How 5G Changes Mobile App Development

Cliq Techno
4 min readMay 13, 2021

What is 5G?

In today’s world nothing can be done without the use of technology and it is rapidly evolving from one generation to another with the preference of consumers. Everyone needs better accessibility, faster speed, easy connectivity, and more smart devices. Customers always want something new and updated technology, so to live with their expectations developers consistently try to develop smarter technology and the best updated services to their customers.

And the latest technology to build high-speed performance networks and live up to the customers expectation is 5G Fifth Generation wireless cellular network. And 5G is not a modified version of 4G instead it is a whole different level of infrastructure that eases all the available functions. Through this every single work can seem possible. Because this easily connects and gives speedy results which helps developers to build an application, whether that application be a GPS-based application or IoT device. Through a single connection many devices can connect and work with equal speed.

  • Speed

5G enables developers to create applications quickly because this strengthens connectivity and has the speed of 10 gigabits per second that is many times faster than most existing technology. And because of that reason the work like transfering or downloading of files will be done within some seconds thus saves time and improves connectivity and usability.

  • Connectivity

The network that supports the speedy delivery of messages successfully to other devices without facing any sort of issue. According to study due to all such benefits by year 2025 there will be 1.5 billion devices working on the 5G network.

  • Bandwidth

The 5G spectrum is designed to perform across a wide array of bands to offer better connectivity that includes the radio frequencies of 28 and 39 GHz. This tells the mobile applications works well for all bands whether it is low, medium or high.

How 5G impacts Mobile Developers ?

  • Introduction of immersive technology and smoother video streaming

5G can boost AR-based mobile app development which becomes the game changer in the mobile application development industry because it gives the customers and even the developers the media-rich user experiences. Low latency helps the quality of the videos of apps be better with the uninterrupted viewing experience. There is also a big opportunity of innovating the application altogether by taking care of the network security strictly. It cannot get better than this!

  • Increase in GPS performance

As the connectivity speed increases the performance in such an application may also differ and the results obtained will be of better connectivity and much accuracy also in less time. So GPS based applications help developers make such customer friendly applications because of the 5G network that strengthens the performance of navigation.

  • Enhancement of Cloud compatibility

The app market in future will see rising especially in cloud-computing services. This will be dependent on scalability that is supported by the 5G network that allows seamless access because of low latency which automatically increases the performance. Due to this it becomes low dependence on the hardware devices.

  • Reduction in hardware limitations and 24/7 connectivity

Mostly what happens with the existing network is that developers or customers using it may face connectivity issues, speed which is slow and takes much of the time in loading, also gets disconnected so isn’t much reliable and importantly is not a battery-efficient network. But 5G having advanced infrastructure networks overcomes all of these issues and gives developers all sorts of amazing quality and advanced ambient connectivity.

  • Apps for smart cities

With the 5G network availability to the developers such applications will be made that billions of sensors will be interconnected and we may experience a unique way of living the life where every business may have its own application in use whether it is to detect any crime happening or alerting of upcoming disaster or even to reduce pollution. Every field may have its own application on their device and the whole city will work smartly instead of hard work.

Why choose 5G in business apps ?

The 5G network seems to have a bright future as it already is a relatively advanced technology introduced for mass use. Business and developers are only learning how to fully take advantage of 5G.

Uptil now the problems faced by developers was the network consistency, its speed and due to low speed of the network which took much longer of time for development. Talking about 4G networks whose latency is average 40 milliseconds whereas 5G can complete that same thing having latency of just one millisecond. You see how big a difference that makes. Because of 5G there will be less delays happening in work. So the developers can make mobile applications with much ease and this network is predicted to be a huge success also in wearable devices and IoT. And for now 5G is used as a supplement to other networks.

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