Appsbar

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=Tablets and apps, a love story =

Mobile apps play a central role in the usefulness and tablet computers. The infographic at left illustrates the growth and potential of tablets, as well as the current scale of the apps market today. Clearly, apps are here to stay.

What is Appsbar?
Appsbar is a free app-making tool that walks you step by step through the process of creating an app. Once you sign up for a free account, you can make as many free apps as you would like. Through their recent HTML 5 technology, Appsbar can now create apps for both iOS and Android devices. The service excels at allowing users without any programming knowledge to develop apps across multiple platforms that will meet the stringent coding requirements necessary to be accepted into the Appstore or Android Marketplace. It was created to fill the gap between overly simplified apps and costly, professionally produced apps.

A basic app consists of a series of pages. These include photo gallery, video gallery, events, coupons, forms, and content, among others. This range of page types allows for greater flexibility for small business owners and special interest groups to apply the exact page resources they need in their app.

Who uses Appsbar?
Appsbar would appeal to really anyone who would benefit from a mobile online presence. Appsbar offers premade templates for their users, so most users aren't coders. These templates are titled after their target audience, such as accounting firms, bands, banks, bars, event planning, general business, gym, restaurant, place of worship, salons, and more. Appsbar targets special interest groups like these to use their free service.

Mobile technology is exploding in popularity. Apps are a major part of what drives tablet and smart phone use, and Appsbar is emerging as a key player in the development of apps. After only ten months developing apps, Appsbar has become the largest Android development community in the world.

Appsbar is a great way to provide a mobile offering of documentation to users. As technical communicators, it is always helpful to have multiple skills at your disposal. While you may not be able to code, you will be able to use Appsbar. We want our documentation to be published and read by as many people as possible, and Appsbar is a free tool that can expand our potential audience even further.

=Related information = = = =Infographic sources =
 * Appsbar.com
 * Information Week - Appsbar Helps SMBs Build Mobile Apps
 * [|Market Watch - Appsbar Becomes Largest Single Android Publisher While Android Growth Reaches Unprecedented Hig][|h]
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 * Tablet graphic created by Bellal90[| http://www.vecteezy.com/technology/35815-sony-tablet-s]