Another challenge that mobile application developers face is whether to build native apps or HTML5 multi-platform apps. For example, using some of the latest tools and frameworks, developers can build a mobile application once and then run it on multiple operating systems.
The Android platform itself presents more challenges, as it requires mobile app developers to work with various versions such as Honeycomb or Gingerbread. Using the iOS platform, developers could simply use the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system.
The future of mobile application development holds many changes, although none may be as significant as one particular aspect. According to industry experts, mobile development will move from serving as a feature to that of an expectation. A perfect example of this phenomenon is the trade of products and services via the Internet.
Today, we know that businesses can offer products and services via the Internet. Considering this technology, it would seem strange for a business not to extend the sale of its products or services via the Internet. The same will soon be true for mobile application development. While the original concept to purchase tickets on your smartphone and redeem those tickets at the gates proved cool and unique, this concept will soon become common ground. Once again, it will become strange for a business not to offer this type of mobile application service. This type of service will become an expectation.
Another great example of changing technologies compares automobiles and mobile phones. In the past, luxury features of an automobile included keyless entry, heated seats, GPS, and iPod compatible sound systems. Today, many of these features come standard and customers are instead looking for greater technologies such as the ability to sync diagnostics to smartphones or automatically track gas mileage, tire wear and performance. All of the previous technologies are now expected and no longer considered luxurious.
The bottom line is that expectations will improve as technologies do, and soon all of the luxuries originally featured in mobile applications will move from bonus features to expectations. Consumer expectations over the next few years will demand mobile integration to a point that every successful company must embrace it. In the fewest words, mobile application development will revolutionize the business world as we know it.
Category: Mobile Development
