Mobile Application Development

As we’d mentioned somewhere out there that this is an age of e-commerce businesses and online stores, that ropes in a lot of other technological advances as well. The online presence of entrepreneurs and start-ups has surged the demand for mobile apps. Applications need to be high-performing, rich in features, operatable in cross platforms as well as across devices!

Our mobile app development essentially inculcates certain specialties. Have a look at them…

Strategy planning & conceptualization

We are into extensive research at this stage of your project. The type of your customer base, a detailed study of the competitors in the market, purpose, and other specifications of the app are a few of the things that we conduct a detailed study on.

Determining the mobile platform

Whether to go for iOS and Android is the million-dollar question while developing mobile applications. The technical requirements of the business, the target audience, and a few other factors determine which platform you’d opt for. We’ll have a word on this at the end of this section.

Architecture & Functionalities

The architecture of a mobile app is the structure and appearance of the app. The amount of information and functionality that is intended to be exhibited to the users as well as the type of user interaction along with the finished product determines the app architecture. We do the required workflow diagrams of the app’s navigation structure.

The diagrams will elucidate every possible type of user interaction with the app and all of it is for our clients to choose from!

Styling

Our style guide would mainly focus on how the app will aim at reflecting the theme of your business. Font family, color scheme, and other styling parameters would necessarily conform with your company's branding rules and adhere to the look and feel of your enterprise.

TESTING

The final and crucial step before the successful delivery of your project would be a thorough QA (Quality Assurance) check. We get down to the field well-prepared in this. At first, all the possible testing cases are arranged so that every aspect of the application is verified.

Testing the user experience: The hands-on experience of the end-users is crucial. This aspect verifies the utility, first-hand impression, visuals, workflow, and above all, the functionality of your app. The font, style, color scheme, spacing, and navigation are the parameters that are tested.

Functional Testing: Though it's difficult to predict the behavioral patterns of two separate users, functional testing should be carried out by multiple users. The same type of inputs (with data that differs according to the user's choice) may produce different results which could be misleading. Such testing mostly unravels bugs that need to be fixed by the developers.

System testing: When building an app for both iOS and Android, it is important to check the functionality not only across users but also devices as well!

Performance testing: The app’s performance is measured using the following –

• a) The screen loading time of the app
• b) Whether it is consuming too much of the phone’s battery and memory space
• c) Is the size of the app too big for users to download quickly and easily?
• d) Are they meeting the user demands?

Security Testing: The most crucial step of mobile app testing is checking its security levels. Certain parameters ensure the security of your app –

• a) A user should traverse through a login session to use the app
• b) The logins need to be tracked on the server and in the backend
• c) If the user remains idle for a considerable amount of time, the session needs to automatically terminate.

iOS or Android? Which platform would you choose to develop your app?

You are certainly in a dilemma when it comes to choosing between the two platforms – iOS and Android, aren’t you? Undoubtedly, these are the only two platforms that consume almost 97% of the mobile app development market. Hence, the perfect choice would be to go for both platforms? Will that be feasible for you? Do you have resources enough as far as imperatives like time and cost of app development are concerned?

In case you have constraints, go for one platform at a time. Your second choice might line up in a few days after your business rolls over. The decision to opt-in for one of the platforms (iOS or Android) perches upon several parameters. Each, have their own pluses and minuses!

Which part of the globe are you targeting to market your software in? Are you ready to bear the costs of app building for an open-source platform (Android is one)? Here are a few trade-offs you need to go for while choosing between the two…

• • Android, being an open-source platform is vulnerable to manipulations by smartphone manufacturers. This compels our developers to make them device-specific which consumes much of your invaluable time! The quality of the app is therefore marred in the low-budget devices. iOS platforms, on the other hand, require the least fragmentation.
• • Android platform is real love when it comes to app approval! It takes weeks for iOS platforms to approve an app whereas android users experience just the opposite!
• • The testing period, fragmentations are few factors that raise the cost of production of android apps compared to their iOS counterpart. If budget is your constraint, you need to think over it!

The decision-making stage is quite challenging. On our part, we will not only build your app but also go a step further to assist you in making the right choice!