Big data- it’s big, trending and the future of how world interprets and analyze. It is changing the way of how world uses raw data to transform into meaningful business information. Learn what big data has to offer along with standards and paradigms.
Monday, January 9, 2017
Monday, January 2, 2017
How to Choose ideal Payment Gateway For Your Business
With startup balloon inflating at a high pace, businesses look to expand their reach by launching websites or mobile apps for showcasing their collection. Some look to conquer the digital arena by taking their brand from offline retail shop to modern digital store while some techies focus on building a marketplace for such business owners.
Whatever may be the case, each party looks to go online
expanding business opportunities, growth prospects, an increase in revenue,
wider reach and more happy customers. Building an e-commerce store isn’t an
issue anymore. There are web and mobile app development companies who take care of
the same from your project’s tender to maturity stage.
Launching an e-commerce store implies you’ll need a payment
gateway for online transactions, which needs to be secure, easy to use,
trustworthy and technically smart. People are apprehensive about the security
of their personal details being leaked while performing an online transaction,
which is right on their part.
There are numerous options available in the market but which
one fits the bill? It isn’t as easy as stone skipping. Online stores need to
try hard in order to find a perfect payment gateway provider. An in-depth
research is required to find the best suit for your business needs.
There are large corporations which have ruled the market for
more than 10 years while on other side of the court there lies a bunch of
newbies who are innovative in their approach, technically sound and do things a
different manner. So, the question is where to put your money on?
Before we move ahead in search of an ideal payment gateway,
let’s first understand what does exactly a payment gateway means and how does
it work?
Understanding payment
gateway and its operations
For those who already know what a payment gateway is and why
we require it, no need to ponder here and you can quickly move ahead to the
following section, which takes you through the points to consider while
choosing a payment gateway. Rest pay attention.
A payment gateway can be defined as a medium through which
transactions are being processed between an online store and consumer. It
enables a connection between the two allowing a secure and a direct transaction
from consumer’s bank to service provider’s bank account.
How it actually
works?
A connection is established by payment gateway between
consumer’s bank and service provider’s website, which dictates the further
terms that a transaction can be made or not. Following are the tasks performed
by the gateway in real time to access if your credit/debit card is entitled to
do an online transaction or not.
- Fetches customer’s credit/debit card details
- Seeks verification from the issuing bank (Accepted or declined)
- Passes verification status to the customer visiting the website
- If verification is positive and customer made a payment, then gateway accepts the payment from issuing bank and transfers to the acquiring bank
- In the fund transfer process, gateways charge their cut and process the remaining from issuing bank to acquiring bank.
How to figure out which gateway fits the bill?
Here are certain points you need to consider before you seal
the deal.
1. Integrated or
hosted
There are basically two types of gateways- integrated and
hosted. As the name suggests, integrated, it will be integrated into your store
and visitor won’t be redirected to another platform for payment procedure.
Unlike, in the case of hosted gateways where a website visitor is redirected to
another platform for completing payment formalities.
Selecting a hosted gateway pops up several doubts related to
its popularity, reliability and trustability. People would be reluctant in
entering their account details on a platform which isn’t popular or seems
unreliable to them, therefore impacting your conversion rates. Directing a
customer off your website is always a risky affair.
Instead, integrating a gateway into your website is a
smooth, seamless experience for you as well as your customers. If they make a
purchase on your website, it means they trust you and they won’t give a second
thought before sharing their account details on your website.
Both gateways have their pros and cons, it is advised to
analyze the same before taking a final call.
2. Supports your
business model
It is crucial to ensure at the start if your future payment
gateway provider supports your business model. Go through their websites in the
quest for finding a list of businesses they feel comfortable working with. It
will save you a lot of time. There are providers, which don’t support
businesses like dating, gambling, gaming, trade etc. while others might be up
for an association. Also, check if they offer additional protection schemes as
well like fraud detection, chargeback management etc.
3. Customer support
It is one of the important aspects if you run an online
business. Your web visitors expect you to be available all the time for any
query, doubt related to product’s size, color, availability or material.
