5 Most Common Challenges Faced By App Developers

By Author: Johan Smith
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The advancements of technologies and billions of smartphone users have made millions of businesses go online on the App Stores. Almost every business has a presence on the App Stores of one or more platforms today. Companies are now investing in mobile application development to reach the maximum number of users around the world and to increase the business ROI. You would be surprised to know that there are over 5 million applications on the App Stores, with more than 2.8 million apps on the Google Play Store and over 2.2 million applications on the iOS App Store. However, with thousands of applications getting released every single day and with the increasing level of competition on the App stores, it has become even more challenging for the app developers in Australia and all over the globe to create highly competitive applications with every unique business requirement. 
 
Here are the 5 most common challenges developers face during app development. 
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Creating applications that users look for:
With so many similar applications available on the App Store these days, it has become essential to build an app that users look for. After all, you will definitely not want to build an application that nobody would like to keep and use, right? Hence, it is necessary to do more and more research, conduct a market survey to know what the competitive applications have and what they lack in that users are still looking for. This will help you to create applications that users want. 
 
Market fragmentation and software fragmentation:
The market is filled with people having varied requirements and interests and meeting the requirements of all can be a really challenging task. Here again, it is essential to do a lot of research work to know who is exactly your target audience and what are the current market demands. 
 
Also, considering the software fragmentation is important. The market is also filled with mobile devices running on different Operating Systems, and different versions of these OSs. Making your app compatible with all the versions of the OS is important to let more users use your application regardless of the versions of the OS he or she is using. For instance, if you are building an Android application, you must make sure, it is compatible with all the available versions of Android. This is a challenging task but it is extremely crucial to get it done. 
 
Creating applications for different screen sizes is a serious problem:
There are innumerable mobile devices available in the market today, having different screen sizes and resolutions. Providing a great user experience is the key to a successful application. And making your app compatible with different screen sizes and resolutions is what can ensure a consistent and great user experience. It is one of the toughest challenges app developers face while building an app. Also, the developer must ensure that the application does not look blurred in any of the screen sizes or resolutions. The users should not scroll up and down or left and right just to get the complete view of the app interface as this can simply lead to application uninstallation. 
 
Building apps that do not take up much battery life:
Who would like to use an app that consumes excessive battery life? Of course, no one. And this is again a big challenge for the developers to build an application that is lightweight, performs high and doesn’t take up too much battery life. 
 
Creating a simple yet feature-rich application:
Keeping the UI of the application simple yet feature-rich is a challenging task. Making the app interface clean and navigational is important. At the same time, it is equally important to include all the essential features in the application. And for this, planning and designing the application well is important. 
 
Apart from these, there are some more challenges developers often face while building an application like using the right security tools to make the applications completely secure, choosing the right technology as per the project requirements from so many available in the market, ensuring the high performance of the app, and creating a lightweight application without excluding any essential features from the app. Also, marketing and promoting the application is important to ensure the app’s success and engage more and more users. 
 
So, these were the challenges application developers often face during app development. Having in-depth knowledge about the latest tools and technologies and having the ability to make the right use of these tech-stacks as per the business requirements is important to create ROI-driven applications. Also, developers must be able to identify, address, and overcome these challenges in the right way to successfully complete the application development and give a competitive edge to the apps. 
 
Johan Smith one of the most highly skilled and proficient app developers in Australia associated with a top-rated app development company, GetAProgrammer. The author has written this article about the most common challenges developers face while developing an app.