Growth in the development of health and fitness mobile apps amid COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Technology in the form of mobile apps has played an essential role in facilitating, tracking, and maintaining health and fitness activities during the pandemic. When countries opted for partial or complete lockdowns to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 virus, it led to people working on their health and fitness-related activities from their homes, just as they continued working from home. This paper aims to quantify the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on the development of health and fitness mobile apps. Specifically, we compute the effect of coronavirus disease 2019 on the growth of different sub-categories of health and fitness apps.

Methods

We scraped data about a population of 78,890 health and fitness apps from the iOS App Store. First, ca

SUBMITTER: Kalgotra P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9536106 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature