The total number of apps available on the Apple app store is increasing rapidly while giving momentum to the mobile industry. From time to time, millions of users search the App Store for apps for almost everything and anything that can make their lives better.
Although, each professional has their own business principles and ideas, however, Apple has given importance to certain patterns that can greatly influence the user experience. Addressing these implications, here are some of the evolving iPhone app development trends that will determine the course of 2017.
fast coding
Swift has become the popular name in this genre due to its inclusive range of frameworks and coding technologies. It operates on an advanced compiler framework that helps you use Xcode tools to write stable code. By now, Objective-C has become more popular than Swift programming. However, when Swift became open source in 2015, the number of users rapidly increased to a large extent. This, in turn, also exceeded the total number of Objective-C users.
iMessage Apps
By fall 2016, iMessage apps began to gain momentum. The latest iOS 10 update has laid the ideal foundation for developers to develop and deploy high-end custom app extensions. With its launch, Apple intends to win back some of its users that it lost to other popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. These apps are poised to create more opportunities for startups, especially when developing AI-powered products and chatbots.
Applications compatible with Augmented Reality and GPS
Small and medium-sized businesses are rapidly implementing location-based application services. It is very beneficial for providing customers with product and service information, price comparison, reviews, and other mCommerce-related activities. As the newest driving force, GPS has become very popular with the success of Pokemon Go in 2016 and also in the retail and automation domain. Therefore, users are expected to implement a combination of GPS and AR in the near future and also in 2017.
Security
The iPhone has always been the go-to when it comes to privacy and security. Mobile data security has rapidly grown to an unprecedented level, thus becoming a crucial area of concern for IT giants. Apple has already made progress with App Transport Security (ATS). This year, it will bring stronger and more creative data encryption technologies, facilitating greater security.
last word
Although, Android wins all the volume battles, however, Apple still wins all the margin battles, thus securing the top spot in terms of revenue. Revenues from these apps are quite high and with better margins and will therefore continue to spur action and innovation in the mobile industry.