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Easy Guide to Improve WordPress Admin Area

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If you run a WordPress Website, you would definitely be aware about the importance of Admin area of your site. It’s the place where your post is displayed. Generally, the default WordPress admin area looks feature rich and modern, but, many times it happens that, it doesn’t fulfill the specific need of WordPress bloggers. But, don’t get worried at all.

As WordPress is equipped with great flexibility and customization possibilities, you can easily customize the Admin area of your website and make it more attractive, user-friendly and engaging. Some important tips to improve your WordPress admin area are detailed here below:

1. Brand Your Admin Area:

Branding your Admin area will make your website look different from others and will attract more clients to your website. With the help of WordPress Branding Plugin, You can easily choose your favorite colors, logo and company name, etc without changing even a single line of code.

2. Hide Unnecessary Items of your Site’s menu:

If you run a multi-author WordPress blog, it is possible that lots of things displayed in the admin area of your website are of no use for visitors. Just clean up the admin area of your site using Adminimize plugin and allow your visitors to navigate on your site freely and smoothly.

3. Take note of Local Factors:

Many times, it happens that your browser cache and slow Internet connection also affect your browsing speed up to great extent. Check your Internet connection, clean up your browser cache and use another browser to improve your browsing speed and make your website more user-friendly.

4. Think of Adding Help section in WordPress Admin Area:

When you manage a multi-author WordPress site, you get fed up with answering the same questions of your clients and users time and again. You can solve this problem easily by adding WP Help plugin to your site. Once you install and activate it, users can find answers themselves with customized help/resource center added to the website.

5. Update Your website regularly:

Update your site’s themes, plugins, etc regularly. Don’t make use of an automatic updater. If you update your website in a timely fashion, it will resolve your site’s problem related speed and increase its security manifold.

6. Select your advertisements carefully:

Adding lots of advertisements from a third-party network on website will decrease its loading speed significantly. Add advertisements to your site directly by using an image(optimized for the Internet) or link

7. Take note of Hosting Account:

Choosing a right hosting scheme is very important for your website. If your site’s server is taking too much time to process an HTTP request and MySQL commands, then you need to get serious about it. You must get in touch with the hosting company and get the issue solved as soon as possible. Also, keep in mind that you should not host several sites at one time because if a site hosted on the same hosting account, gets traffic in bulk, it may decrease the website loading speed because of excessive server activity and badly optimized database.

8. Restricted Access to the Admin Area:

WordPress allows all readers and visitors of your site to access its Admin area by default. If you wish to disallow some users from accessing your site’s Admin area, just make use of the plugin named Remove Dashboard Access and redirect them to other pages of your websites.

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9. Alter the Footer of WordPress Admin Area:

The default footer of your WordPress website might be quite monotonous, that displays a line of pointless words, a link to WordPress.org and current WordPress version number. You can easily change it as shown by applying a simple trick. Just apply the code into the functions.php file to display your own links and words in the footer area(as shown in the picture here below):

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10. Attach Login Redirects for Non-Admin Users:

It is one of the most commonly used ways to restrict users to the dashboard of your site. Just make use of a Login Redirect plugin and control users easily and comfortably based on their role, name, etc. You can select one or many users from the dropdown and redirect editors and admins to wordpress dashboard and the subscribers to another custom page easily. It can be done in following direction Settings” > “Login/logout redirects”.

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11. Attach a Notification Center

Numerous notifications from plugins and themes can make your visitors unhappy. You can attach a notification center in the Admin area with the help of WP Notification Center to let them have a good experience on your website. When you use this plugin, notifications stop appearing on the Admin page and it gets lined up in the toolbar. When you slide mouse over the menu, it will displayed in a list. Always note that you can’t dismiss the notifications in the notification center, they will vanish only when you take the required action.

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SUMMARY

There are several tricks using which you can easily improve your WordPress admin area. Some of them help you make your website look better and others will protect your site against online threats. You also come to know about several ways as how to increase the performance of your site’s dashboard significantly. So, the admin area is important for you blog and you should take all possible steps to run it smoothly.

WhatsApp Video Calling Launched on Android ,iOS: Optimised for India’s Connectivity Issues

WhatsApp has started rolling out the video calling feature in India. Just like Skype and duo, the WhatsApp video calling is pretty smooth. The overall experience is great on high-speed data connection like 4G LTE or WiFi. The 4G customers are enjoying the service, without facing any lag. The video calling feature is available to Android, iOS, Windows phone via app update from today.

“We want to make these features available to everyone, not just those who can afford the most expensive new phones or live in countries with the best cellular networks” WhatsApp officials.

