Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Mobile Phone Programming

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Computer software programming are too mainstream when we talk about programming itself. Different programmers uses different programming languages which they can create computer programs for their business, jobs etc. Today, in our modern living, portable gadgets are now uses operating systems like what computer uses. The most common and widely used is our mobile phones. Not only for texting and calling purposes our cellphones has to deliver to us. By the use of mobile phone operating systems, we can now play videos, music and 3D games which just a matter of clicks on its keypad and screen. From a simple mobile phone, it is now evolved on what we called "smart phones". A lot of smartphones supports touchscreen which allow the users to use their own cellphone lcd screen to type characters or to hit a button displayed on the screen. Please see below the widely used mobile phone operating systems:


a) IOS

         - A mobile phone operating system developed by Apple corporation and was released on the year 2007. IOS designed on cellphones for direct manipulation using screen touching of every mobile phone. Different stroke and gestures are being supported by this operating system such as swipe, drag, pinch tap etc. Another main feature is that the user can create an event on their mobile phone by simply shaking the body of their smart phone which sends information to the operating system and create a specific for what the shaking supposed to do after the user do so. Year 2013, new version of IOS was release which is the IOS 7. The latest version requires 1.5 gigabyte of device memory to be successfully installed.



b). Android

         - A mobile phone operating system developed by Google which is the same as IOS that is designed  for touchscreen mobile interface. Android was released on the year 2008 which first used by HTC. Because android is under the Apache License, meaning , it can be modified and be distributed without risk on the side of the manipulator of the software. In the same year of 2013 became a good year for different cellphone applications to be created. Lots application running in Android OS has been created and distributed. Other applications are downloadable in other sites and some are handled by Google with their google playstore.





c) Windows Phone

           - A mobile operating system developed by Microsoft corporation which was launched on year 2010. The operating system supports touchscreen gestures and shaking of its whole body. It was quickly developed so that it can be on the market as early as possible. Windows phone has a  backward compatibility issues and may need to be fixed as early as possible. Windows 7 is their first release and windows 8 is their latest which uses their Nokia Lumia as the main operating system.

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