What is mobile development?

Nazar Kvartalnyi
Written by
COO at Inoxoft, former .Net Software Engineer
Pub: Sep 28, 2021Upd: Feb 23, 2022

Mobile development is a part of the Mobile App Development Services And Solutions. It results in building mobile applications for smartphones or digital assistants. Today, there are two major mobile operating systems on the market. These are:

  • Android, which takes 73% of the world’s market share
  • iOS, which takes 26% of the world’s market share

The remaining 1% belongs to the other operating systems.

With the help of Android and iOS users can pre-install software from Google Play or the App Store.

The programming languages used in mobile development for Android are Java and Kotlin. See how to build a custom Android app! In iOS, the languages used are Objective-C, C++, C, and Swift. Get to know more about the iOS development process!

Mobile applications are beneficial due to being real-time, convenient, performative, and accessible. And, they work well for the following industries:

  • Retail
  • Telecommunications
  • eCommerce
  • Insurance
  • Healthcare
  • Government
  • Others

Find out what are the best app monetization strategies here!

Mobile development has the following steps of the process:

What is mobile development?

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