Top 10 Future Trends In Android Development You Cannot Miss In 2019

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The future trends in Android development are showing all the love for app users.

These trends are focusing more on Convenient apps rather than Smarter apps.

The ‘User convenient app features’ is now becoming the thumb rule to win the big-ticket app ideas.

Also, the user engagement, shorter time to market, on-demand & purpose-oriented tools, and secured solutions are now the critical prerequisites of developing applications.

Walking on the same tracks, the future trends in Android development is all ahead of the pack.

Out of the total 2.32 billion smartphone users, 2 billion people are the Android mobile users. (www.statista.com)

Yes! Today the users majorly prefer to use Android platform for music, gaming, shopping, travel & tourism, social media, business productivity, news updates, video streaming, entertainment, and whatnot…

Some of the winning examples of these are PUBG Mobile, Facebook, WhatsApp, Amazon, Uber, Instagram, Netflix, and AirBnB.

Strong facts of Android development can prove it to be a front runner

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Android dominates iOS with a market share of 79.5% and with 2.3 billion usages of the smartphone in the year 2017.

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But, one of the important things to note is that mobile users have turned more and more smarter and they also have many options available to reject using your app services.

It can be due to old fashioned app features, design or functionalities.

Entrepreneurs literally have to stay updated on current and future technology trends to survive in the competitive market. These future trends in Android Development are a spotlight to your business growth.

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1. Android Instant Apps

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The Android apps which can run without any installations on the mobile are Android Instant Apps.

Or this type of app is quietly and quickly installed in the backend. And, as soon as you finish your activities on the app, it gets automatically uninstalled from your smart device

You can easily run any of the Android Instant Apps without occupying space on your mobile, computer or other internet devices for that app to be installed.

For Example – Android Instant App for shopping

If you want to shop online, all that you need to do is- Click on the app link. This will enable you to search and shop for the range of products on that app and even make payment through Android Pay.

What more does the Android Instant Apps offer?

  • You can also launch a specific activity or specific parts of the application on your mobile through Android Instant Apps.

For Example – Android Instant App for Project Management

On a daily basis, the product manager sends a URL to his team members to assign routine work agenda. As soon as the team members complete all the assigned tasks, they can close the link. Here, all the link data will not be saved on the devices unless the team member wants it that way.

  • Most of the features of the Native apps are also available in the Android Instant Apps.
  • The users can even send this app link to others through the messengers, emails or any of the social media tools.

For Example – Android Instant App for playing games

If you want to play the ‘CrossWord’, ‘Fortnite’ or ‘PUBG’ with your friends at remote locations. You can easily share the app link to your friends through Whatsapp or other mediums and start playing your favorite game with your favorite people without even installing the app on the device.

Business Ease with Android Instant Apps

  • Easily discoverable apps
  • Easy to market the apps
  • Handy app services
  • Easy to convert old apps into Android Instant Apps.
  • High intractability

The companies who have enjoyed the increased user engagement and rise in conversions with the Android Instant Apps are:
Skyscanner (for booking hotels & flights), New York Times Crossword, One Football (Soccer), Red Bull TV, Realtor (Real Estate), and Jet (Shopping) to name a few.

What do you think about Android Instant Apps? Can you think of any other Android Instant App that you use?

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2. Artificial Intelligence for Android Platforms

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People might be aware of Artificial Intelligence (AI) used in self-driving cars or in robotics.

But many are unaware of the perks and profits to integrate Artificial Intelligence in Android platforms.

Yes! The future trends of adopting AI technologies in Android development marks a drastic change in the digital era.

In fact, the future is now here!

For instance– The upcoming ‘Android P’ is going to transform the way people are using smartphones. It will integrate the AI and machine learning at the roots of the Android operating system.

Also, Artificial Intelligence in the Android platform is making the User Experience (UX) to be more adaptive and even approachable through high-end capabilities in delivering personalization for the users.

The best part is, it helps the app user to perform and complete specific activities without any human intervention.

Android apps integrating AI technology act as a bridge between the online services and the customers.

It makes the real-time app services to be more conscious of satisfying the user requirements in easier and speedier ways.

Walk through AI features trending in Android Development

  • The user interface will be enhanced based on the increased efficiency of the Android operating system.

