Challenges that you might face during iPhone app development

Today, mobile devices are not just the tool to communicate with friends and family members. There's a lot more potential in these gadgets and thanks to mobile applications it has become easier to boost the functionality of these devices. Nowadays, people are using handheld devices (smartphones & tablets) to complete their routine tasks such as reading emails, social networking, shopping online, listening to music or watching movies. The rapidly growing app industry has motivated several IT companies to join this bandwagon. 

Apple Inc is one of the famous among all. Although, iPhone comes pre-loaded with plenty of stock applications but still there are several agencies in this sector which are particularly targeting the iPhone development market. Apple's iPhone is the most important development platforms and at the same time, most popular mobile devices of the modern era. At present, there are millions of apps available on the App Store but what remains unnoticed is the real efforts and challenges the app developers face.

When it comes to iPhone app development and the challenges involved, it is very much true that the users always look out for the best app for their devices and the developers do have to provide them with satisfactory results so that they themselves can sustain in this competitive market. Given below are some common challenges that app makers face while building an application for iPhone and other Apple devices. 

Touch screen: Well, iPhone is a touch-screen device, which itself lays many challenges to make the user-experience error free and long lasting. As all the operations in iPhone are done using the touch interface, developers need to maintain the sensitivity of the user's touch and set up controls of app carefully. 
Collision with another app: iPhone can only run one app in the foreground. So if the user wants to use another app at the same time, he needs to close the previously running app. In this case, the developers have to come up with a provision which can save all the app data before the termination so that when the user returns he can start from where he left. 

Meeting with incoming interruptions: It's quite common that app usage can be interrupted via call or SMS. If the user decides not to take the call or read the SMS, he can carry on with the app. However, if the user wants to take the call, the current apps gets closed automatically. 

Low memory warning: Very often, iPhone users face the low memory problem because of which apps stop working. The basic model of iPhone comes with just 16GB internal memory and most of it is consumed by the OS, leaving not much space for the heavy apps to load and run. Usually, apps require some free space to function and if there's no memory then it will definitely crash.  

Summing Up

These are some common challenges faced by the iPhone developers. To create better and more efficient apps for the users, developers should consult the Apple's Human Interface Guide Book, which contains all guidelines related to iPhone app development.