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Reasons to Choose Android for on-demand App Development

Sysbunny — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 05:16:48 +0000

Introduction

In recent years, the world is experiencing a drastic change in the use of smartphones. Technological advancement has influenced and increased the use of this device over time. Nobody would have imagined that this device would affect these many activities performed by human beings and organizations on a daily basis. Mobile phones have become a constant device that now offer various applications in order to cater to different needs of the people.

Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store launch new apps everyday making lives easier and providing new opportunities for businesses. Android App Development Service Providers need to ensure that the app is the best version of it so that it is appreciated by the end users.

Mobile apps not only cater to the traditional industries but also raised a few new domains that have contributed majorly to boost the world’s economy. One of such industries is on-demand services.

"According to Statista, as of June 2017,the total numbers of Android app downloaded from Google Play Store were 190 billion."

Are you excited to know more about on-demand app development? This blog post helps you explore on-demand apps and its expansion. Additionally, it enables you with pros of preferring Android platform for your next on-demand application.

What are the On-demand Apps?
On demand applications permit users to get instants and fast access to certain services which offer by the company or individual. On demand App helps businesses to meet the right potential clients as well as customers and also get best product or services.

On-demand apps connect the end users with the service provider. Basically, they play the role of mediators. Earlier, we used to call a service provider and wait until the concerned person responded to the call. Since on-demand applications were launched in the market, this process has become simpler. Users can book the service/order using an on-demand app and get service provider’s response (in real-time) & deliver orders/service at the customers’ doorstep.

The concept of on-demand helps users to achieve their requests quickly, and service providers to enhance their business by tenfold that is even with least investment.

Rise of On-demand Economy
Uber can be considered as the inventor of this concept. It was the first company who understood the essence of on-demand services in the end users’ lives and fill the gaps by offering on-demand ride-hailing services. Airbnb is the successor who has successfully adopted and implemented on-demand concept.

It was the beginning of on-demand economy. Today, there are hundreds of on-demand mobile apps available on Android and iOS platforms for varied categories. Now everything starts with groceries, taxi, food, medicines, logistics, courier, home care services, babysitting, and many more services are easily accessible to the users through different on-demand applications.

If we consider demographic and geographic presence, then the coverage of Android app across the globe is higher than iOS. The Android platform is definitely picking up pace and performing better as compared to iOS.

Key Reasons that Make Android Prime Choice for On-demand App Development

As the on-demand industry is developing jumps and bob, an ever increasing number of new companies are anticipating put resources into on-demand application advancement for their special business thoughts and empower end clients with the following degree of solace and comfort. In any case, the greater part of them are not ready to execute their vanguard business ideas because of spending issues.

They are attempting to characterize from Android and iOS which stage they ought to consider first for on-demand application advancement. Because of the restricted spending plan, they can’t seek after to fabricate applications for the two stages. They need to choose the one that enables them to assemble an in fact hearty application by contributing less time and endeavours. Obviously, it must quicken the income stream.

Is it accurate to say that you are experiencing a similar problem? Here are the reasons why.

Huge Market Share
The portable application showcase has two market pioneers Android and iOS. Clearly, they are solid opponents of one another as well. At the point when you analyze both the stages, unmistakably Android holds a bigger piece of the pie than iOS. Various statistical data points have demonstrated that Android administers the mobile application market and there are no solid contenders of it.

Extensive Customization
On-demand applications are focusing on end clients whose prerequisites are ceaselessly advancing. To address clients regularly changing needs and contemporary market slants effectively, it is imperative to continue refreshing the application by presenting progressed and custom usefulness.

With regards to customization, Android is far superior to iOS. The stage offers the following degree of adaptability to Android engineers to refresh the application on an ordinary interim so as to live up to clients’ desires. Simple change in on-demand application builds the application maintenance apportion as well.

Permissive Google Play Store Policies
Google is progressively permissive on Android application engineers regarding rules for application distributing and dismissal. The application survey time at the Play Store is very quicker as designers don’t have to follow any stringent terms and conditions. In addition, Google sets aside lesser effort for application endorsement contrasted with Apple.