For Example – As soon as the smartphone user will connect the headphones with the mobile, Android will suggest the song you last played or resumed in the device.

  • Understanding user behavior much intricately through data analysis– this is now increasingly seen in many of the health and fitness apps and food ordering apps. These apps have personalized search options which function as per the user behavior on the app.
  • Speech recognition– Google Assistant or Cortana provides users with an innovative way to interact with the technology.
  • Smart predictions and smart replies– Google launched ‘Smart reply’ feature in Gmail last year.

Business ease with AI in Android platforms

  • ‘Personal connect’ with the target audience
  • Execute direct orders through understanding voice commands
  • Less of the human capital required
  • Quick and error-free app services
  • Increase the volume of purchases

Best examples of implementing AI technology in Android development are
Cortana (personal voice assistant), Elsa (improving English accent), Google Allo (personal voice assistant), and Recent News (news aggregation app).

What do you think about Artificial Intelligence for Android Platforms? Do you use any? Or do you wish to develop any such AI system?

Do let us know in the comment section below or request for a quote!

3. Android In-App Payments

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After Google Wallet and the Android Pay, there is a new enhanced version which is called ‘Google Pay’.

Google Pay makes it possible for the customers to make ‘in-app payments’ and ‘tap-to-pay’ through UPI (United Payment Interface).

So, the browser becomes a bridge between the retailers, payment methods, and users.

‘Google Pay’ standardizes and streamlines the flow of payment communications.

As it is a speedy and secure payment experience for the retailers to sell their products online, the market is sensing a high-potential in its adoption in the existing and new Android Apps.

All the upgraded Android versions from the Android 4.4 KitKat support the Android in-app payment.

Also, all the Fintech apps and apps for shopping are already integrating ‘Android in-app payment’ in their applications.

Business ease of Android in-app payments

  • Secured transactions
  • Easy to offer attractive subscriptions or freemiums to the users
  • Easy and speedy payment processing

For example – With Gmail for Android, the users can now request or send money within the app. Here, Google Wallet powers the processing of payments.

Are you using any Android In-App Payment features? Or does your app require Android In-App Payment integrations?

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4. Cloud-based Android App Development

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Cloud computing is gradually penetrating into Android Development. It simply means to mechanize the Cloud Computing module in the Android platforms or Android Apps.

As the app users mostly prefer that the installed apps in their mobile should occupy less space.
This is where Cloud technology can be a helping hand.

With this, the entrepreneur can make it possible for the customers to directly fetch or search data from the Cloud.

Business Ease with Cloud-based Android App Development

  • Pay as you use
  • Easy to handle traffic spikes
  • Need Less space
  • Less cost
  • Anytime from anywhere
  • Secured solutions
  • Speedy data recovery

Examples of Cloud-based Android Development – Facebook, Google Drive, Instagram or Gmail

What are your views about Cloud-based Android app development? Do you use any Android app using cloud storage? Or, do you have any such idea to use the technology?

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5. IoT Apps

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‘‘ Switch on the bedroom lights’’
‘‘ Turn on the air conditioner’’

Yes! People can now command the smart devices to perform basic routine activities and these devices will interact with the machine to run, stop, and function through the internet connection.

Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the increased interconnectedness among different smart devices through the internet. It is one step ahead in device-to-machine interaction.

For this, the smart devices should feature internet connection and sensors in order to allow the device to gather, receive, and transfer the information.

It’s very much easy to operate and control the smart TV or a toaster in the kitchen or an air conditioner in the living room or a treadmill in the gym area through the smart devices.

Sensing wide scope in IoT, Google recently launched ‘Android Things’ as an Android-based operating system for IoT.

However, implementing IoT is possible only if the operating system or the platform is capable enough to absorb the IoT technology.

Why Android drives IoT?

  • Android allows building IoT on Java
  • It is possible to reuse the Google Cloud platform components to develop Android-based IoT apps.
  • Highest adoption of Android OS in smart devices has made it a front end for IoT.
  • High-performance Android IoT ecosystem consists of the device, sensor, data transfer, and programs.

