Mobile applications have been in the world ever since the first mobile device came into existence. As devices became more ‘smarter’ with every passing day, mobile apps too became increasingly important for companies to reach out to the increasing user base over the years.

Fast forward to 2020 and mobile applications have completely changed the way the entire world eats, shops, interacts, travels, gets treated, and this list goes on and on. With the pace of technological innovations, every mobile app development company has become increasingly advanced, offering unique and different features and functionality in their developed apps as much as possible.

As far as this particular year goes, the COVID-19 pandemic is still making most of the headlines. Like everything though, life cannot stop, and innovations keep coming. With this year almost gone, it’s high time to gear up for 2021.

As far as mobile app development goes, here are some trends that we think will govern the next year in areas like Artificial Intelligence(AI), IoT(Internet of Things), Augmented Reality(AR) and more-

Augmented Reality Will Become Much More Than A Gaming Experience

The term AR got introduced to the world with a couple of games that made use of the technology for a highly immersive user experience. Then came the wave of these AR based games being produced from companies, which is still pretty prominent.

While on an initial stage as of now, Augmented Reality will strongly move beyond just games where different apps will find their use for varying purposes. The biggest one will be how live events could be enjoyed at the comfort of homes while they happen in real-time.

Moreover, learning apps will also make use of AR to become more interactive with their tutorials and skill-building features as well.

5G (No more words needed)

The expected speed of 5G technology in full flow will make a speed of 100gbps perfectly attainable. With such speeds, data transmission is going to witness a revolution of sorts, with more than 1 billion devices to become 5G capable within the next five years.

Rising dominance of the beacon technology

Beacons are small transmitters that facilitate easy searching based on locations with the help of Bluetooth signals to other devices. As far as customers go, this technology gives a more personalized experience to all the potential customers.

This beacon technology can become more robust in 2021 with better mapping, and an efficient product display as well. To add to it, beacons make it pretty easy to identify target audiences and lend them personalized discounts and deals in the meantime.

As far as cross platform mobile app development goes, edge computing will be a trend that won’t be exactly visible to every user, but looking at the way the Internet of Things(IoT) changes daily lives of the people, impeccable data processing will surely be the need of the hour.

With edge computing, the entire data can be easily transmitted to a local device, say a smartphone, translating into jobs that can be completed much faster and also with an added efficiency.

If we talk from a comprehensive perspective, mobile apps are actually getting more and more entwined in our lives than ever thought possible. The few trends mentioned above are the ones which,according to us, will have the most impact in the area of mobile app development services in the year 2021.

If you are getting your mobile app designed soon, it is best advised to reach out to Consagous Technologies so that these trends and their objectives can get incorporated into your app well in advance!

Mobile app development sounds like a simple procedure. Get an app and launch it. However, the contrary is true here. It’s a delicate process and sticking by some points before the launch can help you get assured of success.

Ideas, wireframes, and prototypes. These are a few terms that are usually thrown across quite a lot whenever mobile apps are a primary point of discussion. With a really professional company that has a vast experience in mobile app development, an app does get ready.

 

But, what after that?

Will the app be deployed and distributed directly to different platforms? Should this actually be the case if the quick deployment is the thought process?

Give it a little thought.

After such long hours into the entire app development process, it is not viable to launch the app abruptly. Like the case with every new tangible or intangible product in the market, a fair bit of groundwork is essential in mobile apps too. With countless apps making their space everyday, spending a little time in thinking out the best ways to take an app live will get that initial attention needed from users all over the world.

To help you all out with this very task, we have compiled a checklist- the most critical things you need to keep in mind about how to release an app perfectly.

Read on then!

• Have both- an objective as well as the audience

Research is something that holds the key to success, even before the first round of wireframing happens. To be sure that you are not simply wasting your time, conduct thorough research, and be worry-free about your product and its uniqueness.

Don’t go overboard by putting up a lot of expectations. Instead, set real and practical goals by identifying your target audience. Having a hold on these two important factors will pave a positive way further on for your mobile app.