On the off chance that you are a start-up or another endeavour and building up an on-demand application just because, at that point you have to pay just 25$ enrolment charge before making it live on Play Store. While Apple charges $99 enrolment expense to dispatch an application on the App Store.

Voice Assistance/Google Assistance
With Android application improvement, you can get the help of Google Assistance, a propelled voice-based computerized help. It empowers clients with access to a few information focuses that make Google’s voice help more viable than Apple’s Siri. The information gets encoded when Android clients give the order. Along these lines, application clients can without much of a stretch locate a specific thing.

Information Storage
Another explanation behind picking Android stages is, it gives 15GB free stockpiling limit and broadened office of cross-stage. Also, you can store and deal with the information on Google Drive. Google likewise possesses a cloud stage that makes clients’ life simpler by enabling them to get to the information rapidly.

On-demand applications contain a lot of client information. To deal with the information successfully and safely, they need a major stockpiling house. It additionally enables your deals to group in income age by empowering them with client information.

Access to Advanced Features
On-demand portable applications are having a couple of must have highlights, for example, GPS, Google Map, Push Notifications, and the sky is the limit from there. Organizations can connect and draw in focused clients. With regards to cutting edge includes, the Android stage has an edge over iOS.

Utilizing inbuilt Google Map, clients can follow the precise area of the item progressively. With ambassador highlight, Android-dependent on request applications likewise improve correspondence among organization and clients.

Conclusion
On-demand mobile applications are increasing colossal notoriety as time passes as the new and extraordinary business ideas develop to improve the clients’ life. Expectation the post has given you enough motivation to consider Android Operating System for your on-demand portable applications.

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Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality – Difference and is this going to the Reality of our Future?

Sysbunny — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:55:45 +0000

The market is flooded with these terms and the way it is getting used all over on a day-to-day basis and is ruling the world. Technology is the new tool to solve our problems in the human world.

“Ready to feel mars or try a new makeup look? VR and AR industry is rising with these realistic changes. Being one the popular and most loved technology is enlarging giving us a “universal experience”. We are glad about that. Have you read our new blog post on this? (Insert blog link) It’s absolutely bang-on.”

Augmented Reality -

The technology which we are talking about is already in use, ever wondered what makes you a cute dog on Snapchat filter? Gives you Geo filters and cultural information on your phone at just a touch? Guys, Its Augmented Reality which we see. This makes our reality altered and enhanced but after a lot of hard work; allowing people to add digital world in their physical environment.

Those Snapchat/Instagram filters? Yeah, that’s Augmented Reality. Pokémon go? Totally Augmented Reality. Oculus Rift? Hey, no that’s Virtual Reality and we will get to that later.

AR has evolved at a rapid pace getting used in lots of other purposes of commercial need and individual needs. The rising investments in AR market and increasing demands from retail, healthcare and entertainment sectors are the main drivers here.

Google has made its own Google Glass – wearable AR device that gets you digital information by just nodding your head. Snapchat also added Geofilter after few months that adds graphic locations to our pictures. With introducing Lenses – 187 million people used Snapchat daily according to 2017 report. AR doesn’t end there, it is a popular technology that multiple social networks, businesses, and retailers use this tech. There’s a lot more out there.

Your experience with AR get better every day, all you need is cameras that can read images like iPhone X’s TrueDepth camera, the depth information gets you realistic experience.

Some great examples of AR are:

Lenskart 3D- Lenskart which deals with eyewear and lenses has launched its 3D face trial which you use after it reads your face on the screen. (Augmented Reality again) The app then lets you try the frames you select accordingly. Trying 1000s of eyewear styles in seconds. #tryitlikekatrina

https://www.lenskart.com/compare-looks

L’Oreal Makeup App- To all the makeup beauties out there wanting to try the makeup but sure how it would end up? Well, L’Oreal Makeup App take stand in giving out various makeup looks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5OnjiDa71s

IKEA App- The furniture brand which launched AR to give buyers an idea of how a shelf or table would look at a certain place. This helps for people who trying to work out with small spaces, or match the colour combination of the room to their motifs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UudV1VdFtuQ

Did you know? NASA used an augmented reality dashboard for navigation of X-38. Astronaut, Scott Kelly, used this dashboard to report back to mission control from space.

