The two main platforms for developing mobile applications are iOS and Android. They control 99% of the market. Both have their advantages, but there are certain reasons why launching a business application first on iOS may be more profitable than on Android – this is the isolation of the Apple ecosystem and the ability of iPhone owners to pay. The first reason bodes well for fewer surprises in development. The second is profit.
Things to Consider When Building iOS Apps
- Uniformity of iPhone models
The app must be adaptable to different screen sizes and still look flawless. It is unpleasant for the user to interact with an application in which one element “floats” over another, the text is cut off, and the images take up almost the entire screen space.
From the article about the peculiarities of Android development, we know that the larger the number of devices in the operating system, the more difficult it is to test applications. Apple doesn’t have this problem because the devices are similar.
The same design of devices reduces the load during testing: to check the functionality of an application, testers need several models with different screen sizes.
- New versions of the operating system and support
New versions of the iOS operating system are released once a year. Each update brings trends, useful technologies and productivity gains. People are eager to update their operating systems and expect new functionality in applications. But this does not happen “automatically”. Mobile applications need to be adapted for new versions. It helps:
a) avoid conflicts between the system and the application, because some functions may stop working;
b) meet user expectations.
Every June at the WWDC developer conference Apple announces new versions of operating systems. Developers must take into account the changes and adapt the application for them, which is why the stage of supporting a mobile application is so important, at which innovations take place.
With the release of the new iOS, Apple stops releasing updates to outdated phone models. To continue supporting well-known applications with a large audience, some of which still use old iPhones, developers need to write additional code for the applications to work correctly on earlier versions of iOS. For more “chamber” applications, it is enough to support work on two or three latest versions.
- Compatibility with iPads
It is necessary to initially decide whether it is planned to open your application on different platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS). If so, there are a lot of things to consider when developing and designing, for example, the layout of the application interface on a 960 × 640 pixel screen, not just the iPhone.
Without a separate study of screens for other devices, the application on them will not open correctly: it is possible that the elements will overlap each other, and the text will not wrap correctly.