Touch Application Prototypes in iOS development Part 2

In last part, we came to knew that TAP is a “smoke and mirror” technology to create the illusion of working product. You can get interactive prototypes of iOS products with full screen views and can see animated transitions among the screens. Moreover, you can interact with other body gestures including touch.

Keeping the track, we will see some more benefits of TAP like native like performance due to usage of caches for the prototypes so loading of application happens instantly and interactions take place rapidly as you find in native application.

iOS developer can prepare layout in Adobe Fireworks with adequate designing tools without doing in coding at all. Our era is of multimedia content so TAP allows integrating animated images, video playback, sound, etc. with little bit coding.

At technical point of view TAP is a sort of library of files consisting of customized PHP, some JavaScript, jQuery and JQtouch code, which are making prototypes live.

Now, you may have question that what we need to work on TAP. Nothing much, just Adobe Fireworks, PHP installed on your machine and connected with internet to place the prototypes online to display to the remote client or your team. As we have stated earlier the TAP is based on PHP so we have to install PHP and modify configurations at some level as well as need to set some rights on folders. Since we are working on either iPhone development or iPad development project, we should have simulators accordingly. Of course, you can see its some of the features are working on platforms other than iOS as well.

If you would like to know the working method or working pattern of the TAP, we will see them in the next part. Nevertheless, at present, I concluded that TAP is highly useful for quick yet intricate prototyping tool for iOS developers like iPhone developers or iPad developers, which is highly cost effective and dependable in compare to other prototyping tools available in the market, since it is working in collaboration of Adobe Fireworks.

Conclusion :-

Since good prototyping can reduce lots of hurdles and speed up the project most of iOS developers look at the proven tools and TAP is one of them. Since this tool doesn’t require much coding except in big and complex projects many prefer to work with it.