Mobile Application
Development

At Softeq, we help our clients create meaningful mobile applications. Should you plan to leverage the mobile technology as a go-to to enhance business process efficiency enterprise-wide, as a means of interacting with consumers, as a sales and marketing channel in your eBusiness, or as an entertainment facility, our competency in custom mobile development is instrumental in bringing together your products and buyers.

Professional Mobile Application Development…

We design and develop advanced mobile application and solutions to help our clients capitalize on the opportunities of the Mobile (R)evolution. We deliver a full cycle of a professional, elaborate development service to build intuitive, full-featured and stable apps for work, leisure, and travel.

As an embedded software development company by origin, Softeq’s knowledge of the hardware is particularly applicable to the mobile development, helping us overcome multiple obstacles caused by the mobile devices’ physical limitations.

The mobile apps designed by Softeq:

  • Do not drain the battery life,
  • Efficiently utilize CPU and memory capacity,
  • Consider screen size and resolution specifics of the multitude of purchasable smartphone and handheld devices.

Built on this rock-solid background, Softeq’s Mobile Practice offers state-of-the-art expertise to develop apps across a number of domains:

  • Mobile Games
  • Augmented Reality Apps
  • Business Applications
  • Data Collection, Exchange, and Analytics
  • Mobile clients for enterprise backend web services and databases
  • Mobile magazines and readers (incl. Apple Newsstand, Amazon Kindle)
  • Smart Home Management
  • Geolocation-based Apps
  • Media Streaming and Processing Apps
  • Schedulers and Personal Organizers
 

…across Diverse Mobile Platforms

Our mobile division is experienced in multiple mobile technologies, having developed on every major platform. The average project experience of our mobile software engineers is climbing to 5 years, and covers several tech stacks. Our teams can create unique titles from scratch or port existing apps across all of the top mobile platforms:

  • iOS
  • Android OS
  • BlackBerry OS
  • Windows Phone 7 / 8 / RT
  • Bada
  • J2ME
  • BREW

as well as multiple embedded platforms. Continue reading about our skills in development on the key mobile platforms.

Native Application Development

Native mobile apps are built for a single platform and thus most thoroughly observe its requirements and leverage the capabilities. Developing individual native apps for several platforms might need a larger investment, but they pay off by advanced UI interaction, including multi touch and fluid animation, faster performance, as well as ability to use built-in components and deliver push notification. These are critical features for rich animated apps such as mobile games.

Hybrid App Development

Hybrid apps combine the benefits of native and HTML5 apps. We build such apps typically using HTML5 and JavaScript to further wrap them inside a native container. Therefore hybrid apps have a pretty consistent look and feel, and access to native platform capabilities allows building sophisticated, powerful apps. A pro to keep in mind: only with native and hybrid apps can be distributed through app stores – the easiest way to directly reach millions of mobile end users.

 

HTML5 Application Development

Our mobile software engineers with a web development background efficiently apply their skills with standard web technologies – HTML5, CSS, JavaScript – to deliver HTML5 apps that run on multiple mobile platforms and devices. Challenges to keep in mind include session management, offline storage security, and access to native device functionality such as camera, GPS, calendar, etc. On the plus side, the development goes pretty fast thanks to the powerful frameworks such as Sencha Touch 2, jQuery Mobile, appMobi XDK.

Cross-platform Development

Unlike building HTML or hybrid apps, cross-platform mobile app development is a long and thorny route driven by the desire, or need (most typical for enterprise mobile solutions), to reach the vast majority of mobile users. Softeq’s experts successfully cope with the complexities of cross-platform development leveraging powerful tools and frameworks such as Cocos2D-X, Unity, PhoneGap, Marmalade, Corona, Flash Air, UDK, frameworks.

 

Mobile Development Specifics in the Spotlight

Challenge 1: Seamless User Experience

While the quality of regular software had been viewed from the angle of functionality and performance only for quite a long time, the quality of mobile software expands largely beyond those to the subtle, yet crucial to the application’s market success, notion of intuitiveness.

Best Practice: Managing Quality

To ensure excellent user experience, we manage both the quality of the app’s functionality and performance capabilities as well as its usability. Both aspects are verified through extensive functionality and usability testing, both hardly automated. Softeq’s dedicated Mobile QA Department accommodates a sufficient pool of mobile devices that support multiple mobile operating systems and allow scrupulous testing of smooth design and sustainable performance of apps regardless of processor speed, memory capacity, resolution, display size, dimensions and other physical parameters. At the end of the day, you get the mobile app that behaves as expected and delivers a seamless user experience.

 

Challenge 2: Device Fragmentation

There are approximately 4,000 various devices with individual screen size and resolution characteristics running Android alone, and the number will not stop growing. Should you prefer to develop a native application, is there a cost-efficient way to face this challenge?

Best Practice: Responsive Design

Softeq’s Mobile app development teams follow the responsive design approach to enable multi-device support and ensure rich, interactive user experience without unnecessary overspending on additional efforts to implement device detection and deliver multiple app versions correspondingly.

 

Challenge 3: Access to Backend Data Sources

Enterprise mobility applications are the new channel for corporate users to access their data centers and convenient workflows through a mobile device. As enterprises’ data storage and infrastructure initiatives are usually pretty high priced, the mobile apps have to reuse the existing services and solutions to provide access to the databases and applications in the backend without heavy reconfiguration or building something new.

Best Practice: Smart Connection

With years of experience in building software for the middle tier of the infrastructure, as well as low-level systems, we deliver smart connectors and adaptors, separately or as part of the enterprise mobile application development project, that help the new mobile-specific code connect to the enterprise backend services and data sources.