Playing Cards was one of the main indoor games played before technology took over. Cards even gave birth to a new game genre called “CCG” (Collectible Card Game). Immediately the stores were filled with various types of card games like UNO Cards, Wrestling cards, Pokémon Cards, Phase 10 cards, Go Fish Cards, and so on.
The specialty of card games is that it can be played anywhere at any time with anyone, there is no specific age limit. Strategy is the key skill for success in card games and the winners are considered to be the smartest. For games like Poker and Blackjack, players use their memory power to count the cards and analyze their movements during the game.
In the 90’s, card games lost their charm due to modern digital games and were pushed towards older audience who were not familiar with the technology.
Later when smartphones were introduced in the 21st century, they took over the gaming market in a flash. Players were able to enjoy games anywhere without the requirement of any other gaming device. This specialty brought a lot of casual audience into the gaming world. Everyone owning a smartphone started playing games and their focus was mainly in puzzle games and strategy games.
With the popularity of smartphones, the studios started developing digital card games. Soon the mobile game market became a strong platform for card games. “Hearthstone” a successful mobile game simulated the classic experience of playing with cards with amazing special effects. Due to this game even hardcore gamers started giving attention to card games.
Later, the makers of “Clash of Clans” developed a card game called “Clash Royale”. This game was a dream-come-true for all the card gamers. Everyone who has played card games always wished that their card characters were alive and take part in live action. This long time wish was fulfilled by “Clash Royale” which in turn made amazing revenue for the development studio “Supercell”.
Moreover, every CCG player loves variety in terms of cards and “Clash Royale” offered an amazing card collection. With a huge variety, each character in the card was different and had unique ability. Also, the game was constantly updated with new cards/characters with even special abilities.
These two card games once again stirred the mobile game market and increased the scope for future developers to come up with new types of card games like “Bluff Master (420) – I Doubt it”.
Evolution of Card Games
In the video game industry, there have always been debates on one primary topic, “What is the most important element in a game?” Most of the people say it’s the gameplay, some say it’s the graphics, sound effects or the story. But what everyone misses to realize is that the players always play games for an experience. So, the primary goal of any game should be to deliver a good user experience.
May it be gameplay or graphics or sound effects or story unless and until the game is not able to simulate an experience for the player, it cannot be successful in the market. There are lots and lots of video games available in the market but not every game is well known to the players. Only the games, which gave a unique experience to the players, are remembered. “Prince of Persia” a game developed by UBISOFT is the best example; even after a decade people still remember the game and expect a new version.
AAA games always focus on pure player/user experience and they hit the market hard and also make good revenue. But when it comes to mobile games it becomes tough to simulate an experience for the player. People just open the game for a few minutes and then get back to their routine. Some mobile game developers focus on delivering the user experience and take over the market with a bang. Glu Mobile, Supercell are some of the leading studios who primarily focus on emulating the experience of a console game on the mobile.
Recently Niantic Labs launched “Pokémon Go” using Augmented Reality, which broke all the records in a number of downloads, daily active users and revenue just because the game was trying to give the best user experience. In this game, the player has to move around in the real world to catch Pokémon’s using GPS location tracking. There is no special gameplay or story but the game was enjoyed by the players and appreciated.
This game is proof that if you can deliver the best user experience in real-time, players will love to play your game and even spend on it without second thought.
Importance of User Experience in games
The user experience that a mobile app offers as well as the performance of an app is entirely dependent on the development approach was chosen. A poor user experience or a non-performance app leads to app uninstall which can affect your business more than you can think of. The cost and time to develop an app are other factors that are dependent on the development approach.
So, which one is better than Native app Vs Hybrid app? I will be focusing primarily on an iPhone app or an iOS app in this article to keep things simple. A native iPhone app or a native iOS app is an application specifically developed for an iOS device and the programming language is either Objective-C or Swift. The iPhone apps are normally developed following iOS Human Interface Guidelines defined by Apple and make use of swipes, gestures, etc. to offer the best user experience possible on iPhone.
A hybrid app, on the other hand, is a cross-platform app which beliefs in the principal of write-once-run-anywhere. Hybrid apps once built can be released on various platforms including iOS, Android, Windows Phone, etc. Common hybrid app development frameworks include React Native, Ionic, PhoneGap, and Xamarin. Most of these frameworks are based on HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.