Similarly, you might also require support if in any rare case something goes
wrong. Make sure gateway provider provides around-the-clock support.
4. Targeted
audience (Local or Global)
Analyze what your targeted audience is? Do you want to reach
global audience too? Do you ship internationally? There are local and global
payment providers. Former can take care of all the transactions done via local
banks, cards etc. while the latter comes with a plenty of new possibilities and
support like multiple global cards support, multi-currency support, currency
exchange settlements, alternative payments and much more.
5. Fees charged
There is a certain amount charged by providers in return for
setting up the gateway and real-time transactions. This can vary from provider
to provider, hence it is advised to research good before picking one. They
generally charge on a percentage basis with every successful transaction done.
However, don’t get too excited by providers with low fees.
They might entice clients with low pricing but can trouble in future due to
lack of technology or expertise. Focus on the real cost of the system,
considering technology involved, expertise and bank collaborations. You can
definitely negotiate rates, but squeeze the lemon to a certain limit.
6. Security comes
first
Security is crucial, not only for you as a business owner
but also for your customers who’ll be sharing their personal details on your
website. Hence, it is important to ensure that your gateway provider has
everything covered and sorted around the same. Ensure maximum protection is
achieved every time an online transaction is made on your website.
Thursday, August 11, 2016
On-Demand App Development Solutions
Need an On-Demand Service Application? Here is why you should consider Konstant Infosolutions as your one stop solutions for developing most prominent on-demand app.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Reliable Enterprise Mobility Solutions for Complex Business Processes
Konstant Infosolutions stands as one of the top enterprise app development companies across the world. We have a varied team of technology experts providing highly interactive and secured enterprise applications for our clientele.
Do you need one? Before moving ahead, we recommend you to check our wide portfolio for our developed enterprise applications.
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Emerging Trends of Transforming and Modernizing Mobile Enterprise - [PPT]
Check out the emerging trends of enterprise mobility in the PPT including challenges, benefits and options to deploy it into an organizations.
Monday, June 27, 2016
Steps to Building a Successful App - [Infographic]
An infographic with a perfect process flow of how to develop a successful app for business.
Courtesy of: Konstantinfo
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
The Rise of Mobile-First Users - [Micrographic]
Check out the facts about the people adopting mobile first concept in Micrographic
Courtesy of: Konstantinfo
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Understanding the Xamarin Mobile Platform - [PPT]
Monday, June 6, 2016
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Top Five Most Invested-in Mobility Solutions in the Past 12-18 Months - [Micrographic]
Check out the Micrographic on top five most invested-in mobility solutions by enterprises.
Courtesy of: Konstantinfo
Friday, May 20, 2016
Why Apps are New Trend in Enterprises? - [Infographic]
Enterprise apps are creating a new and a flawless working environment in small to large Enterprises. We have done thorough research and dig out some interesting facts about the mobile app in enterprises. Check out the infographic on enterprise apps.
Courtesy of: Konstantinfo
Courtesy of: Konstantinfo
Friday, May 13, 2016
Most Popular iOS App Categories in US as of March 2016 - [Micrographic]
Micrographic shows the marketing reach of the leading iOS app categories in US as of March 2016.
Courtesy of: Konstantinfo
Courtesy of: Konstantinfo
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Xamarin - Cross Platform App Development Tools in 2016 - [Infographic]
Top Reasons explaining why Xamarin is the best solution for cross-platform development
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Courtesy of: Konstantinfo
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Micrographic: Leading Android App Categories in US as on March 2016
Courtesy of: Konstantinfo
Stats showing the market reach of popular categories of Android Apps used in United States as on March 2016. Shared2You found that, communication android apps are most widely used among US users.
Stats showing the market reach of popular categories of Android Apps used in United States as on March 2016. Shared2You found that, communication android apps are most widely used among US users.
Sunday, May 1, 2016
How mobile enterprise apps helps to increase productivity
Courtesy of: Konstantinfo
Both Small and large enterprises are adapting the trend of developing enterprise apps for their business processes to reduce the complexity. Let’s take a look into how these apps give benefits to complex business process and increase the productivity.'
