How to analyze the mobile application market?

Question

Marketing

The App Store and Play Market have a large number of positions for applications of various genres. I would like to invest in app development, but first, I want to study the market and analyze what categories / genres / types / niches of applications are most in demand. What tools can be used for analysis? What metrics should be given the most attention?

Answer 1

There is no silver bullet. If the answer were obvious, then the programmers were all millionaires themselves;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-downloa...
Here is a list of those who could. To repeat their result, investments are needed at least 10 times more than they spent on the path to success.
https://www.appbrain.com/stats/android-app-downloads
Approximately 82% of apps, if published as one app per account
, would not bring their authors a single dollar. Withdrawal from the play from $100

Answer 2

To be honest, there is no way - there are no guaranteed ways to make money on this, there is only how to lose. You can earn a lot only if you quickly copy something super new that has not yet been copied, while it must be very hype and be the first to promote it. The chances of this are close to zero. Well, even if you have a talent for feeling such things, you will have to invest millions of rubles at best, and most likely tens of millions if the project is complex.

Answer 3

those who are professionally engaged in development usually make several applications at once - 1 out of 10 shoot, 2-3 barely pay for themselves, the rest - in the red.
tools for analysis to a dope. "play market statistics", "play market analytics" - and hundreds of links will fall out to you. although it is enough to go to the play market and see the top app downloads. Unfortunately, it is probably impossible to evaluate the purchase of content from applications. as well as the number of ads displayed there.
ps judging by your question, you are "not in the subject" of mobile development (otherwise you would not have asked such a "childish" question) - choose something else for your investment. because while you study the topic on your mistakes, you will spend your entire budget on ... those.