February 2016 - Web and Mobile App Development | Custom Application Development Company

6 Reasons You Need A Mobile App For Your Business

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Jay

The explosion of ‘smartphone’ usage provides businesses with unique opportunities and a well-designed Mobile App can make your sales, marketing and communication far more effective while extending your businesses into the hands of millions of consumers.

The below statistics flaunts the ever increasing presence of Mobile apps sales . These digital tools are no longer an additional ‘bonus’ feature — they’re exceedingly essential to the ongoing success of your business.

We have shaped an infographic below to showcase major takeaways of a Sales Biz-App. Let’s take a look.

At Andolasoft, we develop and deploy outstanding iOS and Android Apps to provide a solution that cost you next to nothing for your business, by eliminating all other advertising media and providing you solution on your finger tips

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Cool New Features of Android Marshmallow 6.0

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Jay

Google’s newly launched Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 is more of a refinement and extension of the core features and functionality of Android Lollipop. There are some very cool features users can look forward to while trying out the new software. (Courtesy: Androidpit)

So what’s new in Marshmallow? Let’s find out.

Settings shortcuts

Settings icons have another layer of visual representation. Now, the standard cog widget shape contains an icon depicting what that particular shortcut goes to, as shown in the screenshot below.

Lock screen

The Marshmallow lock screen is almost identical to Lollipop’s, complete with expandable notifications and app shortcuts. Marshmallow replaces the dialer shortcut with one to Google’s voice search.

Google’s voice search in new colour code

Google’s voice search has a completely new look too. Four colored dots float, become a waveform and then rotate as your voice request is picked up and processed. You can also launch apps from the lock screen using your voice.

Google’s voice assist is the default voice solution for all apps in Marshmallow.

Home screen

The same voice command functionality appears on the home screen via Google’s dedicated search bar, complete with the colourful, post-Alphabet Google logo. The home screen is the same as it was in Lollipop.

App drawer

In the app drawer the vertical scrolling list is changed to the paginated horizontal list that Lollipop had. You can scroll through the list or use a new scrubber bar on the right to jump to a particular letter of the alphabet. An endless vertical list means it’s easy to swipe right to the end of your app list.

The app drawer scrolls vertically with a scrubber bar for rapid scrolling.

Tap power button twice to launch camera

Double tap the power button to launch the camera. This was a feature that Google debuted earlier this year with the Nexus 5x and Nexus 6P but this is the first time it’s come to older phones.

There’s no word yet on whether this feature will be included in non-Nexus Android phones that get Android 6.0.1 but it’s definitely something to look out for.

Tablet UI

Android 6.0.1 changes the navigation keys, pushing the back and home keys to the far left corner of the screen, and the multitasking key to the far right – right near where your thumbs are likely to be.

Do not disturb

Android 6.0.1 brings back the ability to mute all your notifications until your next scheduled alarm goes off which was taken out in the 6.0 version.

All the new emoji

With the release of Android 6.0.1, Android has caught up in the realm of support for emoji and it has added support for more Unicode 8.0 emoji that Apple added with the release of iOS 9.1.

Get ready for Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow

The Verdict

Marshmallow makes Android easier to use than ever before. Marshmallow makes more sense than Lollipop and improves on its predecessor in terms of performance, battery life and feature set.

What are your thoughts on Android Marshmallow? What features are you still waiting on? Tell us what you think!

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Top Apps That Every Business Owners Should Know About

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Jay

For start-ups or small business owners handling multiple projects, managing various customer expectations, keeping track of time spent by resources has been hard time until the array of business apps available in today’s market.

To help you to increase the productivity, to get best out of your workforce, to have happy customers in the end – apps for business owners is the need of the hour.

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To help you choose from long list of apps, we’ve narrowed down these 7 top apps; Here you go!

(Courtesy: nerdwallet.com)

Intercom.io

It’s a great tool that makes it easy for teams to see where users might need help and to send them timely messages, and simplifies interacting with every one of the customers.

