App Development Services
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Mobile App Development – We’ll breakdown the steps we take to make Apps that get results and drive your business forward.
Android App Development
iOS App Development
Cross platform App Development
Step 1. Choose a Platform
We have broken down Mobile App development into 3 different platforms.
- Android Development – Simple Android Development platform is an operating system which is based on the version of Linux kernel and other open source software, designed specifically for mobile devices having touch screens as smartphones and tablets.
- IOS Development – it is an operating system specifically for Apple inc.specifically designed for Apple hardware. This operating system powers many iphone devices including Phones, Ipads.
- Cross-platform Software – This platforms is designed to make several computing platforms. Which are operational through IOS apps.
Step 2. Pick a Hosting Plan
There are 2 main types of Mobile app hosting plans.
Mobile App hosting defines the foundation for hosting your app such as Amazon Web Services or google cloud platforms. Self-hosted apps need to be hosted on the server. For shared hosting, many mobile apps are hosted on the same server.
- Shared – A single server is shared between several users and multiple platforms. This is the cheaper option of the 2 and is perfectly fine for most business and personal applications. You share the bandwidth between all the other users and traffic at any given moment.
- Dedicated – This option is more expensive and basically give you your own private server for just your Mobile App. This is important if your Mobile App has hundreds or thousands of visitors daily or if you’re conducting several financial transitions daily.
Step 3. Goal & Scope
What do you want your Mobile App to accomplish & how do you do it?
- Who is your competition?
- Who is your target audience?
- What are your brand attributes?
- What is your reach; local, national, global?
- What actions do you expect from visitors?
For some businesses the goal of their Mobile App is very simple and straight forward, for others it can take some strategizing. Doing a quick Google app store search to find your competitors is a great place to start and get ideas of how they built out their Mobile Apps. By doing some competitor analysis you will be able to discover which competitors are actually winning apps online and what they are doing right.
Step 4. Content Creation
What do we talk about and how do we say it?
This can be one of the most challenging steps involved in Mobile App development. As mobile development is not possible without proper content.
- Engagement– The content should be engaging as reader is able to get the proper information about the article to be written on.
- Typography– It has to be confirmed that there are no type error and proper message is being delivered through Mobile Apps.
- Structure– The layout of your content can make it much easier to digest and understand. Breaking up larger paragraphs into smaller ones and positioning them in and around photos, videos, or icons will greatly enhance your visitors experience on your mobile app. Having proper and consistent spacing or dividers between the various elements also plays an important role in maintaining user engagement.
- Meta Data– Images and pages have input fields for meta data, be sure to complete both Title & Description fields with relevant keywords to assist with google playstore and IOS store, itunes ranking and Accessibility standards.
- Accessibility – Accessibility is the practice of tailoring your Android or IOS apps for those that are handicap. Color choices among other things can play an important role in this. Having a background image or color with content in front of it that bleeds into it can make it difficult for screen readers that the visually impaired use to navigate the internet.
Step 5. Testing & Deployment
Is everything working?
Once we have all your content, media, and links in place and you are happy with your mobile app is always a good idea to comb through it one last time and maybe have someone else take a look at it. Be sure to read everything and click all the links to make sure that its all connected properly. In case you didn’t during the content creation step make sure that your headings and sub headings have the proper H1, H2, & H3 tags.
- Check Links– Checking links manually can be time consuming so we like to use this LINK Checking Tool to validate all of the links on a Mobile App . Keep in mind it will only check links that have been made and verify it reaches a valid page. If you forgot to add a link to a button it will not let you know so going through and clicking everything is still good practice.
- Responsiveness– Make sure that the Mobile App is responsive in desktop, tablet and mobile formats. This can usually be done from within the Mobile App building platform you are using but it can also be done by just changing the horizontal size of the window you are viewing your Mobile App Make sure that everything looks as appealing as it does in the desktop version and adjust accordingly.
- Check SEO– While getting ranked at the top of search results can take some time and require additional work there are several things that you can verify that are ok with your Mobile App that could negatively affect ranking. Use this free SEO Optimizer tool to do a quick scan of your Mobile App and identify any red flags that can be fixed before publishing your Mobile App .
- Analytics– Embedding your Mobile App with an analytics engine can give you great insights to who is visiting your Mobile App as well as how long they are on it and several other characteristics about your visitor to help with targeted advertising or just identifying your audience better. You can create free Google Analytics account and follow the steps to add it to your Mobile App .
- Deployment– If everything checks out you are ready to publish. Here is a more detailed article by Webflow with a pre-launch checklist. Once deployed your can verify it by simply navigating to it in a different browser or device.
- Indexing– Google and other search engines will eventually find your Mobile App and “crawl” it so that it can be indexed for search results but this can take weeks or months. By using the Google Search Console you can invite google to index it right away!
Alright... "That Was Easy!"
Hopefully, now you have a better understanding of what goes into making a professional business application.
If you would like help with all or part of yours feel free to book a time to discuss your goals!