Major Challenges Faced by App Developers while Developing an App

Anita Gigoo
MobileAppDiary
Published in
4 min readJun 9, 2020

Currently, technology is continuously evolving around us and technologies-oriented startups are seeing huge growth all over the world. Now the usage of smartphones is at its peak and we spend most of our time using one. According to a survey, a user spends almost 4 hours a day using its smartphone.

Difficulties and Challenges Faced By App developers

But what is the major reason behind lots of usage of the smartphone? The answer is Mobile Apps! We spend 90% of our time on our smartphones while using mobile apps like entertainment apps, gaming apps, social media apps, and others.

This is the reason why various development companies have started to #develop mobile apps. After seeing the success of current #mobile app developers, more innovators and companies are emerging in this field. But the mobile app development field is highly competitive and it’s not easy for new companies to easily achieve success.

The major task of mobile app development companies is to fulfill the needs of users through robust mobile apps. During the entire process, app developers have to face various challenges. Here in this blog, we are going to discuss some of the major challenges faced by mobile app developers while developing an app.

Various Challenges Faced by Mobile App Developers

It’s never been an easy process for developers to develop a mobile app as, throughout the process, they have to face several challenges. Let’s discuss some of the major challenges;

How often do people open mobile apps daily?

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1️⃣Selecting the Perfect App to Develop

The initial major challenge faced by mobile app developers is to figure out the perfect app for development. There is huge competition in the market and it is hard for an app to stand out in the highly competitive as well as a crowded market. Thus, it becomes important for app developers to create top-notch apps that fulfill the current needs of users and deliver what exactly users want. It’s not an easy task to generate simple, productive, and in-demand apps because this requires huge research.

2️⃣Defining the Target Audiences

To achieve the desired goals, it is important for app developers to have an idea about targeted audiences. Before panning an app to develop always invest time in outlining a definitive target market. Most of the apps failed in the market because they don’t perform market research and also don’t have any idea about their audiences.

Together with defining the target market, always make sure that your audience is large enough to provide better revenue for your mobile app. It is one of the biggest challenges in front of app developers to get a pure analytics solution and effectively manage it.

Develop an Application with Better UI/UX

If an app provides a better user experience and simple-to-use procedure than it can easily attract more users and deliver desired business goals with more revenue. It is the point where most of the app developers lack behind as they don’t focus on UI/UX of an app. If your app is easily accessed by users and provide a better in-app experience, then no one can stop its growth. Always focus on developing an app with decent UI/UX and for that, you require proper analysis and advanced skills.

Reasons behind deleting an App

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⚫️ Development Technology

The major challenge that comes in front of app developers is to select the best app development technology and deciding a native, hybrid, and cross-app development platform to develop an advanced mobile app containing every major feature. To get the best solution, you need to perform proper research about app development technologies and platforms. If you failed in selecting the best, then the final result will be poor app performance, over-expenditure, and lackluster user-experience.
Somewhere, the success of any app depends on the technologies used by developers and platform selected for the app.

⚫️Security

It is the biggest challenge faced by mobile app developers throughout the process. You can’t expect a great app if it has some security issues. There are various malware issues arise in front of developers and it requires a lot of work to resolve such security issues, which takes a huge amount of time as well as money. The lack of security measures leads to information misuse, poor user-experience, and unusual app adoption.

Conclusion:

The above-discussed were some of the major challenges faced by mobile app developers. Due to these challenges, sometimes app developers can’t achieve their desired goals and are unable to stand out in a highly competitive market. To get the desired result, it becomes important for app developers to avoid these challenges through advanced technologies and app development trends. Always focus on delivering unique, productive, and engaging mobile app to gain huge growth and generate better revenue.

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Anita Gigoo
MobileAppDiary

Anita Gigoo is a Senior Content Writer at Mobileappdiary. Being an expert she loves to explore new ideas related to mobile technology.