Mobile applications might be ubiquitous these days, but that doesn’t mean they’re all the same. In fact, there are two distinct categories of apps — web and native — and their respective functions and capabilities are quite different.

Let’s look today at native apps. No, they’re not applications that were born and bred in your home country. Native apps run directly on your device — be it iPhone, Android phone, iPad, or Android tablet — and give you the ability to use the resources native to it, including GPS, camera, calendar, and contacts.

“Big deal,” you might be thinking. “What’s so special about an app that can use my phone’s GPS and camera?”

In fact, native apps are special, and their value — especially to small-business owners — shouldn’t be underestimated. For one thing, native apps offer true geolocation-based marketing capabilities. If you’re a restaurant or store owner, a native app allows you to know exactly where your users are; if they’re nearby, you can instantly push a coupon out to them. Say you’re the creator of a new kids’ toy; with the help of a native app, you can locate your users and show them a list of places near them where they can buy your products and add-on accessories.

A native app also gives you the ability to use your device’s camera to take pictures, which can then be integrated into the application’s other functions. Insurance claims agents can use the camera to instantly upload accident photos for their reports, while real estate brokers can add up-to-the-minute property photos to their listings.

Sounds pretty useful, right? So what’s the catch? Well, traditionally, the development of custom native applications has required significant technical skills — think in-depth knowledge of complicated computer languages — not to mention lots of time and money. But MobiFlex has changed the rules of the native app game. With the MobiFlex App Studio™, users can create these applications faster, for less money, and without any special technical skills. As a result, the native app market has now been opened to a world of small businesses that in the past would not have had the skills, resources, or budget to access it. Тут можно перейти по ссылке http://faraon-gamingclub.com онлайн казино играть бесплатно и без регистрации.

We’ll soon post the lowdown on the other major category of mobile applications: web apps. Stay tuned.