The video calling feature was already available in the beta app from past two weeks; the app worked like a charm. The video calls are just as secure as the voice call, and chats were, they are also running on end-to-end encrypted. This service will thus provide a way for people to communicate without fear of getting spied. To video call your friends you need to press the call button on the top right corner of the WhatsApp chat screen, and it will show you the options to choose the call type.

WhatsApp video calling will be available to all users running the latest version of the app, and if you are running a previous version, you are advised to update to the latest one.

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How to Conveniently Convert Your PDF Files Back to Excel

For an amazingly large number of business people from all around the world, the use of Microsoft’s Excel is more than a daily requirement, it’s one of the most important programs that they have in their arsenal. Ranging from accounting, bookkeeping, marketing, business analysts, investment bankers, and also many kinds of consultants and management, Excel with its versatile Spreadsheets, functions and operations is a perfect tool for all of them.

The difficulties with Excel first appear when we desire to share our file with someone else, and especially if the person in question has an operating system that is different from ours, for instance when we’re sending a file from a Mac to a computer that uses Windows. The way that the computers read the formatting of the file will not be the same, therefore the file will not appear correctly, while most likely having some severe issues and glitches.

The way to avoid this entire problem is to save your Excel file in PDF form prior to sending (which can be done from Excel itself), because PDF files have the ability to be viewed on every device and operating system exactly as they were created. The only problem that this situation creates is that if the person who received the file wants to make any kinds of changes to it, he won’t be able to do it. This is because all PDFs are read only files, and they require special tools or programs to convert them back to their original state, in this case MS Excel.

The free online tool we are going to introduce today is designed for this task alone, and the entire process is facilitated by not having any registration, nor any kind of email login whatsoever.

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PDF to Excel functions in a few easy steps, and the first one of them is selecting the PDF file you wish to convert, using the upload button.

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The user can also upload the file directly from three trusted cloud services Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive, which can be quite handy if you share your files with your colleagues within the company.

Noble Skiodo TV launches Full HD Smart TV at 24,999 INR

Noble Skiodo, a Hong-Kong based television company, has recently announced its Full HD 40-inch LED Smart Tv 42SM40P01 in India. The company is known for their premium Television products at an affordable cost. The device has a high-quality imaging and gives an ultimate performance. The company is also giving a 1-Year manufacturer warranty. The device is exclusively available on Amazon at the price of 24,999 INR.

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The new Noble Skiodo television has many features. The full HD screen is a true-to-life display, which gives a great viewing experience. Users can watch Blu-ray movies and all TV programming at the highest level of details with a contrast ratio of 2,00,000:1 that produces the brightest and the darkest colours efficiently.

Key Features

  • Cortex A7 Dual Core CPU
  • Mali400MP2 GPU running on Android Kitkat 4.4.4
  • Bluetooth Connectivity
  • 1GB DDR4 RAM along with external 4GB EMMC FLASH memory
  • Smart Wireless Key Board
  • Full HD Display resolution (1920×1080)

The smart TV is packing a Cortex A7 Dual Core CPU and Mali400MP2 GPU running on Android Kitkat 4.4.4, which comes with pre-installed applications. You just have to connect the Smart TV to your WI-FI and browse through multiple applications. The device also has 1GB DDR4 RAM along with external 4GB EMMC FLASH memory.

The wireless Keyboard makes it easy to access the internet. It also provides easy access to TV remote functions, such as power on/off, etc. The device also has a motion sensor, which enables the user to play Android games on TV. The device is inbuilt with Dual 8W speakers, which have five interchangeable sound modes. It also has 2 USB ports and 2 HDMI ports, so that you can stream movie anytime you want.

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Vivo v5 launches with 20 MP front Camera

VIVO technology has launched yet another device today. The device is a part of the Selfie series, which is today’s haute couture. Vivo V5 is a 20-megapixel front camera phone, which is an enormous camera. The device is the first ever 20MP front camera phone. The Vivo V5 is priced at 17,980 INR. The device is a VoLTE enabled smartphone, which will give a quality video/audio calling on LTE network.

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Vivo V5 is powered by a MediaTek MT6750 Octa-core 1.5 GHz processor, with 4 GB of RAM and a 16 GB internal memory, which is expandable up to 128GB. The device runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow with a Funtouch OS 2.6 over it.

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The Vivo V5 is packed with a 13MP rear camera and a 20-megapixel front camera. The device is also inbuilt with Sony IMX376 Exmor RS, CMOS Sensor with f/2.0 aperture. The device also has features Moonlight Glow feature, which allows users to click perfect selfies in low lighting condition. The device also has custom built AK4376 Hi-fi audio chip, that gives an exemplarily sound, with a signal-to-noise ratio of up to 115dB.

