In today ' s world, mobile communication is forasmuch as integrated into our lives that most people touch grievous lacking a cell phone. Yesterday, the most popular functions of phones were calls and sending SMS. But today, the priorities are day one to stratagem slightly in a different direction. A modern phone is a multifunctional device that helps not only to communicate but also to learn, earn, have fun. And this was made possible particularly by the development of mobile applications.
Incipient mobile application installed on the phone date back to the tip of the 90th of the twentieth century. And typically, they were multimedia ones - small arcade games, ringtone editors, calculators, calendars, etc.
With the advent of WAP and later a new technology of data transmission ( GPRS, EDGE ) cell phone development became easier and quicker.
So the beginning of the new millennium saw a rapid market evolution of mobile content in general and mobile applications in particular.
By that time the market of mobile devices was being gradually conquered by smartphones and communicators. With more features and performance, they differ from ordinary mobile phones by the availability of sufficient operating system ( Windows Mobile, Simbian, RIM, Android, Mac OS ), which is open to the development of third - party software, in contrast to the conventional programming environment of mobile phones.
This lead to unbelievably increased pace of cell phone development. The manufactures aspired to make their production the most attractive for customers, by introducing more and more applications.
At times it was even made with the help of consumers themselves. For instance, Google held a competition Android Developer Challenge with the task for participants to create their favorite mobile phones applications. The contestants could contribute to Android development in such areas as social networks, games, news, rethinking of traditional user interfaces.
But apart from the quantity, the quality mattered as well. It became clear that cell phone development needed to be made easy and intuitive. Each company tries to facilitate the process of development so as average computer users would be capable of customizing their devices. For instance, RIM offers four options for BlackBerry development to please users of different levels. And the work on their simplification is going on.
Well, they have a motivation to work hard. Today, the volume of mobile applications market is several billion dollars. And according to the study conducted by Juniper Research in 2014 the direct and indirect revenues from sales of mobile applications will total 25 billion dollars.
