Custom Mobile App Development

Create a strategy.

The first stage in the mobile app development process is to outline your strategy for converting your concept into a successful app. You could want to make this a greater part of your overall mobility plan for your organization. The mobility strategy has an app-specific impact that must be addressed during the development phase because the aims of each app differ.

Throughout this stage you’ll :

• Determine how many people are using the app.
• Investigate the competition.
• Establish the app’s goals and objectives.
• Decide on a mobile platform for your app.

Analysis and Planning

Your app concept is starting to take shape and evolve into a functional product at this phase. The first steps in the analysis and planning process are to define use cases and record particular functional requirements.

When you’ve figured out what your app needs, make a product plan. This entails identifying and prioritizing mobile app requirements, as well as arranging them into delivery milestones. Establish your minimal viable product (MVP) and prioritize it for the first launch if you’re short on time, resources, or money.

Designing the User Interface/User Experience

The objective of app design is to create a polished, smooth, and effortless user experience.

The success of a mobile app is determined by how well customers accept and utilize all of the app’s features. The goal of mobile app UI/UX design is to create exceptional user experiences that make your product interesting, intuitive, and user-friendly. While complex UI designs can help with early adoption, consumers must also have straightforward user experiences to stay engaged with your app.

That means:

• Information Architecture & Workflows
• Wireframes
• Style guide
• Mockups
• Prototype

App Development Planning 

It is still an important component of the mobile app development process at this stage. Before you begin any development/programming activities, you must:

• establish the technological architecture
• choose a technology stack and implement it
• the development milestones must be defined.

At the same time, these items are involved:

• Back-end server technology
• API
• Mobile App Front-End

Testing

It guarantees that the app is dependable, helpful, and safe, quality assurance testing is a crucial element of the mobile app development process. You must first build test cases that cover all aspects of your program to ensure that it is fully tested.

In the same way that use cases drive mobile app development, test cases drive mobile app testing. Test cases are used to document testing outcomes for software quality evaluation, monitor changes for retesting and execute test processes. It’s a good idea to involve your quality assurance staff in the analysis and design stages. Knowing the functional requirements and objectives of your app might help you create realistic test scenarios.

The following testings are crucial:

• User Experience Testing
• Functional Testing
• Performance Testing
• Mobile App Security Testing
• Device and Platform Testing

Support & Implementation

You must first submit a native mobile app to the app stores, which are the Apple App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android. You’ll need an Apple App Store and Google Play Store developer account before you can launch your mobile app.

The following must be included in the metadata for an app’s app store publication:

• Your mobile app’s name
• Description
• Category
• Keywords
• Icon.
• Images (App Store)

iOS apps go through a review process once they’ve been submitted to the Apple App Store, which can take anywhere from a few days to several weeks, depending on the quality of the app and how closely it meets Apple’s iOS development requirements. If your software requires users to log in, you must offer a test user account to Apple as part of the release process.

Android apps do not go through a review procedure and are published in the app store within a few hours after submission.

Monitor your app’s usage using mobile analytics tools and measure Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to determine its performance once it’s released in the app stores.

Mobile app development cost reduction

During the native development process, organizations must form numerous teams with different skill sets and commit to a large budget to cover app development for a variety of operating systems.

A cross-platform framework, on the other hand, allows you to pool technical and human resources, making developing two apps at the same time, less expensive and more efficient.

Less time spent developing and commercializing applications

Customers expect to be able to discover products and services across all channels and have a consistent user experience when they interact with a firm. To put it another way, people are looking for ease of use. If you don’t meet this expectation, the customer may go elsewhere. In a couple of seconds, customers can change their minds.

As a result, businesses must stay one step ahead of their customers, anticipating their needs and responding swiftly.

Code reusability

The cross-platform development framework allows developers to work on a single code base that can run on several systems. Using a common code base instead of being platform-specific reduces repetitive labor and speeds up the application development life cycle. It helps developers solve many of their day-to-day issues, such as writing native code for each operating system and learning how to utilize the numerous cross-platform development tools required to support all mobile devices.

Instead of doing it separately for each platform, the reusable code base allows you to solve bugs and add functionality to multiple platforms at the same time.

The brand’s consistency

Users place a high value on a perfect brand experience across all customer contact points. Maintaining a consistent appearance and feel when developing apps for both iOS and Android takes a lot more time and effort.

Cross-platform app development may help you establish a consistent brand image and experience much faster by using the same UI/UX components that can offer a native app-like experience.

While the navigation of each operating system may change, your company’s general interface and brand image will remain constant and predictable, convincing clients of your legitimacy and trustworthiness.