Why You Should Integrate Real-Time Features in Your Mobile App

Why You Should Integrate Real-Time Features in Your Mobile App

By Asim Rais Siddiqu

There was once a time when real-time features were considered a luxury in your mobile app, but things have changed and now they’ve become a vital necessity. If you survey the app market, you’ll notice that most business apps are integrated with features like real-time feed, push notifications, tracking the status of live order and instant messaging.

What are Real-Time Features?

To put it in plain terms, Real-time technology sends information to all the connected users in the actual-time scenario. The present age is on a fast track, we want instant results and superfast services that is why the real-time features have become a mandatory requirement for all most all mobile applications.

From evolving startups to well-established mobile app development companies, everyone is currently focusing on integrating real-time features in their applications so that they can obtain the next level of connectivity and digitization.

Why use real-time features?

Before we dive deep into what real-time features you should be using in your mobile app, it is important to understand the benefits of them. Below are some of the most viable benefits of real-time features.

• Multitask away

If you can multitask then why can’t your apps do the same? Real-time apps enable users to handle multiple tasks at the same time, for example, you can track your order while booking a cab and simultaneously chatting with your friend.

• Helps you connect with the world

Real-time technology helps us in connecting with other app users in a way which seems natural in relation to the real world. You can share live locations, text and follow people on different social media platforms while doing your day to day chores.

• Brings out the developer within you

Developers can benefit from incorporating real-time features because it allows them to concentrate on their major capabilities, such as innovative inbuilt app features, interactive UX, improved UI and many more. Real-time features create an environment where developers don’t have to worry about maintenance costs and other added investments.

Most significant real-time features

Below is a list of real-time features that developers can’t ignore while developing a mobile app

1, Get Real-time Feed

Most social media platforms are running on the present real-time functionality. Platforms like Snapchat and Instagram offer real-time feed to their end-users. Because of Real-time features, users are immediately updated as soon as any new content is published on the platform or the mobile app.

Real-time features allow real-time engagement of users with the content that is published on various social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc, without updating the in-app feed time and again.

2, Move to the next level with Push Notifications

Another significant feature which is a must-have for all mobile apps is push notifications. They aren’t just crucial for mobile apps, they are also important for web apps as well when it comes to spreading awareness about the web and its features. For all modern-day apps, the feature of push notifications acts as a primary strategic move that can increase the user retention rate by notifying them about important updates.

If there is one thing that push notifications promise, it is user engagement. If timed appropriately, they can be off the charts, going as high as 80%. These features act as a means for inspiring the users to reopen the app and utilize the services that are being provided by the app.

3, Up your game with Live Streaming

Who doesn’t know about live streaming these days? It has become one of the most innovative features that are currently being used by various mobile apps in different industry verticals that include, real estate, entertainment, transport, logistics and many more. Live streaming enables a mobile or web app to generate and deliver information to all the users for creating deep user interactions.

The live streaming feature has also crossed into the mobile game development because there are various platforms and games that are currently offering this feature on different levels of the app.

4, Get Multi-User Collaboration

The next best thing about real-time features is that they enable multiple users to simultaneously update, add, delete, and edit data. This makes the task concerning various team members easier to perform while providing the possibility to give instant feedback regarding the data which is updated.

A famous example of this is the Google Docs app that is basically a real-time app, which means that it is a multiple user collaboration editing tool that can be used by multiple people at the same time.

5, Real-time Messaging Service

This is the 2019 and people want to know what is happening today, not what has happened a year ago, that is why real-time data is what people are demanding these days. That is one of the reasons why many app developers have prioritized the real-time features in their apps along with their basic functionalities. In between of all this, real-time messaging surfaced which became the backbone of instant messaging.

Now there are different messengers that are fast and interactive when it comes to sharing various kinds of media that include voice calls, voice notes, pictures, audio, and multiple group chats. Here, the real-time technology has replaced the old school form of text messaging with the modern real-time messaging.

Conclusion

The present age demands that your app must be integrated with real-time features because it has become synonymous to speed and convenience.

It doesn’t matter whether its social media, business apps, on-demand apps, or IoT app development, the real-time features have transformed and will continue transforming all these apps in the near future.

Author bio
Asim Rais Siddiqui is living his passion for emerging technologies and software as the Co-Founder and CTO at TekRevol. An expert in next-generation technology and software solutions, he has over a decade’s worth of experience in development and enterprise digitalization.

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