With mobile phone users and devices reaching to billions, the businesses are focusing on building robust mobile apps with great UX and UI. According to research, nearly 179 billion mobile apps are downloaded per year. The Mobile App Development sector is thriving with gaming apps; Social Media apps like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube; Google Apps, business apps like Amazon, Walmart, etc. Even SMEs are not far behind as they are also using the mobile apps for better user engagement, branding, retail marketing, etc.
Let us now see some of the significant challenges and trends in the mobile application development.
Key Challenges in the Mobile App Development
The prevailing competition amongst the Smartphone providers has made them improve their apps continuously. The software companies need to develop such softwares to support mobile apps that need much time and efforts on part of the professionals.
There is no availability of the unified apps and the software developers design only fragmented apps.
The different Smartphones do not possess the same OS so many apps that are in great demand needs to be removed.
The time-consuming process starts when the developers have to test their apps against distinct OS versions so that their app works on different mobile devices.
Automated testing is limited for the native apps.
Latest Trends in the Mobile App Development
With the increased challenges, the designers and developers are carrying out research to provide a seamless user experience to the mobile device users. For this, there are many significant trends introduced by the mobile industry that will predict the future of the Android App Development and iPhone app development.
1. The Growth of IoT (Internet of Things): The use of Artificial Intelligence is going to grow in the year 2018. The machine learning, image recognition, natural language processing, deep learning, and neural network drive decision-making, etc. is going to trend this year. The mobile apps will be integrated with the IoT feature to provide a flawless experience to hotels, retail business houses, automakers, etc. The customized IoT applications will make their place with this market reaching $267 billion by the year 2020.
2. Cloud-based Mobile Apps will make a Difference: The Cloud Computing has created waves in the companies, and now it collaborates with the mobile apps. This technology will enable the mobile apps to fetch the data directly from the cloud space and lessens the memory space on the mobile phones. The Mobile Cloud traffic is stated to be growing at a rate of 60%.
3. Security in App Development: Nowadays, developers focus more on security during the Android app development and iPhone App Development. According to a study, 75% of the mobile apps cannot pass the basic security testing. The testers have found basic concerns during the secuity tests.
Leakage of System Information
Insecure Storage data
Violation of the Privacy Policy
Insecure Deployment
Misusing the mobile related data
To cater to these issues, JavaScript framework can help in the development of the scalable and secured mobile applications.
4. Increase in the M-Commerce: The online selling has taken a forefront with maximum people possessing the Smartphones and the iPhones. Many users are opting to M-Commerce, which means that the app development companies need to design workable apps for the business houses. The increased usage of the Google Wallet and Apple Pay will facilitate the in-app payment process too. The wearable devices will also support the customer loyalty and the mobile payments.
5. The Inclusion of the Location-Based Apps: With Google My Business listing and Google Maps helping users to find the best local store near their location, the customers prefer location-based apps. By using the location-based mobile apps, the customers will be able to trace out the store, a good restaurant, grocery store, etc. with just one click. They can see the reviews, and even few stores have cited the closing and opening timings too with business’s images.
Conclusion
The future of mobile app development is excellent. Modern tools are available for app developers and designers to provide great app experience. By working on the challenges posed in this sector, the companies can design magnificent business apps.
Okay, this is really weird and I can't find any info about it on Google (and I don't know what terms I should search anyway). For the past two days whenever I try to watch a video on YouTube in fullscreen, it just puts the video in the upper-left corner of the screen and makes the rest of the screen black, like this: ( picture under cut in case it's too bigCollapse )
It's really weird because fullscreen videos worked perfectly fine until yesterday morning.
Googling "youtube won't play fullscreen videos" just gets me advice for what to do if the screen is completely black (or white) which isn't the problem I have. (I did try that advice anyway--which was basically to uncheck the hardware acceleration box in Settings after right-clicking the video--and it didn't help) Also tried doing a CClean and that didn't help either. I can't think of what else I should try for this.
Using Google Chrome on Windows Vista, HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop.
Okay, I'm at wit's end here. This has been happening for the past three weeks or so. I haven't changed anything and even going back to a restore point from before this doesn't help. ( The rest here...Collapse )
ugh, I hate having to post here again so soon but I'm having another problem. I had scheduled a CHKDSK last night for the next time my computer was booted up. Turned it on about two hours ago and the startup screens came on fine but CHKDSK didn't start, instead it was just a black screen (monitor off completely, seemingly--similar to the problem I had last time). I waited about 8-10 minutes for CHKDSK to start but it never did and nothing else happened either. After about 15-20 minutes I did a hard shutdown, which was probably a Huge Mistake, because Vista bluescreened at startup (can't remember error message, sorry) and the computer restarted. Got the "Windows did not start correctly" error screen. Did startup repair, upon finishing laptop restarted and I got the Windows startup error again. Did ANOTHER startup repair. This time when it restarted after finishing, bootup screens displayed fine but now I've got a black monitor again (been about 30 mins), and the Caps Lock light doesn't turn on when I press that button. I'm scared to turn the laptop off again since I'm pretty sure that's what got me into this trouble in the first place (either that, or scheduling the CHKDSK run). Also I can't seem to boot into Safe Mode, F8 doesn't do anything when I tap it during startup. I don't have any recovery disks or anything either. Using Vista sp...2, I believe, 32 bit. Laptop is HP Pavilion DV6000.
