Nowadays, you can’t really ignore the immense popularity of smartphone use. According to some recently made survey, those who own smartphones, each day they spent almost five hours using it! Hence, it is easily understandable that engaging and easy-to-use Android apps not only can keep the consumers interested but if developed and designed correctly, they can successfully increase the business sales as well. Here is a list of 4 smart tips that would help you to come up with a business-driven Android application rapidly.
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#1 Use Wireframes
Before initiating with the development process, it is advisable to create a few wireframes that would set up the idea clearly how the app layout would look along with how the users would navigate the app. It would definitely help the developers to understand the navigation gaps. Moreover, the designers would understand how to make the user-interface more optimised and user-engaging. Designing wireframes prior to the development process is a good practice as it diminishes the chances of risks in the development process.
#2 Employ Agile Methodology
The concept of MVP (Minimal Viable Product) is trending a lot in today’s market. In this process, initially, the developers devise a trial app keeping in mind the requirements and needs of the users with some basic features and functionalities incorporated into it. If the response is satisfactory, developers can work on integrating more features into it depending on the feedbacks using the Agile Methodology.
#3 Make it Simple
To engage and attract the users, being innovative is kind of necessary. However, while being innovative, it is advisable not to make navigation process so complicated that the users don’t understand anything and become confused. If this happens, they won’t give a second thought to uninstall your application. Hence, keeping the design of the user-interface simple is the key to success.
#4 Take Advantage of Outsourcing
If you find out that your development team is not being able to deliver what you want or the project development is not that much satisfactory, it is advisable not to hesitate to take the advantage of outsourcing the development process. For instance, suppose that your team has experience in devising Android app. Now, you want to devise a similar application for the iOS devices. What you can do is to leverage the outsourcing that would definitely help you to speed up the development process as you already have the app planning and designing in your hand. The outsourced company has to pay attention only to the core development process. This would save a lot of time.
Apart from all the above-mentioned points, while getting involved in a mobile app development process, you can contemplate other aspects like quality checking, use of automation along with hybrid app development etc.
Getting Started the Development
If you have finalized to begin a mobile application development project, it’s better to hire professionals, who will organize and systemize the plan and assess the risk to be managed associated with the project. Not all mobile application development projects follow the single strategy. Different projects may be based on different plans and only serious developers know what plan works and what doesn’t. As soon as the strategy is finalized, the next step is to assess the compatibility of strategy with the business requirements.
Prepare a Technical Plan Too!
It’s good to see towards aesthetic and functionality related aspects of a plan, but never forget the things like technology, support and feasibility. Here, developers need to prepare a technical plan that provides the best support to theoretical design or plan. It is recommended that both plan-makers and developers should work in coordination to plan a mobile application. Technical plan also involves application performance, security issue, resource-availability, fault-tolerance, technology-stability, usability, scalability, back-end support, and functionality. Business level application is based on multiple-integration of technological aspects and in some cases, third party systems are involved as well. Only professional mobile apps developers deeply understand these things.
Understanding the Target Audience and Their Requirements
It’s like you go in future and see that is your application going to be successful and if not, then but are the issues of failure? Yes, developers with futuristic vision do map the audience too. By doing this, developers can explore the need of users, other apps for similar operations and pick the best features of other apps and bring them in the new application development. The other things are – development of wireframe and mock-up screen & interface and ask some users for their feedback. It will give a perfect idea before actual development.
Mobile App Development
Mobile app development goes according to the platform you choose. There is separate development and testing environment for each platform such as Android application development requires Android SDK with eclipse IDE, iPhone apps development requires MacBook Pro with XCode IDE and BlackBerry requires BlackBerry JDE.
