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Alka Rawat 

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· In Windows Phone, when an application is halted in the middle due to any interruption, it leads to the state of an application as Tombstoning. If a device has enough memory in its storage space or cache, then this state of an application is stored. If the device memory is complete, this state of application which includes processes running and session calls is not stored, and the application state is referred to as tombstoned. This issue is handled by developing an application to hold the current state data of an application in the permanent memory of the device so that an application can be restored. (Techopedia, 2020)

· Design patterns implementation highly impact the development of the mobile application. Choosing the correct design pattern will provide robust connectivity of UI with data models and logic. The correct design pattern will have a lesser app development and maintenance issues (Vinugayathri, n.d.).Windows phones use the tiles feature, and a brief notification is displayed on the home screen, providing meaningful content to the user to take action immediately if required. (Panfili, 2011)

· From the app development perspective leveraging g the data over the web is sending and retrieving information from the web service, which retrieves the data from a database. In today's world, the data resides in various systems, and the end-users might need data from these multiple systems. The end-user consuming the app needs data from the system for customer visits. For this purpose, data is sent to and fro from these systems to operational databases with the help of integrated channels. This results in effective reporting and benefits the enterprises using Service-oriented architecture integrated between critical systems. (Tech, 2020)

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Sai Vasanth Nanduri 

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How is the concept of tombstoning used in mobile app development?

The concept of tombstoning is used to separate the interface of an application from its brand identity (Bell et al., 2022). The interface becomes a tombstone-like box of UI elements in a tombstoned state. The contents of the tombstone are the application's interface elements. Tombstoning is a UX best practice when creating an application that is not just responsive but also easy to use for all audiences. The tombstone is a mobile app's interface when it is not viewed (Bellocchio, 2022). It might as well be the application's brand, and a lot of UI work makes the interface look like that of a typical mobile app. Tombstoning is the process of setting the application's branding to be separate from the application itself, even when the application is not opened, or its interface is not visible (Linder et al., 2022). In the tombstone, all interface elements are replaced with a placeholder symbol, which shows the application's brand or whatever the company would like to put there. Tombstoning is excellent for applications with multiple views and multiple use cases, as they need to be understood and remembered easily. When the application is in its tombstoned state, the user interface aligns with the user's preferences.

Why is implementing metro-specific design patterns (such as tiles) important in mobile app development?

With the increasing user base in mobile devices, mobile applications have also increased. Consequently, app designers often opt to use pre-defined design patterns as they require (Bellocchio, 2022). Metro is a mobile design framework used to describe and distinguish the design style of applications on the Windows operating system, including Windows Phone (Bell et al., 2022). Metro apps, sometimes also called metro-style apps, have a unique design language consistent across Microsoft-based devices, including desktop PCs, tablets, Windows phones, and Xbox. With the arrival of Metro, Microsoft also introduced Windows apps, among them Mail, People, Photo, and Music, including a first generation of the app zone. One of the most apparent features of Metro applications is tiles (Linder et al., 2022). Each tile represents a separate functional area of the application, such as a contact, a photo, a document. The tiles are rectangular with the same width and height as the tile and cannot be resized. Each tile has a different color.

Why is leveraging data over the web to add value to apps an essential aspect in development?

With the rapid development of the Internet and social media, the web has become a central part of our life (Linder et al., 2022). Whether in leisure time or working hours, the users spend most of their time on the Internet, and the way they live will be different if one cannot reach out to the social networks and, most importantly, search engines. The development of search engines allows anyone to find anything at any time. However, this development has led to many data collection from our personal, professional, and family life. Every website contains some information, whether a blog post, article, image, ebook, or video (Bell et al., 2022). Data is everywhere, and the user is collecting them every second. In short, one can say that the web is the data lake. The big challenge is the way data is being used. For example, most websites are crawled over the web and are indexed by search engines. However, search engines do not know if a particular article is helpful or not (Bellocchio, 2022). The only way for the user to know whether he should read the article or not is to make a query on the search engine and read the results.

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