As much as the market is growing digitally, the love for applications can be seen increasing. Everyone needs seamless, efficient working which makes their work easy, and that is what applications do. There is every day, a new trend that can shapeshift the mobile app development industry. To understand your mobile app development journey in a better way, we have listed below the Top 10 trends of mobile app development in 2023.
Top 10 trends of mobile app development in 2023
Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies
AI is one of the most prevalent trends in recent years. Not only mobile applications but we have seen this as a trend in every other industry. These AI and ML technologies have been great to understand user behavior and their choices which will provide them with a personalized experience. Let’s take an example of shopping applications, the apps can integrate their chat sections with AI, which will help them search for what they exactly want and this can save them a lot of time. Also, this can help show the preferred items to the consumer based on their search history and purchase history.
AR/VR
The increasing technologies in this field of AR/VR can be seen in the fields of entertainment, gaming, travel, and live streaming. This AR technology helps people to try on their clothes and how will their furniture look in their living room. Basically, it helps visualize stuff around. Mobile app developers have a great challenge ahead of them in creating an experience that can be enjoyed by the users.
Mobile Commerce
Shopping or ordering stuff while sitting on your sofa has become a daily routine for people. Customers are spending more time on their mobile applications. Mobile wallets and in-app purchases make it more convenient and easy for consumers to use the applications.
Growth of Metaverse
The concept of the metaverse is gaining hype in recent years. We will be able to see the rise of the metaverse through individual applications or super app ecosystems. That will allow the users to move smoothly amongst different applications and experience a wide range of services from a single platform. Meta, Microsoft, Decentraland, and roblox are some industry names working toward this application reimagination. This will allow you a virtual world that allows interactions, meets, games, creating, and activity participation. Early versions are still in development, but we will be able to see these creations soon.
Mobile banking
A seamless and convenient way of work is always a prime choice for users. Every bank now has there own application. An application that allows users to do plenty of their tasks by sitting at their houses from receiving money to transferring it all by a click. Even a lot of data on your account can be accessed through these applications, like bank statements or transactions. These applications help users by giving them a convenient way to handle their accounts without standing in lines in banks.
Fitness and wellness applications
Exercise is the first and foremost way to stay healthy. Applicatons like Fitbit, strava are some famous fitness applications. These applications create a fitness routine personalized for you based on your needs, goals, and body type. These applications focus on making their audience healthy, by providing them with the right exercises and many times diet charts for them to follow.
Grocery delivering Application/ Delivery Applications
As Indian, buying fresh groceries has always been essential for us and we do not believe in buying groceries online. But as time is changing, newer generations are now more focused to get stuff online, a faster and easier way to buy stuff. Applications like blinkit, are so popular in metro cities, due to their fast delivery and quality products. From food to your charger to everything now gets delivered to your doorsteps. Applications like swiggy, which used to be a food delivery application are now delivering your stuff from your house or anywhere in the area to anywhere you are, with there Swiggy Instamart option.
Payment applications
Due to a growth in digitalization, applications like Phonepe, Paytm, google pay, amazon pay, and apple wallet are some prominent applications that are used by consumers and vendors both to send and receive money. These applications are easy to use, interactive, and at times provide user switch appealing offers.
Chat Bots
We have chatbots in the market still running, but there can be an advancement that is to be seen. Apps like Microsoft Cortana, and Apple Siri are prevalent. These applications and applications coming up in the future will be there for customer service and will have features like voice recognition, and face recognition and will solve queries for us.
Educational application
Once the world was hit by a global pandemic, Covid-19. Students faced a lot of trouble due to lockdowns. Educational applications are a great way for them to study anytime, anywhere. These types of applications are inculcated with various features like live classes, pre-uploaded video lectures, question banks, tests for students to perform, and many more.
As new technologies are emerging, app developers must stay up to date with these new trends and be fast to adapt to them. Every year will be a lot of new trends. Even this year, there might be a lot of trends that we can not inculcate in the article. But these are some popular trends that you might have heard of or not. So make sure before developing an application you are aware of these popular trends and create an application that stands out in the industry.