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In the technological world, there are lots of hustle-bustle of Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and IoT. There are no lies among these trending categories, but it is high time for us to level things up. What will be discussing in this article today in the industry of technology that often goes undervalued due to the category it falls under.

The industry of sports applications

It is most probable that you have used or heard of the expanding industry of sports applications. Here is an interesting fact about it: In the growing category of applications, sports applications have secured the second position, and consequently grabbed the attention of influential investors and potential entrepreneurs.

If you are a huge fan of cricket, then you must have stumbled upon cricket applications which can be used to easily find out the scores, along with which team is winning against whom, who has taken over the most wickets, which team has the most runs, and other information regarding the game, in case you have missed the Livestream of match or two, due to work pressure or college assignments. You can experience the same excitement and drama, at the tip of your fingers, with the help of these applications.

Now, in case you are wondering what surpassed the sporting apps and secured the first position, here is your answer – the messaging and social media applications. Right after the huge social media industry comes the sporting one. Now, for an entrepreneur, investing in sporting apps is the best bet in the current market. But nothing comes without challenges. So, it would be wise to first come up with creative and innovative ideas. You will be faced with all sorts of challenges – ranging from marketing potency to technical problems. Some of them are as given below:

1. Marketing your application in an impregnable market

You must realize that there are already more than a million mobile apps currently flourishing in the market. From the fact that sporting applications have the second rank in this category, you can see the statistics and do your math to determine the number of sports apps out there in the current scenario.

Now, do not be disheartened by the competition, but try to find out strategies for your fantasy cricket app to stand out in a saturated market of sports apps. Now, it is only natural that you have less experience in marketing and have a lower budget, and that is, in fact, is a tough competition once you have launched your unique cricket application, comprising of everything a user could ask for. Your next step would be you divert the attention towards your newly launched cricket app. You have to learn how to spawn traffic to your application. The ideal way to go is to focus ninety percent on the marketing of your app and ten percent on its development. Now that we have discussed the marketing issues let us move into the technical ones.

2. Learning the game

Yes, you are building your fantasy cricket app, but you must ensure that some members of your development know thoroughly about the game, has a profound understanding of it, and knows how to play it. But when it is time for the fantasy cricket app development, there comes, quite naturally, a lot of trials and testing, and technical problems.

Your app developers are required to have a good amount of knowledge in technicalities, sports, and an active and able mental propensity and aptitude because, in this field, it is necessary to have an understanding of the nuances and modulations of the game. This is not in the immediate necessity for a sports news app. But since your target is to build a cricket application, a team of qualified, dedicated, and talented developers is mandatory for the successful installation of the app to the users.

3. Management of vast amount of data

Do not, for one moment, think that it is a small project. To build a sports application – in this case, your fantasy cricket app – you will have to establish a big project. A gigantic amount of data will be dealt with in the entire process of the development of this app. It is of common knowledge that managing and dealing with a huge amount of data is not only a difficult but also a time-consuming job – even in the case of old-time developers.

To lyrically amalgamate all the data into a close-knit application, one would have to go through a lot of difficulties and hindrances. Filtering and co-integrating all the data requires skillful and dedicated fantasy sports app developers. One fantasy cricket app is built with the skills and talents of the team players, their physical expertise, their statistics, the team history, and so many other factors.

4. The user and the app

Now comes the experience of the user. This is an extension of the preceding point. It is natural for a huge amount of battery life to be consumed by an application that comprises a lot of data. It is observed that sports applications usually tend to do that. In that case, it would be expected that the user would install the app and use it for a short amount of time and then delete it again to prevent the continuous draining of the battery life of their mobile devices. Apart from the life of the battery, sports apps also take up a lot of space in the phone storage. Normal users desire applications that perform well and are lightweight. Moreover, in the absence of proper testing of your application, it ought to have plenty of glitches and buns, unfavorable to the users.

There are only a handful of challenges faced during building your fantasy cricket app, which is precisely discussed in this article. You must be aware that there are tons of other challenges you will come across in the process. Some of those are errors in testing, issues of navigation, harmony with other devices, and many more.