Reportlinker Adds Mobile application developer survey: smartphone OS and runtime support

NEW YORK, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Mobile application developer survey: smartphone OS and runtime support

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The iPhone's iOS is the clear favorite smartphone platform for mobile application developers, according to Ovum's 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 there's 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.

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?

List of Tables

Table 1: Aggregate device platform preference based on top-three rankings

List of Figures

Figure 1: Smartphone platforms that developers are currently supporting or plan to support

Figure 2: First-ranked smartphone platform among mobile application developers

Figure 3: Number of device platforms that developers are already supporting or are prepared to support

Figure 4: Second-ranked smartphone platform among mobile application developers

Figure 5: Cross-platform development environments that developers are already supporting or plan to support

Figure 6: First-ranked cross-platform development environments among mobile application developers

Figure 7: Device-side enablers and APIs most used by mobile application developers

Figure 8: Key factors influencing choice of developer technologies to support

Figure 9: First-ranked factor influencing choice of developer technologies to support

Figure 10: Second-ranked factor influencing choice of developer technologies to support

Figure 11: Size of companies interviewed (by employee numbers)

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