Which is more feasible? Which is more lucrative? Mobile-Based Apps or Web-based Apps for 9ja or African market? Many people have more mobile devices or smartphones than desktops/laptops but it seems as if people dont use their mobile devices or smartphones to browse. Or how do you feel?

I don't know really but I'll say mobile based apps. Brings more audience, more cash and less occurrence of piracy.

I don't know what to type...but I will type anyway

Mobile apps

Yeah, people should embrace the use of smartfones. But d problem majority of smartfone users in Nigeria face is dia crappy n expensiv network.

Make both.

While people in Naija might predominantly access the web via mobile devices, this is mainly as a result of inadequate options for affordable unlimited high speed internet. When that changes, you would already have a head-start.

Mixed I think. Both should work hand-in-hand

made fp with just 3 comments
who is the MOD

Mobile based

Whoz d mod, d guy needs to be flogged for bringin dis to frontpage

I don't know.



Just kidding. I wouldn't comment if I had nothing to say....

For Nigeria, I would recommend web based apps.

For mobile, you would have to divide your development energy across all the common platforms (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows), and not everyone uses a smartphone either. You would be inefficient and would cut out an entire demographic.


I don't know why this is on the front page either. You need comments from actual developers. Look at all the dumb comments you've gotten already.

It depends on the market

Ionno...

most nigerians use mobiles than pcs but profitability is not about the apps but the services you are rendering using those apps.

I guess mobile app is better because of it level of availabilty n accessibility. It pulls more potential clients

No! Make we make bombs, then target all them big big markets for Africa.
As for the base that one na tori for another day.

I will go for mobile apps any day anytime.

nickz: made fp with just 3 comments
who is the MOD

it was on Fp without comments. I was the first

Thank you for letting this make front page. What device do most 9jerians/Africans use to browse the internet? Mobile/Smartphones? Desktops/Laptops? Many 9jerians/Africans own more mobile devices/smartphones than desktops/laptops but it seems as if mobile devices/smartphones are only used for chatting. To be more clear, here is what I mean:

a. Native Apps
Native apps live on the device and are accessed through icons on the device home screen. Native apps are installed through an application store (such as Google Play or Apple’s App Store). They are developed specifically for one platform, and can take full advantage of all the device features — they can use the camera, the GPS, the accelerometer, the compass, the list of contacts, and so on. They can also incorporate gestures (either standard operating-system gestures or new, app-defined gestures). And native apps can use the device’s notification system and can work offline.

b. Mobile Web Apps
Web apps are not real applications; they are really websites that, in many ways, look and feel like native applications, but are not implemented as such. They are run by a browser and typically written in HTML5. Users first access them as they would access any web page: they navigate to a special URL and then have the option of “installing” them on their home screen by creating a bookmark to that page.

Web apps became really popular when HTML5 came around and people realized that they can obtain native-like functionality in the browser. Today, as more and more sites use HTML5, the distinction between web apps and regular web pages has become blurry.

c. Hybrid apps
Hybrid apps are part native apps, part web apps. (Because of that, many people incorrectly call them “web apps”). Like native apps, they live in an app store and can take advantage of the many device features available. Like web apps, they rely on HTML being rendered in a browser, with the caveat that the browser is embedded within the app.

Often, companies build hybrid apps as wrappers for an existing web page; in that way, they hope to get a presence in the app store, without spending significant effort for developing a different app. Hybrid apps are also popular because they allow cross-platform development and thus significantly reduce development costs: that is, the same HTML code components can be reused on different mobile operating systems. Tools such as PhoneGap and Sencha Touch allow people to design and code across platforms, using the power of HTML.


Link ~> http://www.nngroup.com/articles/mobile-native-apps/

mobile apps for sure

Web ni nw

Mobile....my opinion

It depends on you, check your engine room/your analytic to know where most of the users visit from and the devices they use most, then you choose the best.

FP? Smh. Imagine the topic self

Mobile o.

[/quote] but it seems as if people dont use their mobile devices or smartphones to browse. Or how do you feel?[/quote]

Are u kidding me or something? WAKE UP

MissMeiya: I don't know.



Just kidding. I wouldn't comment if I had nothing to say....

For Nigeria, I would recommend web based apps.

For mobile, you would have to divide your development energy across all the common platforms (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows), and not everyone uses a smartphone either. You would be inefficient and would cut out an entire demographic.


I don't know why this is on the front page either. You need comments from actual developers. Look at all the dumb comments you've gotten already.

Most Web based apps don't work well on non-smartphones

Mobile app due to easy of accessibility. I'm more likely to check on app daily than switch on a laptop and go online. And besides, people will still use the phone browser to access the Web page.

toshodei: Which is more feasible? Which is more lucrative? Mobile-Based Apps or Web-based Apps for 9ja or African market? Many people have more mobile devices or smartphones than desktops/laptops but it seems as if people dont use their mobile devices or smartphones to browse . Or how do you feel?

@ bolded ℓ don't know W̶̲̥̅̊hε̲̣̣̣̥я̩̥̊ε̲̣̣̣̥ yόϋ heard this, a lagre number φf nigerians that go online use mobile phones ℓ don't know the actual statistic but ℓ think it is about 70% ãпԃ this is even common knowledge. Fø̲̣̣я today ℓ think mobile based app is it.

Yeah its a very good idea bro, but one thing you must understand is. One thing is to start-up something innovative, another is for the people to accept such innovations. For example creating such apps, how many africans would be willing to patronise it so that money gets into the pockets of the app makers. Cos you know we all like free stuffs. That's another problem affecting the black race, the ability to accept new innovations and ideas

ayukdaboss:
Most Web based apps don't work well on non-smartphones

That's due to the developer. A GOOD programmer makes a website that DEGRADES so it works on ALL PLATFORMS. That's how I build web apps. I test it on every single screen size, browser, and platform.

Twitter works everywhere, doesn't it? It's a web app, with a mobile app OPTION.



This thread really shouldn't be on the front page. Nairaland has A LOT of tech experts that can give the OP the correct advice.