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The Vivo V5 has a 5.5-inch HD display with the resolution of 1280 x 720 display; the device is also protected with 2.5D curved glass. The device is backed by a 3,000mAh battery. V5 also supports an ‘Eye Protection Mode’ feature that filters out blue light to protect vision and prevents eye strain. The device also features a fingerprint sensor, which can unlock the device in just 0.2 seconds. Overall the device gives an excellent performance.

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OnePlus 3 rated as Best Smartphone of 2016 on Amazon India

One plus started as a small startup, now from all over the world, people are buying it. The has been so popular that based on consumer ratings, which were on Amazon India. The Indian users have rated OnePlus 3 as the best smartphone ever.

The OnePlus 3, which made excessive hype to the Indian consumers. The device has now added yet another achievement to its head. And not just anyone, but the consumers who have bought the device have made it possible.

OnePlus 3 rated as Best Smartphone of 2016 on Amazon India

The users gave a rating of 4.4/ 5 – the highest rating for any smartphone available on Amazon.in, not even iPhone has that much or positive review.The device launched in June 2016, the OnePlus 3 has beaten almost all the premium smartphone launches by other brands several months after its launch to earn the top rating.

Arun Srinivasan, Director Consumer Electronics, Amazon India said, “We believe that customer reviews and product ratings are the most unbiased and effective metric to judge product quality and customer satisfaction. Congratulations to the OnePlus team for creating the smartphone that has had a wide customer acceptance across India.

Since its release, OnePlus has launched the OnePlus 3 Graphite version in June this year. On the festival of Diwali, OnePlus also introduced the Soft Gold variant of the device in India, which has received multiple positive reviews.

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So far this is what we know about the phone. The device features a 6GB of RAM with a 16MP primary camera and an 8MP front camera; the device has an optic AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with Full HD resolution.

The device is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor and supports 4G Dual Nano Sim and VoLTE. The device has its unique Oxygen OS with Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 on top. The OnePlus 3 also carries some unique features like Dash Charging, which charges the 3,000 mAh battery up to 60% in just 30 minutes. The device also keeps fast charging even when streaming video or playing heavy games.

Specification:

Product OnePlus 3
Customer Price Rs. 27,999
Processor Snapdragon 820 (up to 2.2 GHz)
GPU Adreno 530 GPU
Internal Memory 64GB (UFS 2.0 Flash)
RAM 6GB LPDDR4 RAM
Camera Rear: 16 MP Sony IMX 298 (F/2.0) Front: 8 MP Sony IMX179 (F/2.0)
Battery 3,000 mAh Li-Po
Quick Charge Dash Charge (A day’s power in half an hour)
SIM Dual SIM-Dual Standby (Nano-SIM)
Fingerprint Sensor Yes (unlocks in <0.2 sec)
Finish Space Grade Anodized Aluminum Unibody
OS OxygenOS (Android Marshmallow v6.0.1)
Display 5.5-inch 1080p Optic AMOLED
Weight 158 gm
USB Cable USB 2.0, Type-C (Reversible Connector)

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Top 5 Best Kids apps this Children’s Day in India

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Nowadays kids want to watch their favorite TV shows “on demand” on their smart devices such as smartphones, tablet, and even smart TVs. There is a massive growth in collection of apps specially designed and curated for kids, from established broadcasters to internet companies to ensure complete enjoyment for children. The focus is not only to entertain but also to educate. This Children’s Day, I bring you top five dedicated video-on-demands apps for kids that will help to educate them in an easy way.

 YouTube Kids App

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Youtube officially designed this app for curious little minds. This app is a delightfully simple and free, where children can discover videos, channels, and playlists they love to watch. If you ever find a video that not related to kids, you can flag it. As this helps to make YouTube Kids App better.Kids can enjoy favorites such as Thomas & Friends, DreamworksTV, and Talking Tom, and online hits like Mother Goose Club, and Wonder Quest, plus anything else they’re into sports, gaming, crafts and more.

nexGTv Kids App

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What is childhood? If there were no moral teachings from the Tales of Panchtantra, the witty conversations between Vikram & Betal, and adventure of Ducktales. This is the  India’s first kids’ video app that is a mix of different stories from both vintage and new that will help in overall development.

NetflixApp

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Netflix is a TV and film-streaming service aimed at all ages.It also has a dedicated Children feature, where any family members on your account who you have designated as children will only be able to see kids’ content,this ensure your children don’t try to watch unsuitable content on the sly.

