What Will Be The Latest Android Development Trends for 2019?
A new year with new and exciting possibilities is here. 2019 is here and it is bringing a new android future with it. There are going to be some industry-first Android app development trends in 2019 which will boost the present development process by manifolds. What Alvin Toffler said all those years ago is coming true, especially for the mobile app development industry. Existing technology is giving birth to new technology from its roots.
In these high-end techno-savvy times, businesses need to up their game to stay in the competition. Besides the physical world of sales, stores, and malls there is an entire digital world of the web where most of the world’s money is being transacted right now. All this money is in their mobile phones and to get that money, companies need to get in their phones and the best way to do that is developing a great mobile app.
Why Android app development is trending for business solutions?
How has Android changed the world?
Android has currently over 2.6 million apps in its Play Store market; making it the largest App store in the world.
Last year customers spent more than $20.1 billion on purchases from the Google Play Store.
Majority of people spend 1.5 months of an entire year on mobile apps. This gives companies the best platform for exposure to their clients.
Average smartphone user accesses around 40 unique apps each month.
What are the biggest app trends in Android development for 2019?
What are the top trends of Android Application development?
What can we expect from the latest trends in mobile app development in2019?
What is the future of Android apps in upcoming years?
How will the latest Android App Development Trends help my business?
How can I get started with Android development?
1. Kotlin
As per the recent blog by SDTimes; TIOBE has ranked Kotlin at #49 in the list of Top 100 most popular programming languages in June 2018. The language Kotlin (newest official first-class language for writing Android apps) is faster to write hence saves an impressive amount of time and expense in creating an Android app.
What to expect from Kotlin?
Kotlin was written by the same team that brought Integrated Design Environments (IDEs), so it is made to clear all the problems that Java had and outperform the former.
Worried about how to make the switch to Kotlin when you are halfway with Java? All you need is a Kotlin plugin which can convert pre-written Java files to Kotlin in your Android Studio or IntelliJ.
Nullability problems were very common in Java, having a null point exception can kill an app. Kotlin changed that by having null right in its type system.
2. Flutter
What to expect from Flutter?
Flutter offers faster development thanks to features like Hot Reloading and quick building UIs.
Flutter comes with a modern reactive framework along with a rich set of widgets, animation libraries, and layered extensible architecture.
Android developers can use their existing Java or Kotlin code to build a completely native iOS app using Flutter.
You can make your own app more responsive with platform APIs, 3rd party SDKs, and native code in Flutter.
3. Android Things 1.0
Google has also announced support of this OS for new System-on-Modules (SoMs) built by companies like Qualcomm and MediaTek. The first preview was launched just a few months ago in 2018. With new IoT devices developed each month their OS needs a lot of consideration and updates with latest trends in mind.
What to expect from Android Things 1.0?
This Android Things preview version SDK has already been downloaded by 100,000 of developers.
Android Things 1.0 improves the core Android Bluetooth APIs with additional features for device state management.
Developers can control and monitor the process of applying over-the-air (OTA) software updates from the Android Things Console.
As an IoT operating system, it is designed specifically to work on as low as 32 to 64 MB of RAM.
4. Android AI Assistant
In 2018 Google announced the integration of its new supporter Google Assistant into every upcoming Android device. Smart Speakers are at present the largest integration of AI assistant technology. With smart assistants like Amazon Alexa, Google Home, etc. the houses are becoming smarter and more remote than ever. Google assistant hold 51% of AI assistant market share. With the latest Android Auto, you are connected with your Google Assistant in your car while driving. So the assistant can help you with your day while you are driving. Android AI Assistant is going to be the new industry standard for building AI assistant.
What to expect from Android AI Assistant?
The AI-based Chatbots are saving a lot of time and resources for many companies that have to spend time in customer relations.
The AI bots have become so advanced that they can understand complicated commands and execute them seamlessly.
AI has improved the way eCommerce apps are working with suggestive shopping and pairing of similar products and add-ons to already purchased products.
The quality of AI in Android has risen to 93.9% in the last 3 years.
5. Android TV
Android TV brings the power of Android to the big screen. Voicebot.ai states that Android TV has 40% of market share among the smart TV operating systems. Extend your existing Android app to have a big screen, cinematic experience. Previously there was Google TV that didn’t work that well which is now replaced by Android TV. The Android TV has access to the Google Play Store, so Android developers can make their mobile app optimized for the big screen with minor adjustments and additions .
The amazing mobile games that you wished to play on big screens are now possible. So now you can enjoy PUBG and Fortnite on your Android TV.
Android TV supports voice search. Android one-upped Amazon fire stick with their voice search feature by giving users the freedom to choose content by voice commanding to their Smartphone.
Movies are meant to be seen on a big screen. Maybe going to the theatre is not what you can always afford, but you can always watch Netflix on your Android TV.
Why should you know the latest Android app development trends?
Oreo is out and Pie is in and before we know it the next operating system of Android will be launched. Just giving seamless User Experience and unique app features will not cut it in 2019. With 2.6 million apps and counting, there are not that many variations of apps available.
So for each business, there could be hundreds if not thousands of similar apps. So if you wish to start a taxi business how will you compete with Uber and Lyft, or if you wish to start an ecommerce app then how will you beat Amazon and Alibaba? The answer is simple. If your aim is to be the biggest fish in the pond then you need to carry huge mass or in this case a very impressive Android app with the most elite and contemporary features.
Businesses have a new list of requirements from android app developers for their projects and they want nothing but the best. Companies are well-versed with the latest Android app development trends. If you are behind on the in-demand features and technologies, no worries; we are here to brief you.