Both Small and large enterprises are adapting the trend of developing enterprise apps for their business processes to reduce the complexity. Let’s take a look into how these apps give benefits to complex business process and increase the productivity.'
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Best Android Backend as a Service (BaaS)
Best Android Backend as a Service (BaaS) from Konstant Infosolutions Pvt Ltd.
Here is a roundup of most popular Backend as a service (BaaS), which can be useful in developing Android apps and mobile games. By definition, BaaS is a cloud computing service that enables mobile app developers to connect their applications to a cloud storage at the back end. It allows them to store, access and manage data through cloud, including user management, push notifications, integration with social networking channels.
Here is a roundup of most popular Backend as a service (BaaS), which can be useful in developing Android apps and mobile games. By definition, BaaS is a cloud computing service that enables mobile app developers to connect their applications to a cloud storage at the back end. It allows them to store, access and manage data through cloud, including user management, push notifications, integration with social networking channels.
Friday, April 22, 2016
Why Konstant Infosolutions is a Step Ahead?
With a customer-centric approach, Konstant Infosolutions has successfully offered web and mobile app development services for over 13 years in the IT industry. We have delivered more than 3,500 projects to more than 2,550 HAPPY CLIENTS across the globe. Konstantinfo pioneers in service quality, user-engagement, maintaining project security and on-time product delivery. We provide cost-effective solutions with NO HIDDEN COST.
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Thursday, April 14, 2016
Boost Your Business With Mobile First Strategy
Looking for business expansion and profitability? Create a Mobile-First strategy for your business. Come with us, and get a perfect mobile friendly website and mobile application best suited to your business as well as your customers. Let us help you to achieve new heights.
Global Mobile Commerce Growth [Infographic]
Courtesy of: Konstantinfo
Consumers don't think about online or offline, they are just thinking about shopping and they become more reliant on m-commerce nowadays, these facts proving this, check it out.
Consumers don't think about online or offline, they are just thinking about shopping and they become more reliant on m-commerce nowadays, these facts proving this, check it out.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Front-End vs. Back-End Web Development: All You Need to Know
Go through the comparison points of Front-end and Back-end web development. Yes, they may be two different shores of web development, but that doesn’t mean they are opposing each other. It just makes easier for developers to work separately on their own modules of front through back.
Source: http://goo.gl/JCWNYk
Monday, April 4, 2016
Connecting your Brand with Your Customer? Develop a Website
Ready with a new online business idea but looking for expertise? Connect with us for phenomenal and trustworthy web development services at konstantinfo. We will help you improve your brand identity.
Contact us for creating a professional and interactive website for your brand.
Saturday, April 2, 2016
Build User Engaging Mobile Apps
Build an attractive and engaging mobile app for users, so that the users are addicted to your app. Today, people are dependent on their smartphones to do their daily activities. People like an app, which is fast, accurate, friendly and easy to use with a single tap. Before developing an app think like a user and collect all those things in a mobile app which actually engage a user.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
The Great Mobile Gaming Explosion
Have idea for mobile app, but don't know how to develop? Meet the Android game development professionals at konstant Infosolutions to convert your idea into the reality.
Monday, March 28, 2016
How to Deliver High-Performance Mobile Apps Faster?
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
How To Choose The Right Backend as a Service?
Choosing the right Backend as a Service provider is not difficult now. We have covered some important decisions to make for selecting a BaaS for a successful mobile app according to your personal preferences.
Monday, March 21, 2016
New is Always Better: Android N
Even though the name of Android N has not yet revealed, but Google surprised us with the Developer Preview version of Android N. This Beta version comes with a few user-facing features from multi-window mode to improved notifications, especially for developers for app testing and its feedback.
Source: http://goo.gl/mLN8qU
Friday, March 18, 2016
Best PHP Frameworks in 2016
Courtesy of: Konstantinfo
An infographic with facts and figures of best PHP frameworks till date, as per Google Trends. Although, Laravel win the game and stand at the top of the list. Speed up your web-based services through standard PHP frameworks.
An infographic with facts and figures of best PHP frameworks till date, as per Google Trends. Although, Laravel win the game and stand at the top of the list. Speed up your web-based services through standard PHP frameworks.