Voot App

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The most popular series like Motu Patlu, Chhota Bheem, Pokemon, SpongeBob, etc. By Voot Kids Pin you can also set up a pin that makes sure your kids only see safe, and you can also seamlessly toggle between Voot and Voot Kids through this Security Pin.

Nick App

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The Nick Android app puts the best of Nickelodeon at your fingertips. You can watch videos, play games, recent full episodes and much more!

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Coursera – Another Way of Online Education in India

E-learning has always been adaptive and innovative. If you want to know something about and you search it to Google or watch the entire concept on YouTube, it has become so easy that knowledge is now at our door step. Now, you don’t wait for the book deliver, and you buy it online as an e-book. India itself has been quick to pick up advantage of online education, your entire syllabus is online; fully explained.

Coursera is an online community that provides various educational courses for free. The courses are available online and on the Coursera App. India has just surpassed China regarding registered learner on Coursera, with 1.8 million registered users. 60,000 of users are joining Coursera every month from India.

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The courses on Coursera are bundled from the knowledge of the world’s best university. The company has built an effective team, which include engineers from Silicon Valley company such as Google, Netflix, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. The team is a conjunction of one of the world best minds.

After registering on the website, you can choose your desired field for different courses. There are various universities, which are providing courses in different sectors. There is more than 1,000 courses on the website, which you can learn.

Simple Steps to join Coursera:

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  1. Register Here
  2. Choose your field.
  3. Choose your course.
  4. Take classes.
  5. Complete assignments.
  6. Get certificate.

List of top courses: India

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R Programming Johns Hopkins University
Machine Learning Stanford University
Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) University of Michigan
Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects University of California, San Diego
Build Your First Android App CentraleSupélec
Mastering Data Analysis in Excel Duke University
Grammar and Punctuation University of California, Irvine
The Data Scientst’s Toolbox Johns Hopkins University
Cryptography I Stanford University
Algorithmic Toolbox University of California, San Diego & Higher School of Economics

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Reliance Jio new Big Plan to offer 1Gbps broadband service in Cheaper Rates

After the huge fuss that Reliance Jio created a month ago, it is back now with a new twist in the market. The company will be soon launching its Jio Broadband service. Which will have a network speed of 1Gbps. Although, there is no exact time period, when the service will launch commercially the company has already stated that, they are testing the wired broadband in some area across the country. So, we can guess that the fiber to the home service will soon officially launch to consumer.

FTTH (Fiber to the home):

The fiber to the home service is not an easy step, which reliance know. They had already laid down fiber optics cables in some major cities because the project was started years before. The company’s primary target is to make sure the customer gets up to 1Gbps internet speed from the wired broadband.

Some rumored reports also suggested that Jio was working on service like FTTH. And if it goes right, then we can enjoy FTTH service in coming six or eight months, which will surely give competition to company like Excitel, Spectranet, Hathway and etc.

With the connection, the consumer may get an Android based TV-box, which will also work as a WiFi router. It is rumored that it will connect 44 devices at one time. The TV-box will also have the Jio Tv service in which you can see up to 350 channel and 50 HD channel. The service can also save Tv content for 7 days, all the storage will be happening on Jio server.

Smart home:

Reliance is not only intent to launch FTTH service. They are moving toward to Internet of things, which will include smart home devices like motion sensor, security system, doorbells with camera and speaker, smoke detectors, fire detectors.

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Hyve Pryme Launched for 17,999 INR

Hyve mobility, an Indian start-up has launched their first flagship smartphone Hyve Pryme in collaboration with MediaTek. Hyve is now the first Indian Startup to introduce a phone with MediaTek’s flagship Helio X20 processor. The device is available Amazon India at the price of 17,999 ₹.

As far as this is what we know of the Hyve Pryme. The device is packed with a 2.3 GHz Mediatek Helio X20 Processor. it supports a 4GB of RAM and packs a 32 GB internal storage which is expandable via Micro SD-card up to 200 GB.

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The company has done a great job in the designing of the smartphone, and as a brand Hyve took a good step and kept the phone Pure Android. The device comes in single color variant, which is Champagne.

The device has a 5.7-inch Full HD screen with a screen resolution of 1920 x 1080, which is protected via a 2.5D arc glass. The device also has a 13-megapixel rear camera with a dual-tone LED flash. The front camera is an 8-egapixel shooter with the LED, that delivers a great quality of picture. The smartphone is packed with a 3,500 mAh battery.

In terms of connectivity, the device has 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 ac, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS and a USB Type-C. The device also features an IR blaster.

