Mobile Application Development: A Complete Guide to Costs, Features, and Insights

Whether in daily life or professional activities, mobile applications have become an essential part of modern living. Just think about these questions:

How many applications do you have on your phone?
How many apps did you use five years ago compared to now?
How much time do you spend using apps daily?
There is no need for much explanation. By answering the above questions you might have understood the relevance of mobile applications in our daily lives. Just see the interesting statistics of the Google Play Store and iOS:

Android is the most popular mobile operating system, operating 71.65% of mobile devices globally. Overall, 3.3 million Android apps are available on Google Play. There are 2.2 million iOS apps available in the App Store overall. The Play Store typically releases 40,000 apps every month. It is anticipated that 143 billion Android apps will have been downloaded from the Google Play Store by 2026. ( source )

In 2024, mobile phone apps got over $935 billion in revenue. Many people use apps frequently—21% of Millennials open an app more than 50 times a day, and 49% of users open apps at least 11 times daily. In the U.S., 70% of all digital media time is spent on mobile apps. On average, a smartphone user interacts with 10 different apps each day and about 30 apps every month. ( source )

As there are more than 6 billion mobile users, all these are pointing out the growing usage of mobile apps. Today, there are mobile applications to play, order food, shop, travel plans, and many more activities. That’s why 88% of mobile usage time is spent on any mobile app.

So it will be a wise decision if you develop a mobile application for your business or organization. Just look around even small business and shops have their mobile apps. If you build a feature-rich mobile app, you can take your brand to a global level. Here we will see some interesting topics that can be helpful for you in this task.