Latest Trends in Android Application Development 2017 In the modern world, technology is changing very fast and is unstoppable. Some years ago Android, Operating System for mobile phones was launched by Google and created a revolution kind of sort. Each year new trends in the innovative mobile application development originate which prompt the developers to remain upto date with new technological trends. Google is doing its best to keep the Android platform upto date. For Android Apps Development developers are implementing the latest trends in mobile development. Future will bring more interesting Android products. Now we will discuss the latest trends in Android Application Development. ●
Android Instant Apps Instant Apps are apps which can be downloaded instantly like usual web pages. It will not be downloaded to your mobile device in its full size rather it will be installed only in part. Traffic on install apps is comparable to normal web page traffic hence our smartphones won’t be full of various application which we need only once. It will also be profitable for Google due to the increase of web searches as now only about 27% of apps are installed through a web search. Instant Apps technology has great potential. You can use Instant Apps if you are using the latest OS version Android 7.0 Nougat. Google plans to support Instant Apps for all Android versions.
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Improved Security of Android App In Android development security is a major focus for the developers. Google is planning to work on improving the security of Android’s OS in a big way. For e,g, in Instant Apps technology, the core is using a runtime permission model integrated into Android 6.0 which is safe and secure. Means Google developers are working hard to make mobile operations much safer. Also mobile apps security will be enhanced due to automatic security updates which make interactions with the app easier and more safer. It will require more permission requests to use a specific mobile app. It will raise security in mobile apps as only authorized
users will have access to one application or other. Hence we are hoping to see new and improved integrated security features in Android mobile operating system in years to come. â—?
Android Artificial Intelligence Assistant Using Android AI assistant there will easy interaction between you and your mobile phone. We are already using voice assistants and chatbots on our mobile devices. Games developers are adding more and more AI into their games. There are some computers with artificial intelligence like IBM Watson which can solve many tasks which are impossible for the human mind. Hence development of artificial intelligence is moving forward fast. Google has promised to continue the work on the integration of its new Google Assistant into new Android devices. The AI based Google assistant is able to interact with the user, clarify important information and act as a smart chatbot. The bot can also recognize complicated commands. Google play research will also have many smart features. The neural network based AI technologies like machine learning will be used to find the most relevant search results.
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Use of Android in-app payments E-commerce has become an integral part of most of our lives. Most of the people use Android mobile phones for shopping online. Generally we make payments by cash on delivery or cashless transactions or internet banking. As we are depending on our mobile phones hence we need to make online payments right from our mobile device. Therefore wide development of payments apps is going on. As per report in 2017, about half of the online transactions are made through mobile devices and wearable devices like smartwatches. This is the latest in m-commerce and Google is in a leading position hence introduces new trends in mobile payments. Recently Google launched Android Pay upgraded Google Wallet which is more secure. Right now Google Pay is only available in USA and UK and Google is planning to extend it to more countries. Now developers want to build apps with integrated Android Pay buttons as it will simply the mobile payment process.
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Search within apps The latest trend in Android development is In-App search. Using this feature you can find any content you need on your phone. Google has already integrated this new feature into popular apps like Gmail, YouTube etc. Developers are promising to extend the number of apps supporting In-App search in near future. One of the advantage of this new Android feature, In-App search is that you can search for the information even when you are not connected to internet.
Conclusion Google is investing heavily in the R&D in developing Android platform to make it more and more secure, user friendly and uptodate with latest technologies and trends in the market. We just want that using smartphones or a tablet become more user friendly for new users as well as experienced users. With the latest trends coming, there is no doubt that Android OS will become even more popular and it will be very useful for the general mobile users due to its extensive reach, popularity and enhanced features.