Why are clients turning to Titanium App Development ?

This article is a brief introduction to Appcelerator Titanium app development for creating high-quality cross-platform mobile apps.

Why Cross-Platform Mobile Development ?

In today's world, mobile usage has become ubiquitous and there is rapid proliferation of mobile platforms, such as Android, iOS, Windows, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS, Bada, etc. If you are a mobile app provider, your target audience is spread across all these mobile platforms. If you choose to create your apps as "native" apps targeting a specific platform, you risk being confined to the subset of your target audience who are on that particular mobile platform only. Targeting users across platforms creating native apps for each in turn is not only time consuming but also extremely expensive and can be a maintenance nightmare.

Titanium App Development

Cross-platform app development options such as Titanium app development are a great way to simplify the mobile app development process by enabling app creators to code a mobile app once and deploy it to multiple popular mobile platforms like iPhone, Android, Windows, etc. There are a number of cross-platform mobile development frameworks available today – for example Appcelerator Titanium, PhoneGap, Rhomobile, etc. Though they have the same goal (cross-platform compatibility), they differ in the manner in which they accomplish that goal. Titanium development, for example, is one of the top choices and using it you can create full-featured iOS, Android, mobile web (and soon BlackBerry) apps with truly native widgets and with access to native hardware features & APIs.

Titanium Benefits

The following are some of the advantages of Titanium development:

• Go cross-platform: Titanium enables you to build cross-platform mobile (iOS, Android, and mobile web) apps from a single code base.
• Go to market faster: Titanium apps are a lot easier and faster (up to 70%) to create than developing in Objective-C or Java.
• Create full-featured apps: Titanium apps use truly native widgets and have access to native hardware features & APIs.
• Leverage the Cloud: Create engaging user experiences with cloud services (e.g. push notifications and check-ins).
• Leverage the ecosystem: Titanium has a thriving ecosystem with a community of 350,000 Titanium developers, lots of service providers, and training providers.
• Open Standards: Titanium's use of open standards maximizes your flexibility and avoids vendor lock-in issues.
• According to Appcelerator, it is also "the first mobile platform to combine the flexibility of open source development technologies with the power of cloud services."

Mindfire Titanium App Development Services

Mindfire Solutions provide expert Titanium Development Services along with development services for other popular cross-platform app development frameworks. The certified team of Titanium experts at Mindfire possesses a strong track record of developing engaging Titanium apps for global clients across diverse industries. Mindfire’s Titanium developers have cutting-edge Titanium app development experience, having made deep use of Titanium in successfully delivering high-quality apps.

If you want to do cool Titanium App Development help, get in touch with Mindfire today – call +1 248-686-1424 or email sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com – to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of Mindfire’s Titanium App Developer to bring your cool mobile app ideas to life.

Porting iPhone apps – Speed and Efficiency Both Matter

To put to rest all speculations that ran rampant, Apple indeed launched iPhone 5 with screens having 18% more digital space than any of its previous models. This will straightaway mean that the current 700k apps will run in letterbox mode i.e there will be black bars providing padding on sides in landscape mode and on top and bottom in portrait mode – similar to the way iPhone apps run on iPad. To make matter worse is the short time available for iPhone 5 to hit the market which is about 2 weeks. In the case of iPad, developers had some time in hand to make adjustments to their existing apps. But this time they are all hard pressed for time. Hence, there is bound to be a lot of immediate demand for work in Porting iPhone apps to suit the new screen configuration. This is where Mindfire Solutions, based on years of experience in iPhone/iPad development/porting work, provides flexible partnering options for companies and individuals to meet their immediate requirements. We have been the preferred iPhone/iPad offshore development partner for many of our customers for years now. Our strength lies in our technical skillset and our domain expertise in customized iPhone App Development.

The need for the rush for porting iPhone apps could be driven by the fact that not too long back, the apps that were not Retina after the launch of iPhone 4 started almost seeing an immediate downward spiral in popularity and demand. This had a tremendous impact on the revenue for those who were not quick to make the required adjustments. To avoid going through a similar experience app owners will push themselves to make the changes fast. According to Apple, a new default image will need to be added most apps will run will need to updated to take advantage of the screen . However, apps which have a complex structure/layout might need a lot of rework to be done. Given the lack of time available, Mindfire Solutions, backed by the technical depth and experience of its experts, can prove to be the ideal partner for a situation like this which calls a quick response time and nimbleness in engagement models.

Mindfire Solutions is the ultimate destination to hire services for dedicated iPhone/iPad app development work. our iOS Application Development team which has an average experience of 4+ years and has successfully executed 50+ iOS projects till date . In addition to this our customers also get the benefit of flexible hours of working at affordable cost. Mindfire solutions’ iPad development India team’s technical expertise can be used for custom iPhone/iPad development, mobile web, porting and migration, testing and games development. To get our new clients to understand and experience the quality of our delivery, we have the provision for a 100 hours risk free trial*.

Our engagement models are quite flexible. You can either hire a full time dedicated team of iPhone/iPad developers based out of India or augment your development team but having an extended team with us.

