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Food delivery apps are a new rage. They function as a platform for collaboration between restaurants and customers. More and more food-based startups are in need of food delivery apps today.
Not only for the purpose of creating an app for your own sake, the mobile app sector is currently a massive revenue-giving area and food start-ups are all increasing daily with each of them requiring at least one app for a single platform with most of them targeting various platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows and more.
Here, we will provide you a complete guide on food delivery app development with all the details of food delivery apps.
There are so many things you need to do before you begin developing food delivery apps. You should keep track of a lot of stuff from the instruction set to the procedure. The development of the food ordering android app includes a lot of measures that must be performed perfectly. The method can be tough and tricky if you start from scratch. But developing an app from scratch will actually help you create the app you want for the restaurant. With the interface you want, you can develop a fully personalized app.
The good news here is that you don’t have to fight a lot when you’re creating an app. The app’s basics and fundamentals are similar, and you just need to take some basic stuff into account when building the app.
You must be confused about choosing a fixed price or hourly rate to pay developers. You can employ the finest mobile app development company that can make your dream come true.
Certainly, pricing is the primary thing to decide before continuing with stuff as far as food delivery applications are concerned. Any restaurant android app development cost will greatly depend on the specifications it has. Also, development partner will also impact your mobile application development costs.
These are the variables that influence pricing while creating a mobile app. Here are the significant factors that influence the price of developing mobile apps. You have to keep these points in mind while building a mobile application.
Developing an app for a particular operating system will lower the cost. The app-building system Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) will greatly impact pricing. You have to develop an app that operates perfectly across different operating systems and consumes a fortune.
This is one of the main constraints. The native app is OS-centric and costs a little bit more but offers incredible customer experience. While the web app is accessible at a cheaper price, the user experience is not as pleasant as the native app. You can first opt for a web app and then switch to the native one if you’re on a tight budget.
There are some applications that require user authentication or authorization. Such applications will cost a little more than the usual amount. It relies entirely on your requirement to go with such apps or not.
Official distribution channels like the Google Play store will charge $100 as the price of licensing developers. You have to be prepared to pay that amount because it’s something you can’t avoid. Before deploying it, the hosting company will check whether the applications fulfill all the demands or not.
Add-ons like integration with social media applications, buying in-app will cost you a little more.
Although, nowadays apps are used by majority 9of the people since everyone loves doing everything while staying in their comfort zones but usually, apps usage is seen among individuals having a busy lifestyle. Whether they are professionals, students, working-class. So keep them as your primary target.
It is always smart to do your research first. So, before you set out to make your product, study your competitors, check on their weaknesses. Also, observe what makes their apps a success. But remember, food delivery applications are not about being copycats, but rather about innovating. Do research beforehand so that you don’t have to make any modifications later on. See their features, the services they provide, and what makes them different from others when it comes to designing food apps. For example, if you are looking for a sample business plan for tiffin services, you need to understand the magnitude of the online food ordering system project.
People who order from delivery apps look to be in their comfort zone, so your app requires to be easy to navigate and easy to customize according to user needs. A sleek design and an introductory tour that can help people find their way the first time around for your food apps helps.
We have listed some of the primary features for your food app development experts that you should remember to include other than those you already have in your mind.
This method should be fast and straightforward. Moreover, the app should provide an opportunity to specify any meal’s content. People may have distinct food preferences and intolerances, so offer them the possibility to customize a meal. A list of search categories and customization options will make the ordering process much more convenient.
A helpful function for both the customer and the delivery staff. It enables clients to find neighboring restaurants and at the same time makes the logistics system clearer for carriers.
Every customer likes to monitor the delivery process, so you need to provide this choice. Moreover, such data is also helpful for restaurants as it helps them evaluate the preparation process.
Keep in mind that people want to have preferences for payment systems as well, so your app has to provide several alternatives (internet payment options or cash on delivery, etc.).
