11 Mobile App Development Trends in 2017

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• 11 Mobile App Development Trends To Stay In 2017

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Introduction
Smartphones have become an inseparable part of
our daily lives. Waking up with a morning alarm,
using Whatsapp, listening to music, reading
News, watching YouTube videos, checking mails,
updating project status and so on, everything is
seamlessly executed from our mobile devices.
Currently 2.1 Billion people worldwide owns a
Smartphone and according to TouchPoints
report- Adults aged 25 plus use their phone
about 264 times a day, including texts and
calling . For people aged 15-24, the number is
387 times every day. If average sleeping time for
this age group is taken 10 hours, this equates to
some sort of Smartphone activity every other
minute.
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Introduction (Cont.)
This is unbelievable yet true. Hence, use of
Smartphone and mobile apps is not going to get
reduced in 2017 anyways. Only the mobile app
trends might show new colors. In this blog post,
we are going to discuss about the current mobile
app development trends that are going to stay in
2017 too. After a thorough research at
ValueCoders, our team found 11 such mobile app
trends and related facts that are going to be
applicable in the upcoming year. Here are they
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11 Mobile App Development Trends
1) Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Is Changing Web
App Landscape Its been a year since Google
has started the AMP Project. Apart from that,
recently Google has announced that there will be
a separate search index for mobile web. This
revolutionary step changes the Mobile app
development trends completely especially from SEO
and Web app perspective.
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2) AR VR Will Show Some Magic If you are a
little aware of modern mobile app development
trends, then Augmented Reality(AR) and Virtual
Reality(VR) apps are nothing new to you. In 2016,
AR VR have been revolutionary in gaming and
entertainment industry. Games like Pokemon Go,
iOnRoad, Sky Siege and myNav are bright examples
of AR games whereas, VR devices like Samsung
Gear VR, Google Cardboard and Oculus Rift are
gaining popularity. According to a research
from Digi-Capital, here is the expected market
for AR VR software in upcoming years
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Although it is not expected that VR will show a
rapid growth, however, AR application
development will certainly run towards its peak
by the time 2017 ends. Therefore, tighten your
seat belts for some AR VR magic in the coming
year.
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• 3) Artificial Intelligence Is Real Now

• Gartner found, there will be a more than 300
  increase in investment on artificial intelligence
  next year compared to 2016. Through the use of
  advanced analytics, cognitive interfaces into
  complex systems, and machine learning techs, AI
  will provide business users access to powerful
  insights never before available to them.
• Due to these advantages, big bees like Google,
  IBM, eBay, Facebook have started acquiring
  startups those who are adept in Artificial
  Intelligence. This graph will tell you more.

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We have already seen some amazing AI apps such as
Prisma, Siri Google Now and expecting much more
in 2017 keeping the AI mobile application
development trends intact.
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4) Cloud Driven Mobile Apps Are On Rise
From customers to the tech professionals,
everyone has heard about the cloud technology and
how its impacting our collective lives. Today,
cloud computing has finally found its place with
mobile apps. Now, we can expect powerful mobile
apps which directly fetch data from cloud and
take minimum space in your smartphone internal
memory.
Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive are only the
tip of the iceberg. A Cisco research says
Globally, cloud apps will drive 90 of total
mobile data traffic by 2019, and Mobile cloud
traffic will be 11-fold with compound annual
growth rate (CAGR) of 60.
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• 5) Enterprise Apps Micro-apps Will Advance
  Further

The Prime goal of an enterprise mobile
application is to help you restructure,
streamline and manage crucial business processes
on the go. Whereas, A micro-app aims to suffice
very targeted operations and takes less load.
However, both are successfully accomplishing
their endeavors and are expected to continue
further.
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• An example of enterprise mobile apps can be the
  Evernote through which your teams can collaborate
  on projects from their mobile devices. On the
  other hand, Facebook messenger or to-do list app
  are good examples of micro-apps that concentrates
  on only one task.
• An Adobe study says 77 business owners found
  enterprise apps advantageous 66 are increasing
  their investment further. Also 430 billion
  enterprise app market is expected by 2021.
  Moreover, micro-apps with features like
  lightweight, targeted, HTML adhoc based, are
  rising these days. Hence, these mobile app
  development trends are expected to stay constant
  in 2017.

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6) More Focus On Security In Apps
As per a Gartner prediction, 75 of mobile apps
would not pass even basic security tests. In
support, a HP study states that 70.6 apps can
access to external storage and 94.7 apps include
logging methods. These surveys majorly indicates
the following concerns
Hackers will tend to continue with the trend of
exploiting known security gaps in mobile apps for
stealing sensitive and confidential information.
This is one of the negative mobile app
development trends that is going to continue next
year.
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7) Wearable Devices Are Getting Attention
According to International Data Corporation
(IDC), the market for wearable devices are going
to experience a composite annual growth rate
(CAGR) of 20.3, leading to 213.6 million units
shipped in 2020. We saw some amazing wearable
devices this year like Apple Watch Series 1,
Google Daydream View, Pebble 2, Xiaomi Mi Band 2,
Fitbit Flex 2 and more.
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• 8) M-Commerce Is Becoming A New Standard

• These days, instead of using Credit/Debit cards,
  considerable number of customers is preferring to
  make purchases through Google wallet and Apple
  Pay. This is giving a push to m-commerce.
• Coupled with wearable devices with m-commerce
  payment facility will take a different shape in
  2017. Beyond predictive analytics and data
  collection, wearable will also play a major role
  in the future of m-commerce and customer loyalty.

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Heres a market prediction from these mobile app
development trends
Hence, the mobile app trends of m-commerce is
going to stay strong in 2017 as well.
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9) Internet of Things Will Be Much Bigger
The rapid adoption of cloud based apps bring us
to the one of the latest mobile app development
trends that has piqued mobile developer interest
in 2016 the Internet of Things.
Analysts predict that IoT will grow from 157.05
billion in 2016 to 661.74 billion by 2021, at a
Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 33.3.
This directly impacts the mobile app trends as
IoT devices are majorly controlled by
Smartphones. Heres the predicted growth curve
of IoT-
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10) Beacons Location Based Services Are On
Rise
Integrated location-based service applications
like Apples iBeacons and Google Beacon are
popular. Wi-Fi usage will no longer be limited to
hotels, restaurants, retail outlets and in
health-care. The usage of applications with Wi-Fi
support is going to rise beyond these traditional
requirements will help people with relevant
location-based information. Heres how Beacon
works- This advanced technology gives a major
scope to personalized app marketing and expected
to rise in 2017 considering one of the major
mobile app trends.
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• 11) Swift Is Much Swifter Now

Swift is the next-gen programming language for
iOS developers. Most of the mobile-app developers
confirm that it is much easier than Objective
C. Although Swift isnt going to replace
Objective-C any time soon, however, it will gain
a lot of attention in 2017 . With the release of
Swift 2 which offers a host of new,
developer-friendly features, this new programming
language is certainly to stay.
Heres how Swift runs ahead in the race with
other programming languages
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