Mobile Monday Ahmedabad Event on 17th June by Mr. Sagar Shah of ISHI Systems

1. C o n f i d e n t i a l
USEFUL TOOLS FOR
CREATING (& NOT DEVELOPING)
MOBILE APPS.
JUNE, 2013
Sagar Shah
iPhone Developer

2. Sagar Shah, iPhone Developer
• Seasoned iPhone developer with 5 years of experience
• Knowledge of various open source tools.
• Currently developing Picksie, a social networking based iOS
app and the flagship product of Ishi Systems.
• Passionate about cutting edge technologies.

3. Mobile Development Life Cycle
Design
Coding
Storage
SyncPerformance
Marketing
Analytics

4. Introduction
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Overview
Getting familiar with 3rd party tool.
MADLC and app development challenges.
Advantages of using 3rd part tools
Q&A/Feedback.

5. MADLC Challenges
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 Design & mockups
 Coding
 Storing huge data in database online & offline
 Synchronization between client & server
 Server performance
 App performance
 Marketing & Promotion
 Analytics, feedback & reviews

6. Random & Cool Tools
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 INTERSTATE – http://interstateapp.com/
 Open Project Management
 Roadmap visible to clients
 App.io – https://app.io/
 Run iOS apps in the browser
 Upload simulator binary and convert it into an HTML5 web-app
 Snippets.me – http://snippets.me
 Don’t reinvent your code.
 Manage your small codes, functions & code-libraries
 Similar: Gists – https://gist.github.com/

7. It’s important to learn coding
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 treehouse – http://teamtreehouse.com/
 A better way to learn technology
 Learn to build websites, create iPhone & Android apps, code with
Ruby on Rails & PHP.
 code school – http://www.codeschool.com
 Learn by doing
 Learn web-technologies in the comfort of your browser
 Video lessons
 Coding challenges
 Screencasts

8. Online courses
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 coursera – https://www.coursera.org/
 Take the world’s best courses online & free
 UDACITY – https://www.udacity.com/
 Free interactive college classes
 KHANACADEMY –
https://www.khanacademy.org/
 Free online education on various topics

9. Start creating your app
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 MOBILE ROADIE – http://mobileroadie.com/
 Powering your entire mobile presence
 Develop iPhone+Android apps, iPad apps & mobile websites
 Includes analytics & marketing tools also for your app
 Price: Costly but worth if you don’t want to learn what presented in
previous slide
 appafolio – http://appafolio.com/
 Create brochures, presentations, catalogs & portfolios.
 No coding required!
 Interactive folios for iPad, iPhone, Android & Kindle Fire
 Includes analytics
 Free account can be created

10. Start creating your app
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 AppMakr – http://www.appmakr.com/
 Very useful if you are developing only iOS app.
 Push notification, Videos, Images, Advertisement
 Free account also includes a lot of features.
 Bizness Apps – http://www.biznessapps.com/
 The fast & easiest way for SMEs to make Mobile Apps
 Bars, Realtors, Lawyers, Restaurants, Bands, Sports, Religion, Non
profits
 Directions, Reservations, Call, Ordering, Music Player, Loyalty
Card, Photo Gallery & everything else needs.

11. Start creating game
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 GameSalad – http://gamesalad.com/creator
 Game creator engine.
 Create games fast with no coding
 No javascript, html, css knowledge
 Test your games on Apple devices
 Publish your games to iOS, Android and HTML5
 Basic edition is completely free

12. Analyze your app
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 mixpanel – https://mixpanel.com
 Actions speak louder than page-views
 Getting answer of your questions about the app data.
 Identify the funnels where you’re losing your users.
 Identify user retention
 Understand your users
 Push Notifications.

