No doubt smartphones have become an integral part of our lives. In fact, Statista has estimated that there are around 2.1 billion smartphone users as of 2016 and by the end of 2019, the number of users will escalate to the 5 billion marks.

Mobile usage Statistics are mind-blowing
With the recent upsurge in mobile phone usage where both Android and Apple iPhone dominates the market, the amount of time spent by the individual user is alarming.

According to MS Power User, the people in the U.K. spend 41% of their total time in social media and messaging followed by 32% for games, 12% for productivity, and 11% for music and media. m-commerce business market size from 2015 to 2020: 63.53 Billion US Dollars. OpenCart Android App

Smartphones are easy to use comparing Computer
no doubt and they are advancing but they are also subjected to suffer from many problems. Don’t worry, if you have come across any problem,

I might have included it in this article and if not, then there are many possible problems with the current era of smartphones to list here.

Users Prefer Buying Stuff From Mobile Apps Than Websites.
There are many factors involved in it such as the responsiveness of apps over websites, processing time, usability, etc which puts websites far behind apps.
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In general, smartphone usage has increased exponentially. The smartphone technology came all the way from humongous brick-shaped phones to lightweight high-powered phones that we have today.

This has increased the dependence on smartphones by increasing the amount of time spent on phones. E-commerce report Mobile usage in various countries. Android App for OpenCart


Mobile App is 20 times faster then Website
Shopping on mobile apps is more efficient since apps have faster processing time and consume less bandwidth compared to websites. For organizations, maintaining apps is a way to cheap compared to maintaining websites, and with the increased availability of apps.

These organizations have started releasing their own apps which are easy to update, upgrade, scalable, responsive, faster loading and more.

According to research USA reported approximately 71% of digital minutes spent on the phone while Indonesia reported the highest with 91% of the total digital minutes spent online.

More over 1,800 million Mobile users globally Mobile usage from 2012 to 2016 in India. Android App for OpenCart Website
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Smart Insights displayed a graph depicting the inclination of mobile usage over a desktop which surpassed it in 2013 and currently has more over 1,800 million users globally and counting. Mobile App usage has increased by 69% from 2015 and an additional 11% in 2016.

OpenCart Extensions have made Android App for E-commerce Website which is made using OpenCart Framework. Now They can use an Android app to give a boost to their sale �

Originally published on TMD OpencartExtension Blog on 26 May 2018