Vital Skills for Successful Android & iOS Mobile App Developers

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Vital Skills for Successful Android iOS Mobile
App Developers
The rise of Mobile App Development

• Mobile application development is undoubtedly one
  of the most lucrative career options in the
  technology industry of the 21st century.
• Rapidly occurring digital transformation and
  widespread use of mobile applications are leading
  to substantial increase in the importance of
  respective skill set.
• Primarily, there are two major mobile OS
  platforms, Android and iOS. Both of them have
  their pros and cons, and it is a great time to
  carve out a career in either of them.
• The focus of every developer should simply be on
  achieving excellence within a definite set of
  mobile application development programming
  languages and side tools.

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Why is Mobile application development a strong
choice of career for millennials?
Widespread digital transformation

• It is evident that most of the young businesses
  are taking their mobile presence very seriously.
• Today, companies from all industries (whether
  small or large scale) wish to be the experience
  digital transformation.
• They wish to be seen on smartphones in the form
  of mobile business applications. It is a trend
  that doesnt seem to have a huge loss and is most
  likely to carry on in the future.
• As the new businesses will take their
  smartphone-based presence more seriously, they
  hire Android app developers giving more and
  better opportunities.

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A growing trend of M-commerce

• With more than 52 of e-commerce related searches
  happening through the smartphone channel, mobile
  application to become one of the best ways to
  reach your customer.
• It is one of the most reasonable needs of the
  business in todays time.
• It makes so much sense for the mobile application
  development companies to hire Android app
  developers.

New ways to monetize

• The growing competition among businesses is
  surely shrinking their profit margins.
  Monetization of content and services through
  mobile business apps is a sigh of relief to
  business owners.
• It is undoubtedly helping them create sustainable
  distinct ways to monetize.
• It creates sustainable distinct revenue streams
  that are nascent and helping them compete more
  efficiently in the throat cutting competition.

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Here are some of the most vital skills which an
android or iOS mobile app developer should possess
Mobile application development is a beautiful mix
of technical skills and creativity which need to
be well coordinated with businesses and their
primary needs.
Hard skills
Core Programming Languages

• Android mobile application developers generally
  have to deal with core Java while making their
  applications in Android Studio.
• While developing the core skills, it is essential
  to know programming languages to an extent where
  your problem-solving abilities are not curtailed
  because of coding hurdles.
• iOS developers should be entirely well versed
  with Objective-C, Swift and new-age programming
  languages like Kotlin.

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Cloud Computing/Deployment Skills

• MSMEs generally hire Android mobile app
  developers with honed skills for cloud computing
  environments.
• You should be able to bind the functional code
  into applications.
• These days there is a growing trend of serverless
  architecture where deployment is containerized
  through a Docker (CE or EE) or Kubernetes on
  massive scale.

Cybersecurity

• As data is proving to be the new age oil it is
  crucial that mobile application developers have
  an in-depth knowledge of Internet-based data and
  API security.
• They should have detailed experience in securing
  mobile applications, users identity, and data
  privacy.
• It can be done by nurturing a working knowledge
  of all basic encryption algorithms and
  third-party mobile app security tools which can
  be incorporated in the mobile applications.

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Mandatory search techniques

• One of the most important and frequently used
  features in a mobile application is the search.
• Weather search is in a database or within a
  content delivery network (CDN).
• It is one of the primary indicators of how well
  an app works.
• If your search is fast, people generally tend to
  feel that the app is robust and performance is
  excellent.

Analytics centric development practices

• Nowadays, Companies hire Android app developers
  who can professionally incorporate at least the
  necessary analytical profiling of users and also
  use analytics-based service log management
  system.
• The ultimate aim should be to build a sustainable
  back-end resource for the mobile app which gives
  valuable insights for customer engagement and
  also give statistics of mobile app performance.

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Soft skills
Analytical skills

• It is entirely different from the analytics
  services discussed above.
• It is the analysis of core business requirements
  and its mapping with the mobile app
  functionalities.
• MSMEs wish to work with an iOS app development
  company that map each use case with the main
  features of the mobile application.

Problem Solving Ability

• People hire Android app developers who have
  enhanced problem-solving ability with an aim to
  make robust, quality driven tested
  functionalities.
• There are numerous ways of approaching a single
  business requirement, and they should use the
  most appropriate data structures and coding
  approach for solving their particular problem.

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Concise coding

• Reducing the LOC or lines of code should be one
  of the primary points in mind while writing the
  functional code for functionalities.
• The overall front-end and back-end. The shorter
  and more concise a code is, the faster it is
  likely to run (on a broad basis, it is not true
  in many conditions).

Creativity

• One of the critical task for all mobile
  application developers is to build, curate and
  initially design the UI of the mobile app.
• A mobile app is only as good as its UI for
  layman.
• So, it is essential to be as creative as possible
  while designing the flows of content and
  different parts of user journeys.

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Conclusion

• Mobile application development is one of the most
  popular and lucrative career options in the
  technology industry.
• It is being taken up by millions of IT
  professionals, and there is a growing trend of
  professionals from different sectors taking up
  dedicated skill development courses of mobile
  application development.
• There are immense opportunities on the way as
  companies hire Android app developers and
  substantial encouragement for every iOS app
  Development Company in the business ecosystem.

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