13. Analyze your app…Contd
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 Placed – http://www.placed.com/
 Location based analytics
 70 million locations a day, across 70000 opted-in US smartphones.
 Quantifies the physical world by mapping the relationship between
people and places
 Informed view of offline customer behavior
 Android, iOS, HTML5

14. Design & Mockups
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 justinmind - http://www.justinmind.com/
 Build by drag-n-drop
 Bring it to life – rich interactions
 Collaborate – Share & Test
 Mobile apps – iPhone/iPad, Android, Windows & Blackberry
 Web apps – Web widgets, Facebook widgets, Charts, YUI library
 Sketching – Sketching widgets, Sketching shapes
 Desktop apps – Windows & Mac OS X

15. Design & Mockups
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 proto.io - http://proto.io/
 Gestures, touch events, screen transitions & animations
 Components for iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Smart
TV
 Test prototype directly on your mobile device
 HTML5 fonts, Web-based
 Free limited account available.
 uISTenCILS - http://www.uistencils.com/
 Stencils like we use for drawing.
 Web, iOS, Android, Windows
 Stencils, Sketch Pads, etc.

16. Monetization
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 xAd - http://www.xad.com/
 Location@scale, Target Nationally, talk locally.
 SmartLocation – Gathers most accurate location signals.
 SmartFencing – location targeting technique based on user-search
behavior
 SmartCreative – Relevant & dynamic ads
 SkyRocket - http://www.skyrocketapp.com/
 Mediation – Ads, offers, partners, ad network
 Cross Promotion – Promote your own products & track installs of
your other apps. Ads for IAP.
 Segmentation – Choose different experiences for diferent users.

17. Make your app bug free
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 CRITTERCISM - https://www.crittercism.com/
 Error reporting - Crash Reporting, Handled Exceptions,
Breadcrumb, Metadata, Alerts, Crash trends
 Android, iOS, Windows Phone 8, HTML5, Unity, Android NDK
 uTest - http://www.apphance.com/
 OTA – distribute binary via uTest to your testers
 Crash Reporting – Find which line of the code crashed
 In-App bug reporting – Testers can report bug from right inside the
app.
 In-app user feedback – Get feedback from users from the app.

18. Promote your app
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 buzzdoes -
http://www.buzzdoes.com/portal/index.aspx
 Make your app viral
 Turn your app users into your app distributors
 Gain many new loyal users in seconds
 Monetization & distribution in a single add-on
 Boost app Downloads
 No pop ads in your app

19. Enhance your app
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 ZOOZ - http://www.zooz.com/
 One-tap checkout – Enable users to pay with one tap.
 Payment Insights – analytics & merchant-specific recommendations
 Fraud Prevention – Smart fraud detection.
 Checkout via Credit Cards, PayPal, Qiwi wallet, Bank transfer using
Dwolla
 iOS, Android, HTML5 support.
 Titanium, Phonegap & Basic4Android support

20. Enhance your app
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 Cenzic Mobile -
http://www.cenzic.com/products/mobile/index.h
tml
 Managed Service that Identifies Vulnerabilities in Mobile Apps
 Non-Intrusive Vulnerability Tests – coding & logic of app
 Invasive Fault-Injection Tests – Web-service testing
 App server environment testing for file management & system-level
vulnerabilities.
 Session analysis & rights management vulnerabilities, analysis for
any potential logical flaws
 Continuous Application Testing – Cenzic Hailstorm platform which
takes virtual snapshot of the apps and for Development  QA 
Production

21. Enhance your app
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 PubNub - http://www.pubnub.com/
 Build real-time apps quickly and scale them globally
 Core Building Blocks for Secure Real-Time – delivers Unicast &
Broadcast Data Streaming, Presence, Storage, Mobile Offline Push
Notifications
 Real-Time on a Redundant, Global Network – 11 data centers
across the world
 Supports iOS, Android, JavaScript, Python, Ruby on Rails, C# &
50+ other SDKs which means every popular
mobile, browser, desktop & server environment is supported.
 Dropped Connection Catch-up, Mobile Battery Optimized, AES
Encryption, Real-time analytics, Storage/Playback Services

22. Enhance your app
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 cocoa CONTROLS -
https://www.cocoacontrols.com/
 Custom UI Controls for iOS & Mac OS X
 Browse & Search for open-source or paid controls.
 Submit a new control.
 Showcase your apps with open-source controls
 CocoaPods controls

23. QUESTIONS?
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Thank You!
Happy Development!!!
For any other queries and question please send
an email on
Sagar.shah@ishisystems.com

24. References
 The iPhone app developer’s blog:
 Mobile Orchard - http://mobileorchard.com/
 stackoverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/ -
network of free, community-driven Q&A sites