According to a report (by Statista), the total number of smartphone users throughout the world is expected to cross the 5 billion mark by 2019. The most popular smartphone operating systems in the industry today are Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. In the year 2016 alone, around 1.5 billion smartphones with either iOS operating systems or Android were sold to end users all over the world. Android leads the market with around 80% of all smartphone sales, whereas 15% of the smartphones sold to end users have iOS as their operating system.
When talking about the top-most smartphone vendors in the industry, Apple and Samsung are the leading brands. Other leading smartphone brands that are gaining popularity day by day include Oppo, Vivo, and Huawei. With the growing demand for smartphones, the mobile app development industry is also growing at a rapid pace and is expected to generate around $188.9 billion as global revenue in the coming year. Below mentioned are some of the most awaited mobile app development trends to watch out in 2019, have a look: