Monday, November 19, 2012

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

By Mario Callingan


There are some two types of basic essential skills you must have, in order to succeed in application development for mobile platforms. Whether you are developing the applications with the intention of selling them directly through your own 'holding's company, or you are seeking a conventional mobile applications development job, these are two types of skills you must have.

The first type of basic essential skills you must have, in order to succeed in application development for mobile platforms is that of the so-called object-oriented programming skills. It may not have escaped your notice how most of the applications for mobile platforms nowadays make use of the language known as Java. Java is essentially one of the many existing object oriented languages. A full grasp of object oriented programming is required so you can fully internalize the Java language and start coding. But it is not unheard of to find people who gain familiarity of object oriented programming by getting acquainted with Java first.

But this is actually an extremely steep learning curve. At the end of the day, there is still a need to master object oriented programming concepts in order to succeed in developing mobile applications. Java is not the only programming language that is being currently used by developers in creating mobile applications. But these other languages still fall under the category of object oriented programming languages and thus would require this type of programming skill to be possessed by the developer himself.

If you want to succeed in mobile application development, it is important that you have skills in graphic design. An attractive front-end interface is also important for mobile applications. Do not think that coding is the end-all and be-all. For you to do this, you need to have good graphic design skills. It is not required that you be a graphic design artist. Having some knowledge about the subject would be more than enough. If you just have the coding skills in an object oriented programming language, but you don't have graphic design skills, you won't have the ability to come up with complete mobile apps.

The foundations of application development could be linked tightly to object oriented programming skills and graphic design skills. Having both would mean you'd have greater chances of successfully developing mobile applications. Aside from these two, there are other, more advanced skills that would benefit the entire mobile application development process. Marketing skills, for instances, are highly important when it comes time for you to start selling the mobile applications you have developed. One may also need market intelligence gathering skills, so as to figure out what the market needs, in terms of mobile applications, and go ahead to develop applications that are aligned with the market needs. Granted, these are not considered as core technical skills that developers deem important when it comes to mobile application development. In mobile application development, you can readily identify the core technical skills as those involved directly in the actual development of the apps. These include coding, programming and design of the interface. If you want to develop applications for mobile platforms - and be a success at it - you must make sure you have the object oriented programming skills and graphic design skills.




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