The number of smartphone users worldwide now surpasses 3 billion, and is projected to climb to nearly 4 billion by the end of 2021. As of August 2020, Android is dominating the smartphone market with over 74% market share, followed by iOS with around 25%. 

What is augmented reality? Augmented reality has become quite a popular term in the past few years thanks to Google Glass, but the idea is older than the first Android phone. Do you remember the Terminator movie? The main hero’s vision mapped the nearby area and displayed additional information about objects or people. And that, in essence, was AR.

Application that monitors your child - the idea Being a parent to a newborn is always stressful. There are many questions popping up: will I manage with all the new duties? Should I watch the baby all the time? What if the baby needs me and I am not there? 

On 17 May 2017, Google announced their first-class support for Kotlin, which means that Kotlin became an official language for Android app development. Since then, JetBrains proved that Kotlin can also be successfully used for writing iOS apps – the official app of KotlinConf 2017 was built entirely in Kotlin and supported iOS, Android, as well as most browsers via its web app.

If you're a mobile app developer, Java is probably your go-to language for building Android apps. But there are new languages popping up all over the place that might challenge Java's dominance in the Android world. One of them is Kotlin, a relatively new programming language, which has been already announced by Google as a “first-class” language supported on Android.

Got a perfect business idea that needs to be turned into a beautiful app? Whatever the challenge, you need a committed and qualified team to make the best out of your idea. That’s why checking the team’s skills, experience and approach, along with clients' opinions should be an essential part of your decision-making process. For all those reasons, you might be interested in making your next mobile application with Netguru. Here is why:

The Android development landscape is changing at a neck-breaking pace. Emerging technologies change the way users interact with their devices, but they also improve the development process. It’s not an easy task to guess what the next few months, let alone the next year, will bring to mobile. We decided to give it a go and gathered senior Android developers and C-level executives from the top startups in Europe talked about the future of mobile development. Let's see what are their Android development predictions for the upcoming year 2019. 

Mobile devices now account for over half of all Internet traffic, with the majority of this traffic dominated by apps. Android, Google’s mobile operating system, leads the global smartphone operating system market with an 81% market share. This, combined with frequent updates and a loyal following of users, makes it a top choice for businesses that think of mobile app development.

The mobile operating system market is completely dominated by two industry giants: Apple and Google. On paper, Google’s Android dwarfs Apple’s iOS: its market share is at around 88%, compared to the Cupertino company’s paltry 12%. But these numbers don’t tell the whole story.

According to Statista’s estimations, in 2018 52.2% of all worldwide online traffic was generated through mobile phones. However, trends have changed in mobile development. We’ve seen a major switch from native to cross-platform programming with React Native and increasing popularity of Progressive Web Apps. On the other hand, we have Kotlin, AR, VR, and IoT solutions which keep Android development growing strong. What are the trends for the upcoming year for Android development? We asked C-level executives from the top startups in Europe about their guesses.