IDC:2013 application development predicts mobile platform and cloud hottest

IDC Research Agency publishes a new market report, "2013 Application development forecasts." IDC said in the report, the Mobile platform client computing and cloud platform will make greater progress, the mobile network and the sharing platform between the local devices will prevail, locally deployed applications will continue to dominate, while the Web platform Technology (HTML5) to maintain the advantage.

"We predict that the future of web technology will one day inject most of the mobile apps," said Al Hilwa, an analyst at IDC. "Network technology will support development tools to build locally available applications." These hybrid applications may be written primarily in HTML and JavaScript, using browser components on the native platform, and then packaged into ' native ' app Store applications for distribution. The PhoneGap technology, based on server Software Apache, is a fast development platform for mobile applications based on HTML,CSS and JavaScript to create mobile platforms. It enables developers to leverage the core capabilities of Iphone,android,palm,symbian,wp7,bada and BlackBerry smartphones-including geo-positioning, accelerators, contacts, sound and vibration, Currently in the world using the ranking of the first Web server software support, PHONEGAP technology or powerful. ”

IDC also predicts that the Cloud IDE (electronic integrated drives) will be more mature and more widely developed. "Also, as investment continues, HTML5 and JavaScript and mobile networks will mature, thanks to the ever-improving hardware and communications infrastructure, which we expect to be booming in the development environment." "Many aspects of application development on the Internet and mobile internet have become the best services for collaborative and service-intensive workflows," Hilwa said. "At the same time, the cloud will be more developed, providing a broader range of development services such as collaboration, social interaction, project and code libraries, and other services," Hilwa said. ”

The PaaS (Platform as Service) platform will expand into the enterprise, providing private cloud options and stronger business support. "In the 2012, we saw a turnaround in the adoption of larger companies with cloud computing," the IDC report said. "In 2013, PAAs will span the gap and focus on consumer applications to adapt to product development focused on enterprise applications." "The PAAs platform will carry out a multi-tenant technology experiment because they are recognized as a guarantee of efficiency and success," IDC said. ”

IDC's report also predicts other trends in 2013:

1, mobile application platform will show diversity, Google's Android platform has increasingly exposed weaknesses, even if it dominates. New mobile platforms (such as WINDOWS8) will prevail if they have the right ingredients, highlight the focus, and get strong enforcement.

2, based on planning software release cycle management will become the leading, gradually replace the function-oriented release cycle management method.

3, the device framework integrated multi-screen and second-screen applications will be better developed to support mobile usage scenarios, and better play the interface between the personal Tablet PC and the shared large-screen TV.

4, heterogeneous parallel processing will become more common, the use of general-purpose applications provided by the GPU (graphics processor) for parallel computing.

5, embedded platform will begin to target the main mobile consumer electronic equipment application platform to take full advantage of the developer's skill ecosystem.

(Responsible editor: Fumingli)