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iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware.

It is the operating system that powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone; the term also includes the system software for iPads (predating iPadOS, which was introduced in 2019) as well as on the iPod Touch devices (which were discontinued in mid-2022).

It is the world's second-most widely installed mobile operating system, after Android.

It is the basis for three other operating systems made by Apple: iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS.

It is proprietary software, although some parts of it are open source under the Apple Public Source License and other licenses.

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Android is developed by a consortium of developers known as the Open Handset Alliance, though its most widely used version is primarily developed by Google.

It was unveiled in November 2007, with the first commercial Android device, the HTC Dream, being launched in September 2008.

Mobile app development is the act or process by which a mobile app is developed for one or more mobile devices, which can include personal digital assistants (PDA), enterprise digital assistants (EDA), or mobile phones.

Such software applications are specifically designed to run on mobile devices, taking numerous hardware constraints into consideration.

Common constraints include CPU architecture and speeds, available memory (RAM), limited data storage capacities, and considerable variation in displays (technology, size, dimensions, resolution) and input methods (buttons, keyboard, touch screens with/without styluses).

These applications (or 'apps') can be pre-installed on phones during manufacturing or delivered as web applications, using server-side or client-side processing (e.g., JavaScript) to provide an "application-like" experience within a web browser.

Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites.

The different areas of web design include web graphic design; user interface design (UI design); authoring, including standardised code and proprietary software; user experience design (UX design); and search engine optimization.

Often many individuals will work in teams covering different aspects of the design process, although some designers will cover them all.

The term "web design" is normally used to describe the design process relating to the front-end (client side) design of a website including writing markup.

Web design partially overlaps web engineering in the broader scope of web development.

Web designers are expected to have an awareness of usability and be up to date with web accessibility guidelines.

A mobile application or app is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch.

Mobile applications often stand in contrast to desktop applications which are designed to run on desktop computers, and web applications which run in mobile web browsers rather than directly on the mobile device.