To know more about our expertise in iPhone Apps Development and to outsource your Mobile Application Development requirements, please contact us at sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Integrating CodeIgniter and WordPress for better functionalities

The question is how integrating CodeIgniter and WordPress for better functionalities help in achieving the desired effect. The answer is as discussed below.

CodeIgniter is one of the most preferred PHP frameworks owing to the fact that it brings versatility to the table. It is a framework that has been developed primarily for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create fully functional web applications. CodeIgniter is the framework of choice if you want a framework with a smaller footprint and exceptional performance at the same time. Added benefits of using CodeIgniter are seen in almost zero configuration requirements, freedom from restrictive coding rules, availability of clear and thorough documentation and a large and active user base. One of the favorite frameworks of PHP developers, CodeIgniter is built in the true spirit of an Open Source technology. Applications built on the CodeIgniter framework can be integrated into various content management systems; such as Wordpress, Joomla and Expression Engine. While Expression Engine which is built with Codeigniter, is the best fit, there are definitely a number of ways to integrate WordPress with CodeIgniter. WordPress being one of the most popular blogging tools in the world is used by most bloggers in a company. The need to integrate CodeIgniter and WordPress arises when customers want to incorporate a blog into their corporate websites which has been originally built on the CodeIgniter framework.

The initial problem which many companies face when they are using both Wordpress as well as CodeIgniter is when they want to incorporate CodeIgniter functionality into their Wordpress theme files. This becomes evident especially in case when the header and footer which is included in CodeIgniter view files also needs to be included in the WordPress themes. And more often than not it because a more trying task to have both WordPress and CodeIgniter work in tandem and at the same time avoid repetitions in the code.

There is no doubt that there are several ways to address this problem, but before that one must ensure to hire the services of the right software development partner. In case you need to hire PHP developers or hire Offshore CodeIgniter development services or you are looking for WordPress development experts then Mindfire Solutions would be the right choice for a Software Development partner. With more than 5 years of WordPress and CodeIgniter development experience our expert developers have already met the needs of our clients who wanted to integrate CodeIgniter and WordPress to get better functionalities and improved features for aptly meeting their business needs. Hire our CodeIgniter development services and rest assured for exceptional service delivery.

If you are looking to integrate CodeIgniter and WordPress to increase your social presence by making your blogs appear on your company’s website then hire the services of Mindfire Solutions, one of the most trusted software services in PHP development. The Mindfire guarantee is also extended through the 15 days risk free trial offer which enables you to experience the higher quality of software services offered by Mindfire Solutions.

To know more about our expertise in wordpress development India and Hire wordpress developers India, please contact us at sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Needs on MS Dynamics CRM development, where should one go ?

All business houses, be it small or mid-large or large organization, these days everyone wants to implements Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions. Today, Microsoft Dynamics CRM is very popular across all industries like, Marketing, Renewable Energy, Printing, Manufacturing, Cleaning and Maintenance, Insurance and Financial Services IT Industry, Accounting and Banking Services, Education, Retail etc. Microsoft Dynamics CRM is very popular across the globe and widely use in country like South Africa, New Zealand, Singapore, Australia, Denmark, USA etc. But India is the best place where one can get a reliable Microsoft Dynamics CRM development partner.

In recent study says after Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 gets full release many business tycoon are upgrading their Microsoft Dynamics CRM version 4 to Dynamics CRM 2011. An organization who is a global player in the market of Sales and Marketing since '90s has implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 controlling his business from USA. He has aimed to upgrade his system from Dynamics CRM 4 to CRM 2011 which will help his managers and executives to understand business better and work on it. His main objective was to automate a marketing campaign by using CRM 2011. He had selected Dynamics CRM 2011 On-line to help manage and track Marketing campaigns as well as assist Sales people to track qualified Leads through the sales process. He had discussed with many software vendors and only to find out that, no one was sure about his Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 requirements. Another challenge he has here is to connect his PHP server (a non .Net technology) to the Microsoft CRM 2011 system. Despite of all murky facts Mindfire Solutions Microsoft Dynamics CRM team India, took this challenging task to their account and the best part is they delivered it to the client within the deadline. They come up with an idea to update the triggered actions in the MS Dynamics CRM server with the PHP script (a non-.Net open-source language) which will be running in the proxy server (Linux box). That PHP script is capability to be consumed by making AJAX calls from the JSP pages which were in different domains/web servers. This idea clicked and he is able to meet his needs.

Mindfire Solutions, 12 year’s old software development and testing company has extensive experience and expertise in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Development for more than 6 years and counted as leading company in Dynamics CRM application services in India. Several of its expertise are Microsoft and dynamics CRM 4.0 certified. Mindfire Solutions CRM team has deep knowledge on CRM 4.0, CRM 2011 and Online CRM. The CRM team has executed many offshore projects on Dynamics CRM 4 and CRM 2011 successfully across domain and of different complexity. The range of services provided by Mindfire Solutions on Dynamics CRM 4 and Dynamics CRM 2011 development services are Customization service on Dynamics CRM, Dynamics CRM Custom work flow development, Dynamics CRM Plugin development and integration, Third-Party integration in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Custom SSRS Report Development on Dynamics CRM, Remote Support to maintain Dynamics application. The other service Mindfire solutions provides are Microsoft Dynamics CRM Consulting, MS CRM Installation and Role-based security definitions, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Implementation, Configuration and upgrades and Microsoft Dynamics CRM maintenance.

