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

Sales Specs

Hospitals

Industrial Field Services

Defibrillator Field Services

Cardiac Monitoring Devices

Consumer vs. Enterprise

Device Capabilities

Location

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 - WorkSnug

AR - PAR Works

AR - Furnish

AR - Augment for e-Commerce

AR - Aurasma

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

Q&A

Thank You!David Rader