The Future of Mobile App Development in India
“Mobile Application Development is the future of Software Development.”
Former Google Chairman Eric Emerson Schmidt.
In the last two years, the number of mobile phone users rapidly increased, and the count is still going on. According to the report given by DataRePortal, there are unique 5.112 Million mobile users around the world. In the world, India stands in second place in the active mobile phone users while China is taking first place.
Out of 5.112 billion mobile phone users in the world, among them one billion users are from India (70% of India’s current population). Around 1 million subscribers join the group every day.
People using smart-phones are demanding for better applications and want to update existing mobile apps, which in turn created a huge scope for Android apps development in India.
Evolution of mobile apps:
- For the first time, 552 mobile apps are released in June 2008 by Apple through the App Store. Among them, 135 are for free to download. In the first week, 10 million app downloads took place. Apart from that, 800 more native mobile applications available for the download in the Apple app store.
- On October 2008, Google came up with the Android Market for providing Android apps. After Apple, Android became the second major mobile apps hub.
- In April 2009, Blackberry launched its Blackberry app world.
- In October 2010, Windows launched its Windows phone store, which is the fourth app store contributor.
- In March 2012, Google renamed the Android market as Google play store with the Android 2.2 mobile update.
- As of May 2013, the Apple app store will reach 50 million downloads.
- In June 2013, Google play store reached 50 million downloads and more than 1 million apps present in the play store.
- Apple App store reached 1 million downloads by October 2013.
- The number of app downloads all over the world as of 2017 is 178.1 billion, which is going to 258.2 by 2021.
- According to the Statistic report for the year 2017, the app downloads reached 12.1 Billion in India.
According to the above statistics, you can assume how much people are addicted to mobile apps in their daily life. It can be for booking a meal from a restaurant, booking a cab, shopping, and much more we can do with the help of mobile apps.
Present status of the app market:
On average, every smartphone user in India spends 200 minutes every day on the Internet. In this 40% of time spent on social media mobile apps. These are top 20 apps Indians spend most time on.
In one decade, there is a drastic change occurred in the mobile apps industry. By which many new mobile app development companies are entering the market. Every day for the mobile development company, the clients are coming up with new ideas on various verticals and categories.
Nowadays, Android apps became very popular when compared with other mobile apps like Apple and windows. It designed in such a way that, it allows the developers and device manufacturers to alter the software design according to their needs.
There are various verticals which are used by Indians like Gaming, personalization, photography, education, Music & video, and many more apps.
2018 most used mobile apps by Indians:
Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, True caller, UC Browser, SHAREit, Bigo Live, TikTok, Hotstar, and MX player.
Similar web report (25-05-2019):
According to the latest report by similar web, below are the top 10 used mobile apps by Indians based on app stores.
In India, most of the Growth happened in the Food delivery apps with 900 percentage.
Future of mobile app development:
The mobile app industry is the fastest developed industry in the last decade. The growth is exponentially very high when compared with the other industries.
After seeing this development, mobile app research analysts came to the conclusion that the mobile app development industry is going to drain out soon. But, there are no proves to support that statement.
Currently, mobile development companies are getting regular requests to develop various apps on different verticals like social media, food delivery, online service booking, and gaming.
Apart from regular apps, clients are coming to mobile app development companies to develop new apps which are making the life of a human being simple and easy.
The primitive reason for the mobile app industry market advancement is they are quick adopters and faster integration of advanced technologies to give a next-level user experience.
According to the Gartner estimation by 2020, 70% of customer engagement on software done through mobile apps.
Now, we are going to know some of the trends which are going to take the future of the mobile app development industry.
Internet of things (IOT):
IOT which hottest and trending in the Indian and World market. A large number of companies are working on IOT to develop IOT mobile apps for better user experience. This technology used to connect everyday gadgets with the Internet.
Currently, the Internet of things is highly demanded vertical of the mobile app development market. With the help of IOT only, we can utilize a smart home and smart appliances, which are making our work simple and easy.
Some of the IOT mobile apps:
- Blue smart app: We can get to know the exact location of your suitcase from a remote place for free.
- Meon: You can control your shower from your device.
Cloud-based mobile apps:
It is also trending and hot topic in the industry, where many so many multinational companies and startups are working on it to create some cool apps.
The reason to choose cloud apps are secure, fully responsive, faster data sharing, and much more. People are looking for cloud mobile apps like Dropbox, Jio cloud, and my cloud. For the developers in India, many requests to develop cloud-based apps. The researchers and developers are working very hard to give the best mobile apps to the users.
Artificial intelligence (AI):
AI is growing with light speed, and now it became the hottest technology in the market. It will be the game changer of the mobile app market in the coming up years.
AI is used to complete high-end tasks which are difficult for human-like decision making and problem-solving. The best example for the AI app is Siri.
You can add AI to other technologies like Automation, Robotic, Self-driving cars, and machine learning. We can also use it in various areas like education, health, business, and finance.
Augmented Reality (AR):
Augmented Reality will take you to another new world. AR is growing faster with light speed, and it will be developing in the future also. The top mobile app development companies are getting calls to develop various AR mobile apps like gaming, furniture enterprise apps.
The AR will change how we communicate, buy, shop on mobile phones. The gaming companies are growing in larger volume, which will give a larger scope to develop new gaming mobile apps.
As gaming apps are the first choice to the many customers, the market will keep on growing.
Wearable Apps:
Wearable apps built by using the Standalone functionality. Even though it depends on the smartphone to provide real-time activities, this is opening the doors to the mobile app developers to experiment on new things.
If you are using any smart wearables, then you need to have the wearable apps to get real-time information from the devices. The smartphone will be the dashboard of your wearable products.
The wearable apps can develop on various verticals like sports, fashion, healthcare, and fitness are expanding the scope of the mobile app development market.
Wallet apps:
Currently, in the Indian market, we have a lot of digital wallet apps which are changing the method of payment. In the coming up future also digital wallet apps will be in demand because people are started using wallet apps rather than liquid cash.
The wallets changed the behavior of the users by giving more convenience to pay anywhere and anytime.
The e-commerce apps are giving more flexibility than the website. The digital wallet linked to e-commerce by which the customer can pay using the wallets without depending on the net banking, credit, and debit cards.
The reason for customers shifting to digital wallets is:
- Ease of use
- Discounts
- Can pay anywhere, any time.
By which these wallet apps are trending and going to be a leading trend in mobile app development.
Data and security apps:
The mobile phone became an integral part of every human being in the world it may be the USA or India. With the help of a mobile phone or smartphone, we can do a lot more things saving information, tracking your fitness, and many more with the help of IOT.
As mobile became center access point of all our personal information, we need to secure our device from unauthorized access. Nowadays, security apps became a necessity for every smartphone user.
In our phone, we have some apps in which our personal information will store. Some of the financial apps and other apps are providing security to their apps, without depending on other mobile security apps to secure customer information.
Currently, in the world, the biggest companies like Google and Facebook are mainly focusing on privacy and security.
With technology growth, security issues also increasing rapidly. With technology growth, security issues also increasing rapidly. To secure customer information, many companies started to build their security apps.
The security apps are evergreen in the mobile app development industry.
Let we conclude….
In the World, India is the leading software development hub and most innovative service provider. In India, mobile app developers & companies have a great future in terms of the career.
As no of mobile users is increasing, the need for mobile also increase every day. For creating innovative mobile apps, we need creative mobile app developers in India.
The needs of a human being will change from day to day, which will give rise in the mobile app development industry. So, the mobile app industry is never ending process.
We hope the article is useful. If you have any plan inner side of your brain and want to convert it into a mobile app, we are here to help you out.
