Today, their preferences go a long way to determine the smartphone operating system that will hold on to supremacy in the contemporary mobile market. Rapidly gaining popularity points as a mobile app developer favorite is the powerful Android platform.
According to the findings of Ovum’s second annual developer survey, “Android looks set to replace Apple’s iOS in terms of importance to developers.”
The independent technology analyst also revealed that this replacement will occur within the next 12 months, which will deliver a significant blow to the ever-popular Apple operating system. The report from the survey also added that almost all mobile application developers support both platforms, “despite a clear vie for ultimate supremacy between the two.”
The research also showed that mobile application developers are beginning to focus their efforts on HTML5 and other web-based standards. These seem to be the preferred approach to building cross-platform applications and designate an apparent move away from Java, Flash, WAP and other traditional cross-platform mobile application development approaches.
Adam Leach, author of the research and devices and platforms practice leader at Ovum, discussed the key takeaway from the mobile application development survey.
“A smartphone platform’s success is dictated not only by the pull of consumers and the push of handset vendors and mobile operators but also by a healthy economy of applications delivered by third-party developers.”
Accordingly, all players in the mobile application development ecosystem need to understand both the choices developers make today and the downstream impact of those choices.
Category: Mobile Development
