According to figures from the specialized portal Statista, “In 2021, the number of mobile devices operating worldwide was almost 15,000 million, compared to just over 14,000 million the previous year. The number of mobile devices is expected to reach 18.22 billion by 2025, an increase of 4.2 billion devices compared to 2020 levels.
These figures make the development of mobile applications one of the most demanded professions at the moment. Developers who are dedicated to this trade make use of different tools to facilitate their processes and in this blog, we will review some of the most popular.
A mobile app developer, as defined by job portal Glassdoor, “develops application programming interfaces (APIs) to support mobile functionality while staying current with the terminology, concepts, and best practices for coding mobile apps. Essentially, mobile developers contribute to the design, testing, release, and support of the app."
Tools for mobile application development
Buddy
On their website, they define Buddy this way: “Acclaimed by top developers around the world, Buddy combines a seamless user experience with world-class performance in a solution for teams that want to introduce CI/CD seamlessly. and speed up your software development lifecycle.”
Headspin
Their functions are summarized on the website of this platform: “The HeadSpin platform is an industry first, as it provides a powerful and easy-to-use solution that enables development, QA, product and operations teams to speed up development cycles. release, build for complex real-world user environments, and know when any component of the system degrades or breaks, whether at the code, device, or network layer, anywhere in the world.”
App Watch
It is a cloud-based product that offers mobile analytics and security. Help users keep their mobile apps secure and safe from being compromised or hacked. It allows a complete scan of the application, it has third-party libraries, it generates a report with modified descriptions, logos, comments, etc. App Watch is ideal to identify all the vulnerabilities that affect the security of your application.
Xamarin
The best way to define this tool is on their website, where they state ".NET is a development platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications."
They continue “Xamarin extends the .NET development platform with tools and libraries specifically for building apps for Android, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, macOS, and Windows.”
These mobile application development tools have been used by various members of the Rootstack team to solve technical problems presented by our international clients. If your company needs a mobile application, you are in the right place.
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