• Know about the competitors within your market

With your app under development, no checklist will ever be complete if there is a lack of awareness about the competitors. Browse through the app stores for similar apps and conduct a thorough analysis about their advantages and flaws.

Addressing their flaws can help your app enjoy benefits on the same grounds, helping it become a better choice for potential users.

• ASO (App Store Optimization)

ASO is aligned with SEO in a basic sense. Just like SEO increases website visibility, App Store Optimization enhances the visibility of an app, leading to favourable conversions in terms of more app installs. Ensuring perfection of all related ASO elements before the app launch will give you an edge before the launch itself.

• Social media presence

Long story short- social media is an integral need of the hour. The traction from consistent social media profiles cannot be overlooked at all. Apart from social media profiles, a website landing page also helps in the establishment of a strong online presence, while guaranteeing organic website traffic at the same time.

If you promote your app appropriately on this landing page, it is going to work wonders, undoubtedly.

• Incorporate catchy & creative content

Create an aura of a community with your social media content. Get peoples’ attention with content that leads to a curious interest towards your mobile app.

As far as building an engagement goes, you can also seek assistance from social media influencers who already have higher levels of engagement on their profiles. Highlight the benefits of your app functionalities and benefits in your content.

• Be very aware of the submission guidelines

If we talk about the App Store and Google Play Store as the application stores, both have a different set of guidelines for accepting and publishing an app on their respective platforms.

Therefore, it is best to stay in tune with the submission guidelines even during the app development, so as to not hamper the mobile app release cycle later on.

• Ensure a beta release

While a beta release of the app is a great way to gauge out your app’s feasibility, keeping a strong feedback mechanism in place brings the right kind of data back with this ‘indirectly direct’ communication from the beta users.

MVP (Minimum Viable Product) service is also gaining a lot of momentum as far as the initial versions of the app are concerned. Take a little time to figure out what’s best for your app, and only then proceed ahead.

The current pandemic is definitely playing its role in making us look for them quickly, so that we can make sure that these futuristic and autonomous models are able to deliver when needed.

To put it simply, the world has been on its toes since news of the coronavirus outbreak took the headlines by storm. Life has come to a halt, and governments are trying really hard to find out ways of combating this pandemic to the best of their capacities.

Millions of employees around the world have started working from home in the midst of this current situation. Countless retail businesses are having a hard time to take care of the supply, and customers too in their panic, have held up the stock of multiple items that range from toilet paper to food essentials.

In Wuhan though, which is the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, Chinese E-commerce brand JD tested autonomous delivery robots and ran its fully automatic warehouses for 24 hours each day to manage the increase in demand of items. With people locked down in their homes, the requirement of autonomous machines has never been more pronounced, where they are something more than mere concepts.

A future that relies on automation was already coming, but given the epidemic, it has led to the acceleration of this particular process. Problems and issues which existed in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector have been exposed. Just being aware of catchy words and the hype surrounding this concept might have been a hindrance in taking accurate note of the progress.

If things actually need to be accelerated for getting to an automated future quickly, there are some much-needed reforms that need more attention than ever-

1. A New Set of Evaluation Metrics

With more and more autonomous machines finding deployment in the outside world, the usual metrics like cycle time, speed and success rates are no longer the accurate providers of the complete scenario.

This is what needs to be done in this case-

We need to evaluate system reliabilities under uncertain situations with metrics like the degree of human intervention in particular automated processes.

More standards and industry tools that are capable of conducting an overall evaluation of system performance under multiple cases as real-life scenarios come with a lot of uncertainty.

A few years ago, DevOps arrived on the scene to cut the development cycle short and provide top-notch software. In comparison, AI and ML are pretty new. However, MLOps and AIOps are increasingly being used, marking a crucial shift from just AI/ML based research to their use in actual products.

2. Redesigning Communication & Error Handling

We might be years away from getting fully autonomous solutions, but robotics is still pretty able to bring immediate utility for us. Even if involved in the operations to a certain degree, companies can bring about a considerable reduction in labor and other costs.