Business Ease with Android-based IOT Apps

  • Cost effective IoT app development
  • An app can run on any smart devices or hardware having the internet connection
  • Guaranteed hardware support
  • Improve productivity
  • Auto update the IoT app versions in the smart devices

For Example – Google Home Hub (Smart Home Controller), Smart Lock Pro ( users can check the status of the door when away from home) DHL’s IoT tracking and monitoring system, Fitbit (Fitness tracking) or the VR glasses (connecting mobile with the VR glass to watch movies or videos).

Are you using any IoT devices or do you wish to use technology to ease your routine work?

Do let us know your thoughts in the comment section below!

6. Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

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The most hyped innovative technologies that earned popularity in Android development are VR and AR.

Can you recall the game which stirred the mobile gaming market in the year 2016?
Pokemon Go!
It was one of the famous games in the Android Play Store with the downloads more than 650 million.
This was the start of new trends in VR and AR to enter in the mobile app development.
And as per “statista.com”, 2022 is expected to see more than 1389 million of AR & VR app downloads.

VIRTUAL REALITY

VR is an environment build through software and simulated with the reality that helps to present the experience in a way that the user accepts and believes it.

Business Ease through Virtual Reality

  • Present products in virtual showrooms
  • Virtual trial room for customers
  • Life-like user experience
  • 3D presentation of products
  • Increased customer engagement
  • A perfect combination of technology and photography
  • Strong interaction for marketing

AUGMENTED REALITY

AR refers to developing a real environment of digital information. The real world elements are finely augmented through the computer-generated information that delivers the real-time user experience.
AR can be in the form of the video, GPS data, sound or graphics.

Business Ease through Augmented Reality

  • Easy to create an impactful presentation of company products or services
  • Engaging content
  • Strong branding

Examples of AR and VR in Android

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    • Google Translate has AR experience in the app that helps to focus camera at the text language which you wish to translate.
    • Android Games like —- Jurassic Land- Dinosaurs themed with VR experience. And —–Proton Pulse Google Cardboard- 3D brick breaker game.
    • Facebook has AR filters in Facebook Stories where you can spruce up photos and can also use varied camera effects to click the pictures.
    • The Google VR SDK for Android helps to create a strong virtual reality experience for the users. It is a platform that helps to create VR apps.

Hey! Have you ever used Augmented Reality? VR & AR is being incorporated in various other industries to get ahead to other competitors.

Can you think of any such industries? Comment in the section below!

7. Chatbots

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The trend of Chatbots is accelerating without taking a halt.

Many startups, SMEs and even the large scale companies are forecasted to start googling about the best Chatbot Development Company.

But not everyone knows what is a Chatbot.
It is a program that automates chatting with the user and providing proper feedback by analyzing the user response or the related preset response. These Chatbots are powered by AI (Artificial Intelligence).

Google launched Dialogflow as a platform to develop the Chatbots. Today, many app development companies have already mastered to develop Android Chatbot with Dialogflow.

Similarly, MobileMonkey is an innovative Facebook Chatbot Builder where marketers can connect with customers via Facebook Messanger to automate the lead generating activities. Featured with chat blasts, list building, and drip campaigns, it is much more than just a marketing platform.

It is also necessary to check out the implementation of the Chatbots. Take a look!

Current and future trends in Chatbots

  • Human-like Chatbots
  • Voicebots
  • Digitized customer service
  • Blockchain technology integrating Chatbots
  • Advanced emailing through Chatbots

Business use of Chatbots

  • Speedy customer services/ query solving
  • Swift payment processing
  • Digital Kiosks
  • Smooth order processing

For Example

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    • Uber Chatbot will help the users to book a ride through FB messenger.
    • Casper helps the insomnia patients to get through the night.
    • BabyCentre UK (pregnancy and childcare) has a Facebook Messenger Bot through which it can ask the particular difficulty that the pregnant lady faces or the problem faced by a child and advising needed if any.
    • Pizza Hut has used Chatbots to ease out the customer’s purchase journey.
    • Disney interacts and solves crimes through fictional characters.

What are your views about chatbots as a future trend in Android development? Do you think it is helpful to customers?

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8. Search Within Apps

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This is one of the most convenient features that help users to use the Google search bar within the app. You can also call it a ‘In-app search’ feature.

