Aarkstore Enterprise-mobile Application Developer Survey: Smartphone Os And Runtime Support

Mobile application developer survey: smartphone OS and runtime support

The iPhones iOS is the clear favorite smartphone platform for mobile application developers, according to Ovums first mobile application developer survey. But while all five major smartphone platforms score well overall, it is BlackBerry OS and Windows Mobile that currently lead the opposition, rather than Android or Symbian. Overall, Java ME remains the leading mobile development environment, showing theres still life if not necessarily big profits - in an old and somewhat neglected technology. Meanwhile, full mobile web browsers are becoming a prime target for mobile developers, offering great promise of future application and content portability across devices and platforms.

This report is a companion to the previously published Mobile application developer survey: network and channel requirements, which focuses on non-device-related aspects of the survey.

Table of Contents :

Executive summary

In a nutshell

Ovum view

Key messages

Mobile developer platform choice

Five OSs attract most developer attention

iOS is the highest-priority mobile developer platform

Developers do accept some fragmentation

iPhone trend building traction for key rivals

BlackBerry and Android riding the iPhone success wave

Consumer appeal driving BlackBerry OS forward

Android has not yet fully shown its hand

Other platforms compete for remainder

Windows Phone developers keep the Microsoft faith

Symbian has lost its edge, if not yet its developers

Other OSs struggling for developer attention

Runtime and web platform preference

Older approaches still resonate for now

Mobile web browser enters developer mainstream

Other cross-platform technologies also show potential

Developer support will again be limited to a subset

Factors influencing choice of development technology

Installed base and availability of devices provide greatest developer incentive

Appendix

Background to the study

Who did we survey?

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by: Aarkstore Enterprise

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