Trends in Mobile App DevDavid Rader
Consumer vs. Enterprise
Consumer oriented categories dominate app stores - iOS
Source: Statista, January 2013 based on Apple app store active apps
Consumer oriented categories dominate app stores - Android
Source: AppBrain, April 2013
Enterprise Plans
Source: Forrester Research, Inc. Jan 2013
Industrial Field Services
Defibrillator Field Services
Cardiac Monitoring Devices
Consumer vs. Enterprise
Device Capabilities
Camera + CPU
CinemaFX for Video
Gyroscope + Accelerometer
Proximity
Pushups Basic Gestures
NFC (near field communication)
Visa payWave
S-Beam et al
coming soon…
Even More Sensors: Gesture Temperatur
e & Humidity
Pressure
Consumer vs. Enterprise
Device Capabilities
Recognition& Augmentation
Image recognition - goggles
Image recognition - LookTel
Image recognition - planograms
Source: Mathecsys
Facial recognition
face.com*
Viewdle*
Augmented Reality
wikitude
AR - AcrossAir (nearest subway)
AR - Augment for e-Commerce
AR – Google Glass
Consumer vs. Enterprise
Device Capabilities
Recognition& Augmentation
Mobile App Trends - Technologies
F500 Company App Tech
2575412
Native Apps
HTML5
Apps
Companies With Different Types of Apps
Source: Alliance Global Services, Study of public app stores, Q1-2013
Job Trends
Source: indeed.com, April 2013
What about C#?
(Mono) Native Apps Multi-
platform iOS Android Mac,
Windows
What about Python?
Kivy.org Open source Native apps Multi-platform
Android iOS Mac, Windows, Linux
Drag & Drop?
RAD/4GL tools popping up Ex. “gocanvas.com” Buzztouch
Or, high productivity: Appcelerator LiveCode
Prototyping?
Proto.io Guitoolkits Codiqua Fluid UI
Consumer vs. Enterprise
Device Capabilities
Recognition& Augmentation
Technologies
Thank You!David Rader