Virtual Reality –

You will probably go to mars, swim with dolphins, or at the top of Mt. Everest. Virtual Reality will help you on the next universe because of the computing that has been created to give you Goosebumps. However, Virtual Reality is a technology where you can move around, look everywhere and in every direction to make you feel as if you were psychically present there.

It is computer technology to create a stimulated environment, placing the user inside the experience to a whole new world. It stimulates senses of the users, like hearing, vision, touch or sometimes even smell. Isn’t that cool? This could be artificial or any real photographed place to give you an out-of-the-world experience.

According to VR statistics 2019, VR markets was valued at $5.1 billion in 2017. Other than games and entertainment VR industry is taking part in health care field like to treat depression, anxiety, autism, and even nicotine addiction. That’s too much of awesomeness for the VR industry! Spending on location-based VR is expected to account for an additional $700 million. The total spending on VR apps and location-based VR is expected to rise from $2.54 billion in 2019 to $3.77 billion in 2021.

As of the end of 2018, the three bestselling Virtual Reality headsets were Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR), Facebook’s Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and the HTC Vive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXxm45aAx_Y

Virtual Reality has many types and many uses for both entertainment and serious uses. This technology is becoming very cheap, widespread and common. We can also expect to watch out for many innovative and interesting uses of this in the near future. Thanks to Virtual Reality.

Conclusion –

VR and AR accomplish two different things in two very different ways. We believe that these are two very powerful industries that are yet to make a huge remark with consumers. We also think that new developer programs in these industries can take place and there’s no telling how popular this technology could be.

How Can You Leverage the Advantages of Animation In UI Design?

Sysbunny — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 09:30:17 +0000

Humans have different kinds of senses, and visual sense is the most used and powerful sense among all. Since the digital world thrives highly on the visual sense,visual content consumption impacts all interactions on the digital world taking place through digital user interfaces (UIs) including the web and mobile device UIs.

Texts & Graphics in UI Design:
Fora UI designer, texts are a kind of content, which remains mostly informative, or instructional, and functional in some ways. Graphics UI elements serve navigational and functional purposes inmost cases while in some cases remain as layout components.

Images in UI Design:
Images are powerful enhancements of texts in one sense while decorative elements to grab the attention of users visually in another sense. Images could be informative and functional, as well as conceptual in addition. Images provide an opportunity to the graphics and UI designer, in particular, to translate the imagination of human beings to a visual landscape that others can see, feel, and grasp the idea behind it.

Animations in UI Design:
If you have a long story or big concept, or a function involves several steps, you have to create more than one image with a transit flow to realize on the digital landscape. In such cases, designers take the route of animation to depict those transits and create a live presentation.

Type of Animations
Based on the discussion above, we can outline two major types of animations, such as:

Functional Animation as a part of the functionalityin the UI design.
Conceptual Animation conveys a definitive idea before converting it into reality.

1 -Functional Animation

As its name suggests, it eases the functions of the applications denoted in the animation and improves the comprehensibility.Thus, it cuts the cognitive load a lot. It brings life into UI and helps in achieving certain goals, such as intuitive, responsive, and human-centered UI. Well-crafted animations are capable of meeting multiple functions, such as:

Giving Visual Feedback upon User Actions

Buttons are interactive UI elements. We can animate buttons with subtle animation to establish it responsive upon a press/push.

Here,animation triggers only when a user takes action like pushing a button by a click or tap. Thus, animation simulates a button or control like UI elements tangible using visual and motion cues to bridge the gap.

Giving Visibility of System Status

During interactions with the system, users always remain curious about the actions they have taken in the digital system. For example, data uploading or downloading actions. Such actions are time-consuming,and without passing the required time, users never see desired results at all.

Therefore,progress indicating bar animation helps designers to keep the users waiting in meaningful ways. Progress indicator bar displays the results like failure or success and also shows how many processes took place and what remains now. Of course, everything should be in nice and graceful ways.