There is a need to come up with different categories for errors at different levels, design appropriate protocols and ensure that taking care of fatal errors is the first priority in every such case where a system can stop and will need human involvement to take care of.

Detecting those errors which are untraceable by the system too is another difficult facet to come to terms with, highlighting the importance of two-way communication, allowing users to mark errors or bring a contingency plan in effect.

3. Redefining Interaction Between Machines & Humans

Coronavirus has forced a huge number of companies in USA to make a quick shift to the cloud through the adoption of automation. Because there are just a handful of people who are charged with managing a large fleet of robots, it is yet to be seen if there are right kinds of technologies with us to ensure that information is quickly transferred for swift decision- making.

When it is about providing input to robots, we normally rely on machines like tablets or computers. But, with time, as the information pile keeps on increasing and response time needs to be more efficient, looking into the technologies of AR/VR might provide a lot of answers to revolutionize human-machine interaction.

The current pandemic is definitely playing its role in making us look for them quickly so that we can make sure that these futuristic and autonomous models are able to deliver when needed.

The above points will definitely prove to be a lot of help to the producers of such systems in making breakthroughs quickly.

The trend of telemedicine app development may be a little new, but it holds a lot of promise for the years to come. This technology, if used to perfection, can make lives easier, undoubtedly.

The concept of telemedicine is relatively new, but with the world moving at a great pace, thanks to the Internet, this concept too has been developing pretty quickly in its stride. This particular field has become very dynamic in its short life, and there are a number of complexities that arise with a concept that has garnered huge attention in such a short span of time.

In its most generic sense, telemedicine helps medical professionals treat patients by various video conferencing tools with the help of the Internet, where both the doctors and patients are in totally different locations. With sophisticated telemedicine applications and software solutions, professionals gauge a patient’s vitals over the Internet, making the entire process very easy.      

A Little Behind the Telemedicine Concept

Telemedicine saw its inception about half a century ago, were a few hospitals tried to connect with their patients in remote locations through telemedicine. That was just a start though. Today, telemedicine has become a complex and integrated service domain that is used in hospitals, clinics, and in all types of healthcare infrastructure.

In the present scenario, the advancement in the field is truly exponential, which can be credited to wider accessibility and affordability for telemedicine tools.

Convenience, clubbed with the unavailability of thorough medical professionals, has contributed to a great degree in the rise of telemedicine companies, that successfully provide their patients a 27/7 access to quality services.

Since the coronavirus announcement or COVID-19, as we also call it, has been wreaking havoc on lives all over the globe. The biggest economic powerhouses are on their knees as they constantly struggle to contain the damage this pandemic is causing on an hourly basis. The lives of some of the world’s biggest tech companies in USA too have been made difficult. Postponing or outright cancellation of conferences, restricting employee travel, and persistent encouragement to work from homes are some of the ways companies are trying to work out, in general terms.

As far the USA is concerned, these measures are already in effect, particularly in the state of Seattle, home to Microsoft and Amazon. This is a time when a number of tech companies look to bring new products, technologies, and breakthroughs in front of the world audience. Due to COVID-19 though, everything has, for the moment, gone for a toss.

While the world waits to get back to COVID-19 free earth, here’s how the biggest companies in the world are handling the outbreak, to keep things operational-

APPLE

Apple was perhaps the first company to issue a public statement that the virus had indeed, made a dent on its ambitions for the first quarter. They informed the stakeholders about not being able to meet the expected revenue guidelines for the March quarter.

Then, they shut down their retail stores and offices in China, which now have opened again.

The much anticipated ‘iPhone SE2’ or ‘iPhone 9’ was to be reportedly launched in the last week of March, which is now supposedly postponed.

Production units have become operational, but the pace in restoring normalcy is slow.

Presently, apart from keeping employees at home, it is busy rejecting apps providing wrong information related to the virus from the App Store.

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