Mobile Development Frameworks

Mike Bobbitthttp://WaveMobile.ca

Every day more iPhones are sold

than babies are born.

Why go mobile?

Mobile is positioned like late 90’s web

Why now?

Skills are rare, non-transferrable

Need a proven track record

Mobile dev is hard

Dev systems, licensing, certificates

$6.5-$10k for a typical appMobile dev is expensive

Trustworthy? Experienced?

App approval process

Mobile dev is for experts

Overhead is daunting

Not cost effective for 1-5 apps

Build once

What if the heavy lifting was already done?

Can we create a library of tools?

Deploy repeatedly

Product: reuse, reuse, reuseOverheard: reduce, reduce, reduce

Templates & Frameworks

Wildly different apps

all have the same parent

Diversity without complexity

“standardized”: TRUE,

“parsing”: “easy”,

JSON driven config

Layout, colour, size, actions, graphics

all defined via config.Rapid

Customization

Small/med businesses, boutiques

Dev shops/resellers

Target Market

Push Notifications

Any view, any price

Controlled through config

In App Purchases

Not everything fits a template

Build and connect custom views

Custom Views

Understand customer’s primary need

Provide a mobile solution

Consultative Approach

Cross platform, self updates

Developer licensing, more viewsImprovements yet to come…

$1000 – App development and deployment

$500 / year – Push notification console

Pricing

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