The Impact of COVID-19 on the Mobile Application Industry | Mobile Application Development 2021

• What’s going on in our minds nowadays? It’s all about the pandemic disease corona. It started in China and spread all over the world and people are very afraid of this strange disease. But, we all know that there is always positivity and negativity in every issue.
• It’s also the same in COVID-19. People used to stay at home and spend time with their family, using social media for entertainment, some people also develop their skills.
• Do you think, is it the same for all? No, Not at all. Somewhere it is affecting many industries. Industries create different kinds of stuff that are used by everyone in day-to-day life. Few industries are running, but the economic growth of the companies is getting low.

Impact of Mobile Application Industry

• Many industries shut their companies due to COVID-19. The manufacturing industries, the construction industries, the real-estate industries, the tourism, the fashion industry, and the e-commerce industries faced a severe loss. Do You think it is the same for IT industries? No, not every IT field suffers. Mobile app development companies running at peak. Recent statistics state that nearly billions of mobile users use various mobile apps during this lockdown. Most of the people downloaded remotely apps and e-learning applications.

Major Apps That are being used during COVID-19

Social Media And Entertainment App

• In this pandemic period, social media apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp became a part of everyone’s life. Even on normal days, we spend most of the time on social media. The latest study declares that social media and the entertainment application had the highest number of downloads compared to other domain applications.
• From kids to the aged people used to watch funny videos, cooking videos, inspirational stories, quotes, videos, memes, ideas through social media and entertainment applications. People spend a lot of time with their families due to lockdown, but the total family entertains through social media.

E-commerce App

• E-commerce applications such as grocery apps and online shopping apps also got a huge number of downloads. Nowadays most people buy foods, snacks, vegetables, and other grocery things through applications. During this lockdown, the government introduced some e-commerce applications for the needs of citizens.

Healthcare App

• One of the most downloaded apps during this lockdown is a health care application. It is really hard to meet a doctor directly in this pandemic situation but it is possible to get a suggestion from a doctor online. One can easily get an appointment, the suggestion from a doctor online. Medicines and household medical kits can be purchased through an online app.

Travel And Booking App

• We are in a period of social distancing and lockdown. The government has ordered not to roam anywhere even within the city. It brings a great loss to the travel agency. From the cab booking application to the flight booking application, every travel industry has been shut down. Though the covid19 impact creates a great loss for the travel industry right now, it will provide a high-rated improvement after the end of the Covid-19 issue. People have to go back to their career, maybe education or work or even business after the lockdown. At that time, there will be a great refinement in the travel and booking industries.

Educational App

• One more app that goes at its peak is an E-learning App. The government had announced that it would not conduct exams for most of the class. Some students enjoyed their holidays but some students were fond of learning, somewhere interested in learning new stuff, some like to know more about trends and technologies, maximum of the final and pre-final year college students learn to track interviews. So they can simply learn through these E-learning apps.

Food Delivery App

• The count of food delivery apps also increases during this lockdown. Since the government announced not to open hotels to stop the spread, People should maintain social distance and not get out of their homes. So now it’s a great fall in the food industry and the download rate of food delivery applications is reduced. But it will find its peak after the lockdown. People will never forget the taste of food made by hotels, so they will surely find a way to go to hotels after the lockdown.

Video Streaming App

• Surprisingly, another app that got the highest download in google play store is the video application. Due to boredom day and night, people used to download apps like youtube, Tik Tok, Netflix, amazon prime. These are the entertainment video streaming applications that got more downloads during this lockdown.
• Apart from these major applications, business people also download a mobile conference application called Zoom, which is a widely used video-conferencing application. Zoom has also been used by many institutions for teaching purposes like skype which is a face-time application used by business industries for client meetings.

Conclusion

• There is no end to the IT sector. During this pandemic situation, the mobile application industry faced a great loss from other IT industries. But once the lockdown is completed, the growth of mobile application companies has a high scope. Since most business people will understand the scope of the mobile application.