Hot Trends in Mobile Application Development

The world has witnessed exponential growth in mobile apps development sector over the last few years. With the enhancement in technology, tools, resources, and ideas, this segment has gained significant growth. The increase in iOS apps was followed by the upsurge in the number of Android applications. BlackBerry, who has been the pioneer in the smart phone world, created a number of business applications. Windows mobile apps development was also kick-started as a move by Windows to survive the competition. Eventually, the entire mobile apps development industry got a boost and paved the way for creative, and unique applications.

In this article, we will look at some of the hot trends prevailing in the mobile apps development front.

Increase in the number of operating systems: The coming year will witness an increase in the number of operating systems or platforms on which applications are developed. Currently, iOS and Android are leading the apps development arena. However, Mozilla, Ubuntu, and Sailfish (by Nokia) are chalking down their plans for introducing new smart phone OSes . The main aim of these operating systems is to bring down the cost of smart phones so that they penetrate all markets and reach people of all income sizes.

Use of multiple screens: With the advancement of technology, users will only expect more from developers. It has been estimated by industry experts that in the coming days more people are going to use smart phones. People will like to use integrated applications. They are using two or more connected devices simultaneously to interact with each other.  However, mobile developers will have to be wary about any prospective performance issues.

Devices with more processing power: Smart phone devices are expected to get smarter by the day. Users are expecting these devices to work at jet speed. Apple has jumpstarted this trend by introducing a chip with 64-bit processor. Following this drift, other manufacturers in the market will deliver chips having high processing power. Mobile apps developers will have to pull their socks up for designing apps for such highly powered platforms.

Fingerprints will replace passwords: With the increasing importance of data confidentiality and need for privacy, fingerprints will eventually replace passwords in the coming days. Even in this case, Apple has been at the forefront. It introduced iPhone5S with a fingerprint sensor; soon Samsung followed suit, and introduced Samsung Galaxy S5 with the same security feature.

Apart from the above mentioned trends, the market may witness an increase in partnerships, and mergers to meet the increasing market demands. The good news for Apple enterprise app developers is that enterprise applications will generate more revenue than consumer apps in the coming days.

Thus, it can be said that there will be a tremendous growth in the mobile applications development tools and technologies. Using these tools appropriately and optimally is essential for apps developers to beat the competition. The developing technology has to be used effectively in order to ensure a loyal customer base.