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Mobile app

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈmoʊbəl ˌæp/nounCore term

In software engineering, mobile app means: A program designed to run on a smartphone or tablet, usually downloaded from an app store such as the App Store or Google Play.

In Turkish: mobil uygulama, uygulama

How it is used

The everyday word in job ads, meetings and product plans. In speech people simply say 'the app'; 'application' sounds more formal and is more common in documentation and official names.

Example sentences

  1. Most of our customers now order through the mobile app, not the website.

  2. We need a mobile app for both iOS and Android by the end of the year.

Common collocations

  • build a mobile app
  • mobile app developer
  • launch a mobile app
  • mobile app users
  • native appAn app built for one specific platform with that platform's own languages and tools, such as Swift for iOS or Kotlin for Android.
  • cross-platformDescribes an app or framework that runs on more than one platform, usually both iOS and Android, from one shared codebase.
  • iOSApple's operating system for the iPhone. Apps for it are built with Apple's own tools, mainly Xcode and the Swift programming language.
  • AndroidGoogle's mobile operating system, used by many phone makers such as Samsung, Xiaomi and Google itself. Its apps are mainly written in Kotlin or Java.

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