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Follow on Google News | Mobile App Development: Tools That Help Developers Digging For GoldWith the mobile applications market growing rapidly developing mobile apps offers huge business potential.
- High costs: App development services tend to be costly, especially for more customized, complex apps. - Reach fragmentation: - Time to market: Developing a complex app for multiple platforms with a foreign developer can take 6-12 months, or even more. - Unmeasured risk: Developing companies, that have never published an app, have a very vague idea of what challenges arise in app development. To ease these challenges, tools that help to reduce application development cost, time to market and risks have poured into the market. There are two main categories of those tools: industry specific and multi-platform development tools. - Industry specific white label solutions: Most companies that want a mobile application for marketing purposes and to have a presence in the smartphone ecosystem, do not need sophisticated software. They do not have in-house app development resources and outsource such projects. However customised app projects can cost tens to hundreds of thousands dollars per app. Many of these companies could make use of emerging industry specific solutions that come as white-label applications. They include a standard set of functionality and sometimes content, that represent common mobile use cases of a specific industry. Such solutions claim to reduce app project costs by as much as 90%, and reduce time to market from 3-6 months to 10-20 days or even less. Based on our in-depth overview of almost 40 white-label solutions, nearly 1/3 of these target such general marketing needs, followed by companies focusing on news and information, those selling goods via smarthpone apps and other common use cases. - Multi-platform development tools: Both in-house developers, and outsourcing companies, need to reach customers on multiple platforms. Developing separate customized applications for each targeted platform is costly and inefficient. A group of software vendors have tried to overcome market fragmentation problems by offering a variety of cross-platform development tools, aiming to ease the app migration process. Offering various combinantions of native and web app development, these tools claim to reduce the costs of additional applications by 80%, in addition providing app distribution and management services. Despite the growing supply, the tool market is still in its nascent stage, and solution capabilities are relatively limited. Nevertheless, developers and potential app publishers already have quite a number of products to choose from. However, the majority of those tools make use of web-development technologies. Naturally, growth of HTML5 and increasing web-app capabilities have reduced the need for native development, and companies with lower requriements will surely make use of these alternative app development approaches. In many cases it is worth while to give up a certain level of quality in order to reduce development costs. But for those targeting excellent user experience, and building successfull outstanding apps, native development will be the way to go at least for the next couple of years. Similarly, white-label apps will play a role only for long-tail apps. They particularly target small to medium-sized companies, who could not make it to the market otherwise. Understanding the market helps companies to make the right strategic decisions. Read research2guidance’ The report will help IT service companies, app developers, app publishers, app store providers as well as consultants to access the market strategically. It features 38 industry and 25 multi-platform app development tools that help to reduce development cost and time. - Click here to preview the report and read the table of contents: http://www.research2guidance.com/ - To get further information about the report please call us (+49 30 60 989 3366) or write us an email: info@research2guidance.com High resolution picture: http://www.research2guidance.com/ Related blog post: http://www.research2guidance.com/ Link to “Mobile Application Development Services” report: http://www.research2guidance.com/ End
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