The Challenges Faced While Developing Mobile Applications

Mobile application development consist of creating different applications for handheld devices like the mobile phones, personal digital assistance and enterprise digital assistants; through which the user can perform some functions or task included in the software. There can be a few default applications which comes when a user purchase the phone while the other applications usually get installed by the users based on the requirements and usage purpose of the user. Developers of the application software have to face a number of challenges like the screen size, hardware configuration and specification within each platform. They have to overcome these challenges to survive in the market.

Challenges in mobile application development arise due to complex nature of the mobile ecosystem, a common platform that allows a range of devices such as Smartphone, iPads, laptops and tablets to integrate efficiently with each other in order to share data.

Retaining and Monetization of Users:
The biggest challenge today is retaining and monetization of the users. Companies therefore need constant users for their mobile applications and hence they need to concentrate on the analytics of mobile applications. They need to identify users who are going to spread the word about their products around the globe.

Identification of Mobile Use Cases
A company needs to identify the most used apps by the mass as well as develop application that extend the current enterprise application and processes on mobile devices. These use cases must have a significant impact on some well defined business metrics.

Security Affects User Experience
Mobile application developers find it difficult to manage different devices with so many operating systems. Therefore, a few developers develop a device specific app which can’t work in other devices. This affects user experience as the users are not able to access that information in their device that is useful to them.

Implementation of Improper Technology-Native, Hybrid or From The Web
Companies at times fail to select the best technology for the development of mobile application. Implementation of the uninformed technology may lead to high expenditure as well as poor app performance that ultimately can lead to dampened user experience.

Long Term and Traditional Technological Process Do Not Work
With technology changing rapidly, companies need to increase their agility in order to change their mobile application development process according to the market demand.

Most of the applications are developed in either Android or iOS, in this scenario, windows phone users might feel left out or it can affect the user satisfaction ratio negatively. Here the challenge is most of mobile application developers has expertise in iOs and Android. The considerable point is there are less number of users using the windows phone compared to android or iOS. Companies therefore face not only resources and experience issues, but also ROI insecurity as well as organizational challenges. It is essential therefore for the IT department of an organization to have a strong link with the LOB (Line of Business) workers.