Customers must be able to write a review on a restaurant or meal. It encourages you to discover weak points in your services.
Another important feature of any successful app. Inform your customers about their order status, inform them about discounts, and remind them to order a meal if they’re busy.
People like to share their experiences with others, so offer them the ability to do so. In return, you will gain more popularity and increase your audience.
Incentives such as loyalty schemes, discounts and coupons will bring more customers to your business.
This is important for restaurant executives and couriers both. The app should provide a feature to manage orders, update information and interact with other stakeholders.
Any person should be able to check prior orders. Here the reorder choice can be very useful. At the same time, restaurants must have access to order history as it is important information for analytics.
We’ve described some of the most important features for a food delivery app. Your food delivery app may also have some other features or functionalities which will make it exclusive.
Saima Naz
Jul 22, 2019
Google Updates Maverick: Its Search Ranking Algorithm T...
Something really exciting is going on at Google. For the third time in just one week, Google has once again updated its search ranking algorithm, with many of the tools showing enormous variations in the Google rankings.
Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld, who termed this update as “Update Maverick”, said it was named in honor of yesterday’s Top Gun trailer release, as this update appears slightly furtive and detailed. Nevertheless, all the key algorithm tools are reporting an update has happened.
Bret said that he is not a huge fan of naming an update for a movie, and would have preferred something around the 50th anniversary of the moon landing but “Google had their opportunity to name it and they didn’t get back to me after numerous attempts.”
Some of the tools realtime screenshots:
Source: https://algoroo.com
Source: https://www.advancedwebranking.com/google-algorithm-changes
Source: https://www.semrush.com/sensor
Source: https://serpmetrics.com/flux
Saima Naz
Jul 22, 2019
How Blockchain Technology is Altering the Social Media ...
The term Blockchain has become a prevalent part of human vocabulary over the previous year. It initially started as the tech behind cryptocurrency transfers and exchanges but is now spreading into thousands of other sectors.
It’s safe and reliable nature makes it a strong way for businesses to record financial transactions and provide a more equal playing field for buyers and sellers.
But how does this equate into the fast-changing and addictive world of social media? Can blockchain’s manipulative opportunities work for social media? How does blockchain work for social media?
Think of the first thing you do in the morning when your alarm wakes you up. If you automatically reach your phone and scroll through your latest notifications, you’re not alone. For most individuals, this is the go-to-morning activity.
Our thumbs wander to Facebook or Instagram or Twitter icon before we even opened our eyes appropriately. And, fortunately, for those of us who’s first moments of the day are dictated by who said what to us where, most social media channels are free to use.
Let me rephrase this: they are free to use in the monetary sense. We pay for them in other ways; with our data and, eventually, with our identities. That’s where it all receives a little Black Mirror.
Blockchain can be seen as an extremely secure digital ledger (think spreadsheet) that lives on a global computer network and allows peer-to-peer transactions to take place. This network enables a group of connected computers to keep a single ledger instead of getting the data owned by one manager.
There are a variety of blockchain-based systems on the market today. Most frequently, these systems process data by placing it into groups called “blocks” and linking them in a chronological order to form what is called a “chain” that produces a blockchain. Blockchain utilizes mathematical functionalities and code to approve and check transactions before new data can be added to the ledger. Each piece of information must respond to a complicated mathematical problem generated by a cryptographic hash function (a mathematical algorithm) before it can be added. If the answer is right, the data becomes a component of the blockchain; if the answer is inaccurate, a consensus is reached before the data is recorded.
Blockchain technology continues to impact many industries and social media is no exception.
Whether you are an online social media marketer or a company owner who uses social media to reach customers, it is essential that you understand that social media is currently undergoing a drastic change. Blockchain technology is presently disrupting multiple sectors, and social media is likely to encounter the ramifications of this disruption. Businesses using social media to create their brands, such as Twitter and Facebook, will soon understand that all the investment may have been for nothing. When blockchain technology changes, there will be an undeniable upheaval on the platforms used by consumers and businesses along with the means of networking.
