Mobile Application Development in 2019

As the access to the Internet has become more and more easily, the number of people using mobile applications are on the increase day by day. People are shifting from the usage of desktops and laptops to smartphones and Tablets. According to the report published on the website Statista.com, there are approximately 3 billion smartphone users worldwide. They will keep on increasing and the numbers are expected to become 3.8 billion in the year 2021. The number of smartphone users means the more chances for businesses to connect with their targeted audience. The Internet has given access both to the customers and to the organisations to take benefits from each other in a very short period of time. Due to the increase in mobile phone users, the demand for mobile applications has also increased significantly. And the developers of a mobile app development company are getting more and more tasks for developing new mobile applications. It has become a challenge for the developers to develop a mobile application better than their competitors in India. We all have different applications for our daily and rare activities. For example, booking a hotel, movie tickets, making online payments, food ordering, online shopping etc are become handy just because of the availability of these smartphones and smart mobile applications. And the usage of mobile applications is generating huge revenue for the business owners in the Indian market and also in foreign countries. This year in 2019 a lot of factors are there who will influence the use of mobile applications.

New Movement in the features of Mobile Applications

Some of the major changes in mobile applications in 2019 are:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Internet of Things
• Mobile Payments
• Blockchain
• VR, AR
• Wearable Smart Devices

AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Artificial Intelligence has made it easy for the machines used in the companies to learn and perform better for the profit of the organisations. Even the smartphones we use nowadays have AI-enabled cameras. It helps the machines to learn from the behaviour of their customers’ behaviours which will make the productivity and usage of mobile applications more fruitful and customer friendly for the users.

Internet of things

The Internet of things has been widely used in the market. A number of physical devices are getting connected to the Internet.  They receive and send data with the help of the Internet. You get control of various activities with the help of the Internet connection. For example, using your smartphone to control your air-conditioners, your car, your machine, to check the water level in your tank. All the activities can be monitored with the help of one Internet connection. And the mobile applications are the sources which are making these things possible in your smartphones.

Mobile Payments

 The banking sector is one of the most important sectors which never gets behind when there is any kind of advancement in technology. A lot of new mobile payment options are getting started in India. Every other company is creating its own payment systems like the Samsung pay, Google pay, Paytm UPI etc. Whether it is e-commerce sector, health sector or any other industry, mobile payment systems are giving a convenient and secure platform to the users to pay their bills and make online transactions. Due to the speed and ease of internet connectivity, mobile app developments for the payments systems is trending in India.

Blockchain

Blockchain is much more than just the cryptocurrency. Since it has started, offers a new and large amount of new possibilities for the industry.  With the help of Blockchain technology, we can develop decentralized systems and mobile applications. Blockchain has shown its importance in the financial sectors like banking, finance etc. According to the report published on the website Globenewswire, blockchain technology will cross the $ 20 billion mark by the year 2024. So, developing mobile applications with this technology will definitely make the apps to work as a decentralised network system.

Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality 

We all know about the difference created by virtual reality and augmented reality. We can imagine beyond the screen now. There seen a lot of development and popularity in the use of virtual reality in 2018. The gaming and entertainment industry has seen tremendous advancement with the use of virtual reality. Hence, business companies are eagerly investing in the future of virtual and augmented reality.  According to a report published in statista, the market size of virtual reality will increase up to 20 billion dollars by the year 2020. More and number of mobile applications will choose the virtual reality and augmented reality to enhance the user experience just like we saw with the game, Pokemon Go.

Wearable devices

 You can’t avoid the fact that the smart wearable devices are getting more and the number of customers in 2019. It has been set as a trend to have a wearable device on your hands or shoulders. At first, the wearable devices were only used for the purpose of fitness, then slowly with the advancement in technology, now we can perform any task we do on our smartphones directly in these smart wearable devices. The only thing you need to have with you is your smartphone connectivity with a particular device. But in future, the use of smartphones will be replaced by these wearable devices and you will not need any kind of connections apart from the internet. To operate and connect with these devices, you need to download multiple apps to access different features. So, in future more advanced and new generation applications will be developed for these devices.

Cloud

 Cloud term was used mostly for the Apple products but it is not that rare case now in 2019. The availability of different virtual storage spaces has made it possible for people not to rely on real physical hardware storages. We get a lot of benefits like fast page loading speed, less business costing and accessibility anywhere has made a lot of tasks easy for different businesses. The rare issues with the cloud technology are some security-related concerns which will be surely become more & more tightly in future. It will help in developing mobile applications with less amount of storage options making the overall usage extremely fast.

Conclusion

As mobile applications have become an inevitable part of our lives and we can’t assume our day without having all these mobile applications. Most of our daily routine work is done with the help of these applications. We use these apps for different tasks like shopping online, booking tickets, ordering food, taking insurance, making other online payments. All this stuff is performed with the help of mobile applications. So, the developers need to make sure to keep themselves updated with the latest advancements in these technologies mentioned above. Using these in the development of new & updated mobile applications will make these apps more responsive and highly efficient for the users.