Skills and Certifications for Mobile App Development - A Step by Step Guide

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Since the advent of smartphones and tablets, the scope for software developers to make it big in the mobile app market has increased. This scenario has led to a tremendous increase in freelancers and programmers entering this field of app development. Mobile application development is a fixed set of process and procedures in writing software for specific tasks (games, weather, news, etc.), for wireless computing devices like smartphones and tablets.

Mobile application development is multi-dimensional and needs new learning all the time but is easy to get started. Mobile Application development is a rapidly growing field, both in terms of revenue as well as employment opportunities. As per the recent 2014 analysis report, about 46% software solution architects and 47% of senior software developers believe there is a skills gap!

Employees usually prefer employing certified professionals. This eBook focuses on the need of certification, mobile app development career growth in industry and takes youthrough the entire certification journey.

Mobile app development popularity is increasing because of its simplicity, cost
effectiveness and the need for developers in the fast paced mobile application development industry. The number of app downloads as per a report from Smart Insights shows that around 25 billion downloads from Apple App Store and 10 billion downloads from Android store are recorded. According to Wall Street Journal, Google and Apple offer more than 700,000 mobile apps each and the total revenue in the mobile app industry is expected to rise to $46 billion in 2016, ABI Research reports.

The market demand for apps running on iOS, Android, and other operating systems is surging but the mobile app development talent isn’t growing at the same rate. According to a Forbes report, large companies whose 20% of business and growing at a fast rate comes from mobile, has a single iOS and/or a single Android app developer.