Factors to be considered while choosing between Native and Hybrid App:-
1) APP PERFORMANCE
Native iPhone applications are developed directly using iOS SDK provided by Apple, hence they are more performant by the very design as compared to their Hybrid counterparts. Native apps load instantly, are faster and more reliable than the hybrid apps.
2) USER EXPERIENCE
Native iPhone applications offer the best user experience as outlined by Apple in iOS Human Interface Guidelines. Native apps integrate very closely with the features provided by Apple and the user experience is completely seamless. The user experience while using capabilities unique device features like camera, GPS, address book, etc. from within a native app is just like using these iOS device capabilities directly.
Hybrid apps, on the other hand, cannot offer unique platform specific experience for all the platforms and the app’s experience can be entirely different from the iOS device experience. This makes the hybrid apps less preferred as compared to Native apps.
3) TIME TO MARKET
In case a business wants to launch a mobile app quickly in the market on multiple platforms, hybrid app approach works the best. This is mostly used when a business wants to test the market quickly before investing big in a articular segment. If an app is then successful, native apps are later developed to offer the best user experience. So, hybrid apps are many-a-times chosen to develop a POC (Proof of Concept) or an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) before developing a full-fledged native app.
4) BUDGET
Since hybrid apps need not be developed for each platform separately, they require fewer resources and are less costly as compared to native apps. In case of budget is the main concern and the app performance/user experience can be compromised, hybrid apps are more affordable.
To summarize, it entirely depends on the business requirements and the business focus while choosing between native and hybrid apps. Call us on (+61) 390-135-390 to discuss your unique business requirements while choosing between native and hybrid apps for your business.
SERVICES WE OFFER
At ChicMic, we offer both native iOS and Android App Development as well as Hybrid App Development. We provide services to all types of clients varying from individuals to small & medium businesses to enterprises. We provide all the services which will help your business to grow and develop.
We offer the following mobile app development services:
Native iPhone App Development
Native Android App Development
Hybrid Mobile App Development (iPhone and Android)
Mobile Game Development
WHY CHICMIC?
Unbeaten combo of quality & price
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200+ clients served including industry leaders
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Native or a Hybrid Mobile App for your Business?
With a myriad of mobile devices with different operating systems, it is not possible for any business to focus just on one OS (operating system). Businesses need to consider at-least the mobile OSs which have majority devices in the market. This comes down to 2 mobile OSs – iOS and Android which together have more than 99% of smartphone OS market.
With this as the need of an hour, the mobile app developers are focussing on developing cross-platform mobile apps. So, what are cross-platform mobile apps? Cross-platform apps are based on ‘Write Once Run Anywhere’ philosophy and ideally run on different mobile OSs with a single codebase.
To explore cross-platform mobile apps further, these are of 2 types:
1) Native Cross-Platform Apps
2) Hybrid (HTML5) Cross-Platform Apps
Native Cross-Platform Apps
In order to ease the development of mobile apps using mobile OS, each OS vendor provides with its own SDK (Software Development Kit). These SDKs expose functionality in the vendor preferred programming languages like Objective-C/ Swift for iOS and Java for Android. The apps created using these programming languages using the official SDKs are called native apps.
This means that developing apps for different OSs means writing code from scratch for each of these OSs. This poses a great challenge to the turnaround time and third party vendors have tried to solve this by writing a unified SDK on top of the OS vendor specific SDKs in a unified programming language of their choice. This unified SDK handles the intricacies/differences of the vendor specific SDKs and hides this from the app developers using this unified SDK. The app developer writes a single codebase using this unified SDK in a unified programming language and the apps developed using this unified SDK are called Native Cross-Platform Apps. Since the app developed finally uses the native APIs, native cross-platform apps are nearly as performant as native apps.
The best and upcoming Native Cross-Platform framework is React Native which is built by internet giant Facebook and is now open-sourced for the community to extend it. Thousands of apps are built using React Native including Fortune 500 companies and hot new startups. Some of the apps that have been developed using React Native are Facebook, Instagram, Airbnb etc.
