Smartphones are a central element of mobile ubiquity, with mobile applications (‘apps’) becoming especially important. This article discusses the concept of iPhone apps, and other apps, as cultural platforms. Apps are highly significant for emerging cultures of mobile ubiquity, yet these platforms are constituted and controlled by major transnational global mobile media corporations. The articl...

We are in the midst of what some have called a "mobile health revolution". Medical applications ("apps") for mobile phones are proliferating in the marketplace and clinicians are likely encountering patients with questions about the medical value of these apps. We conducted a review of medical apps focused on endocrine disease. We found a higher percentage of relevant apps in our searches of th...

BACKGROUND Mobile phones and mobile phone apps have expanded new forms of health professionals' work. There are many studies on the use of mobile phone apps for different specialists. However, there are no studies on the current use of mobile phone apps among general practitioners (GPs). OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to investigate the extent to which GPs own smartphones with apps ...

Mobile Web apps are an alternative to native apps when developing mobile applications for more than one platform. They can be accessed from almost any current smartphone and tablet using a browser. However, developing a Web app adapted to the particularities of mobile devices such as limited screen size and touch-based interaction requires consideration and effort. Several frameworks with diffe...

Within a very short timeframe, mobile devices have become an intrinsic part of everyday life. The versatility of the devices is driven by a process which allows users to run mobile apps to perform tasks. The majority of mobile content today is consumed through custom built native apps. Web apps, although popular in the desktop environment, have never enjoyed the same success in the mobile envir...

The roles of mental health educators and professionals in the diffusion of mental health mobile apps are addressed in this viewpoint article. Mental health mobile apps are emerging technologies that fit under the broad heading of mobile health (mHealth). mHealth, encompassed within electronic health (eHealth), reflects the use of mobile devices for the practice of public health. Well-designed m...

Mobile apps have found wide acceptance in today’s world which heavily depend on smart technology to access data over wide location. The apps are mostly of native type which can be used for accessing data even without the internet availability. In this paper the development of mobile native applications requires the assimilation of various analytical contexts depending on the requirement of user...

This research is to design and optimize the high quality of mobile apps, especially for iOS. The objective of this research is to develop a mobile system for Occupational therapy specialists to access and retrieval information. The investigation identifies the key points of using mobile-D agile methodology in mobile application development. It considers current applications within a different p...

Every day, thousands of new mobile apps are published on mobile app stores including Google Play and iOS App Store. While many of them are native apps, others are cross-platform mobile apps or HTML-based hybrid apps developed using various cross-platform mobile development tools. Native apps for Android and iOS are usually written using Android SDK and XCode tools respectively, but malware auth...