Tuesday 11 November 2014

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will make app development more complicated

There was a time when iPhones used to play well with iPhone application developers due to their small sizes. Almost all iPhones had small screens and most apps only required one interface and display to fit them all. Not anymore, the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus (especially) will change that.

All iPhone app development companies now will have to make adjustments to their iPhone application development processes. Top app developers for iPhone has already found it difficult, because there are still millions of iPhones with smaller screens. What most iPhone app developers might try initially, is to scale up the app display to fit the large screens of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The effectiveness of this approach is questionable.

This is questionable because the iPhone 6 Plus is almost approaching the size of a small tablet, and it requires a special approach by iPhone app makers to design the app interface to create an optimal user experience. Apps that shows information in a single column must be tweaked for the widescreen of the new iPhone without looking gaudy.

Top app developers for iPhone need to focus especially on placing the on-screen controls. They need to move those to a location on bigger screen where they make sense without interfering with the user experience and compromising touch control.  The controls need to be large enough for an easy manipulation yet they need to be merged well with the other elements of the app.

All these iPhone application development services (design and development) must be accomplished in a way that it doesn’t compromise apps’ appearance of smaller iPhones. This is where all iPhone application developers must be pulling their hair out, as it's not easy to come up with a design that works well for all screen sizes.

Even if a top app developer for iPhone may come up with a design that works well with all screen sizes, they also need to cater the added difficulty of good landscape support. The bigger displays ask for apps that could be used in landscape in addition to portrait. This adds further complexity for the iPhone application developers.

In the iPhone application development services, app redesign is considered a really hard work. iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will add to the mix and all iPhone app development companies must reconsider their options. Getting an app interface right for small and large iPhones is important as users are fickle. If they don't like the way a favorite iPhone app works with the new models, they'll move on to something else.

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