If you want to prepare your business for future blockchain-enabled social network marketing, there are certain trends that you need to follow carefully.
Here’s a little elaboration of the current trends. These trends show how blockchain is changing social media:
Rather than marketing their product in social media’s ‘black hole’ and becoming susceptible to fraudulent pay per click or PPC ad impressions, business executives are attracted towards the blockchain technology and smart contracts which enables them to connect with customers with verified identities.
Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency are the future of the social media ecosystem. When a decentralized platform becomes mainstream, social media consumers have the option of platforms from which to network. The potential to earn small amounts of cryptocurrency for online operations may attract users to platforms where contributions to platform development are rewarded. For example, if you consider the amount of time you invest in current social media platforms, then imagine if each post you make will earn you a small amount of bitcoin. This kind of coded social media network is fascinating.
Online fraud is so prevalent that verification has become a need now, whether it is the identity verification or market place verification. Virtual marketplaces are areas that are used to grow specific business needs and to interact with like-minded companies or vendors. As blockchain technology becomes more prominent and mainstream, marketplace verification will improve the growth potential of a company. The ability to market verified vendors or businesses will make marketing simpler as they will understand what you are selling; thus, decreasing all marketing attempts while improving ROI time.
We are witnessing an increasing interest in the cryptocurrency collectible industry, with influencers raising millions of dollars for investor funding. Although for some people it is only a child’s play. But the reality is that cryptocurrency collectible businesses are planning to introduce games on platforms such as Android or iOS. Once submarkets are constructed on top of the crypto-collectible game, the lure of this innovation will become more defined.
If we talk about today’s social media scenarios, it’s simple for posts to get flooded with fake content from spambots. Blockchain technology with its smart contracts can affect the use of fake content. All the future social media networks will have the latest content distribution based on verified information and traceable data spread.
We cannot predict with certainty that blockchain will outdo the current social system, we understand that its uses are vast and useful. If we arrive at a full blockchain-based social mechanism, we will still face difficulties. As consumers, however, we will have more control over our personal data, content, and access to accurate information.
Saima Naz
Jul 21, 2019
LinkedIn Adding Three New Ways For Marketers To Achieve...
LinkedIn said it’s adding 3 new marketing objectives to Campaign Manager, with the aim of achieving advertising goals. Using Campaign Manager, marketers can now enhance their LinkedIn marketing campaigns for the following objectives:
In an announcement, the company says: “These new offerings are designed to continue to make it easier to improve key results and better align with your campaign objectives. Early results show it’s working, we’ve seen a 67% lift in customer satisfaction compared to our legacy Campaign Manager experience.”
In addition to this update, LinkedIn is enhancing its click pricing to align with the selected goal. For example, if website visits are the objective, then marketers will only be charged for clicks that go to a landing page on their website.
Saima Naz
Jul 21, 2019
Google No Longer Supports no-Index Directive in robots....
Google will no longer support unverified and unpublished rules in the robots select protocol, effective September 1, the company said, meaning Google will no longer support robots.txt files with the noindex directive listed within the file.
“In the interest of maintaining a healthy ecosystem and preparing for potential future open source releases, we’re retiring all code that handles unsupported and unpublished rules (such as noindex) on September 1, 2019. For those of you who relied on the noindex indexing directive in the robots.txt file, which controls crawling, there are a number of alternative options,” the company said.
Google listed the following options, the ones you perhaps should have been using anyway:
Google has been looking to change this for years and with regulating the protocol, it can now move forward. Google said it “analyzed the usage of robots.txt rules.” Google focuses on looking at unsupported implementations of the internet draft, such as crawl-delay, nofollow, and noindex. “Since these rules were never documented by Google, naturally, their usage in relation to Googlebot is very low,” Google said. “These mistakes hurt websites’ presence in Google’s search results in ways we don’t think webmasters intended.”
Saima Naz
Jul 20, 2019
Google News Doesn’t Support The Standout Meta Tag and...
With the unveiling of the new AI-powered Google News a few days ago, Google has drawn support for the standout meta tag and the Editors’ Pick section.
As part of the new Google News, support for Editors’ Picks feeds & the standout meta tag has ended, with more to share on other ways publishers can enhance discernibility in the near future.
There is clearly no reason to continue to do so, as far as those publishers that use these features are concerned. It is also built into the Yoast SEO plugin, and it’s believed that Yoast will be eliminating those features as well.
Launched in September 2011, the standout meta tag came as a way to allow news publishers to highlight articles that are believed to stand above and beyond the rest. Their use was confined to seven times in a seven-day period, so publishers learned to use them frugally.
The Editors’ Pick also launched in 2011, in August, letting publishers who were comprised in this hand-curated system define which stories should be included in that list. This comes just a few months after Google also dropped support for the meta keywords new tag.
Both of these features are not supported in the new version of Google News anymore.
Saima Naz
Jul 19, 2019
Corona SDK: A Perfect Framework For Cross Platform Mobi...
Developed by Corona Labs Inc. in mid-2009, Corona is a software development kit which lets software programmers build 2D mobile applications for iOS, Android, and Kindle, desktop applications for Windows and OS X, and connected TV applications for Apple TV, Fire TV, and Android. With the object of making the process of engine development more transparent, it’s a move that’s being planned for years; it also empowers the community to directly affect future growth and potential. As part of a succession of steps on a longer development journey, delegating Corona to the community is the unquestionable way to rapidly respond to market shifts and vicissitudes, ensuring Corona stays pertinent and appreciated to all mobile app developers. Corona SDK for cross-platform mobile game development is the perfect platform for developing games, but the mobile game development process is a tricky thing to do.
Vlad Sherban, product manager for Corona Labs said that the evolution of Corona to the open-source model of development has been their lasting vision since Corona Labs was acquired by Appodeal in 2017. He said that this move is likely to bring transparency to the development process, enabling users to contribute features or bug fixes to make the project better for everyone.
The open-source model will bring more discernibility and elasticity to the growth process by allowing visibility into precisely what the engine team is working on and where the project is going, and by underwriting appreciated new features that will help spearhead Corona to the next level. Other benefits for businesses include the likelihood to obtain a commercial license for source code and modify the engine for specific profitable projects. Corona is a cross-platform framework ideal for rapidly creating apps and cross-platform 2D game development.
Corona Labs will continue to have a devoted team and setup to support our prosperous plugin ecology and infrastructure, as well as to keep up to date with the ever-changing supplies and updates coming from applications stores. Driven by the new open-source model and reinforced by the development of new features and bug fixes will make Corona more community-driven — but not without our help and supervision. Eventually, going open source will provide poise in the future of the engine and an opportunity to grow community involvement in engine development. Most parts of Corona’s code will be open-sourced barring some plugins, the Corona Marketplace, and the build infrastructure. This is not a final or thorough list as the team may open source even more as we move forward.
With the object of open source game development, Corona will be dual-licensed under both commercial and open-source licenses. The open-source license is the GNU GPLv3 license, and commercial license will be accessible upon agreement with Corona Labs.
Xamarin, PhoneGap, Ionic, NativeScript, and React Native are some of the most suitable cross-platform mobile app development frameworks.
Corona SDK has been widely used for a while, with most of the newer apps and games predicated on this SDK. So, the question now is: Is Corona SDK the best mobile game development platform? When apps are made locally, they turn out great but are really costly to yield on more than one platform. As such, this is where Corona SDK comes to your salvage.
It’s no surprise that many people who want to learn to develop for Android want to start by making a game. And there’s no better way to develop a game by using Android technology.
While there are many platforms for game development, such as Unity, AppGameKit, Fusion, and more, the best of the best platform by far is Corona SDK.
