Understanding the Difference between Responsive, Adaptive and Mobile-First Design

It is essential for the web designing companies and web designers to have fully knowledge about the terms Mobile-First, Adaptive and Responsive Design so that they can determine any strategy for their website designing. In this advanced and technological era millions of the Google searches are carried out on mobile devices every hour globally.

The use of mobile devices is growing rapidly in all industries including manufacturing, construction and travel industry etc. A large number of travelers start their online searches on a mobile device. Now mobile devices have become the main source of website’s traffic.

What the term “responsive design” means?

The responsive web design is a technique in which a website’s design is adjusted automatically according to the size of users’ screens. The users can easily browse one website on all devices e.g. on mobile, tablet, desktop etc.

The content, design, user interface and layout of the website will change based on the width of a browser on a device. You have not to create two versions of a website one for mobile devices and other for desktop computers. You can determine either website is responsive or not by manually zooming in and out of the browser window.

What the term “an adaptive website” means?

An adaptive website adapt to specific screen widths of smartphones, desktop computers, and tablets. Devices all have set browser widths that are widely known and enable developers to develop websites that will adhere to their specifications.

It takes time to make an entirely responsive website because it must optimally adapt to the width of every browser. Sometimes the terms “responsive” and “adaptive” are confusingly interchanged. Developers create websites that are both responsive and adaptive. However, many websites may seem responsive but are not; they may actually be a blend of both techniques.

What the term “mobile-first design” means?

Mobile-first is the design strategy while responsive is the result of a technical approach. The mobile-first concept mean that the mobile version of a website should be at the heart of the design strategy and consider the user browsing behavior and constraints on mobile devices. 

A mobile-first strategy can be challenging for web designers who are used to designing for browsing on computers because this technique is quite different from a desktop development approach. The content of website must be analyzed carefully and prearranged depending on importance and make sure that the overall design remains refined. Further content can then be added for visitors who browse on larger screens.

Initially visitors will not be able to decide either the website is a responsive, adaptive or mobile-first website. According to visitors point of view the important thing about a website, is ability to quickly and easily provide the information they need and perform the actions they have set out to do.

Desktop Application Development with Web Technologies

The creation of cross-platform applications is the need of hour to enhance the performance of desktop application development and reduce cost of business. A lot of efforts and web techniques are used to fulfill this challenge. The UI should be up to date and newest to develop an application for Windows OS and MAC OS. The influential User Interface is offered by modern web browsers. The source code can be used to develop application for Windows Store with small changes. 

The customization of the web browser control is the basic for desktop application development. Next essential element is external objects accessed by JavaScript. The use of JavaScript and Html is suitable for user interface to develop cross-platform applications. The local http/https server is preferable to build cross-platform extension for various browsers. The local http/https server controls request from web applications launched at Web browser.

Change in Apps Development Trend With Release of Micreosoft Windows 10

Release of Microsoft Windows 8 made a great shift in the field of apps development because Microsoft gave a due importance to advance applications with its Windows store but a lot of people did not adopt that change because they were happy with classic desktop of Windows and its millions of applications. Realizing this fact, Microsoft has restored the desktop along with its classic applications on PCs in Windows 10, shifting Windows store to the desktop and allowing modern apps to run in windowed mode.

It doesn’t mean that Microsoft is throwing out the modern apps. Modern apps have numerous advantages over conventional desktop applications like; easy to display information in tiles in Start menu, better optimization for touch screens, responsive nature, advanced sharing options to transfer data between apps and a lot more.

Microsoft Windows 10 is basically a step towards a universal Windows Store Applications, enabling developers to simultaneously develop for all platforms i.e. PCs, Smartphones and tablets instead of developing separately for each one. A blend of both (desktop apps & modern apps) will be good to see in Windows 10 and that will definitely start a new era in apps development.

SWAMP As Best Software Analysis Tool to Ensure Software Security

Programming has turned into a back-bone in to all kind of latest technological inventions of our lives. It is fundamental in the operation of our autos, home apparatuses, medical gadgets, unmanned aeronautical vehicles, and, obviously, our cell phones. This ubiquitous software nature has a dull side that it makes us all vulnerable against cyber security issues due to the lack of powerful analysis tools software quality assurance to detect vulnerabilities and weaknesses.

The Software Assurance Marketplace, the SWAMP, is an imperative asset for enhancing software development and software quality assurance. It is a free, on the web, open-source, shared innovative work environment that gives necessary services, resources and capacities to programmers, software tools developers and programming scientists. The SWAMP is intended to help software developers in strengthening their product code by conducting proper analysis and overcoming any shortcomings that may result vulnerabilities.

The SWAMP facilitates software developers with a blend of open-source and commercial tools for software analysis. The SWAMP will offer commercial tools in coming days but currently it offers following free and open-source tools;

•  Four software analysis Tools for java

                             i.            Checkstyle

                            ii.            Google’s error prone

                           iii.            Findbugs

                           iv.            PMD

• Three software analysisi tools for C/C++

                            i.            cppChck

                            ii.            GCC-GNU compiler collection

                            iii.            Clang Analyzer

• Eight other tools to run software analysis

The purpose of the SWAMP of is to equip software developers with software assurance tools in early stage of software development process. It also allows developers to make a comparison of their tool results with other tools results and improve their tool against new techniques. Software scientists are continuously working with software assurance community to empower the SWAMP with latest techniques, methods and services to improve the software quality assurance tools capabilities. The SWAMP will continuously evolve as best software assurance tool for software developers and it will include support for other languages like Ruby, Python, JavaScript, PHP etc. in coming days.