Other than the games, you can create any connected native mobile application using Vaayoo mobile application platform. These include social networking, sharing, travel, dating, enterprise, productivity, marketing, catalog, shopping, collaboration etc. Out of the estimated 180000 apps available on iPhone appstore, 75% of the apps can be created using Vaayoo mobile application development platform. The Vaayoo apps can take rich capabilities of phone like camera, video recorder, gps, streaming etc.

If you can drag and drop, you can create native applications on all the phones using Vaayoo Mobile Application platform. Typically, the user starts by having User interface sketches and icons/images for his app. Based on those, he creates the User Interface screens using drag and drop in the Vaayoo web designer. While designing the application the user is asked to enter simple information like application name, description, whether his app display’s Advertisements etc.

Over the last 4 years, the team at Vaayoo has designed a patented (pending) technology which allows the users to create native mobile applications by just using drag and drop. At the core of the technology are 2 important elements:

Here are the screen shots for some of the mobile apps that were built using Vaayoo. Some of these applications have won prestigious awards for User Interface, Usability and Market relevance.

Vaayoo solves the following problems in mobile application development.

1. It is difficult and time consuming to create native mobile applications: Unlike in the development of web applications, it is difficult and time consuming to create native mobile applications on all popular phones. Foremost amongst the reasons for this are: specialized developer skillset requirements and fragmented nature of phones. A team of skilled and expensive developers typically spend 8 months to a year to create a simple native mobile application. That is after you have the team of skilled developers in place. It takes a lot of time to find skilled developers. With Vaayoo, anyone who understands drag and drop can create a native mobile application. You can create and launch a native mobile application tomorrow.
2. It is expensive to create a mobile application: Due to specialized skill sets required, very few developers can develop good native mobile applications. Typically, a developer understands only one operating system and one language. So you need to employ at least 4 developers to create the applications on all popular phones. This plus the length of time required to create the mobile application (typically 8 months to a year) makes it prohibitively expensive to create a mobile app. Especially, if the developer wants to experiment with the app to see if his concept gets market traction it become prohibitively expensive. With Vaayoo, you don’t need expensive developers. Anyone, who understands drag and drop, can create a native mobile application. You can get a rich mobile application to the market with price as less as $500.
3. It is difficult to add features and change Native Mobile applications once they are released and adopted by a lot of users. In order to add features to a native mobile application, it has to be recompiled by the developer and the end user has to reinstall it. This causes a lot of churn in the current installed base. With Vaayoo, adding features in the already deployed app is simple. The developer simply makes changes to the YOOML template using drag and drop. The new template is automatically downloaded and the current user sees the new app when he opens it the next time. Just like in the web application he does not have to reinstall the application to get the new features.
4. Mobile application development requires installing different development, versioning and testing tools, certificates etc on the desktop. Vaayoo offering is a platform-as-a-service which means you do not have to download and install anything on your desktop. It also means you can create and maintain applications from any PC that is connected to the web from anywhere. Maintaining versions is as easy as maintaining different versions of the templates.

Vaayoo currently supports developing applications on BlackBerry (RIMM 4.3 and above), Windows Mobile (5.0 and above), iPhone. Very soon we will be launching our Android and Symbian platforms too.

Anyone who wants to create a mobile application can benefit from this web based designer. This includes but is not limited to Developers, Product Managers, Marketing professionals, students, User interface designers, HTML developers, Business professionals etc.

The only limitation is games. You cannot develop highly graphical games. But other than that you can build any application. Some of the complicated social and marketing applications are created using Vaayoo mobile application platform. These applications have won awards for their User Interface, Usability and Market relevance.

You can refer to the iPhone application that you have already developed and then recreate the same User Interface in the Vaayoo Designer. Once the design is complete, you can publish this application on other platforms that Vaayoo Supports.

Vaayoo platform has connectors available to all popular social networks including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Picassa etc. These are available in Vaayoo mobile cloud services. You can easily integrate functionalities from these apps (data from Wall, Contacts, Photo Streams, posting comments, Posting video/photos) into you mobile application just by doing drag and drop.

Vaayoo mobile cloud services are web based services that compliment your application’s functionality on the phone.

For example: Let us say that you already have a website that allows users to upload videos and share it with others. And you want to develop a mobile application which allows the users to record videos from their phone, geotag them and send them to your website. The problem is different phones record videos in different format. Your website will need an infrastructure to convert them to .flv before showing it to the users. With Vaayoo mobile cloud’s video transformation service, you don’t need such infrastructure. You can drag and drop the video transformation service. This will ensure that all the videos are converted to .flv format before they are sent to your website.

Vaayoo Mobile cloud has web based services like video transformation, mobile transactions, Social Networking connectors, GPS to address conversion, Application versioning etc. New services like Advertisements, Bar code decoder will be added shortly.

Developers can create a developer account for free and start creating their apps. Only after an app is published will Vaayoo charge a low monthly subscription fee for that published app. This helps developers to launch their apps with a set of features and then evolve it based on the user feedback. Once the developer decides that the app has matured and does not need any more additional features or modifications, he will pay a one-time fee. We are very flexible in the fees structure based on the needs of the business.

No. Any user can create any number of applications. Vaayoo charges only when these apps are published.

For support, developers can send emails to support@vaayoo.com

Currently, we are helping our initial set of customer create their applications. Please fill in the information above with your email and phone number and a small message which briefly describes the application that you want to develop. We will contact you and get you started.