Inmoni Insights did a survey concerning mobile app developer income. The statistics showed that Android is the prefered platform for developers.
The survey interviewed 1,000 developers, it turned out that 86% of interviewees prefer Android platform. 57% of them prefer iOS and only 21% of interviewees chose Windows Phone.
According to the investigation, Java becomes the most popular language used by developers(65%,). HTML 5 came as second, which is 45%. JavaScript was third and accounting for 44%.
Inmonbi claimed that mobile revolution and usage rate of smartphone are the motives to stimulate the development of mobile app market. To developers, this market is largeand high competitive. They have to keep modifying their works for substainable innovation.” The launch of mobile apps is an emerging industry. 75% of developers are with under 3 years’ working experience in this field.
55% of inteviewees only earned $1,000 each month. The average income of mobile apps is $6,000.The independent developers earned average income at $1,500. One third developers’ app downloads are under 10,000 in their districts. Only 15% of developers claimed the downloads of games are over one million in the world.
Gartner predicted that enterprise mobile apps will be in short supply by the end of this year. Each employee uses average 3 devices in the working place nowadays. This number will be increased with the development of internet.