The iPhone has turned our world upside down. With the advent of apps it has revolutionized our way of living. iPhone can almost do everything for us. With these changes in social front, there is also a big change in business approach as well. Business and companies are looking to develop apps to engage their fans and customers. This situation has created a big wave in the iPhone application development industry too. More than 800 apps are submitted to the App Store on a daily basis, half of these apps are built by indie and small iPhone application development companies.
There is a lot of help available for indie and small & medium iPhone application development companies. They tend to do things at a slow pace, yet they need small tools to help them out. We have reviewed a couple of tools used and preferred by app developers. Hope you might find it helpful.
App Press:
This tool has a visual interface and requires less coding. Seems to be inspired by modern day WYSIWYG integrated development environment. The tool helps to gather screens from the visual matter with the use of layers. The cost depends on the usage, which ranges from $30 to $460 per month.
Intel XDK:
Intel XDK was initially developed as a chrome extension, but it soon went beyond expectations. It is built on the idea of combining editor and simulator, so that developers can test their projects in the web browser.
QuickBase:
When developers need a database for their iPhone app and they need a back-end service. They use QuickBase. It is a popular online platform for mobile web and web database applications. QuickBase helps developers with more than 300 templates which are completely customizable. The cost is $299 per month.
All of the above mentioned tools are significantly used by indie developers. Due to their pricing module these tools are also very handy for small and medium sized iPhone application development companies.
