5 Things To Consider Before Developing A Mobile App

Business owners have started realizing that mobile presence for their business is essential in the trending market! The increased usage of Smartphone, tablets and other hand held devices has grasped a major part of overall internet access.

Offering convenient options for trading and interacting with the end-users, mobile apps are widely admired in both the ends. If you are thinking to build a mobile app there are few things you need to consider before building a mobile app. Following these trends, it would be quite helpful for the enterprises to rake higher profits and fulfil the targeted objectives.

Follow the 5 Essential Things for Achieving Success with App Development

1.     Market Research

Generally, almost every enterprise develop a thought to have profitable idea for app development which would be able to rake good amount of money and get the brand established in the market. But the real fact is, maximum numbers of app fails soon after getting launched for which the enterprise suffers loss.

While deciding to develop an app there are certain questions you need to answer that would help you to build a successful app.

Performing market research you certainly can identify several opportunities that would be profitable for the enterprise.

·       Whether you are able to solve the real problem with app development?

·       Would the app be able to support the users to live in an easier way?

Some apps may hit the top lists in an unexpected way but that doesn’t mean every developed app would achieve the targeted objectives. For building a successful app it is essential to know the in and out of market and industry. It is even essential to prepare the list of the market competitors and likewise develop an idea about the targeted audiences.

Performing extensive market research, one can determine and easily differentiate the app. Time and effort investment for market research is worthy indeed for the enterprise in many ways.

2.     Plan your app right

Great ideas are vital for building an app but it is not enough to build a successful app. A precise plan is essential for building the app.

Find out the answers to these questions if you wish to develop a successful app.

·       What do you aim to achieve by developing this app?

·       What type of functions and features do you wish to integrate in the app?

·       What type of look do you want to give to the app?

·       What are the plans to maintain the user flow?

·       Is it possible to build an app with such technical features?

Once you have successfully executed the market research, preparing precise plans for app development is the second essential step. Before initiating the work of app development, one needs to have clear concept about everything essential for app development.

If you have never got involved in any app development project, then it could be challenging for you to understand the work and the plan. Thus, consulting agencies offering app development services is the right choice.  These agencies would generate the blueprint of the app development process that would smooth the process and the output would be productive and profitable.

3.     Freelancer Vs Agencies

Hiring freelancer for software projects is indeed a complex work. Mostly freelancers are preferred when you have a tight budget. But right selection is essential as a lot of things can go wrong if the right person is not hired.

There are numbers of unskilled developers in the market and finding a hardworking and perfect freelancer is not an easy job. Often, numbers of entrepreneurs complain that the freelancers were not able to handle the app development projects and messed up the entire code development.

Freelancers indeed charge the less than the market price but it carries risk factor. You can’t ever guarantee that you would receive an app of optimal quality that configures all the essential elements.

Instead of hiring freelancers, hiring established agencies offers the enterprises a protective shield and prevents them from suffering any loss. The agencies strive hard and give their best efforts to conclude the assigned project with high efficiency and build a strong relation with the clients making them happy.

In comparison to the freelancers, the agencies charge higher for app development. But you can ensure about the outputs as you are hiring the entire team of project managers, graphic designers, app developers, web developers, backend developers, testers, etc.

The agencies sign in contract that keeps you on the safe side and guarantees you to get the outputs as per the contract. The agencies work on the assigned project continuously without breaking the development progress.

But this is altered in case of hiring freelancers. The freelancers may take vacations, or interrupt the work progress for sickness or any other reason or may even keep aside the app development work when they get a big project.

Hiring agencies for app development is the best option as the project is handled by dedicated team of professionals who offer real-time assistance and are ever ready to provide you the updates of the work progress.

The project manager and tester well manage the entire project that relieves you from unwanted stress and effort. The agencies have huge years of experience in app development and have successfully worked with numbers of enterprises. Thus, the agencies can easily guide you to follow the best practices that would be helpful in achieving heights of success.

If you can’t afford the agencies for app development then you can look out for funding from external sources. Or you could accept the risks of hiring freelancers for developing the app.

4.     iOS Vs Android

Having a limited budget and an aim to enter the market and get effective response, many enterprises decide to start with iOS or Android. iOS and Android are two of the leading mobile platforms and targeting both the leading platforms would be beneficial.

If you finding it troubled to decide one among the mobile operating platform then you must undergo extensive market research. Being smart you must never assume about the customer base. If you are building an app for the internal operations of the company then collect information about your employees which operating system powers their device! If you build an app for iOS and find your employees using Android powered devices then it would definitely be a huge loss for you.

The apps must be developed according to the user base and this can be found out after studying the targeted market.

Google Analytics can amazingly help in making the right decision! If you do have an existing website or web app and existing user-base, then accessing Google Analytics you can demand for a report. This report would include detail information about the popular platform among the visitors and likewise you can decide on the platform for developing app.

5.     Budget

Deciding the budget for app development is one of the major challenges. Every enterprise targets to develop the best mobile app with robust features but sometimes they lack budget to develop such exceptional apps.

Building an app and maintaining it goes costlier for many so such enterprises are instructed not to progress ahead without having a healthy budget. Without having a proper budget it is worthless to launch their product.

If there is certain barrier in front of you that prevents you from raising money for developing a fully functional product you can move for MVP- Minimum Viable Product instead of entering blindly to the market.

If you do have a low budget, then you can opt for building a web app instead of native mobile apps. Even you can opt to build a lean version of the app that would integrate the most minimal features.