What the Next in iOS App Development Outsourcing Industry

iOS App Development

Apple has brought smartphone technologies in focus and developed mobile app ecosystem by unveiling iPhone and iPhone SDKs. Branding slogan of Apple believes in user experiences with hardware and OS both. Therefore, it has created closed ecosystem to maintain high standards of quality and UX. The marketing strategies of Apple has won a vast and affluent audience across the globe. Therefore, iPhone app developers are always earning high and more prosperous compared to Android and other mobile OS platforms. Technically, iOS app development is a bit tough and costly affair due to be being it a proprietary ecosystem. Therefore, very few software development companies have invested in it, and rests are thriving in Android ecosystem. The same is true for outsourcing industry in India and elsewhere. Therefore, finding most befitting iPhone application development company is daunting and requires extra efforts on it. Apple and third-party developers are scrappy to grow the iOS ecosystem by infusing energy through upcoming technologies and trends. Therefore, we have initiated the thread to discuss the upcoming trends in iOS app development pertaining to outsourcing industry.  

Location-Based Services in iOS App Development Outsourcing

With the advent of hardware and software technologies, we have advanced electronic gadgets such as smartphones and tablets with GPS capabilities. Apart from GPS tracking, cell tower, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and other tech advancements enable us to locate our location in real-time on the map or data. It has sprouted LBS concept in mobile app ecosystem. Therefore, iOS app developers are busy in developing LBS apps in innovative use cases and for unimaginative personal & business functionality. Let’s see what types of LBS iOS apps are thriving in the market and pushing new tech trends further.  

LBS Search

People leveraging mobile app technologies and use various apps to run a location-based search for various kinds of services and places. For instance, restaurant apps like Zomato enable users to explore menu, images of food items, and reviews of the restaurants nearby using the user location. Thus, it helps travelers and foodies to find an appropriate place to eat in unknown city or town and satisfy the taste buds in your home city too.  

Push Notifications

Various loyalty program apps use drop-messaging technique to woo the traffic to the brick-and-mortar stores by offering various marketing incentives such as points to redeem, gift certificates, coupons, and vouchers to buy products from the certain brands of businesses in the vicinity where the user is standby. Shopkick is an ideal example of it, as it allocates points to the users when they enter into the shops of the affiliated clients/brands with the app. Shopkick has partnered with more than 270K shops across the States and countries for push notification marketing. Moreover, the app is using BLE mark technologies using iBeacon and other technologies to provide highly precise data on user location including the shelve stand where a customer/user is standby. Relevant product/service info increases the conversion rate and enhances the user experiences.  

Spying/Finding People

GPS tracking technologies help app users to find or track the people like disabled, kids, school going children, elders, and pets for the sake of safety and security. Besides these,

• Hppn like app helps dates to find match in the vicinity
• Spying app enable users to spy on their loved ones smartly
• Tinder as dating app helps to join people in vicinity with the same interests and hobbies

 

Locating Products In-premise

Big malls and supermarkets are using their specifically developed iOS apps to help visitors to locate the particular products or items within premise using iBeacon technologies with combination Wi-Fi and other LBS technologies.  

Warnings

In the case of natural and human-made disaster, forecasting apps are working astoundingly and save human life, animated, and unanimated properties by providing real-time warnings on the apps specifically developed for it or feature including in common but highly popular apps for news and weather niches.  

Internet of Things in iOS App Development Outsourcing

Today the Internet of Things or IoT is an awesome concept thriving using the iOS app like advanced platforms. Various electric, electronic, mechanical, and automobile components can communicate with mobile apps using the Internet or other means of connectivity using the M2M technologies. It enables us to automate and perform myriads of operations remotely that we can hardly imagine. Now, non-living objects are interacting with each other in real-time, and we can operate them using an iOS app like mobile applications. Therefore, IoT apps development trends are as follows:

• Wearable devices and apps are connected with iOS apps or depend on iOS apps
• Enterprises leveraging IoT using iOS apps
• TADO, an iOS app can control heating and cooling of room by connecting devices
• Remote Clinical Monitoring like iOS app can cut the personal doctors’ visits by transmitting body data taken by various sensors

 

Wearable Apps in iOS App Development Outsourcing

Various kinds of wearable devices are entering the market and used by people and businesses. Wearable technologies have several constraints due to size and functions they are performing. Therefore, wearable has to rely on mobile apps for data exchange, connectivity, data storage, and data presentations. The iOS wearable apps are trendy in following niches and causes:

