Application Development

The market for apps is fast evolving and keeping up with the ever-changing guidelines of the Google Play Store and Apple App Store cannot only be overwhelming but also expensive.  New rules requiring apps to target the latest Software Development kits (SDKs) and maintain stringent performance and security standards are forcing businesses into costly redevelopment cycles. Legacy apps are vulnerable to removal from Google play Store and Apple Store due to noncompliance. IBC offers redevelopment of existing legacy apps into a hybrid app format. This redevelopment will keep your app agile, future-proof, and fully aligned with evolving store requirements at less cost. IBC Digital handles custom development of applications to suit business requirements and App store guidelines.

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A hybrid approach to building Mobile Applications means the core of the application and most of the business logic is built as a Web application that can be utilized by both platforms Apple and Android. Then a lightweight Native app is built to encapsulate this web app and provide the features that only native applications can supply, such as good background processing and navigation, notifications, and local storage.  This ensures the best of both worlds and a much more economical way of keeping apps up to date to meet the ever-changing guidelines of app stores. 

IBC Digital is careful to ensure only the minimal business logic that is required is built directly into the native app. This ensures the best of both worlds, a much more economical way of keeping apps up to date through a single core codebase, and a lower risk method of delivering this core functionality through lightweight Native Apps.

There are still some maintenance required of the Native App part of a hybrid Mobile Apps needing to be updated through the app stores regularly but building apps using these methods ensures that this is required a lot less frequently and when required there is less work to do. Meanwhile the core codebase can be updated on the web app as frequently as required, without being at the whim of the App stores approval processes.

In the past with older technology hybrid apps built like this suffered from slow user experience but these days even the most popular apps are built in a hybrid fashion. For example, Twitter, Evernote, and Instagram apps are built this way, and IBC Digital have adopted this approach, and we’ve demonstrated the use of hybrid elements in the App we built for City of Perth Parking, Gascoyne Catchments Rangelands Monitoring and Cengage eCollection App.

For over 25 years, IBC Digital has developed Web and Mobile Applications to suit the specific needs of business.  Our applications are custom to integrate with the existing IT landscape, to streamline management, and to meet the needs of the target consumer. Our track record is tackling complex development challenges with creativity, rigour, and robust security standards.



Please contact us for your Application development needs.