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The massive corporation hopes to intensify its engagement within the continent.

Intel Corporation has recently revealed its intentions to enhance its African engagement by making strategic investments in local startup businesses in order to help to promote software and mobile app development within the region.

The growth of the internet economy in this continent has been considerable and is handing the company an opportunity.

According to the vice president and general manager, EMEA at Intel, Christian Morales, the primary reason behind Intel’s choice to plant its feet more deeply in the local mobile app development is the growth that the online economy is seeing there. He explained that the company is making highly strategic investments of its capital into startup businesses that have been growing their experience over the last three or four years and that now require a “world-wide footprint”.

Investments into these mobile app development businesses will be of a minority nature.

The goal is to allow the startups to have the capital that they require to expand, without actually taking them over. According to Morales, Intel is making this move because “we see the potential in local applications and software in Kenya and other countries in Africa.” This announcement was made alongside the company’s unveiling of its two new microprocessors.

Those new microprocessors are a quad-core mobile Atom and a duo-core 64 it Atom. They have been launched with the promise to help to boost the experience for mobile users in terms of performance, speed, and energy consumption. Intel has placed high hopes in this tech in order to give it the power it needs for a more significant share of the mobile market space. The company, said Morales, was encouraged in this arena by the success of its Yolo smartphone, which was released in Nairobi in 2013.

Beyond its intention to invest in African startups, Intel has also shown interest in working with local mobile app development companies through its Developer Zone Program. That program provides local software and application developers with free support and tools by way of training to create their apps based on Intel’s own architecture.

Mobile apps development presents encouraging market outreach opportunities to companies

Many services became millionaires overnight via developing highly addictive mobile apps games. Companies can benefit immensely by providing a unique user experience to its target audience. Besides, the data analytics advantage of apps usage data is crucial in developing effective business policies.

There are several considerations in selecting a suitable service for the purpose. Overall, you need to verify the creative expertise of the coders to develop an engaging user experience. Mobiles are essentially highly personal gadgets. The app must be able to connect personally with the target demographic.

The choice of platform

The platform conflict between iOS, Windows, and Android is the primary critical issue in choosing a mobile development agency. Since iOS and Android are fiercely competitive, it is difficult to develop cross platform apps. For many webmasters, the choice of app platform is automaticalIy the same one he/she is comfortable using. If you still require an app to perform on both leading mobile operating systems, look up an advanced programming service. Check the following aspects:

• Highly automated form-dependent development
• The drag-n-drop programming protocol
• Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) with WYSIWYG
• Usage of automated code translators

You may choose your app platform irrespective of your personal usage preference. Essentially, you need to research the mobile usage pattern of your target audience. Discuss with the developers on whether they can employ advanced analytic parameters at identifying definitive target outreach traits. If your audience is more available over Android than on iOS, the choice of the platform is obvious. The company should be able to assist you on researching the mobile usage stats. However, in whichever platform you select, the experienced developers should be able to deliver an engaging user experience.

Ensuring optimum performance features

You have to ensure the maximum performance capacity of the apps. The choice of the mobile development platform is crucial. The mobile development service must be able to guarantee the following aspects.

• Effective server end management of back-end data
• Capabilities of network identification
• Secure on-device storage arrangements
• Extensive mobile friendly coding (confirm the experience of the coder in the preferred platform)
• Strong testing and analytics features
• Neat data-transfer protocols

Innovative with the latest trends

Digital coding is essentially an open discipline. Programmers have been working with different coding approaches in delivering optimized user experience. The key target of developing a mobile app is to create a neat one with minimum coding. The loading time and fluency of activity are two essential foundations in determining apps popularity. Usage of neat codes is essential to have light applications. Find whether the service frequently engages in brainstorming sessions to upgrade the approaches. The company must be in touch with the latest developments in the field. There are virtually millions of apps. You must be able to present an intriguing user experience via the creative coding approach.   

Confirm security concerns

The recent spate of revelations in the NSA surveillance systems indicate that the Government spying agency looks into the apps even to collect and archive user data. This proves the vulnerability of the apps from external hacking attacks. You need to confirm whether the service is in track with the latest developments in the field. Verify the authentication framework of the mobile development service. Call up the company in discussing your concerns. Check the various aspects of ensuring digital security.

Look up the parameters of on-device encryption, secured client/server communication, administrative control access, and offline authentication. Ensuring the security parameters is essential in relating with the confidence of your target demographic. In specialized business apps, the confidentiality aspect is of utmost importance.

Author Bio: Gabriel Stevens is a veteran Android apps developer at http://bigdropinc.com/. He is one of the brains behind a top performance fantasy games app. He keeps track of the latest traits in mobile development technology. Stevens currently works as the lead coder in a major Brooklyn service.