By Leigh Marie Precia / Layout by Suzanne Pagkaliwangan
C e l l p h o n e
applications
are
very
popular today especially
to teenagers. With the
growing number of apps
that can be downloaded,
doesn‘t it make you wonder
how these applications are
made? What process does
it undergo before it reaches
your phone? Can anyone
just make an application?
To answer these questions,
we need to meet with an
application
maker.
Charles
Emmanuel
Sagun is a graduating
IT student at De La Salle
University-Dasmariñas. He is
19 years old and is currently
working
with
mangafox
as a manga scanlator.
He introduced me to one
of his group‘s developed
application, ‘Music Tapping‘.
With one other IT student,
four
Computer
Science
students, and two La Salle
alumni, they developed
a ga me application that
anyone can enjoy. Through
the application, you can
tap to the beat of the music
you like. You can choose
five songs for starters. The
cool thing is that you can
edit your own beat through
Editor Plus. Music Tapping
allows you to choose and
use your own saved music to
play. You can also edit and
personalize your own game.
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You can atleast play 50 songs
through the application. It
can be downloaded for free
in various android app stores.
application will be tested.
If there are no failures, they
can launch it for free through
various sites.
The app now has a
3.9 rating in Google Play,
but how did they start
developing the app? Our
app maker shared the steps
in how an idea became a
product. First, through an
online forum where open
source softwares are posted,
they get concepts and try
to develop the programs. In
the case of ‘Music Tapping’,
they got the idea from a
Vietnamese group online.
The group wanted a game
like ‘Tap Tap Revenge’ but
they want it to be more
convenient. They want a
music tapping game where
they can use their own
playlist and tap to the beat of
their favorite songs. Through
these
recommendations
and requests from groups
to develop games and
applications, the makers
develop the software and
came up with the final
concept. They coordinated
with one another; they
assigned who will do the
programming, which will
make the animations, the
graphics and other things
needed. The language of
the app is also important for
the makers. After everything
is settled and done, the
The
hardest
part
of it according to Eman
is making the graphics,
and communicating and
coordinating with the other
developers. While the best
part is making the animations
and when the app is finished,
seeing the comments and
feedback of the people who
played the game. It makes
them want to develop
other applications. Eman‘s
group has already made 6
cellphone applications and
they are even planning to
make more. Music Tapping
is just one of their developed
applications, and maybe it
can be the next big app.
Applications
are
not just there for people
to download. They help
people in a lot of ways.
Apps can be educational or
for entertainment but they
all go through the process
and testing. If you have the
knowledge, you can even
make your own app. What
will be the next big app? It
can just be an idea right now
but it can produce a greater
effect to the people who
download it.