HyveCare also offers service and support for all its customers. To ensure best in class service and peace of mind for its customers, The Pryme comes with 2 years standard warranty with accidental protection and pickup and drop facility across India for service. .

The pre-registration will start from 20th November 2016 on Amanzon.in.

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Asus Zenfone 3 Max Launched at 12,999 INR

Asus is set to launch its Zenfone 3 Max series in India today, the powerful Zenfone 3 Max is a high-end device with an affordable price tag. The Smartphone will be available soon on e-retailers like flipkart and Amazon. Both the device comes in three color variant Gray, Sliver, Gold and they have two different variants and prices.

Zenfone 3 Max 5.2-inch: 12,999 ₹ – Buy Here
Zenfone 3 Max 5.5-inch: 17,999 ₹

Asus Zenfone 3 Max 5.2-inch:

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The Zenfone 3 Max is a premium build smartphone. The device is powered by MediaTek MT6737 Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53 64-bit Processor with 2 & 3 GB of RAM and 16 & 32 GB of internal storage, which can be expanded via micro-SD card up to 128 GB. The Zenfone 3 Max 5.2-inch is a IPS+ display with HD (1280 × 720) pixel.
The device also has a 13-Megapixel rear camera with the next generation PixelMaster 3.0 and a f/2.2 aperture. The camera is also having CMOS sensor to capture for the best image quality. The device is also packed with a 5-Megapixel front camera. The smartphone is packed with a 4,100mAh battery and it also features a fingerprint sensor on the back, with the capacity for registering up to five different fingerprints.

Asus Zenfone 3 Max 5.5-inch:

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Asus Zenfone 3 Max 5.5-inch is a first-class smartphone, with some of the best finishing and design in the market. The device also has a pink color variant. The device is powered by a Snapdragon 430 MSM8937 Octa-core 1.4 GHz 64-bit Processor with 2 & 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage, which is expanded via micro-SD card up to 128 GB.

The Zenfone 3 Max 5.5-inch is an LCD IPS+ display with HD (1920 × 1080) pixel, which is protected via a 2.5D curved glass. The device comes with a 16-Megapixel rear camera and a f/2.2 aperture and a CMOS sensor to capture, which is inbuilt with a 2nd generation laser auto focus. The device has an 8-Megapixel front shooter. The smartphone has a 4,100mAh battery and it also features a fingerprint sensor on the back.

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Top Things You Need to Know About iOS 10, Xcode 8 and Swift 3

Software is such a common term which we all use in our day-to-day life. With the launch of smartphones, even a layman uses words like software, apps, and operating system. We live in a world where outlook of the product is praised more than the base on which it has been created. Such is the case in operating systems, codes, and languages which are the main components of software. Without these components, software can’t be developed at any cost.

In this blog, we shall discuss all these components separately to know their importance and use in many phases of development. So let’s get started with the following:

iOS 10

iOS stands for iPhone OS or in simpler form iPhone operating system. Operating systems are the core of an app or software. All the functionality depends on upon operating system on which the app or software is based. Apple has always been one of the leaders in technology whether it is smartphones, iPods, tabs or IPads, etc. Keeping its hereditary intact Apple has launched many versions of ios since its first launch in 2007 particularly of iPhones. Since then ios has been new heights, and it made Apple launch its revamped versions whenever the need arose.

iOS 10 is the latest launch which happened recently in September 2016. The main feature of ios 10 is that in integrates 3D touch along with widget support and lock screen. Third party apps can now be prolonged in imessage. Home app takes care of “Homekit.” As per a survey till 25th Oct 2016 iOS 10 is installed on 60% of ios devices through App store.

Xcode 8

It was initially launched in 2003 by Apple, and due to its stable run, they came up with more versions with passing time. In this sequence, Xcode 8 is the latest addition which was recently released. Xcode is an integrated development environment (IDE) which helps in the developer in software for MacOS, ios, watchOS, and tvOs. Xcode supports all major programming languages like C++, C, Java etc. to name a few.

Swift 3

Swift is an accumulated programming language developed by Apple Inc. especially for MacOS, watchOS, tvOS and Linux. It is mainly written with C objective for Apple products. Swift is mainly used for being more resistant towards erroneous code. Swift 3 was launched in Sept 2016 and helps in major changes to all swift developers. Swift 3 makes all labels required unless you specify otherwise. It suggests that method names don’t detail their parameters now.

iPhone application development has always been in high demand since the launch of smartphones from various companies, but the release of smart tools like iOS10, Xcode and Swift 3 has taken iPhone application development to new heights. With the proper implication of these latest tools, one can be rest assure that iPhone application development is the future of mobile industry.