The progress and development of an era tend to generate new problems, and then repeat the cycle, so that human civilization is constantly iterating and upgrading.
In the era of mobile Internet, the emergence of new technologies and products can always break the imagination of the industry, but also brings many problems that cannot be adjusted and constantly repeated, especially the contradiction between enterprise mobile needs and technological realization.
Developer’s Burden
The rapid development of the mobile Internet and the big changes are often jaw-dropping, such industry development features for developers and enterprises have both advantages and disadvantages.
Screen fragmentation is one of the biggest headaches for developers.
According to Google’s latest tally, there are now as many as 1,000 different resolution devices around the world. This directly leads to the developers in the process of app development will encounter a variety of screens, developers need to constantly adapt to these screens.
The second is uneven hardware.
Due to cost considerations, mobile phone manufacturers will more or less emasculate or degrade the standard hardware configuration, thus affecting the running effect or function of APP.
For example, some device manufacturers choose to remove the GPS module of the hardware in order to save production costs. If your app needs GPS function and happens to run on such devices, it will be unable to obtain geographical location. Before getting confirmation from device manufacturers, developers need to spend a lot of time to locate the reason.
The third is the proliferation of mobile phone manufacturers.
In the early years of the domestic market can do mobile phone manufacturers can be counted on one hand, developers to do the adaptation range is very small. But with the development of the mobile Internet, the number of mobile phone manufacturers has grown rapidly, with more than 200 in China alone, according to statistics in 2017.
During the manufacturing process, mobile phone manufacturers often make various customized and differentiated changes to the standard operating system, which is the culprit of app compatibility problems. Developers need to keep track of these changes and adapt accordingly.
On top of that, the frequent iteration of the mobile version of the system has caused serious frustration for developers.
Take Android for example, from version 1.5 and 1.6 10 years ago to version 9.0 to be released soon, in so many versions, the apI-level system features and function changes of each version may lead to various compatibility problems such as app withdrawal and function failure, which require developers to spend a lot of time to solve one by one.
The combination of these circumstances is undoubtedly increasing the workload of developers.
The reality of business owners
For an enterprise, if it wants to lay out in the direction of mobile Internet and develop an app, the first problem it needs to face is cost. Let’s calculate an account about building a basic development team.
First, the team needs at least one IOS and one Android developer; Secondly, at least one project manager is required to coordinate the overall situation. Third, your idea to the ground, implementation, must be at least a product manager to do security; It also includes UI design, testing, and server-side developers; If you have a website, you need a front-end developer. Of course, if you want to keep up with the trend, you definitely need a small program developer.
In short, if an enterprise wants to lay out in the mobile Internet, it first needs to build a development team of at least 10 people.
And when an enterprise has a development team of 10 people, how much does it cost to really start building an app? From the beginning of its implementation to the complete online, or user recognition, almost 1 million!
While cost may be the first issue companies face when developing apps, it is not the core issue they face. The experience gained from our long-term practice shows that whether the project can be launched on time is the core issue of enterprise app development.
Enterprises hope that the APP can be realized quickly with low cost and launched on time. However, developers spend a lot of energy on the implementation of different platforms and solving various compatibility problems, resulting in prolonged project cycle, increased cost, and failure to launch as scheduled. This problem is the main contradiction between developers and enterprises in the development of mobile Internet for so many years.
In other words, the development and progress of app development technology over the years is fundamentally to solve the contradiction between developers and enterprises. Cross-platform technology is the crystallization of this process.
Through cross-platform technology, differences between different platforms can be eliminated. Developers can compile app installation packages for multiple platforms through one encoding, so that products can be launched on different platforms and meet the needs at the same time.
The traditional APP development mode requires four people to complete the work, but now only one person can complete it, which not only greatly reduces the cost of the entire enterprise APP development, but also ensures the project to be launched as scheduled.
The development characteristics of the mobile Internet industry determine the hot development and importance of cross-platform technology in the industry. APICloud enterprise Internet ecological platform has the natural cross-platform capability. The original intention of the emergence of cross-platform technology is to ensure the timely launch of APP, rapid, simple development and low cost. This is also an important reason why APICloud has been recognized and developed rapidly in the industry in just four years. It is APICloud’s consistent purpose and habit to think from the perspective of customers and the industry.