Friday, November 16, 2012

What Skills You Should Have To Gain Success In Mobile Application Development

By Sylvia Dave


If you want to make headway and make a success of your attempts in application development for mobile platforms, there are two skills that you should have. These skills are so basic and so important that not having them would impact your mobile application development goals greatly. Whether you want to have a job in the business or you want to make it your business, make sure you have these skills.

Object-oriented programming skills are the first of the two types of essential skills that anyone who wants to make it big in application development for mobile platforms should have. Coding of many of the mobile applications that are being developed these days is done in the language known as Java. As far as object-oriented programming languages go, Java is one of the most popular ones. You cannot expect to internalize Java and its intricacies unless you have managed to get a full handle and understanding of object oriented programming. There are cases, however, where people make use of Java in order to gain knowledge about object oriented programming and fully understand it.

But this is actually an extremely steep learning curve. And when all is said and done, they still have to master object-oriented programming concepts, to create mobile applications. Java is not the only programming language that is being currently used by developers in creating mobile applications. Nevertheless, they are still similar to Java in the fact that the person who is developing the applications for mobile platforms should have object oriented programming skills in order to succeed.

In addition, anyone engaged in application development for mobile platforms should also possess more than substantial graphic design skills. An attractive front-end interface is also important for mobile applications. Do not think that coding is the end-all and be-all. You must have more than passable skills in graphic design in order to accomplish that. You don't have to be extremely talented in graphic design; knowing the basics would suffice. You may have the necessary object oriented programming skills; but if you are bereft of even the most basic skills in graphic design, then you'd have a close-to-impossible chance of developing a successful mobile application.

One could say that the foundations of successful mobile application development would rely greatly on good object oriented programming and graphic design skills. Developers of mobile applications would also tell you that there are other skills other than these two basic and essential skills that would help out greatly in the process of developing applications for mobile platforms. Marketing skills, for instances, are highly important when it comes time for you to start selling the mobile applications you have developed. Prior to developing the app, you would also want to have an idea what app to develop that would definitely sell. In order to do this, you must have skills in gathering market data and information to base your decisions on. True, these skills are not technical or not even the core skills required in mobile application development. The graphic design of the application's interfaces, as well as the coding or programming language used, are those that make up the core technical skills developers need. And that is why we said that the basic essential skills you must have, in order to succeed in developing applications for mobile platforms are object oriented programming skills and graphic design skills.




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