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Which CMS is better for e-commerce? Magento or Woocommerce
Can WooCommerce outplay Magento? How to choose the best platform for your eCommerce website? Do you know the difference between the two? A detailed comparison between Magento and WooCommerce will help you make the best choice for your website.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Major Mistakes With Your Ecommerce Site
The root of any eCommerce business should be strong enough to build a successful company and here, the source is marked as “Website” of online trading. Avoiding the mistakes, the eCommerce site should design with high security, easy navigation, bug-free, mobile-friendly, SEO optimized, etc. to convert your visitors into shoppers.
To Learn More: http://goo.gl/dR3Cq7
Monday, March 14, 2016
Web Development Company v/s Freelance Web Developer: what should you consider?
Using either a web development company or a freelance web developer for your online business has its advantages and disadvantages. Nevertheless, an experienced development agency works with proper planning and uses most recent technology for developing a seamless, scalable website.
Source: whatech.com
Convert Your Idea into Reality. Build an App for Your Business!
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Friday, March 11, 2016
Reasons Why Industries Running towards Mobile over Desktop?
Are Mobiles are more environment-friendly than desktop, does it engage more people than desktop? Check it out reasons why industries running towards mobile over desktop?..Click Here
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Top Android App Development Frameworks
Courtesy of: Konstantinfo
In this infographic, we have provided top Android app development frameworks, which are used to build amazing apps on Android platform. The main benefit of the using a framework is to increase the productivity while reducing efforts and time for an app builder.
In this infographic, we have provided top Android app development frameworks, which are used to build amazing apps on Android platform. The main benefit of the using a framework is to increase the productivity while reducing efforts and time for an app builder.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
10 Most Popular PHP Frameworks for Modern Web Development
10 Most Popular PHP Frameworks for Modern Web Development from Konstant Infosolutions Pvt Ltd.
Konstantinfo shares the key features of top 10 PHP tools and frameworks for developing professional and high-performance websites and web apps, conforming to modern trends and standards. To get the world-class website for your business, hire us for best php website development services.
Konstantinfo shares the key features of top 10 PHP tools and frameworks for developing professional and high-performance websites and web apps, conforming to modern trends and standards. To get the world-class website for your business, hire us for best php website development services.
Friday, March 4, 2016
Building IoT Applications for IoT Devices: Things You Must Know
Develop powerful and engaging mobile apps to connect with IoT devices and twice your chances of getting identified by customers globally. Building IoT applications, must read the following blog.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Latest Statistics on Worldwide Mobile App Usage
Go Mobile Now and Get ahead in the Business. The numbers show the rising usage of mobile phones and apps in every day activities of more than 80% people across the globe. Stay up-to-date with latest statistics on worldwide Mobile App downloads. By 2020, worldwide mobile app revenues will reach 100 Billion dollars - Mobile Apps will take the center stage.
Drive your business with mobile app, contact Konstant Infosolutions, is a reputed mobile application development company. Our developers provide comprehensive mobile application solutions for iOS, Android and Cross-Platform.
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Choose Konstantinfo for Exceptional Web Development Solutions
Launch a high-quality, reliable, professional and business-oriented website with Konstantinfo - A one-stop solutions for web development. We care to develop your business by offering best-in-class services including Website Development, Website Design, eCommerce web solutions and much more.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
If you think that mobile apps are solely for big name brands like Amazon and Uber etc., you are wrong. Moreover, even small and midsize businesses are also following the mobile trend and understanding the most effective strategy.
Discover it! Does your business really need an app? If YES, then develop a mobile app which is right for your business and deliver the right type of value. Before going for an app, build up a perfect strategy to achieve future business goals. Just define your idea and hire a mobile app developer or an experienced team for developing an amazing mobile application for your business growth.
Top 5 Cross Platform Application Development Tools
While smartphones are ubiquitous, mobile apps have taken the center stage among technologists, enterprises and everyday users. Over the past few years, more than 75% of the world's population has shifted their needs and luxuries to Android and iPhone, which has indeed driven the interests of most businesses to provide services and products through personalized mobile apps.
