Everyone is enthralled by the fascinating world of mobile app development. Apps are running on smartphones, and users are running with more innovative and better programs, whether a business tablet utility software or a popular mobile game.

What Exactly Is A Mobile App?

A mobile application, often known as a mobile app, is a type of software. It is a computer-generated program that runs on iPhones, Smartphones, Tablets, and various other mobile devices. Without a doubt, the world has realized that using apps is the best way to get the most out of a smartphone. As a result, tracing the history markups for mobile app development will be fascinating.

The Evolution Of Mobile Application Development

If you look back at the history of mobile apps, you’ll notice that only a few Java games, a calculator, and a monthly calendar were found under the category of mobile apps. However, IBM launched the first smartphone for consumer use in 1993, including a calculator, global clock, contact book, and calendar. The BlackBerry Smartphone, released in 2002 and marked by BlackBerry Limited, formerly known as Research In Motion Limited (RIM), and merged with the novel concept of wireless email, was the next significant milestone in the field of mobile application development.

Some Early Mobile Phone Facts:

• Due to the poor battery life, customers could only make calls for 30 minutes each day and charge their phones for more than 10 hours.
• Due to network range limitations, mobile users in your location could only call a few people per day.

What Was the Beginning of It All?

Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first mobile phone call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs on April 3rd, 1973. That equipment or instrument weighed 1.1 kg and measured (23 x 13 x 4.45) cm in length, width, and height. Furthermore, it took two decades of research and development (R&D) to build the first mobile application for smartphones, and credit for this belongs to IBM Simon, who was the first to present the world to mobile apps for smartphones.

EPOC Psion

Psion’s EPOC (operating system) is designed for mobile devices, especially PDAs. It was the first identifiable apps and was initially published in the early 1990s. The sixteen-bit devices (SIBO) that ran EPOC enables users to use programs such as a spreadsheet,  word processor, diary, and database. The models with a 32-bit operating system, on the other hand, would have up to 2MB of RAM and allow users to add new apps via software packs.

Palm OS

It is also known as Garnet OS, is a personal digital assistant operating system created by Palm, Inc. in 1996. This has a touchscreen GUI (graphical user interface) and came with several essential apps and a slew of third-party C/C++ apps. These included a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) browser starting with Palm OS 3.0.

WML (Wireless Markup Language)

WML was created by the WAP Forum and is based on XML for usage in Wireless Application Protocol enabled devices. It was lightweight and optimized for the limited bandwidths available on mobile phones in the late 1990s, as it removed much of the HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) that requires processing power.

J2ME/JME

Java ME started as JSR 68, replaced Personal Java, and quickly grew in popularity, spawning various standards for use in PDAs, phones, and other embedded devices. Profiles (such as the Mobile Information Device Profile) are subsets of configurations (such as the Connected Limited Device Configuration) that are implemented by devices (CLDC). CLDC also contains the bare minimum of Java-class libraries required to run a virtual machine and targets devices with a total memory of 160KB to 512KB.

Symbian

Symbian was developed by Symbian Ltd, a joint venture of Psion, Ericsson, Nokia, and Motorola, and came out of the Psion EPOC OS. In 2009, Symbian was almost ubiquitous, with 250 million devices running the operating system. Nokia was the driving force behind the creation of Symbian OS, and the S60 platform was found on nearly all Nokia handsets and selected LG and Samsung models.

Endnote

“There were 19 billion software developers around the world in 2014,” according to research, “and the number will climb to a stunning 25 billion by 2020.” Compared to the first world countries that once produced more Mobile Applications Development, India, Russia, and China are seeing a rapid rise in mobile app developers