latest way to build businesses and it helps reach people all over the globe. By the simplified way of presentation, offline surfing facility and a wide platform to work with, it is a very challenging and mindboggling task for a developer to regulate what the result comes out to be.
The process looks so innovative and fresh, that we neglect the sweat and tears of a developer behind it. There are challenges like drain of investment, high risk and updates being not made that hinder the amount of time and labour put in an app.
Webpages we surf all the time are always full of information, which web developers aim the most at because the websites give deep knowledge, and the upgradations are easy to make, there just need to be a single version to be run in all the platforms
It is always an extensive work to code and make a webpage or website from scratch and includes a lot of patience and overcoming the fact that it is a traditional concept and here are easier ways to get the results.
Although these two ways are quite apart from each other but there certainly is a relation between the two. The business models nowadays work on all possible ways to get the best return. The businesses usually have both websites and apps for all users to have access to the information.
The new world has made many changes and accepted all the means to make a better world. Technology is key to the future and is obviously upgrading on a daily basis. People used normal phones and now have switched to smartphones. The computers have now updated to laptops and pads. But both the ways are perfect in their own ways and give desired results and making it work is an actual accomplishment.
In order to end this difference, there are new concepts like native apps and mobile web apps that help join the dots and are linking both the worlds.

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