Source: AppIndex
Monday, February 22, 2016
Do's and Don'ts Before Posting an App
Your mobile app is all set to get live in the app store. Wait!! Have you gone through some special Do's and Don'ts before launching your app? Let's check out the list here....
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Android App Development Process
Gain insights into the Android Application Development Process and Start developing your Apps Now.
Monday, February 15, 2016
Build a Cutting Edge Enterprise App with PhoneGap
The need of developing mobile apps for enterprises has emerged because of the consistent growth in the use of mobile devices.it is important for enterprises to innovate rapidly and remain in the competition. So why are you waiting for? Build a Cutting Edge Enterprise App with PhoneGap.
Monday, February 8, 2016
Top Mobile Application Development Services
Developing an excellent user experience with ultimate user interface within the app is one of our core competencies. Join hands with Konstantinfo for mobile application development services and create highly engaged mobile applications.
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Ways to Make Your Online Food Ordering Victorious
Nowadays everyone who having their restaurants, want to feed online by making restaurant apps, you could also make your food ordering online by these ways...Click Here to Read More
Saturday, February 6, 2016
5 W’s to Drive Your App with Push Notifications
Address the push notification of your app to the users for timely updates. Alerts should be scheduled for perfect timings carrying productive and useful information for your users, to avoid the result of getting deletion of your app. This technology is winning the game of getting precise information on time as the users’ demands for all the little things they love and care of the app.
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Mobile Engagement: The Evolution of the Micro-Moments
Mobile is now a requisite for every micro moment of people whether for checking emails, shopping or surfing anything from anywhere. Enhance mobile experience of your customers with ultimate m-Commerce solutions from Konstantinfo.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016
iOS Application Development Trends of 2016
Process of Mobile App Development: Before, During and After
Courtesy of: Konstantinfo
Building an app can be a challenging experience for every developer and client. A successful & user friendly app should be fast, secure, occupy minimum space, well designed and many more. To develop a user friendly mobile application, firstly find a top mobile app development company who follow the genuine life cycle of app development. This infographic describes the development process of a mobile app.
Building an app can be a challenging experience for every developer and client. A successful & user friendly app should be fast, secure, occupy minimum space, well designed and many more. To develop a user friendly mobile application, firstly find a top mobile app development company who follow the genuine life cycle of app development. This infographic describes the development process of a mobile app.
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Hire Mobile App Development Services to Grow Your Business
You know, more than 60% of the youngsters use their mobile phones for online shopping, Almost 51% of all the quest are performed by the mobile phones, 77% of the people around the globe owns mobile phones", so why you are left behind? Find more here...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Why WordPress Isn’t a Suitable E-Commerce Platform?
With the recent advances in information technology, even small and medium sized firms are moving towards eCommerce. There are over 500 platforms for eCommerce development that makes it difficult to choose the best one for your business. One of them is WordPress which is a leading Content Management System. Almost all of you are familiar with Wordpress, or at least heard about how easy it is to learn and implement. Doesn’t it sound good to add an eCommerce plugin and manage everything under your WordPress dashboard? Definitely it seems to be a cake walk, but reality is very much different.
Don’t get me wrong, even I love
Wordpress and use it in my various sites. But, Wordpress is only a blogging
platform and suitable only for content based websites. It doesn’t matter
whether it has 1000 of plugins and themes available or it is free, the basic
fact remains same that it is unsuitable for eCommerce. I am not saying that you
can’t do anything with Wordpress, in fact, if your product catalogue is limited
and straightforward and you don’t have a large range of products to sell (not
more than a couple of dozen), Wordpress is more than sufficient for you. But if you have big dreams for your store,
then dedicated eCommerce platforms are better choice as they are built from scratch for eCommerce
and online stores, and also have specific features that make them easy to use
as an eCommerce Development Platform.
“WordPress is basically a
content management system with extra features to use it as eCommerce but a
dedicated eCommerce platform is basically a store management system ”
It is best to use a tool for the
purpose that it was intended. Here is a list of the some points that make
Wordpress unfit for eCommerce development:
- I t can’t be used for sites with a lot of sales due to the heaviness of database queries.
