The market for newly emerging mobile apps is astounding. Companies are creating and releasing apps for everything from branding to customer engagement and customer outreach. The reason for this exponential growth is the fact that smartphones are now commonplace in our society. In a world where demand for mobile-friendly websites is expected rather than simply welcomed, it’s vital that any app your business releases goes through rigorous testing and development before it hits the market.
Moreover, new advancements in mobile app technologies will only lead to bigger and better things. Over the next few years, experts expect the following trends from mobile app development.
Application performance management (APM)
Currently when mobile apps are being tested for release, there are 2 factors that typically lead to bottlenecks: mobile networks being non-deterministic and the diversity of mobile devices. However, there are now mobile metrics and monitoring tools available that are showing promise as a way to improve the testing of mobile apps and quality assurance.
These tools are known as Application Performance Management (APM). Utilizing APM tech will allow developers the ability to visualize app behavior as well as access statistics about the devices that users are adopting.
Enterprise mobile management
Enterprise mobile management (EMM) is all of the tools responsible for making it possible to streamline businesses through mobile computing. The 3 main aspects of EMM are application management, financial management and security.
Additionally, EMM is capable of application wrapping and containerization, mobile application management, mobile device management, file synchronization and sharing. These tools still have some growing room and, as they mature, they will encompass more elements of mobile management.
IoT and smart objects
IoT and smart object use are on a steep incline. Experts suggest that there are currently 26 billion IoT connected devices ranging from LED light bulbs to medical equipment. Use of such devices is only expected to increase in the coming years. Moreover, it’s expected that more devices will become smart devices in the future.
M-commerce
Experts suggest that over the next 4 years, mobile purchases will increase as more purchasers will embrace m-commerce. Two solutions that are fielding this growth are Apple Pay and Google Wallet, which both allow users to use their smartphones to make purchases without having to carry debit or credit cards.
For this trend to continue to rise, developers will need to invent more applications capable of processing such transactions.
Wearable devices
Some suggest that the number of wearable devices shipped around the world in 2016 totaled 101.9 million devices. This was a 29 percent increase from the previous year. It’s likely that wearable devices connected via smartphones will be the next generation of mobile app development.