Steps to create a successful mobile app

Want to build a successful mobile application? Are you new to mobile application development? Here are the 10 steps unboxed by an expert in mobile app development in Sydney for you.

Today, the mobile application market is growing immensely. With the advancement of technologies, mobile application development is also becoming more competitive. And, to ensure to get prominence and visibility in this complicated and challenging scenario, you must be very particular towards the approach for building a business app. A systematic procedure is what you need to follow to end up with a successful mobile app.

An expert in mobile app development in Sydney has summarised the steps for creating an app that will look great and will function high as well.

Let’s see what the steps are here.

• Start with a great idea:

In order to create a feature-packed, high-performing, and visually appealing mobile application, the first and the most important thing you must do is make the planning, do the ideation, and sketch out the features and the other elements to be implemented. The application should offer the customers or users with tangible advantages including quality, affordability, easy-navigation, and better customer experience.

During ideation, you also need to consider other aspects of the application like for which platform you are building it, what frameworks can work the best, who are the target users, what is the purpose of the app, the revenue model, devices that the app must support, and the other details of it.

• Now, comes the app design:

Designing the app is the most significant factor that determines the success of a mobile application. This is because the UI, design, or layout of an application is what creates the first impression on the users. So, concentrating on the UI is important. The developer or designer must ensure to keep the design simple, professional, creative, unique, and most importantly easy-to-explore and navigate. Using quality yet light graphics, and easy content is another trick to make the app look visually appealing.

• Next, decide which type of mobile app you are going to build – native, hybrid, or a web app:

Consult with the client or the business owner about this. Apart from considering the other aspects of the application, keep the budget in mind as well before deciding whether it has to be a web app, a native, or a hybrid application.

Native applications: - These are the platform-specific applications that a native app is built for either Android or iOS.

Hybrid apps: - Hybrid applications are built for both platforms. The codes are written in such a way that the app supports both the operating systems that’s android and iOS.

Web apps: - Web apps are built using CSS, HTML5, and JavaScript codes. These applications are opened and used through browsers.

• Integrate the right analytics tool:

You need to choose and integrate the appropriate analytics tools for your project to ensure success at the end. Some of the best analytics tools are Google Analytics, Firebase, Preemptive, Mixpanel, and a few more are there.

• Development is your next step:

Once you have decided on the type of mobile app, and chosen the analytics tools, you need to start with the development process. Choose the right framework and programming languages for the coding. Begin with the front-end development and then proceed with the back-end development. Make sure to use optimised content, graphics, plugins, themes, extensions, and add-ons to make the app perform well, get loaded fast, eye-catching, interesting with advanced features, and device compatible. These are the keys to get success with more leads, conversions, and maximum ROI.

• Perform rigorous testing:

Do thorough testing after every stage of development to ensure there are no bugs at all. Perform beta testing. Once you are done with the testing, submit the app for reviews. See the reactions and responses of the customers. This would give you an idea about what to exclude and what to include to improve the mobile application. This is also a part of the testing process.

Apart from all these, continuously upgrading the app with advanced features and marketing the app right is also essential to keep on successfully running the application.

Johan Smith is an experienced developer of a leading company for mobile app development in Sydney, GetAProgrammer. The author has written this article to help out the newbies create applications following a systematic approach.

Kimberley Black is an App Development expert and currently a senior tech consultant with GetAProgrammer.