Hybrid (HTML5) Cross-Platform Apps
All OS SDKs include advanced browser component (Web View) to leverage the popularity of HTML5 and to aid the web developers to develop HTML5 based web apps. This has led to the birth of Hybrid Cross-Platform Apps. Third party vendors have created frameworks each of which has a native container to access native platform features and a WebView to execute HTML5/JavaScript. In effect, the Hybrid Cross-Platform Apps are developed using HTML5/JavaScript/CSS and access to the native OS specific functionality is provided by the Hybrid Application Framework.
One of the examples of Hybrid Cross-Platform Framework is Apache Cordova which was originally called PhoneGap.
Services we offer
At ChicMic, we offer both Native Mobile App Development for iOS & Android and Cross-Platform Mobile App Development using React Native. Our clients range from startups to large enterprises and we offer complete development from idea till launch and iterations there-after. We offer the following mobile app development services:
- Cross-Platform Mobile App Development (React Native)
- Cross-Platform Mobile Game Development (Unity and cocos2d)
- Native iOS App Development
- Native Android App Development
Contact Us:
www.chicmic.com.au
Exploring Cross-Platform Mobile App Development
From a basic arcade game to a full fledge MMO, the mobile market is crowded with android games from various different genres. A lot of mobile app game developer were risen in the last five years and they have been flooding the mobile game market since then with many innovative and interesting games which has been catching the attentions of users across the world.
Still not everyone will be willing to play every game in the market. Each and every player has his/her own favorite game genre/type, they will always try to find those particular game genre’s/types in the market. For example, MMO players will not prefer to play board games and vice versa.
But, there would be some games which will hold the capacity to transcend the target audience and entertain everyone. Those type of games will always find their way to top of the market. Let us take a look at few good games on android play store.
Ludo Game:
Ludo is based on the classic board game which we used to play in our past. It’s also one of the top trending games of play store developed by ChicMic and published by Nazara.
Bluff Master (420) I Doubt it:
This is based on the classic card game I doubt it/cheat carefully designed to give the same rich play experience digitally.
Blocks Multiplayer:
This is an arcade 3D game with simple one-touch controls featuring live multiplayer and endless gameplay.
Fun Soccer:
This is a level based 2D puzzle game with exciting game elements and unique goal techniques.
Agent Smith:
This is an action packed adventure featuring full 3D graphics with loads of twisty spy action and puzzles.
Anyone interested in developing a game would need to get in touch with mobile app game developer like ChicMic. Please give us a Call on (+61) 390-135-390 to discuss your unique game ideas while choosing between unity and Cocos 2D for your game.
Best 5 Games in android you must try before everyone else
Do you really feel that a magical stick has the power to transform the perception of your potential customers in the ever-growing technological age? Obviously not. None other than the years of productivity & struggle can turn out to be a ladder to your success. When talking about technology, then building app is the surefire way to reach out your customers across the globe. There’s no denying the fact that ChicMic has successfully made to position itself as an industry leader in the App Development arena with a proven track record of developing 300+ apps.
What makes us different?
The reason behind our success lies in the creation of 10+ chart-topping apps, 30+ million game & app installs. We strive hard to maintain the transparency, quality & convenience of our app development services. The need for app development is on the rise nowadays & to offer users an out of the world App Store & Play Store experience, ChicMic develops native Android & iOS apps based on Swift, Objective C, Android Studio and Android SDK.
Over the years of hands-on experience in developing Native & Hybrid Apps, we have been offering unsurpassed Mobile & Web App Development services. Our team of talented app developers have won the hearts of millions of users by introducing feature-rich iOS & Android apps such as Clap to Find with 5,00,000+ downloads, WIZCARD with 3.0+ Android Compatibility & SAFEtrip with Real Time Location Tracking.
We take pride to stand as one of the most renowned App Development Companies in Australia. This is the right company to make your app development investment a success. With an implementation of groundbreaking technologies like Node, Angular, React7, MySQL, jQuery & Bootstrap in Mobile, Game, App development & Designing services, ChicMic has served more than 200+ clients including industry leaders as well.
Today’s audience has its own set of preferences when it comes to apps. For that reason, while developing apps, it is a must to keep your audience in mind. And ChicMic is emphasizing more & more on creating apps with a power to boost the interest of the target audience.
Believing in us will be the best decision, you can ever take to boost your Android & iOS apps. We believe in offering more than what we promise.
Let our app developers handle your app development project and feel the difference !
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