To hire Mindfire Solutions expert Microsoft Dynamics CRM development/developers India or CRM Software Development India call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com. We will be glad to help you.

QTP Testing – Where should you go when you need this urgently ?

First of all let us analyze what would happen if your software application is not regression tested when you fixed a minor change… Things can be smooth and run in your live production server and things can go wrong…Disastrously wrong because of one wrong fix at the wrong place which can mean total outage of your system from the live interconnected web world. But the costs of regression testing manually do not seem to justify itself. Hence it’s a catch 22 problem – You want to take up insurance but you don’t want to actually fall sick. So in this case, you would want to still do all the detailed regression testing for your application but you would like to reduce the costs to a minimum. The answer is QTP (Quick test pro). Quick test pro automated testing provides you with that flexibility of reduced costs and agility in your application. QTP has its own ‘record and play’ mechanism which runs your quick and minor development and run it every day without taking much time to assure you that everything are fine in your application and it will run without any error in your live server. If you have such situation in your day to day development work or your application break every alternative day when you fix few minor bugs then you would test once the Quick Test Pro (QTP) tool once and you can feel lots of difference in you development and testing cycle.

When we say about QTP, one of the most powerful automated regression testing tools in the market, we should be take the licenses cost in to the account. Although the cost of testing in terms of time, man power effort is low as compare to the manual testing but the license cost is bit high because of its sophisticated and high reliable features. If you want to try this QTP testing and don’t want to purchase high cost QTP license then you can get it in share basics. The best offshore location to have this type of automated regression testing of your application is QTP Testing India Mindfire team.

To address this concern Mindfire Solutions a leading offshore QTP Testing India hub, offers automated regression testing service on QTP Automation Testing in a very innovative way, In case you don’t have a QTP License in hand or your budget does not allow you to buy QTP license, we do have a special offer for you.

• You can use our license for your application to tested.
• Mindfire has QTP experts who will generate the QTP test scripts for your application every day or in the required interval of time and daily testing reports will be sent to you regularly, on your demand.
• For your future use, we can send you the test scripts. If you purchase QTP license at any future date, you can use those in future.
  
  

To know more about our expertise in QTP Testers India or to know more about our Offshore Software Testing or outsource a Software testing company, please contact us at sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Custom iOS development for Mobile Marketing

With the change in the media consumption habits and patterns of consumers behavior which seems inclined towards making buying decisions on mobile devices, there is also a paradigm shift in terms of higher dependence happening in the use of Mobile marketing channels by digital marketing companies in order to increase the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns. Besides Mobile Website and Mobile application , the mobile marketing channel offers many more options as a channel to digital marketing companies e.g Mobile Commerce, Mobile coupons , Location based services marketing, QR codes to name a few . Mindfire solutions has deep expertise in having helped its Digital marketing clients execute the various options available successfully by developing custom made iPhone / iPad solutions to meet their needs.

One of our clients had conceived of a unique and interesting way to handle the branding of some of its customers through Mobile Marketing. They wanted us to custom develop an iPhone / iPad game app to meet the purpose which we successfully did . The was later ported to Android as well. It was based on recognizing logos of its clients and answering questions related to them. Game has a set of logos used worldwide and set of question related to each logo. The Game is divided into 2 rounds. In the first round shows randomly selected logos from the database are displayed on the screen. There are hints , equal in number as the number of logos , which are displayed on the screen one after the other . The player is required to identify correct logo for each hint. In second round of the game makes it more engaging. For the matches done correctly by the players questions related to the logos are put up. Points are given to user for each correct answer and overall score is displayed on screen. The core idea behind all this is nothing but branding .Through the process of getting the customer to first identify the logos and later gain various information about the company, this game is actually sharing information about the companies the logos belonged to . The game does enough in terms of sharing relevant information related to the logos i.e company which a player identified correctly and which the company wants to share. For the logos not identified correctly also, the game triggers a curiosity in the minds of the players to search for more information about the logo and hence the company.

Mindfire Solutions is the ultimate destination to hire services for dedicated iPhone App Development work. Our iOS Application Development team has an average experience of 4+ years and has successfully executed 50+ iOS projects till date .In addition to this you will also get the benefit of flexible hours of working at affordable cost. Mindfire Windows iOS development India team’s technical expertise can be used for your various Mobile Marketing Campaigns like Mobile Social Networking, Location Based Services ,Mobile Payment ,Mobile Commerce ,Mobile Email ,Apps and Games ,Mobile Search and Mobile Web. To get our new clients to understand and experience the quality of our delivery, we have the provision for a 100 hours risk free trial*.

Our engagement models are quite flexible. You can either hire a full time dedicated team of iPhone/iPad developers based out of India or augment your development team but having an extended team with us.

To know more about our expertise in iPhone Apps Development and to outsource your Mobile Application Development requirements, please contact us at sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.