If you are asleep at the switch, just give yourself a wake-up punch. Make your eyes wide open and evaluate what’s going on around you? AR app, the bright future of apps. This is because money lies all in the apps and AR app is the road map to that treasure hunt. With the massive success of Pokemon Go, AR is just at the sky heights. There is so much buzz about the Pokemon Go that it feels like AR and Pokemon Go are twins. Soon this perception is going to be altered as AR apps will be freely available on IOS and Android.

The advent of AR app has not been for more than a year but mobile app development company have made day and night one and with users support, AR has overcome daunting challenges and portrayed bizarre results. Let’s dive in to check a live example of the same. Using your smartphone camera, Google translates app detect the text and translate it to your desired language on the go with AR. This seems to be like some magical pixie dust sprinkled over your text and it is translated to your own language. Well, it’s no magical pixie dust, it’s just AR which has integrated this beautifully into our lives that we are not in the know of.

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If you are a developer and intend to walk parallel with the upcoming AR app needs, check out this list of tools to be used. This will assist you in uplifting your knowledge on Unity 3D and AR app development.

1)Vuforia

This platform is considered to be one of the most optimized one to combat with AR development. This tool support apps on IOS, Android, Unity editor and UWP. Vuforia offers creative empowerment, sustainable reliability, optimum reach and highly integrated vision. This tool integrates computer vision to recognize images and 3D objects.

Astonishing features

• Recognizes shapes of the cylinder, boxes, and objects like a mug, cup, and bottle.
• English word recognition is also something this SDK entails having customized database of 100000 words determined by the developer.
• Recognize a wide range of objects to entail life in the toys and give enriched user experience.
• Get the brand conscious and customized design with VuMark. Encoding product serial number and URL are also some highlights of VuMark.
• Scan and create object target with Vuforia object scanner.

Local and cloud storage database are implemented for the recognition process.

2)EasyAR

A curate alternative to Vuforia where there is free access to the library. Working with EasyAR is quite easy peasy, just get yourself registered with your account and get the plugin’s key of your bundle ID and you are ready to use. The platforms that it shares it supports to is Android, IOS, MAC, Windows, UWP and unity editor. Astonishing features includes Cloud recognition support, image tracking, slam, 3D object track, API in various languages, image target management, and retrieval.

3)ARToolkit

Vuforia restricts the mobile app development users with premium boundaries which are not the case with ARToolKit which avails the premium benefit of being open source. Good news folks, this declares open access to the development library. The supporting platforms of this tool are IOS, Android, Linux, Windows, Smart glasses and Mac OS. Fascinating features includes tracking simple black squares, head mounted display support, open source and free software, planar images tracking, Unity plugins, OpenSceneGraph plugins, optical stereo calibration and camera calibration.

4)Kudan

Kudan is considered as the cutting edge competitor of Vuforia making AR app development eased up. Kudan integrates SLAM tech (simultaneous localization and mapping) and recognized 3D objects and general images. Android and IOS are the supporting platforms of this toolkit. Markerless AR engine and advanced tracking are some highlighted features accompanying with low memory footprint, rapid app development, and uncountable makers. This tool is bridging the gap between IOT (internet of things) and 3D recognition.

Mobile tech has shown tremendous uplift since past few years. Hardware has evolved dramatically but the actual source which drives the mobile tech is the software mutation. But the actual thing which is behind this drastic mutation is the application. Before the launch of any app, testing is pre-requisite. However, app testing is like a race and testers are the racers always lagging behind as the app world is always above the expected speed level. The rapid moves have led the testers to the different set of challenges to face and they have been a pro and have come up with solutions quickly and effectively. In this time it’s not only the consumers who have shifted to mobile apps, even the entrepreneurs have turned this way around. However, app testing is not a criterion to be underestimated as it is a complex process. Let’s make you aware of the mobile app testing challenges and the ways to combat them.

1) Device disintegration

This basically happens in the course of existence of several models. By far, this challenge is considered as one of the most difficult one in the list of challenges and this is because it has innumerable permutations. On the part of the mobile application development company, you cannot be sure that the hard work you have put in for developing one app will work on the another device or not. This is because the screen resolution, OS optimization, memory and other hardware specs can be poles apart from one device to another.

2) OS fragmentation

The basic concept behind OS fragmentation is dissimilar versions of OSS. Android and IOS both of them have approximately more than 10 versions existent in the market. App developers have to ensure that their app is functioning on each and every version of OS available. There should be boundless user experience despite the fact whether OS is installed in the device or not.

3) Connectivity types

Mobile data connection have various types 2G, 3G, 4G. Wi-Fi and LTE. Developers have to be a pro and check whether their app is performing on all these networks without facing any glitches. In several cases, your device might also be in the zone of no connection when it is turned to flight mode. No connection mode should also be taken into consideration while mobile app testing.

4) International approach

The preponderance of the apps designed by the mobile app development team taking the global view into consideration and here lies one of the other challenges…..”Translation”. Regional traits like language, time zone, and target audience are some of the hurdles to be faced by the testers targeting for the global audience. Some amusing relics can be caused if there is a change of time during ongoing app.

5) Battery life

The trends in the battery field are not as rapid as that of the app. The Plethora of apps is used by the users intentionally while some of them are just added which users don’t even pay heed to. This eats up battery a lot and makes the processing speed of app low which again is a major barrier in the app testing field. The power consumption should be kept minimum for effective app working.