Wednesday, January 18, 2017

top 3 challenges faced by mobile app developers in 2017

"mobile app downloads to exceed 270 million by 2017"

Over half of mobile phone owners will have smartphones by the year 2018. Inexpensive smartphones and majorly free apps have provided a definite shift to the mobile app development landscape the world over. According to Statista,  2017 will see the number of mobile app downloads worldwide  reach 268.69 billion. With the ever-growing number of smartphones and user base, what will the challenges be this coming year,specially for the mobile app developers. Here we take a look at 3 factors that are going to impact the mobile app development landscape

 Year of Enterprise Apps 2017 is going to be the year of enterprise apps. .As more businesses have realize the value of apps and to improve their reach and efficiency ,they will be focusing more and more on the enterprise apps this year. The number of enterprise applications optimized for mobility is expected to grow by four times by the end of 2017. 

 Prominence of Cross-Platform tools Cross-platform tools are making their presence felt and through 2016-2017 many of them will get more efficient by rounding off their sharp edges which will make them more useful and efficient.While the rise in popularity of mobile devices and the growing comfort with browser use for enterprise applications preordains a richer mix of email clients and access mechanisms, the pace of change over the next four years will be breathtaking. Tools like Xamarin, Sencha, PhoneGap, Unity3D, Appcelerator, Cocos2d etc. are slowly developing their communities and are making inroads. Developers will focus on shortening the development life-cycles and reduce the timeframe from ideation to launch. Quick to market approach will invariably include cross-platform tools

Data Management and App Security Concerns An enormous amount of data is being generated and there are growing concerns over security and storage of data.Companies will start investing across enterprise data centers and deploy more forward-looking scaleable solutions to enable the business processes especially for the ones that are real-time business processes.App development companies will come together to address the concerns regarding App security. Hacking of mobile apps and leakage of information both at a personal and enterprise level can wreak the app economy, inflict million dollar losses for companies.The combination of new vulnerabilities and more targeted attacks will lead to continued growth in bottom-line financial impact because of successful cyber attacks.


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