Wearable Solutions: Keeping Technology Close to Your Skin

Having access to sensors, receivers, and other hardware of a wearable gadget, these apps collect data from them and using the Internet, process the information providing expected output. As a rule, wearable solutions design is developed with a view to displaying this output on it, but wearable technology developers often see to it that the information is delivered to the owner’s smartphone, tablet, or computer.

The difference in showing the results conditions wearable app development peculiarities.

• If a wearable device is itself on the receiving end of data, the platform selected as the foundation for wearable technology development doesn’t matter greatly.
• But if the app is going to be installed on a smartphone, wearable app development should be tailored to fit the operating system of your phone (Android or iOS) or move by way of cross-platform app development.

Since they are built to be run on smartphones, wearable apps may seem to be a little different from regular mobile app. For a layman.

Having been a seasoned player on the market of app development, the team of Sirin Software experts would like to highlight the key contrasts between standard mobile and wearable app development.

• Gadget specificity
  While mobile apps can run on any model of the smartphone (given they comply with its operating system), wearable apps employ device-specific APIs. Consequently, their sphere of usage is a very narrow one – even similar devices of another manufacturer won’t be friendly to them.
• The scope of functionalities
  Devices used in wearable solutions are small and relatively less powerful, so the functionalities of respective apps are rather limited in comparison to native apps you install on your smartphone.
• Interaction with users
  UX for mobile apps is critical. Wearable gadget design presupposes close to zero interaction with users, so wearable apps go no further than just collecting information and showing output.

Our experience in app development (both mobile and wearable) let us also pinpoint the major challenges lying in wait for IT specialists involved in wearable device and app development services.

• The Mission
  This is what wearable app development should start with. Or rather be preceded with. Before you embark on the development process, you should study the market and analyze your competitors’ products to understand how your software is going to beat rivals and pander to customers.
• Cross-Platform Support
  To be able to reach out to a maximum number of users, your app should be compatible with multiple platforms (notably, iOS and Android), which spells custom-made product with a special focus on API and slews of protocols.
• Chained Devices
  Since wearable solutions design involves a pair of virtually tethered gadgets, all issues the app might face must be multiplied by two. Developing an app that is device-unaffected is a tough row to hoe and if these devices are linked via Bluetooth, you must take care a decent range is empowered.
• UI
  This challenge isn’t only about an attractive image on both the wearable gadget’s display and phone screen and satisfying UX, but also about making it fit a usually small screen of such articles.
• Energy Consumption
  Comfortable UX encompasses device recharging that doesn’t happen way too often. If the app is energy-consuming, users won’t cherish charging the battery over and over again. But low energy means less functionality, so a proper balance in this respect should be sought after.
• Security Issues
  Exchanging data between devices is related to a higher risk of it being tampered with. Wearable technology development should go all reasonable lengths to allay data breach apprehensions of potential customers.
• Updating Opportunities
  Developers must envisage the necessity to update their product so that it kept abreast with all imperatives of the time and was bug-free.

Sirin Software can help you bypass these potential bottlenecks and come up with a viable product that can be employed in a whole gamut of potential applications.