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Why Business Organizations should Prioritize Mobile App Development in 2018

Mobilization is a chance to add liquidity to stationary business processes, which is achieved with the advent of mobile technology. Mobile tech facilitates unparalleled and wider reach to the target audience, with the help of a mobile app design company. It could boost the service of any organization through better communication and cooperation among staff as well as support business transformation opportunities within the company.

App development companies London use their expertise in delivering services from individuals to organizations to leverage mobility of the workforce in their daily operations and allow them to reach the maximum crowd via the application.

WHY A BUSINESS SHOULD PRIORITIZE MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT THIS YEAR
The ubiquity of mobile phones means that it will be remiss to not prioritize learning programming languages for mobile application development. Mobile developers constantly are racing to keep up with the trends in the technology world and adapt skills accordingly. It is a type of program-or-perish principle. The cutting-edge nature of technology draws many people towards the industry, but is also means that things are constantly in a state of flux.

Each new innovation would contribute to the changing demand from demographics, be it clients or users. If there is any trend that people should keep an eye on, then it would be mobile app development.

THE BOOMING MOBILE COMMERCE
This year, mobile commerce or m-commerce accounts for over 31 percent of the total sales, in comparison to 10 percent sales back in 2012. This alone should be an indicator of the amazing growth of mobile commerce. Aside from that, the mobile conversion rates have shot up to 30 percent every year. One-page checkouts as well as digital wallets, like Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, Stripe Checkout and PayPal One touch, all have been a big boon, bumping the conversion rate to 10 percent ad making decent progress to eradicating oft-cited concern with m-commerce, such as the tendency of consumers to be frustrated with clumsy buying processes and abandon the transaction halfway through. This, and the fact that mobile app interfaces are boosting as coding practices morph to meet the unique needs of the software, means that mobile commerce will only grow in size.

MAKING MONEY WITH MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT
All major app stores, like the Google Android Market, Apple App Store, Nokia Ovi Store, and RIM’s App World and so on, already have made billions in terms of profit in the last few years. Mobile applications now emerged as one of the best and easiest ways of advertising and selling services and products, encourage social sharing of information and in general, inspire mobile users to the development and maintaining brand loyalty.

The mobile application development market is huge and offers big scope for app developers and organizations to succeed beyond expectation, through making very minimal investment.

THE APPLICATION INDUSTRY IS ITS OWN ECONOMY
It’s important to be cognizant of how the commerce trends impact the demands of businesses and clients alike, who probably would be starting to feel pressure in deploying a storefront application for their businesses. Without question, this is a direction that business organizations will be taking into consideration, and one which should be considered by a developer.

In a lot of ways, any modern programmer or develop should already have a lot of skills required to adapt to the growing application industry. Java consistently is ranked as the most popular programming language for a reason, but worth looking into language trends.

In May of last year, Google announce that it’s adding Kotlin, which runs on the Java VM, as the official programming language for Android development. Many touted Kotlin as a response to some of the hardest-to-grasp Java elements. A lot of developers also are excitedly wanting to learn Swift, a language for developing native MacOS or iOS applications. It’s influenced heavily by Python and Ruby, which means that it would be pretty user-friendly and not very far remoe4d from what an average developer would know already.

Although not entirely pertaining to applications, it’s good to develop a robust foundation in some cutting-edge technologies, like augmented reality, deep learning methods and AI. Already, there’s substantial evidence that application consumers enjoy these capabilities. Being able to personalize content is top priority for mobile commerce developers.

TOP THREE MOBILE TECHNOLOGY TRENDS IN 2018
This year, there will be loads of new opportunities to rock the world. The tree greatest mobile technology trends this year are the following.

  1. Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality. AR is a live direct or indirect view of a real, physical world environment, whose elements are ‘augmented’ through computer-generated or extracted real-world sensory input, like video, graphics, sound, haptics or GPS data. VR is a computer technology, which uses virtual reality headsets of multi-projected environments, at times in combination of physical environments to generate realistic images, which simulate the physical presence of a user in an imaginary or virtual environment.

Mobile AR could be the key driver of $108 billion VR/AR market by 2021, with AR taking on the lion’s share of $83 billion, and VR for $25 billion.

  1. Internet of Things. Soon, everything would be connected with small devices, thus bringing information where one is standing. These information also would be tapped right where it’s being generated to empower a data center that uses edge computing technology. Smart objects would be interacting with smart phones and tables, which eventually would function like a TV remote, which displays and analyzes data, interfacing social networks for monitoring ‘things’ that could post or tweet.

  2. Blockchain. It is a decentralized, digitized, public ledger of all crypto-currency transactions. Growing constantly as ‘completed’ blocks are recorded and added to it in chronological order, enabling market participants to track digital currency transactions minus central record keeping. Every node gets a copy of the blockchain, that’s automatically downloaded.

Now is a wonderful time to be a developer, with the rise in the demand for app developers jobs.

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