Almost 4 billion people spend the greater part of their smartphone use time interacting with apps. The number is already huge, but it keeps growing, which both excites and intimidates mobile app development companies. Add the user’s insanely high demands and you’ll get a very competitive market. To be successful on it, developers must make sure their apps are perfect by thoroughly testing them. To start with companies opt for manual testing, which provides more flexibility scaling back on costs. However, as the app grows and updates releases become more frequent, manually performed testing usually gets slower and less effective in particular aspects. To keep the pace of intense development and expanding requirements, developers should consider resorting to automated testing.

Cloud technology has already had a huge impact on modern business processes. Every day we use online documents and access data not stored on our devices. Despite the undeniable benefits of cloud solutions, so far in the battlefield of mobile apps, the leadership is secured by native mobile apps, of which there are currently more than 6 million. But the trend is that the number of cloud-based apps is growing rapidly and steadily, gaining popularity at an astonishing rate. Let's break down what's making them so special compared to native solutions and what advantages of cloud mobile apps you should pay attention to when building your mobile application in 2021.

Often building a mobile app is a natural step to keep up with increasing customer needs. But sometimes, business owners happen to hesitate about the actual output from investing in app development. The purpose of implementing an app seems to be unclear, and they cannot see the exact path their project or business benefit from it. As a result, that may lead to losing an opportunity for capitalizing on the growing number of smartphone users.

Since getting out of a fire is a matter of life and death, the value of a well-managed evacuation process is difficult to overestimate. In the century of evolving information technologies, the major part in enhancing the process should play engineering investigations in the field of indoor positioning systems. Fortunately, existing positioning devices can provide all the necessary infrastructure to step in and form a gaming-changing solution. Let’s discuss a possible scenario of how Bluetooth and beacon devices can enhance the evacuation process with Dmitry Khotyanovich, a mobile software engineer at Solvd.

Despite 2020 put some bounds on our mobility, the mobile app industry is thriving and throbbing. According to Statista, the “Corona” year showed 218 billion mobile app downloads worldwide, which is 6.9% higher than the previous year’s results. And 2021 will definitely make its own statement assisted by distinctive features forming new or following old trends. So, here they are – the top 7 app development trends that will dominate at least the following 11 months.

The mobile application market is already mature but still shows sustainable growth. According to Statista’s report, worldwide mobile app revenues in 2019 amounted to 461 billion US dollars and by 2023 are expected to grow twice. Entering this market means a lot for both enterprises and ambitious startups. Obviously, before conquering the market and filing the desirable niche, anyone should consider developing an app first. Here comes the dilemma, what approach to choose: native or cross-platform development.