Yes. The core Corona framework is completely free, including Corona Native which can be used to extend Corona with native languages (C/C++/Obj-C/Java).
Of late, mobile app development has gained a lot of traction, with a number of developers trying to cash in on this rewarding field. Nevertheless, the major problem that developers face across streams is the different programming languages and operating systems. And when it comes to evaluating the comparison between such topics there is no best ever.
Here are the major reasons why developers usually prefer Corona SDK for cross-platform mobile game development:
With Corona SDK, you just need to write your code once, and there it runs on all stages. You might just need restrictive code here and there to make it platform precise. With native apps, the same effort goes in making apps on different platforms, growing the development time and cost.
Corona is known to be ultra-fast with the least lag as compared to other SDKs in the market today. It could even regulate easily to all the screen determinations you require. The fast FPS is certainly advantageous. Usually, with SDKs like Phonegap and ImpactJS, the FPS is too sluggish, making mobile game development a lagging experience.
The emulator is really speedy when you compare to your Android emulator. The emulator revives your project as you save a file and makes the development process much faster.
This is the main point when it comes to Corona SDK. There is no devoted Corona SDK IDE. It has great plugins for any platform you want to use. It feels great to have all things in one place.
Corona uses several images and music files. With just a line or two of basic coding, you could effortlessly show images or play music. You need a really good designer if you are working with Corona.
Corona SDK uses Lua, which is known to be quite easy to learn and use.
Like all SDKs, even Corona SDK has its list of cons. The commonest problem faced by Corona users is that it is quite costly. Another problem is that you do not have a way to integrate native plugins, so it might not be practicable to use Corona for all your applications. Furthermore, it is hard to test your apps developed on Corona on devices. You do not have the option to arrange it on to the device directly. You will have to amass, build, and then install your game on the device each time you want to test.
Therefore, these are some of the main pros and cons of Corona SDK. Simply put, Corona is found to be comparatively easier and more widespread than all other SDKs owing to its features. Developers find it really easy to learn and use it, making it one of the most loved SDKs for game development.
The debate on whether it is the best would not end anytime soon, there’s no doubt it’s one of the best options available.
The gaming industry is one of the largest in the world. It offers hundreds of thousands of people globally and as of 2017, rakes in a revenue of over $100 billion yearly. That’s why a lot of developers and aficionados want to build their own games and rake in the dough. With so many mobile game development tools on the market, Corona SDK is the perfect framework for cross-platform mobile game development. There is no one magic tool that will solve all your problems, different mobile game development tools serve different purposes and audiences.
Saima Naz
Jul 18, 2019
Google Stadia Likely To Be Beaten By Microsoft xCloud F...
A newly published patent has revealed that software giant Microsoft xCloud could beat Google Stadia for smartphone gaming, with xCloud’s specific focus on smartphones.
Divulged by Windowlatest, the patent is for two controllers that would attach to either side of a smartphone, allowing you to use the handset for gaming without using touch controls.
While technically the patent is for the device that would be used to charge these controllers, it gives us a close look at the device altogether.
The controllers use spring clips to attach to either side of the smartphone, and have buttons that are very similar to what you’d see on an Xbox One controller. When attached to a smartphone, the resulting device looks rather similar to a Nintendo Switch in portable mode.
Since touchscreen controls can often be rather tricky on smartphones, chiefly for action games like Fortnite or PUBG Mobile that need super-fast reflexes, numerous users find gaming peripherals valuable. No wonder, a company with a big gaming branch-like Microsoft is pursuing them.
Nevertheless, with preliminary testing for xCloud getting ever faster, it makes us wonder if the patents could be part of Microsoft’s plan to take on Google Stadia. The patent indicates Microsoft is putting smartphones—and perhaps tablets—alongside computers and TVs as screens to play games on.
Although we are not sure if that’s exactly the case, we’re hoping to get practical with both Stadia and xCloud by year-end and in the future.
Saima Naz
Jul 18, 2019
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