Soon those extensions may be sold to other businesses or mobile app builders in the marketplace.
With the success of mobile apps such as Pinterest and other software, many people want to build their own apps. However, there are many barriers to creating custom apps – they can be expensive, take a long time to develop, and require a software development team.
There are tools such as PhoneGap and Titanium (Appcelerator) that make it easier to develop apps across a few mobile platforms, but they still require programming skills. The current trend is DIY (do it yourself) app building, of which iBuildApp is at the forefront. iBuildApp provides small and fortune 1000 businesses a quick and inexpensive way to build mobile apps.
Rafael Soultanov, CEO of iBuildApp, says iBuildApp has removed the technical barriers to entry in mobile app building world. Using iBuildApp, the user can create a custom extension (mobile module) and upload it to their app.“ With this approach we believe our platform is much different than the rest of the “no coding required” or “app building platforms.”
The iBuildApp platform has been remade to make it plugin architecture friendly, so developers can easily create and resell their extensions. They can then sell the extensions to other businesses, apps, or app builders in the marketplace. The extensions (which can be designed as an API service) can be created as data-driven modules that connect to web site APIs or databases. Developers working on multiple apps can reuse these pre-built extensions in their other apps to save on both time and cost.
The ability to reuse or reselling pre-made custom extensions is a strong competitive advantage at iBuildApp because it allows non-technical app builders to simply drag and drop components into their apps. Custom designed UI templates are already being sold in the marketplace. Soon developers and designers will be able to not only sell their own mobile design templates, but their extensions as well.
About iBuildApp
iBuildApp is a patent-pending automated mobile app creation and publishing Platform-as-a-Service. The platform allows any business, group or individual to create and publish a native or a web app for a smartphone or a tablet (currently supporting HTML, iOS and Android) in a matter of minutes. The interface is template-based with widgets to add location (maps), contact us, coupons, video, audio, pictures, RSS, Twitter, Facebook and more.
iBuidApp is a mobile DYI platform for iPhone, iPad, Android and HTML5 apps. Since launching in 2010, there have been over 11 million downloads by over 180,000 businesses (app builders). There are been over 230,000 apps built and over 60,000 apps published and monthly visitors exceed 2.5 million.
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