Developing Mobile apps using salesforce

How Salesforce Helps in Making Mobile Apps

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Why do Businesses need Mobile App?

➔ iPhone total sales - 209 Million / Apps Downloaded - 30 Billion➔ Android total sales - 375 Million / Apps Downloaded - 15 Billion➔ Average number of apps used by a user - 41 (28% Increase over last year

2011)


➔ Users accessing the Internet through PCs will shrink from 240 million consumers to 225 million - US

➔ Mobile users will increase from 174 million to 265 million - US


➔ PR Tool – a brilliant way to contact with the media and let them know about yourself.

➔ Reach a specialized market➔ Improve branding and advertising – create a stunning app and advertise

your brand to world at a low cost.➔ Be at the forefront of innovation ➔ Revenues➔ Expectation ➔ Compete with the big guns ➔ Competition ➔ Get more customers, followers, fans ➔ Additional form of contact, interaction and show-off

Challenge?The challenge today is to quickly develop the mobile apps businesses demand so that the connectivity with the customers, employees, partners, and products is faster and this requires a mobile strategy that keeps up with them. In a single word the concept of "Social Enterprise" is on the rise and today all the organizations are looking for apps for their various departments.

How Salesforce HelpsDevelopers:➔ An API-first cloud platform, which means all of your apps

connect to your business data➔ An extensible mobile app with UI frameworks, allowing you

to build faster than ever➔ Support for all the latest HTML5 and JavaScript mobile

frameworks, like Angular, Backbone, and more➔ A mobile SDK to build custom native iOS and Android apps ➔ Instant deployment, real-time distribution ➔ More productivity tools to go even fast

How Salesforce HelpsBusiness➔ Create an app with just clicks ➔ Bring a business idea to life with an app—and have it be

social and mobile—instantly➔ Build contextually aware, smart, action-oriented apps➔ Deliver data and insights to every employee ➔ Add new users and control user access with just a few clicks

How Salesforce HelpsBy providing Salesforce Platform Mobile Services which focuses to be a more open, more productive platform that give developers the tools and features they need to get the job done quickly and effectively while developing an App. It supports three development approaches for building mobile apps: Native, HTML5, and Hybrid.

Pros and Cons of The three approaches

Simplify the Design Process - Salesforce

Mobile Design Templates:➔ Salesforce offers more than 20 open source CSS and HTML

templates. ➔ pre-designed frameworks are easy to use, ➔ it can be quickly connected to any relevant Salesforce

customer data via the developer’s Mobile Pack of choice


DesignTemplates


Mobile Application Gallery:➔ Mobile app gallery features 20-plus complete applications. ➔ Sample to provide the developers a jumping off point for

their mobile app development process.➔ Just grab the code directly from Github and then customize it

to make your own app.


Mobile Application Gallery:


Mobile Packs:➔ Salesforce has now doubled the number of Mobile Packs.➔ it focuses on leading JavaScript frameworks, such as JQuery

Mobile and Backbone.js, ➔ the new mobile packs target developers with existing skills

and communities and includes drag and drop with Appery.io, ➔ it also has enterprise mobile components with Sencha Touch,

and .Net developers with Xamarin.


MobilePacks


SmartSync Data Framework:Salesforce’s new SmartSync Data Framework, part of the Mobile SDK 2.0 release:➔ it manages offline data. ➔ it has a lightweight JavaScript framework ➔ it syncs the needed information once connectivity is restored, ➔ it is always up to date.


SmartSyncData Framework

What makes Salesforce - Different

➔ drag-and-drop tools➔ auto-generated user interfaces➔ pre-built components➔ pre-designed templates➔ point and click development➔ social collaboration➔ drag and drop analytics➔ multi language development➔ user access➔ cloud database

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