EDIT: After trying about half a dozen+ "fixes" which didn't work, I finally had to reformat/recover Vista. Luckily I've only had this laptop for about a month so I didn't have much stuff on there, and I was successfully able to back up everything on my external HDD. Reformat/recover worked, I haven't had any issues with this computer since then (did it on the 27th I think).
Hi guys. I'm pretty much at my wits end. I got this refurbished Gateway computer a few months ago, and right away it had issues. For one thing, it would not turn on AT ALL..and I couldn't figure out why. Until I reinstalled the RAM. Then things were fine until recently.
Question/Problem: The first few months were great..like any PC/human relationship, but then things went south. Now it shuts itself off automatically without warning. And I don't mean shutting down or giving me the BSOD. I could be doing anything really. It mostly happens when I'm surfing the web on Firefox. But when it's idle it doesn't shut off much.
Operating System, Version and Service Pack: Windows XP Professional Service pack 2. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80GHz 2.79 GHz, 1.98 GB RAM
Web Browser and Version: Firefox 18..although I don't think this matters
Your level of experience: between seasoned and expert
When did the problem start? Has it been going on constantly since then? A few months ago. It's getting more frequent. At least 5 times per day. My computer can't be on for more than 3 hours until it shuts off..unless it's idle
Any steps you've taken to troubleshoot? Yes, lots. virus scanning..turned up nothing. "last known good configuration"..nada. system restore..didn't do squat. reinstalled the RAM..nothing. letting it cool down..nope! updated the display driver..negative. i'm not sure what else i can do. i don't think reinstalling windows would do it.
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(posting from Wii internet) I got a used HP DV6000 for Christmas and yesterday I was playing a FB game on it when it suddenly froze/crashed and I had to do a forced shutdown. When I turned it back on, it seemed to boot up normally (the monitor was on at this time) but right after it booted up, the monitor turned off completely and would not turn back on. After five minutes of waiting I turned it off, tried again, still nothing. On my third try, I hit F10 and was able to get into Setup mode, but I couldn't find anything there that seemed relevant. So I went online on the Wii to search for a solution. A few people said to cycle through the monitor button (which I THINK is F4) on the keyboard a few times. So I did that and--it worked (although this might have been due to going into Setup)! No issues with the monitor, at least last night. Tonight when I booted up--same problem, seems fine until after bootup screen then nothing. And the F4 trick is no longer working, nor is another one I found, which was to unplug, take out battery, hold down power button, then put everything back & turn on. I can, however, still access Setup so right now I'm doing a hard disk diagnostics test to see if anything's wrong there. Using Vista Home Premium.
edit: FINALLY got it to boot up by forcing it to go into whatever that screen is called where it says Windows didn't boot up correctly (by turning it off as it was booting up--which I know is probably A Bad Thing but seriously I was desperate by this point), then doing a startup repair. Monitor is on now, obviously, but I don't know if this is a permanent fix or not.
I should start off by saying that I know very little about computers.
Could someone please tell me why this is happening
I've never seen that before. All my documents are saving onto the WINDOWS (C:) drive. All that's in the Data (D:) drive is a folder called 'HDDRecovery'. It so annoying and seems like a total waste of space. I'd really rather there was just one folder (or whatever they are). Is it possible to do that?
I'm experiences problems loading livejournal.com (any other page is working!) via my wireless modem - I'm connected via my phone's 3G hotspot now, which is working just fine.
I've spent the last half hour on the phone with tech support, but they can't figure it out either - my roommate can't access it on his computer, I can't access it on my phone when connected to the wireless. I've tried rebooting everything, nothing helped.
i have no idea what my mom does to her computer, and she expects me to fix her computer, when i don't have the knowledge to do these sort of things! she's using windows xp, and whenever she tries to use her computer, it asks to sign into her online connection. we have an wireless internet connection and i've tried all of them to no avail. this is what it's showing me: ( pictureCollapse ) any suggestions?
edit: i ended up reinstalling windows again and that fixed it, now i'm stuck with a horrible resoulation and the lowest color bit (4), despite downloading the drivers. next step? finding my mom a new computer! this one is ancient.
