Latest Trends in iOS App Development

1. Beacons Technology

In this technology, a developer does not need to have an additional license. You need to get start work included in the iOS SDK. Beacon Technology is an existing technology enabling new location awareness possibilities for apps. It helps to merge online and offline differences for event management, finance, and retail sectors. This technology integrated into kitchen appliances, lighting, washing machines and much more. That will shows the information about a nearby shopping mall, restaurant to the users.

2. iOS Enterprise

Apple’s iPad and iPod are very useful for enterprises and business applications in these days. The high spot days of iPad in 2014 are long gone now. The app development activities will increase the iPad sales in this year. iOS app development will increase with big data, IOT and enterprise mobile app. The android has always won the battle of volumes as compared to iOS. But iOS wins with great revenue generation from its quality of devices and functionality in it.

3. Use of IoT in apps

Now IoT trend comes up in the iOS app development arena. The iOS application developers make use of the internet enabled devices to make use of IoT. A user needs to connect their device with internet enabled devices. For e.g. A care needs to on the internet connection and enable the IoT app which would sense the traffic signal and get weather related information through it.

4. Touch sensibility on iOS app

The feature of finger point had been included in iPhone 5s launched and Since then, many application has been developed with the access of touch ID. This would be helpful to expand security for online shopping and banking. The developers can do more usage of the feature of the fingerprint.

5. iOS using cloud based application

The cloud-based application is more beneficial for the iOS developers to share app on cloud computing. That will help to iOS developers to sync their app across various platforms in cloud computing. The limitations of space storage can use cloud storage to backup extra data. Cloud computing provides features like social networking and location-based security tools.The wearable devices require cloud support to access the app information. Online games require handling huge incoming data on servers. Cloud computing is the solution to maintain data effectively.

6. Profitable Games

Gaming applications have included various category such as puzzle, racing, action and more. A list of upcoming games in this year has been already predicted by iOS user. The developers are also trying to improve the visibility of premium applications. iOS App Development companies are now offering in-app purchasing to the users. Free iOS game applications are very becoming successful and making huge profits for developers.

7. Be aware of updates in iOS development tools

The tools and frameworks for iOS app development are always changing and becoming more advanced. There are plenty of other high-end iOS tools and frameworks available, end developers need to be prepared to learn constantly. Testflight is a native beta test distribution framework. It is the most suitable network, REST APIs can be tested with the postman. Cocoa-Pods is a dependency management system for iOS Apps. Jazzy is a command-line utility that generates documentation for Swift or Objective-C.

8. Revolution changes after Swift applied in iOS

When Swift launched as development tool or platform. It proves revolutionary changes in coding. A developer prefers swift language instead of C for developing any iOS App. The swift 3 involves the standard library adopting consistent naming conventions across libraries. The Swift programming language is indeed the most developer-friendly version.

9. Latest UI-UX in iOS

The end User-Experience is must be successful in development task by delivering smart navigation-friendly design, layouts, graphics and quality animation for advertising supported applications. Uploading a new app in the store to download and using it – the entire process must be one smooth journey.

10. Better strategies in ASO

Today, the competition among iOS apps is increasing all the time. Overall excess of 2.2 million applications and it is not easy to the developer to stand out with a product in the crowd. They have to understand and implement updated App Store Optimization strategies – from creating detailed, description of the app, select the best app name, select attractive app icon, uploading the required app screenshot and including the important keywords in the description. The competition is with the big crowd and developer/App Store Optimizer need to work on marketing strategies continuously.