Mobile App Development in the Post COVID-19 Era — What’s the New Normal?
In this COVID-19 pandemic, lots of people have been affected. From multinational giants to a small company, everyone has been affected somehow. Every person is trying their best to get out of this jeopardize situation. Each and every business, industries and daily life person is trying to overcome through this difficult period.
With more than sixteen million active COVID-19 cases in the world, the IT and different industries of the world are moving with its slow pitch but still moving. The pandemic has flipped around everyone’s lives upside down in which the mobile apps have appeared as a savior ensuring a promising future ahead.
Mobile apps always have been the center of innovation for quite a few years now. With the upcoming modern technologies, mobile apps are updating on daily basis. Multi giants companies like Apple, Samsung, Huawei, and many others are updating their mobile apps so that their mobiles might not get slow and outdated. 8Technologist an app development company has also developed several mobile apps that have helped the users a lot in their lives. You can watch the diverse portfolio of 8Technologist at its website.
As per Comscore’s yearly U.S. portable applications report, 58 % of Americans spend more than half of their digital media consumption time on mobile apps. Also now in this pandemic situation social media network like Facebook has recently updated their Facebook messenger App, now at a single time at Facebook Messenger Room 50 people can video chat at a time.
Sometimes most of the downloaded mobile apps fail, some of them are average, and only a few of the mobile apps get attention from the crowd by being unique and useful to the users. And, these outstanding mobile apps are the ones that bring change in the modern world.
What will the new normal be like after the COVID-19 Pandemic?
In the era of digitalization, the post-COVID-19 world would be different from the world we have known. Well, you might have downloaded dozens of mobile apps for your personal and emergency use like Seamless, Uber, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc.
The importance of mobile apps during the pandemic is increasing day by day for example instead of dining in most people are ordering their food through online food delivery mobile apps like Seamless, Uber Eats, etc. Even people are shopping from their homes by simply downloading mobile apps like Walmart, Amazon, eBay, etc. 8Technologist has also developed various mobile apps like ALDI a store locator app, TruNews a news mobile app, Money Pro (budget and business expenses tracking mobile app) and many more apps for different industries so that the users can enjoy the services of the mobile apps.
Communication Apps are also being used for online classes. Most online classes are being completed through different mobile apps like WhatsApp, Skype, Zoom, Facebook messenger room, etc.
Lots of people have spent their COVID-19 pandemic in homes by watching different videos on YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. This has led to an increase in the watch time of the mobile apps and downloaded multiple times.
Also, Social Apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram all have been downloaded millions of times by the users so that they can be connected with their friends and family in this pandemic. Even before the pandemic social media mobile apps had become an important part of everyday lives. But after the COVID-19 its importance has been increased.
Also, 5G Technology will have a major impact on 2020 mobile apps because this latest connectivity is all set to empower the modern mobile app development industry with faster speed and connectivity for mobile apps.
Also, AI will play a major role in this CVOID-19 pandemic when we first think about AI virtual assistants like Siri or Alexa come to mind. However, the use cases go far and beyond this for app development. With the help of AI Mobile Apps internet of everything, cloud computing and blockchain will be the next thing people will use. Last year, Apple released the Core Machine Learning. This latest version of the iOS machine learning framework was built to help developers embed AI technology into their apps.
Recently AI mobile apps have developed differ mobile apps for Image recognition, Face detection, Text and image classification, Sentiment recognition and classification, Speech recognition, Predictive maintenance etc. AI can make apps smarter, and ultimately improve the performance at every level. From the backend development process to the frontend user experience, AI will change the way apps are built-in 2020 So, the part played by AI in the future of mobile app development can’t be overlooked.
8Technologist has developed a mobile app name Money pro. The mobile app can guide the user with a budget and other related details based on current expenditure and income.
In the era of innovation 8Technologist, one of the highly professional Mobile Application Development Company with a team of professional and expert android and iOS developers are developing many creative and user-based mobile applications for all kinds of industries and businesses.
Augmented reality will also continue trending upward in 2020. Mobile apps can use augmented reality features for a wide range of use cases. A game like Pokémon Go was one of the most downloaded mobile app which used AR technology. L’Oreal Paris also used AR for their Style My Hair app. Even Google Maps develop a new feature “Live View” where users can see turn by turn directions in real-time on real-world imagery. By pointing the device’s camera at buildings and street signs, the app can figure out exactly where a user is.
In the next few months, mobile apps will play an important role in this COVID-19 pandemic. The mobile app industry has been reshaping the business for years, but now the mobile apps are not just business marketing tools they will be more than that.