So, all of a sudden my laptop (Dell Latitude D800)'s AC adapter decided that it didn't feel like powering the computer anymore, and it's running on battery power right now. The little green light on the adapter is on, but it's not delivering power to the laptop and the battery isn't charging. It's at 75% right now and I've got just over two hours left (although I can check email on my Wii if I don't get an answer within that time), so is there an easy way to tell if it's the adapter, or the connector pins, or the laptop itself? Everything's plugged in to where it should be, and I even unplugged everything and plugged it back in and jiggled the plug that goes into the back of the laptop but nothing happened. EDIT from Wii: Okay, I ran a diagnostics test and I got error code 3600:0122 for the charger, and it said it wasn't connected even though it definitely was. Does this mean it's the connector pins?
Intel Core i5 CPU 750 2.67ghz x4 8 gigs ram Windows 7 64 bit ATI Radeon HD 4600 series(graphics card)
So I'm not sure what exactly is going on. I tried playing Civ 5 today and the graphics were a bit off. SWTOR's graphics were also off. Plus my desktop display is slightly bigger than it should be. Text seems a bit off in various things as well. And videos viewed on netflix are less clear. This happened today. I haven't downloaded any files or changed any settings. Not 100% sure if anything updated, but maybe adobe flash player? But would that affect everything else? I mention this because under control panel - system and security adobe flash player is labeled 32bit, not 64bit which my computer is running. Under control panel - system and security - system, the information says its running a 64 bit operating system. Shrug.
So far I've tried adjusting the resolution, restarting my computer, reinstalling the graphics card drivers, and uninstalling the graphics card drivers and reinstalling them. This obviously has not worked. The drivers are the latest available.
Is there a way for the computer to auto-detect the best settings for your computer(in case mine somehow got off?) Maybe a program I can download to do this or something that already comes with the operating system? Any other suggestions or ideas?
Do I need a software firewall in addition to a hardware (wireless router) firewall? The reason I ask is that I've been trying to configure lauded firewall Comodo off-and-on all weekend (so that it gets along with other applications), but with limited success. Previously, I used Zone Alarm as software firewall, but it was causing my whole computer to slow down given various circumstances. Since installing Comodo, it has blocked zero intrusions which means that either it's junk (which doesn't seem likely, given how often it's recommended on various sites) or that my wireless router is doing its job. Thoughts? Thanks.
I recently switched to Chrome from Firefox because Firefox started crashing and freezing all the time, and I'm still getting used to the differences. I asked this over in ask_me_anything, but they didn't seem to know the answer, so I thought I'd try a computer related community. Hopefully you guys can help me out! =)
How does one go about saving a page as an MHTML file? I can find all kinds of google results that say you can do it, but none really say HOW. Do I need some sort of add on, like Firefox? Google is giving me the impression that I don't, but I could be wrong. There is no MHTML option in the save window's drop down menu. *so confused* I save web pages quite often, so it's pretty important that I figure this out. =/
In Word 2007, is there a way to put in header or footer a Heading 1 text such that the page on which the heading covers will say the heading in the header or footer? I don't know if my question is too clear, but it is hard for me to articulate.
Hey everyone. I have a question about which external hard drive to get. I'm not very tech-savvy but I looked around and found two good ones that aren't too expensive and was wondering if anyone could tell me which one is best.
I recently battled the Internet Security malware -- twice. I won, but I lost some files in the process. They weren't important files. They weren't data or system files. But they were files that did a specific thing and I miss them.
The files I lost were the ones that came with the drive. It still works fine. Windows sees it and files move to and from it with no problem. But it used to be that when I opened up My Computer I would see a little picture of the Seagate drive instead of the generic hard drive picture I see now.
It's not really that big of a deal but I want that little picture back. I was wondering if anyone reading this might have one of these drives and be able to send me copies of those files? Thanks for reading this, in any case.
Is there a way to increase the volume a certain file is played at using windows media player? Like a song that was recorded very softly and thus when other songs played at the same volume are easily heard, but the specific file is not...and somehow changing the volume to go up for that file without having to do it manually or adjusting the volume slider for windows/windows media player.
I want to take out the hard drive from my Dell Desktop computer and connect it to my laptop to see whats on it. I know I need a cord that goes to the USB port and an outlet for the power source, but I can't recall the actual type of cord I need. Anyone know the actual name?
Also, I need a hard drive key, but I don't recall getting one with my desktop, in fact, its been 7 years so I wouldnt know where it was anyway. Anyone know where I can get one? Are they different for every model or is a one size fits all deal?
I'm in need of some computer genius here. I got the windows recovery virus on my computer (right after finishing a ten page paper no less), and I managed to get rid of it by rebooting in safe mode and using malwarebytes. After I got rid of it I realized the virus had managed to hide all of my programs and files to make it look like my computer had been completely wiped. I used the unhide program and it worked for everything except the start menu, which is showing all my program files as "empty". From what I've seen on different forums, the virus has hidden them all in a temp folder, I just have no idea how to restore them. Any suggestions? Thanks so much for your help!
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