Here, the installed app will allow you to perform the search on the phone, computer, laptop, tablet or other devices with just using a single keyword.

The ‘Search Within Apps’ is going to be the hottest trend in Android app development as it smartly offers a promising convenience that most of the users look for or might not have thought to be so easy to search the data.

Business Ease with Search Within Apps

  • Offline search made easy
  • A premium feature that attracts the users to subscribe to app services
  • Easy to integrate ‘in-app search’ in old Android apps

For Example – Spotify, Gmail or YouTube.

Do you use Android search within app feature? What about your views of incorporating this feature in your app development?

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9. Wearables

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It’s fascinating that the wearables market is thriving and alive. Smart wearables are basically the use of technology which is worn on the body, close to the body or in the body.

There’s no doubt about the trends in Wearables will go a step ahead to get many tasks done from a single smart device.

Be it playing a game from a VR glass, from a smartwatch or from other Android wearables.

Be it having a moving nurse with you to track your health through a smart belt, smartwatch or smart glasses.

Be it a cancer detection through a bracelet.

Be it having a personal assistant on a smart speaker.

Innovations in wearables have always been a hit show for the business.
As per the facts stated by IDC state, the total devices shipped reached to an all-time high 102.4 million in the year 2016. Out of which, 33. 9 million were the total globally shipped smart wearables.

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Business Ease with Wearable Technology

  • Make the app more discoverable
  • User intractability
  • Guide the customers on navigations
  • High data security
  • Advanced notifications
  • Innovation in gamification
  • Strong impact on healthcare solutions

The future trends in wearables are going to go beyond the imaginations. How? Take a look…

For Example

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    • The smartwatch is more than just getting notifications on your wrist.
    • ‘Foursquare city guide’ is an app based on Android Wear 2.0 that makes it easy for the smartwatch user to search best places to explore, eat, drink, roam or enjoy in the city.
    • You can now book Uber cab directly from your smartwatch.
    • Tinder on your wrist can help you plan a hot date from your smartwatch.
    • ‘Google Slides’ is an app through which the user can remote control the presentation slides from the smartwatch.
    • ‘Glide’ is an Android app for making a video call through a smartwatch.
    • ‘Lifesum’ app helps to track the food and water intake on the smartwatch for the health conscious users.
    • ‘Wear Casts’ app is for listening to the podcasts from the smartwatch.
    • Get a grocery shopping list on the smartwatch
    • ‘Infinity Loop’ is an app that makes it easy to wait in a queue or at a bus stop while playing a puzzle in a smartwatch.
    • ‘Telegram’ app integrates Android wear 2.0 to make it possible for users to enjoy using the instant-messaging app on their smartwatch. You can send voice or text message, group chat, see chat history, use sticker or emojis in the chat, and much more.

Do you use any wearable? What other aspects of life do you think wearable should enter?

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10. Improvement of Android app security

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Google is planning to upgrade the security of the Android operating system.
They are focusing on:

  • Automatic security updates
  • More of the ‘permission request’ for using the app
  • Assure the access is with the authorized users
  • Secured interaction with the app

What are your views on Android app security? Can you compromise on it with all the other development happening in Android?

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As the upcoming features of Android OS are making it more versatile, younger and smarter in the global arena, all these future trends in Android development seem to be right here and the users will also start adopting them in a coming couple of years.

But, do you think that simply knowing the future trends in Android development is enough to adopt them in your app design or app development project?

Certainly not!

The entrepreneurs should also explore the scope of these upcoming trends in Android app development.

What are its benefits to the business, to the user and to the global economy?

To get a much practical, real and grounded understandings on these questions, it’s recommended that entrepreneurs take a proper IT consulting from an experienced and much innovative Android developers.

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Vishal Nakum

Vishal Nakum is a tech enthusiast with a passion for exploring the latest developments in the world of technology. He has a keen interest in emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Blockchain, and enjoys keeping up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in these fields. Vishal is an avid learner and is always on the lookout for new ways to expand his knowledge and skills. He is also a creative thinker and enjoys experimenting with new ideas and concepts. In his free time, Vishal enjoys playing video games and reading books on technology and science.