The global mobile app development market is booming. In 2022, its volume grew to $420.7 billion. It is predicted that in 2026 – this figure will increase to $542.8 billion. 4.83 million applications were downloaded in online stores Google Play Store and AppStore. More than 200 billion apps are installed on cell phones every year.
Behind these impressive numbers lies another. A sobering one. A little less than 6 days – that’s the life span of an average mobile app! Downloaded, installed, tried, uninstalled.
So, before we rush headlong into the development of our own mobile application, let’s understand the details together with the famous IT-company Cordus Technologies. The foundation of any successful product is a unique idea and meticulous study of the issue. From an idea to a successful implementation is a long way. It’s good to know where to go, how to avoid obstacles and what to expect along the way.
Mobile application development is the process of creating and releasing software for applications running on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. In strictly professional developer parlance, it’s about writing code and deploying apps.
Are you thinking about a mobile app? Decided to take your business to the next level? Want to invest in an online game? Creating a profitable service? Take your time. Evaluate your options first. Application development and maintenance requires not only free funds, but also an excellent team of high-class programmers.
Preliminary stage
Who is it intended for?
You must define:
- The goal, what you decided to create a mobile app for (To attract new customers? To keep the old ones? Improve your brand image? What KPIs will you use to measure these goals?)
- The concept of the app (The uniqueness of the idea and its place in the market.)
- user demand (What problem does your mobile app “close”?)
- market needs (Will the new app be interesting to the market? Can you monetize it?)
- Budget for creating a mobile app (Before you start, it’s important to consider: costs associated with functionality, development, design, maintenance.)
- The type of monetization and the economic model of your app (Will the user pay to use the app? You might decide to distribute it for free or as a freemium model. The user may pay for certain services. Examples of mobile applications are games like CandyCrush, where players get extra bonuses after they pay).
How will your mobile app be “built”?
Modern technology in the hands of specialists works wonders. Businesses aren’t the only ones taking advantage of the unlimited possibilities of their own mobile apps. New formats of online learning allow you to gain knowledge far away from school or university with a mobile in hand. Education is available at a distance. One clicks and you’re in the classroom!
Who will use your mobile app? What problem will it solve? What functionality will it have and what similar apps already exist on the market?
Before you start developing, Cordus Technologies Canada advises to take a good look at the type of mobile applications that caught your attention, interested or remembered. It is worth to understand their structure, level of complexity and functionality. Are they connected to social networks, do they have a personal account? What do you like about them, and what should be changed?
Note that the development of a multifunctional mobile app with a high load (for ordering food, hailing a cab, delivering goods, bank apps, mobile online stores) requires additional complex integrations, third-party services, data collection and analytics.
Which app to choose
What platform will your application run on? What operating system will it need to be developed for? When choosing the type of future application, keep in mind that:
- Native app: developed from scratch in one of the programming languages for a specific operating system (Android or iOS), device or platform. For example, it could be smartphone application development.
- Progressive web application: allows you to install a website on a smartphone as an application, its interface is easily adapted to small screens.
- Hybrid application: a mixture of native and progressive web application, suitable for different mobile operating systems. It is essentially a container with its own code that runs a web application.
- Cross-platform mobile development technology aims at creating an application which can run in different operating systems. The code for such an application can be compiled for different devices and platforms. The vast majority of modern games are cross-platform applications.
How do you develop an app?
It’s time to develop your mobile app! No one can guarantee the success of a mobile app once it is launched. To save resources, you can first create a simplified version of your mobile app – a minimum viable product (MVP). In order to test the product’s marketability, the simplest design is developed in preference to functionality.
The app development process consists of six key steps.
- Strategy. At this stage, the goals and functionality of the future application are defined. Analyses of the market and competitors, study customer needs, form a “portrait” of the user, identify his needs, work out options for using the product, describe the requirements for performance indicators.
- Planning. Having selected the contractors, agree on development tools and technology, divide the project into stages, set deadlines.
- Design. At this stage, you can see the final decision on how the future application will look like, implement and approve its user-friendly and intuitive interface.
- Development. Creation of unique software, writing a clean code – this is the work of IT-professionals. At the same stage the elements of the technical architecture of the project are defined and the technology stack, the server part and API-interfaces are approved.
- Testing. Only serious and thoughtful testing at all the stages of development helps to find weak points in the code and check the safety of the whole application.
- Release. After the application deployment it is registered and placed on the famous retailers (Apple App Store and Google Play Store.) Serious and thought-out marketing strategy allows quickly “promote” the application in the network, makes it popular and in demand.
Cordus Technologies – point of strength and success
For Cordus Technologies Inc. Canada has long been a place of strength and creativity. This is where the company was founded, became popular and developed most of its successful IT projects.
Cordus Technologies Inc. creates large-scale applications for all mobile device architectures. The company develops cross-platform and native applications for: iOS (Objective-C/Swift platforms), Android (Java/Kotlin platforms).
Cordus Technologies’ extraordinary solutions for hybrid mobile applications are great on iPhone, iPad and any Android platform.
And most importantly. Cordus Technologies is always on call. Customers know that even after the project is over the company does not forget about the applications created by them. Provides technical support. Supports the developed software products. Remains a reliable partner and bright creator.
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