Open Source Summit North America 2025

Open Mobile Hub and LF Research partnered this year to explore the state of mobile application development in the face of a fragmented market with growing numbers of new devices to integrate. In this session, a panel of research team members from the Linux Foundation and Open Mobile Hub will discuss the preliminary findings of their research, examining the insights generated from interviews with mobile application experts across the community. Discussion topics will include hindrances to market entry, current pain points from integration with diverse services, and the APIs that developers care most about. Panelists will deliberate on, from a cross-platform perspective, the preferred frameworks to build mobile applications and the importance of open source in this context. An important use case in this discussion will be the development of services such as wallets and payments capabilities. Grounded in the findings from this study, audience members will shift their thinking around accommodating a walled-garden approach to a more open, streamlined, and standardized application ecosystem as the device landscape continually shifts.