Building Mobile Application Using Drupalgap

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DrupalGap is an opensource software which is used to bridge the gap between mobile applications and Drupal website.

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For the Drupal websites, a mobile open source application development is used that is known as DrupalGap. This tool can be used to create   mobile application for the websites. With the mobile application development kit custom, multi platform applications can be easily created that can communicate with the Drupal websites. DrupalGap – Mobile Applications for Drupal Websites is simple and easy.

Description:

Drupal builds upon PhoneGap, Drupal, jquery mobile. The Drupal module is the string between the Drupal websites and mobile application.  There are many android applications, which were built with the Drupal application kit and Drupal gap mobile application can be easily installed on the android devices. After installation, the interface with the Drupal site is enabled.  With Drupal, you cannot only content management, which is based on the web, but it can be also used as the   mobile application backend. It can contain your business logic, content, functionality and user management.

Capabilities of Native Mobile Application:

There are two different things which you will get to the building of the native application which mobile applications do not have; access to native functionality and distribution through app stores. Here are the few things explained that you can get with this.

Why Drupal?

This is one of the most popular CMS open source platforms. It has the largest library of codes which is important and flexible architecture. Drupal works very well for iPad, iPhone, blackberry, androids and windows 7.

Drupal Advantages for Your Websites:

The Drupal strategies include targeted devices, targeted audiences and business goals. Because of the strategies it is being popular day by day.   Drupal development includes product flow, focus group and defining functionality.  Drupal deployment focus on the user experience, functionality testing and device testing as well. Drupal makes mobile optimization of the content very easy. If you are having a Drupal site and is having a fair layout, then it is not at all difficult to make it mobile with Drupal because of DrupalGap – Mobile Applications for Drupal Websites. The process is so simple that it will just take you seven hours of a day.

When someone will click on your mobile site, then you might want to detect that they are present on the mobile and serve your content in mobile optimization theme.

There are varieties of things, which you will require but for basic implementation on the mobile site, you will need a custom mobile theme.

Modules of mobile theme and panels for your extra level of the sauce.

  • Image filters  halftone, sepia and many more
  • Access to the  camera  of the device  for videos and images
  • Charge for app in app store  and Google play
  • In app subscription  and purchase  through the app store, other stores, Google play
  • Access to the files from the device  for caching
  • Native functionality  of map
  • Aware  of the background location  on IOS 5

 

In the future, many of these capabilities will be easily available but to have access to all these features today native mobile application is the only way to get it. There are several other great things, which are possible with Drupal.

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Vipin Jain

Vipin Jain

Vipin Jain is the Co-Founder and CEO at Konstant Infosolutions and is in charge of marketing, project management, administration and R&D at the company. With his marketing background, Vipin Jain has developed and honed the company’s vision, corporate structure & initiatives and its goals, and brought the company into the current era of success.

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