• Fashion niche is exhibiting usage of Fossil and Tag Heuer like the latest smartwatches with smart functionality
• Ringly app is release alerts and Oura ring like smart jewelry can track your steps and heart rates too
• Smart fabrics, shoes, and gloves are gathering vital body health metrics to measure performance of athletes and health people wear them
• AddApp can gather data from multiple devices you use and offers personalized suggestions to hit your goals
• Fitbit, Pebble, and Jawbone Up3 are the latest wearable devices to measure and help your health to improve

 

Artificial Intelligence in iOS App Development Outsourcing

With iOS 10, Apple is placing AI at the center of updates and enable the iOS ecosystem to reap AI benefits in myriads of use cases. Photo scanning using more than 100 billion computations for AI app functions. The keyboard in iOS 10 devices have AI capabilities for deep learning and can provide AI functionality. Siri is open to iOS developers to modify according to needs of their iOS apps for AI features.

• My Starbuck Barista app can place your order with mere verbal instructions
• TacoBot app takes your orders with recommendations for menu items and answering your queries intelligently
• Set your fitness goals and fitness tracker iOS apps may start pouring useful suggestions along with recent statistics of your health parameters

 

Augmented Reality in iOS App Development Outsourcing

AR is real future of iOS app development and trends favoring various business applications in practice today. Technically, AR is used two different approaches, maker-based and location-based.  

AR iOS apps for in-store experiences:

Trials are best ways to convince the customers and AR provides virtual trial opportunities for it in the absence of real products.  

AR aids in Online Shopping:

By providing AR-enabled demo videos that unbox the products and deliver real world like experiences of your store visit. AR technologies help you in-app or online shopping experiences for your iOS app.  

AR Maps:

When we coupled AR technology with location-based technologies, we can create AR apps merging the reality with virtual reality. Thus, the user can get location info while moving in the real worlds such as the name of eminent places, businesses, and services while driving or walking on the roads or streets.  

Travelers:

Travelers can enjoy AR walkthroughs and ambiance of historic sites by getting historical info and panoramic views of the sites.  

Education:

Education niche can leverage AR technologies by providing highly engaging classrooms and interactive learning.  

Programming in Swift in iOS App Development Outsourcing

Now, Objective-C is not a mainstay in the iOS development, and Swift is gaining ground rapidly. Swift provides new sets of frameworks and methodologies, which are simpler and inclusive to use Xcode to write reliable code rapidly. Swift-2 is even more developer-friendly and supports WatchOS and tvOS along with iOS devices to create a wide range of applications to beat the competitions.  

Mobile Commerce in iOS App Development Outsourcing

The term e-commerce is aligned with the web or the Internet. M-commerce term is related to the mobile presence of the commerce along with e-commerce. Yes, only m-commerce app cannot withstand in the market and work well. Today we have tons of e-commerce websites or web portals run by known to unknown brands, locally and globally. Now, most of them are thinking about the own mobile application with desired customizations. Indeed it is a big market for m-commerce mobile iOS app developers if they are looking for the potentiality of the market! Recent improvements in Apple Pay and other payment gateways are assuring bright future of mobile commerce app development in coming years.  

Cloud Technologies in iOS App Development Outsourcing

Cloud computing technologies and services are gradually becoming an inseparable part of the modern web and mobile ecosystem. For data storage, we use the cloud. For hosting, we use the cloud, and finally, many software is developing using cloud-based infrastructure and services such as SaaS and MBaaS. Mobile apps are cloud dependent heavily, thanks to becoming thin clients and poor processing power as well as battery constraints. For real-time data accessing, cloud services are an excellent choice for the sake of affordability, performance, and security. A plenty of APIs is available to integrate various cloud services with your iOS applications. Therefore, Apple has invested heavily in iCloud and other cloud services to support the latest and futuristic iOS app development trends.      

Conclusion:

We have discussed only main tech trends prevailing in the iOS app development outsourcing industry. There are several other hidden trends are going on beneath the surface, and you can avail of it only once you seat with a leading outsourcing iOS app development agency working on offshore projects. Addon Solutions has earned the big reputations in iOS application development niche among the outsourcing communities across the world. The highly experienced and talented iOS app designers and iOS developers are ready to take any scale of challenges for dealing with upcoming technologies and tools for iOS app development. You can start a thread of communication with the team at Addon Solutions to dig deeper in recent iOS app development outsourcing trends and how you can leverage it all in favor of your profession or business at competitive rates using hire iOS app developer packages.