With the headway in technology, smartphones have become very common and this has emerged the need for mobile application development. In the recent years, the mobile app industry has come up with major rapid innovations and is experiencing a radical transformation. As a result, the use of mobile devices has rapidly grown and these devices have become an instant medium to access internet and mobile applications.
Trends in 2018
With the advent of technology, people have extremely become tech-savvy nowadays. As the mobile industry is flourishing, the demand for mobile apps is going pathological. Today, people understand the benefits of using different mobile applications and this describes its importance.
Let’s take a look at some of the top mobile application development trends 2018:
• e Governance App
The government of India is all set to transfer the idea of “Digital India” into reality. The government has recently launched a number of mobile applications ranging from education to healthcare and agriculture to e-governance, and is planning to roll out more of such apps.
• Mobile Apps
Mobile messaging app development is substituting the traditional form of text messaging. We have seen considerable rise in the mobile apps like WhatsApp, Snapchat, Viber and Hike. Earlier, these apps were used only for messaging purposes, but, now, this also offers the facilities of voice calling, video calling and file sharing options.
• Mobile Payment App
Instead of making cash payments at the counter of the store or swiping your credit card, all you need to do is wave your Smartphone or tap it on the machine and your payment will be made. This app will store all the information related to your payments and credit cards. Digital wallet is the latest mobile payment app.
• GPS Powered Apps
Global Positioning System (GPS) apps help in determining the position of a person, traversing from one place to another, tracing the movement of our parcels, etc. Some of the major mobile app development companies focus on producing extremely accurate GPS powered apps that are being widely used across the world.
• Hybrid Technology Apps
These technologies, like any other mobile application, are found in many of the mobile devices. These devices come up with a combination of different web technologies like HTML, JavaScript and CSS. By using this, you can play games or you can connect with the other people over social media. These applications can access certain inbuilt capacities of your device like your contact list, gallery, messages, camera etc.
• Enterprise Apps
These apps are known as business applications that help the organization in solving enterprise-related problems. For example – email marketing system, content management, HR management, messaging and collaboration systems etc. This is the latest trend in enterprise app development, where services are directly delivered to the computers and devices are delivered online.
Future Trends
Mobile device plays an important role in simplifying the routine tasks. The fact cannot be denied that the mobile technology is growing at a rapid pace and the mobile apps have become an integral part of the digital ecosystem. These apps are succeeding to become ubiquitous; so, staying up-to-date with the latest mobile app development trends has become mandatory.
A few mobile app development trends to look out for in the recent future are as follows:
• Full Mobility
The mobile development companies need to consider the full mobility of an app. Besides developing an app, you need to think- Is the app capable of replacing every single desktop operation?
For instance, if you want to build a text editing app, you must validate that users are provides with all the facilities. If you fail to offer any of the functionality, the app will be uninstalled undoubtedly.
The main focus of full mobility is to provide all the facilities to the users on their mobile, so that they don’t have to depend on a PC for any information.
• High Quality Content and Marketing Plan
Inappropriately, the mobile app developers overlook the basic things like content and mainly focus on the technicalities. But, this is not acceptable as users pay attention on each and everything and they want the right information.
Building a marketing app is another step that should be considered while developing an app. Having a proper marketing plan certifies great sales and popularity which in turn results in huge profit.
• High Level Security
People use mobile devices for many purposes like games, entertainment and business. But the question is that how safe the app is? If the app has high level security? But, if the app is secure, it will not function on a public Wi-Fi. So, you just have to balance the security to ensure that apps are safer to use.
• Motion and Location Sensing
Today, most of the mobile devices will possess location sensor capabilities that use more than one positioning method.
Motion sensing apps are mainly used for anti-theft, security, power-saving and games.
Location sensing plays an essential role in games, vehicle navigation, and fitness apps. The onset of indoor location sensing along with mobile applications will make way for highly personalized services and information.
