In this increasingly digital -- and mobile! -- world, mobile development is becoming all-too-important for everyone from the consumer to the corporate manager.

Think about it: in today''s world, you reach for your phone to do everything from ordering pizzas to hailing cabs. Without a phone, you literally cannot survive in today''s world.

So, with that in mind, we''ve come up with this list of mobile development trends to keep an eye out for in the coming year. In no particular order, keep your eyes open for:

• A focus on a high quality experience: according to a recent survey, one in four apps that are downloaded are only used once. The reason? Because the end user found the app experience to be unsatisfactory. Developers, then, will place the focus on the immediate responsiveness of the app
• Continuous delivery: the most successful apps are constantly updated to give the end user the best experience. App development is not a "one and done" situation
• The rise of deep linking: as developers, we need to ask ourselves -- how do we link into apps via such things as mobile web cookies?
• Mobile video is the future: this is a pretty self-evident trend, and as more and more companies hop on the bandwagon of integrating video into their apps, it will become more and more important for the videos to be properly displayed within these apps, as well.

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