Trippeo

Smart, Simple Travel & Expense Management App – Trippeo is an intuitive travel and expense tracking app that lets you get back to business. Bring sense to expenses, and the customers appreciate it.

Nuzzel

The best way to keep up with what’s happening in the world, and when traveling this is especially important. Nuzzel is an attractive, easy-to-use app that scans through user’s own personal Twitter and Facebook streams to find what’s interesting.

Fuze

If you’re looking for a new video conferencing app, consider Fuze. It hosts online meetings for all devices and operating systems. This app offers high definition video and crisp audio and is easy to set up. You can receive a 30-day free trial before purchasing Fuze for your small business.

Pushover

Pushover will organize all your messages from all your devices in one common space. The app lets you send 7,500 messages each month, a good option for the well-connected small-business owner. It works for Android, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and all desktops.

Orangescrum

Orangescrum is an awesome Project/Task Management tool with objective to collaborate the project stakeholders wherever they are in the globe.

For any project size small/big, Orangescrum can help you manage more efficiently and effortlessly. Long gone are the days where using Inbox to manage projects and resources. Having all your tasks assigned to resources allows you to stay organized ensuring project completion in-time; Having projects, teams, documents & tasks at one place is not only saves time but is fun to deal with. Orangescrum is also available as open source.

Mailchimp

If you’re looking to send better email, Mailchimp is a must. With this tool, you can build and customize email templates, build a list of subscribers, send out campaigns and view reports of how your emails perform. It’s free to send up to 12,000 emails per month if you have up to 2,000 subscribers.

Things are always good if you have an ace up your sleeve. These take-away apps make your life easy and hassle-free.

I was very impressed with the ease of use of its interface and all its features to manage projects. It is a platform that can be customized to our needs. A very important fact for those who manage.

Clotilde Jolimaitre Rodriguez, Digital Project Manager,

France

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Top 20 Hot Mobile App Trends – Part II of II

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Jay

2015 was the first year that mobile traffic exceeded than that of desktop users and this trend is expected to surge moving forward this year. Mobile Apps are becoming reflections of our lifestyles as well as to the corporate realm.

Let’s take a quick look at the statistics below to get a inside view of the above (Courtesy: go-globe.com);

73% of people always have their mobile device with them (October 2015 Facebook research)
Estimated worldwide mobile app revenues by 2016 – 58 Billions
42% of all mobile sales generated by the leading 500 merchants came from mobile apps
4.8 billion People globally will use mobile phones in 2016 (Forrester Research)

To tap into the 30 billion US mobile moments per day, Integrate your mobile and desktop marketing plans to respond to your audience on their terms, not yours.

Our expert Andolasoft team follow agile methodology to deliver smart solutions for your business that standout in the market.

From eCommerce to native mobile apps, we have done it all. Check out our iOS Mobile Applications and Services. Appreciate if you can share your thoughts. Thanks for your time.

Top 20 Hot Mobile App Trends in 2016 – Part I of II

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Jay

With 2015 coming to an end, we cannot deny that mobile apps are now very much part of our lives than ever before. Let’s take a quick look at the statistics below (courtesy: business2community post)

In a study by Smart Insights earlier this year, it was found that in the United States, mobile digital media time is now much higher (51%) than desktop digital time (42%).
Practically two-thirds (64%) of Americans now own a smartphone [Pew Internet Project].
Of those in the United States with smartphones, 46% say they can’t live without their smartphone [Pew Research Centre].

Thus the mobile app is eating into the web app share and are found to be a preferred way of engaging and interacting with consumers in today’s market

Andolasoft extends human approach and easy–way to build an app to give you unique mobile experience for your business.

Our expert Andolasoft team follow agile methodology to deliver smart solutions for your business that standout in the market.

From E-commerce to native mobile apps, we have done it all. Check out our iOS Mobile Applications and Services.

Andolasoft titled as the best Mobile App Development Company by Mashable.