Coverage Challenges for Web Application Developers

Explore the challenges developers tackle: device compatibility, browser updates, mobile differences, and tool selection.

Another challenge that developers face is coverage across web and mobile operating systems and platforms. Every month, both Google and Mozilla release public general availability (GA) and beta versions to the market. Such releases disrupt the web applications in many cases and require developers to ensure that the new versions are still compliant with their apps. Because web traffic is higher on mobile platforms nowadays, ensuring the continuous quality of the web application across different iOS and Android devices and OS versions is key to success.

Browser market share insights

The following illustrationStatCounter. (2021). Global Mobile Browser Market Share. Retrieved January 17, 2024, from https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/worldwide shows the browser market share month by month for the period from October 2020 to October 2021:

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