- You only get what you pay for, so you can’t expect necessary features for professional online store from free WordPress plugins. And support is available only from the community of users not from the original developers.
- Being an Opensource it is simply available to everyone so it is the easiest target for hackers. As an online store owner, the last thing you want is your customers' information being stolen.
- Last but most important point is that they are not PA-DSS compliant. It means you can’t accept credit cards on your site. Your customer can only pay through third party services like PayPal or Google Wallet, which will hurt your conversion rate in the long run.
- Even if, Wordpress plugins for eCommerce like WP e-Commerce or WooCommerce claims that their platforms support thousands of products, but generally they do not perform as well as a platform which is dedicated to eCommerce.
- Although we can add several themes and plugins to make it work for eCommerce, but problem arises during Wordpress upgradation. Maybe your installed theme and plugin does work well with the upgraded version.
“What do you want content or online store - WordPress CMS
are born for Content and eCommerce platforms are born for online stores.”
Conclusion: No doubt that WordPress is a great Content Management
System, and I always commend it as a ‘blogging’
platform. Although we can make it compatible for eCommerce by integrating
various plugins, but the basic fact remains same that Wordpress is not
developed to be an eCommerce Platform. However, you can’t deny the importance
of using a true store management system for your online store.
Questions? Feel free to ask in the comments.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Factors That Make Your Website Working Well Under Stress
People often wonder about the fast approaching deadline that
can be usually achieved under more stress. But the fact is, stress makes it
difficult to focus upon the task which is being performed. And hence, no one
can achieve the quality target under the pressure, but can meet the time limit.
Meeting the deadline is not our only aim, but achieving the quality should be
the primary concern.
In the same scenario, business owners or entrepreneurs must
focus on the website that works well under pressure. Website maintenance takes
a lot of time and cost and one must ensure about its performance under stress
also. Load and stress performance testing must be tested on a regular basis.
Here are some activities that can help you ensure that your
website perform well under stressful conditions:
- Measure the effectiveness: First and foremost step is to establish a baseline for the effectiveness of the website after the modifications that have to be made. You can also take the help of some tools like speed test tool or page load test tools and also the uploading and downloading internet speeds.
- Reduce the Page load time with images: Reducing the resolution of images or compressing images will help you get better loading time. Images with better resolution may take more time as compared to compressed images. Reduced file size gives the better uploading speed.
- Always use Tag Manager: Most site owners integrate third-party applications for a better user experience and hence leads to the worst performance sometimes. The more relevancy sometimes leads to the worst performance. To improve the performance, these types of applications use tags to provide feedback for social media campaigns and internet advertising. A tag manger works like a traffic cop which reduces the page load time where tags are already installed. It is recommended that always use a tag manager for better speeds as slow pages are not good for business and better user experience.
- Enable Cache: Caching saves lots of downloading time and hence enable caching wherever you can. You can enable caching in the browser, at server side and also at network level with the help of content delivery network provider. The Thounb Rule: 80% of customer response time is spent in installing the components of a web page; reducing the distance to deliver a web page between the customer and the unique content can reduce web page loading time.
- Implementing Content Delivery Network (CDN): Implementing CDN lowers the bandwidth utilization and improves the latency issues. It is helpful in some cases where you have lots of static content and you want to reduce the content delivery time.
- Website Testing: Properly perform the system testing and identify the failure points within the application before your customers. Discover all small preventable faults on your web application before they become any major stability problem for customers during the revenue season.
- Optimizing Database Queries: Since web pages are generated dynamically from the online database directory stored on the website in most eCommerce online stores, it is recommended to optimize the database queries so as to give instant results and to reduce access time for long queries.
- Identify the Broken Links: “Page not Found Error” is not a good impression for any user as it leads to the lost of queries and hence it may take user away from our website to a competitor’s site. Using free tools like Broken Link Checker can help you to scan your website for broken links and reduce the 404 errors.
Hope these factors will help your website with no loss of
customers during your peak revenue season. Not only these, other factors like
your website design and easy navigation is also helpful for a better user experience.