Smoothing Status Changes

Screen flow is not always smooth. It often involves sudden or abrupt changes in the state of UIs during transitions. It creates distractions in user experiences (UX) and can confuse users to proceed further. To avoid all, designers should take soft these moments by adding some animations into the UI.

Animation can establish connections between altogether different states of UIs by simply acting as intermediaries between two opposite ends.

Ina music player app, when a user pushes the play button, a loading process takes place and screen changes from stop to play state. To give a perfect understanding of screen state changes, an isolated animation indicating the loading process introduced by the UI designer. Animation serves dual purposes, one to establish a connection between two screen states,and second to let users wait for the loading process.

Helping in Onboarding & Giving Visual Hints

Designers, sometimes, are experimental and try to introduce new features, interactions, or functionality in the UI design by going beyond conventions or design trends prevailing in the market. Though it is a good thing, capable of distracting user experiences.

To save from it, designers often take helpof some visual tips or hints and onboarding process using animation as a visualtool. User onboarding animations with flawless UX can leave tremendous impactson first-time users and capable ofengaging them with a unique or innovative UI design concept.

Visual tips also help repeating users to reveal progressive disclosure, mechanics, and supporting a new level of experiences.

2 -Conceptual Animation

It follows the principle of concept art in motion design. It conveys an idea before its actualization takes place. In UI design, conceptual animation meets in a variety of concepts for interactions, transitions, manipulation using controls, and marking the feedback from the system. Some animations are a good example of successful conceptual animations, such as

Scrolling a List of Items

Here,animation displays the scrolling movement of a list of items in two variants.

The first variant mechanically moves the list of all items up while the second one simulates a little hold back of cards by a time delay and gaps between the cards. Therefore, the second variant looks alive and exhibits more air in the UI.

Transition– List to Item

In the real world, a user clicks or tap on an item in the list. The reaction comes like the opening of the screen of that particular item.

UI designer has simulated that concept in animation. The first variant shows a basic way of transit while the second one adds some dynamics in the display by additional movements of elements at the top.

Opening Off-canvas Menu

Side menu or drawer menu is common in the modern mobile user interface designs. Conceptual animation designer has translated opening of it into two variants.

The first variant is simple while the second one is dynamic using a gradual flow of UI components simulating real-life phenomena.

Rules & Principles of Successful Animation in UI Designs

Some best practices by following rules and principles of animation can yield successful animation for your UI design projects. Let’s check some significant ones at a glance.

1 – Duration and speed of animation should slow so users can take notice of the changes in the states. Of course, it should not cause waiting.

2 – Collision or bouncing effect distracts the attention of users, so exclude it from your animation for UI designs.

3 – Most of the modern mobile devices are unable to support simulation of motion blur effects of the objects in the animation.So, it is better to avoid it in your UI design.

4 – UI designer should follow equal interaction rule. It means all UI object should follow one particular rule of appearance. For instance, one flow in one direction like top to bottom in the example below.

5 – UI designer should follow the law of subordinate interaction where a central object grabs the attention of users and rests of UI object follow it.

6 – In Material Design, if you want to make object transformation movement more natural, it should move along an arc-shaped path instead of a straight line. In other words, the object should transform its size dis proportionally.

7 –The direction of arc for the transformation/movement of an object should coincide with the main direction axis of scrolling in the UI. So,in following image object goes the first to the right and then downward.

8 – If intersection occurs in the path of the moving objects, it distracts the UX. So, leave enough space for the movement whether by accelerating or slowing down the speed of some objects in UI design.

Conclusion:

We know the added advantages of animationsin the UI design for digital devices. Wealso come to know the different types of animations prevailing in the modern UIdesigns. There are certain rules for animation design, and by following it, we can achieve desired success in UI designs.

Now, the question is, who can help you to decide which animation type the best option for your UI design project is? How carefully implement rules of animation in your UI designs? If you strive for accurate answers and look for the right UI design team, SysBunny is an excellent place to get going in cost-effective ways. It has an impeccable team of UI designers to justify any scale of complexities in your user interface design project, be it for the web, mobiles, or even wearable, satisfactory results are a guarantee.