Mobile apps have been the need of the hour for many businesses around the world. With the on-demand economy gig at the center of significant business operations today, real-time responsive apps are more than a necessity for growth and revenues.

The mobile apps market will show an incremental growth of $164.53 billion during the forecast period of 2019-2023. Businesses around the world understand the importance of the market and are impressed by its compound annual growth rate of 18%.

Key players in the market are trying to amalgamate apps and IoT(Internet of Things) to generate more revenues. For effective integration with data-intensive and highly reactive IoT-based smart devices, apps to need real-time responsive apps, and here we are going to explore six such steps to do the same.

What are real-time responsive apps?

Real-time responsive apps can have features that can instantly alter the changes in data during the interaction between the user and the system. Such apps can be of any type, from chatting apps to dating apps and from delivery apps to taxi booking apps.

These apps have features that help users track activities, access data, and store data anywhere and anytime. For IoT-based equipment like wearables and smart devices, real-time responsive apps offer essential interactions with users.

1. Responsive Frameworks:

An application framework provides an essential element of developing an app. They help developers to design highly sensitive apps with practical tools and environments.

Many frameworks based on Javascript and other languages have been popular for their responsive design support. React Native, Ionic, Jquery, and many others are quite efficient in providing responsive UI(User Interface) designs.

2. UI Threads or Main Threads:

Whenever an app is not responding, you will receive an ANR message. ANR stands for “Application Not Responding”. To avoid this ANR issue, you need to design your main thread in such a way that the background processes don’t overload it.

Whenever a user requests a query, the system responds through the main thread. The response to the user’s request needs computations and other backend processes that may slow down the responsiveness of the thread.

For all your computational and resizing of bitmaps can be done on a separate worker thread and database functions can be done by an asynchronous request.

3. Responsive Layouts:

User Interface is the gateway to an application system. Users interact with the system through the user interface. So, it is essential to ensure the responsive design of the UI layouts.

To ensure responsive layouts while developing a mobile application with higher responsiveness:

• Optimize your gutters to keep appropriate space between columns.
• Keep your UI regions consistent and responsive.
• Use effective CTAs as they are also the best tools for SEO or marketing purposes.
• Create fluid designs to enhance user experiences and real-time responsive layouts.

Optimize the elevation elements and spatial navigation between layers of the application.

4. Data Handling:

One of the essential parts of a real-time application interaction is a massive amount of data transfers. Real-time apps have data-intensive operations, where there is constant change in data. Think of chatting or messaging app, where multiple users access the same database to add or retrieve a considerable amount of data from the server database.

So, you will need a database management system that can handle such data-intensive interaction between users and the system. A DBMS can manipulate the data format, data structure, field names, record structure, and file structure. There are many DBMS like MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, and many others, which can help you handle your data-intensive operations more effectively.

5. Real-Time Computation:

Real-time responsive apps need higher computational power. These apps need to handle queries from users and provide a response in real-time, so there is no place for delays. For faster and real-time responses, the system needs to compute the data at a rapid pace.

You can use some tricks to optimize your systems for real-time computation:

• Distribute the load on the server through load distribution.
• Use effective microservices to handle several computations differently and yet providing a real-time response.
• Keep the memory footprint minimum.
• Use a lighter app development strategy by keeping app size minimalistic.

6. Real-Time APIs:

It is a widespread belief that real-time APIs provide faster interactions between users and the system. It has lead to the effective use of real-time APIs for highly responsive app development.

Realtime APIs can:

• Provide synchronous interaction across endpoints.
• It also facilitates bi-directional data delivery for both the endpoints.
• Endpoints here, are the users and system.
• Rapid interactions with users through effective real-time data sharing.

Signing Off:

Applications has not just been a part of gaming or chatting culture; it has now reached to more profitable domains in business, like banking and finance. Fintechs can undoubtedly look to use this rea-time responsive feature in apps to attract more consumers for the digitization of financial transactions.