Monday, July 21, 2014
Preview: iOS8 v/s Android L
The past month of June witnessed the unveiling of two of the most vibrant mobile operating systems developed by the two technical giants of the Silicon Valley, namely Apple Inc. and Google. While Apple set ablaze the proceedings at the WWDC 2014 with its latest version iOS8, Google followed up with the new, improved and revamped version of Android, the Android L. Instead of precisely comparing both mobile operating systems with each other, we are generalising a verdict according to the levels of productivity they provide in the given sections.
Before going further at the feature comparison let's have
a quick look at the Availability:
As per sources of the companies, both iOS8 and Android L will
be released for the users this autumn, i.e. in September or October. Currently,
these mobile operating systems are available in beta; while Apple’s iOS8
beta version can be downloaded by joining the Apple’s developer program
at a cost of 99$ , Android L on the other hand, as per its open source nature,
can be downloaded for free.
Since there have been numerous amendments and introduction of various new tweaks in both Android L and iOS8, it’s time to compare the Features.
Notifications
Since there have been numerous amendments and introduction of various new tweaks in both Android L and iOS8, it’s time to compare the Features.
Notifications
The Android L comes with the feature of enhanced notifications
that will be visible over the locked screen. Although you can manage the content
shown according to your privacy measures, the phone will also prioritize the
order of notifications according to the accuracy of actions towards a particular
app.
The notifications in iOS8 have also been made more interactive;
you can reply to a text, re-tweet, like Facebook statuses, snooze your alarm,
all without even leaving the current application you’re working on.
Lock Screen
Android L brings about a new lock screen to the devices through
which you would be able to see the notification. You can access the camera by
swiping left, swipe right to launch the dialler and swipe up to unlock.
The lock screen in iOS8 remains unchanged and looks similar
to the one in iOS7.
Developer Features
Google has added several new tools that would lead to the
enhancement of the overall credibility of Android L. Apple Inc. which is known
for maintaining its privacy when it comes to developing tools has also opened
up a bit, giving iOS developers some scope for development. The Extensibility
feature will provide iOS apps with the ability to intermingle with each other.
That would facilitate user like never before. Now, by using ‘Action Extensions’,
the Bing Translate feature can be incorporated into Safari so that the users
can use the capabilities of both apps simultaneously. Google has introduced
new features in Android L such as direct links to apps from Google Search; this
feature was available for limited Android developers but is now available for
the entire lot.
Beta versions of both these mobile operating systems are available
for developers, which can lead to the creation of immense possibilities for
the development of new tools.
Widgets
Apple has finally introduced widgets which are termed as ‘Todays
Extensions’ that can be placed in the ‘Today’ view in iOS8’s
Notification Centre. iOS users seem to be quite excited about this addition
as the inclusion of widgets similar to those in Android had always been a hot
topic.
Handoff
Handoff is another new feature in iOS8 that is going to facilitate
the iDevice users at the next level. Under this feature each and every device
will be interconnected to each other in order to enhance ease of functionality.
If you’re taking a call over your iPhone and have a sudden urge to use
the OS X (Yosemite) on your Mac, you can easily switch your call over to it
and even back to the iPhone. This is not limited to just calls, when typing
mails you get options to continue over various devices; you can see all your
iPhone Messages as well.
Such features are available in Android L too, although third-party
apps are required for the execution, which is not as seamless as Apples’s
Handoff feature. If you happen to own a Chromebook then there can be a performance
boost as Android L will automatically unlock your laptop if your smartphone
or tablet is in the vicinity, the notifications will appear on both, the laptop
and your mobile device.
Battery Life
The exact boost that both Android L and iOS8 will provide
to the battery life is not known yet. Although there is one major factor that
Google had discussed at the I/O 2014, the Project Volta. It is being claimed
that Project Volta will lead to an increase in thebattery backup of the Nexus
5 by 90 minutes. As for iOS8 there hasn’t been any modification that enhances
battery saving.
Both Android L and iOS8 have employed a series of changes
in their respective platforms but without any doubts it can be said that the
features introduced in iOS8 will prove to be a game changer in terms of user
experience.
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