Cloud and Mobile App Development Should Go Hand-in-Hand

Mobile devices are thin clients so cloud technologies and its storage power may change the scenario of mobile app development industry by offering great supports. Let’s check how cloud and mobile app development can go hand-in-hand for near and far future.



There are millions of mobile applications reside in their respective marketplaces and waiting someone to download them and use them. Despite such huge accumulation, the demand of new mobile app development is consistently increasing. App store economy in turn thriving and stimulate app entrepreneurs further to develop more.

By commonsense, this phenomenon confuses many. However, when you look at them closely with technical eyes and help of analytics tools, you will find hard truths behind that. Usage of smartphones and tablets in businesses, personal activities, and in service sectors increasing many fold with the advent of technologies and it expands in various areas.

For instance, in GPS technologies, we are not restricted up to doing accurate locations of people or vehicle carry client devices with app loaded, but also do geo-fencing and perform highly complicated activities with smart interactions. Another example is iBeacon or Bluetooth enable mobile apps, which offer in-premise GPS facilities where reach of satellite and accuracy of location is nightmare.

Beacons have changed the scenario of local and retail businesses, events, and exhibitions held in wide areas. You can do personal and contextual marketing or offer personalized messages in contexts of user device location. By the way, the demand of intricate mobile applications are increasing with passing of each day and mobile app development companies are pushing their app designers and programmers or teams for more efficient and secure solutions.

In due course, cloud services are adding some more interesting dimensions and solutions of recent as well as futuristic problems. At one hand, rates of cloud services particularly for storage is decreasing due to stiff competitions among the cloud services providers and enhanced yet cost-effective technologies. At other hand, cloud computing service providers are offering highly secure solutions and storage.
Therefore, American federal agency has expressed its views on cloud computing services and suggested that we should change the term cloud computing to utility computing. As cloud word suggests intangibility and obscurity in a sense while utility term gives us understanding of water and electricity like essential services where you need not to go for production, but use them and pay for it.

In short, if mobile app development companies focusing more on the usage of cloud services in their mobile app development, they can avail better user experiences in cost-effective ways. We know mobile devices are thing clients in terms of computing power, storage, and energy consumptions (batteries). Thus, if we place our all sorts of data and major parts of our mobile apps on the cloud, we can free up many resources and hardware needs of the mobile devices.

For instance, you have GUI and other essential components on mobile clients, but its intricate processing and bulky storage would take place on the cloud or its servers using its fast processing power and storage capacities. This software-as-service and other cloud models may leave profound impacts over the future mobile as well as wearable applications. No doubt, you need highly skilled and experienced team like Mindinventory to use cloud powers for your mobile app development to make it futuristic.