8 Trends in mobile application development. Perspectives for 2019

We think it is a great tradition to investigate the trends of 2019, like almost the same as we did last year: you can read about last year's application development trends in our article.

According to the brilliant note, it was the same as we have predicted: here is the list of the 25 most successful applications in 2017, according to TIME magazine. The leaders include:

AR-based applications like Faceapp and offering the VR tour through the brightest art museums around the world, the Art Passport app.

Between the tendencies of Mobile App Development for Android they emphasize the applications of editing of video / audio like Musical.ly.

Although the leader in 2018 is, for the second year in a row, the Instagram mobile application, it is in fifth place.

Are content sharing applications going to retain the power of popularity or will there be different ways in which development takes place this year? We have done our own research and are ready to present some of the main mobile application development trends of 2019.

1. Internet of things.

If you're up to date with technology news lately, you've heard this combination of words (or the IoT abbreviation) of any digital resource like TechCrunch or Wired, but you're still wondering what the meaning of this is. (Skip the following passage if you are already aware of IoT).

According to Forbes, the IoT rule is that "everything that can be connected will connect, in the future." As human beings, we can benefit from it even on a daily basis. Imagine your car, automatically synchronizing with your calendar, verifying that you are late for a meeting and choosing the route with the lightest traffic. Or your house, listening to your footsteps on the lawn of the approaching parking lot and sending a request for the microwave to warm up your dinner? In addition to smart homes, the Internet of Things could be used on a larger scale to build "smarter" cities that will control our energy consumption and waste production. Microsoft, for example, offers some smart city concepts.

Back to the technology of mobile applications, there are many factors that indicate that IoT-based applications will soon be in demand. Just look how successful the TADO (intelligent AC control) is. In addition, Statista says that IoT's global revenues will increase dramatically by 2020, making it one of the current trends in mobile applications to be taken into account.

2. Mobile payments.

As part of the iOS and Android application development trends, using your smartphone to pay your smart home bills and your purchases is no longer a dream, now it's M-commerce. The term appeared for the first time in 2015, when Android Pay was launched, and then Apple Pay, products that allowed sending and receiving money transfers without the credit cards involved. Not only is it convenient for users with few clicks, but it also allows you to get more information about your users' cash flow.

3. Same upon request.

The variety of services covered by the economy on demand includes everything now (developing an application for the delivery of food, taxes, cleaning services, beauty and massage, assistance for the application of medical care, etc.) but there are many areas that They have not yet been invested. The on-demand workspace or on-demand fitness coach could be the next new companies in demand to appear.

4. AR and VR again.

No matter how many words have already been said about augmented reality and virtual reality, the truth remains the same: they rock. Bold fact: Snapchat is the number 2 most popular application in the world for the third consecutive year. So, maybe there is a request in the market for the type of applications they are. Faceapp, the most popular application of 2017 (TIME magazine again), uses AR algorithms to go beyond the limits of other photo editing applications; Users apply filters to change their facial expression, age and even gender.

Another example that shows that the AR filters of Snapchat and Prism are a wonder is Facebook that has added augmented reality filters to their camera. TechCrunch states that, apart from facial masks, there will also be filters that will act in response to the movements of your body.

5. Cloud-based applications.

G-Drive, Dropbox and iCloud have become an integral part of our daily routine, but there is more to come. Statista says the revenues of global providers of cloud-based services are about to reach 522 billion US dollars by 2026, compared to 181.6 now, which means that revenues are will triple in several years.

Noisy services have changed the standards of our data by storing, managing and processing. Now you can get data faster and simpler than in the past, when the memory of your device was affected, so we expect more services to be developed in the cloud this year.

6. AI and Chabot's.

The future of artificial intelligence is already here as predicted, even in the world of mobile application trends. There are a lot of applications that were taken after Apple and Google, creating an artificial intelligent assistant for you to make jokes. Take, for example, Allow: an iOS and Android mobile application with the first AI-based chat. It seems another messenger, but from the first moment: Allow offers intelligent answers based on the text you receive. In addition, it also has an image recognition function, so it can even suggest how to respond to those extravagant photos that your friends send you.

Another worthy messenger is Telegram, due to its boats that are becoming extremely popular among the crowd. As messengers are said to be the future of all online communications, boats are on fire now: they can answer questions, set alarms or reminders, and perform financial transactions without the help of people. As they are relatively new in the market, curiosity about the boats is expected to grow; They are likely to be integrated into any mobile project updated soon.

7. Blockchain in production

The big players of the market put their eyes on the blockchain technology from last year. Companies like Oracle even had their own blockchain software based on the developed cloud. In addition, it is expected that the block chain will be pushed fiercely in the Asian region, where Japan and South Korea have joined forces to create a transactional system of cost reduction.

8. Security of the applications of potentiation.

With increasingly frequent hacker attacks, one of the central things your application must have is solid security controls.

Security these days is treasured everywhere: from chat applications (Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal in the list), applications to save passwords (for example, the True Key application) and products such as the Spider Oak. This application not only provides convenient data storage in the cloud, but also a secure one: all your data is encrypted and can only be accessed with your password, which Spider Oak does not save.

In fact, one of the most popular mobile application development trends has always been banking applications and their data protection. With the popularity of cryptocurrencies now, the new trend is the security of cryptocurrencies, and let's not forget the M-commerce: phone-to-phone payments must also be impregnable.

Another twist on the security of the application could be a development of proxy applications. Many Google services, such as YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive +, a lot of social networks like Instagram and Twitter are partially or totally banned in many Asian countries, which generates a great demand for virtual private networks "faster and more powerful".

There is a constant thing on Earth: its change.

Here they are: iOS (and Android) application development trends next year. Looking at the article from a year ago of mobile application development trends of 2017, we could not help noticing that recent trends in mobile technology are now different, again, which shows that technological progress does not stop, it continues to evolve. Maybe in a year we will see a completely different image of trends, so maybe it would be wise not to spend another 365 days waiting, making an innovation of your dreams.