How to Develop Mobile Application for your Business?

In this article, I’ll help out you with how to get a Mobile application for your business. If you belong to the Medical, Healthcare, FinTech, Gaming, Education, Food, Travel, and Oil industry, and planning to develop an app for your business, and thinking about how to get started, I’ll help out with how to develop your app.

Business Requirements & Plaining
PRD- Project Requirement Document
UX/UI of App
Difference Between Hybrid & Native App development Technology
Hybrid App development (React Native, Flutter)
Native App development (Java, Kotlin, Swift)
Back-End
Technology Selection for your App
How to do Estimation of Timeline and Cost
QA - Quality Assurance of your App.
Security Testing
Publish of App on Google Play & App store
Maintenance of App for future

Let’s start with a Table of Contents:

Business Requirements & Plaining

If you want to create a functional and successful product based on your business idea, you need to clearly define its features, limitations, and range of capabilities before the development. You need to determine who will use the application and what tasks they plan to perform with the app.

If you are already a business and want to serve your customers through an app, like food delivery, shopping app, Education app and etc. Then you need to work on planning and writing down all your requirements, so you can get a fully-featured app according to your business.

2. PRD- Project Requirement Document

Preparing a quality mobile app requirements document is a great way to do this. It provides a reliable foundation for all the development to come, containing a unified view of the functional and technical requirements for the application. So we name this document a PRD (Project Requirements Document). A software development team, A project manager, and A good freelancer can get this done by communicating with a client. This will be the first setup in the development of your app.

3. UX/UI of App

UX/UI ( UX- User Experience |UI-User interface). After the Project requirements document is completed, the next phase comes, which is designing the UI/UX of the mobile app to get the visual look of the app, it will define how the app will look and work.

UX/UI Design plays an essential role in achieving this goal. The UX/UI Design of the application improves the user experience and customer satisfaction that ultimately helps increase the number of users of the specific application.

4. Difference Between Hybrid & Native App development Technology

Native apps are developed specifically for one platform — Android or iOS. Hybrid apps are developed for both platforms Android and iOS.

Since native apps are specially designed for a particular app store, they give the best user experience. Native apps take into account hardware capabilities and screen size. In comparison with hybrid apps, with just one code base for all platforms, hence, it is not possible to provide a good user experience with hybrid apps.

I’ll recommend going with Native app development if you have a good budget. Native apps is costly as compared to Hybrid apps due to separate code base for iOS and Android.

5. Hybrid App development (React Native, Flutter)

In Hybrid App development, we can build both iOS & Android apps with just one code base, so we can use React Native or Flutter Technology.

Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google. It is used to develop cross-platform applications for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, Google Fuchsia, and the web from a single codebase. First described in 2015, Flutter was released in May 2017.
React Native is an open-source UI software framework created by Meta-Facebook Platforms, Inc. It is used to develop applications for Android, Android TV, iOS, macOS, tvOS, Web, Windows, and UWP by enabling developers to use the React framework along with native platform capabilities.

if you Have less Budget and want to develop an application, you can go with Hybrid App development instead of Native development.

6. Native App development (Java, Kotlin, Swift)

In Native App development, we can build an Android app using Java/Kotlin. An iOS application using Swift.

Swift is a robust and intuitive programming language created by Apple for building apps for iOS, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch. It’s designed to give developers more freedom than ever. Swift is easy to use and open-source, so anyone with an idea can create something incredible.
Java and Kotlin both are object-oriented programming languages. Both are used to develop android applications while Java is mainly used for developing enterprise applications.

7. Back-End

if your id going to handle users' data, You will need to build a back-end for you to interact with the database with your app front-end. For this, We use REST APIs to server the front-end (user interface). There are many backend Frameworks and languages that exist to build APIs. Like we can use Django or Node.js. I’ll recommend going with Django.

8. Technology Selection for your App

Now you have all information about how to get your app, Now you can decide which technology you want to use, You can easily choose Hybrid or Native development according to your budget and requirements.

9. How to do Estimation of Timeline and Cost

Estimation of timeline and cost is very important, After PRD and UX/UI design, it's easy to estimate the project timeline and cost. It depends on the complexity of the app. Cost and Timeline vary from Project to Project.

10. QA — Quality Assurance of your App

When the development of your app comes to end, the QA phase gets started, It's very important to test all aspects of your app to make sure all works fine.

The purpose of Quality Assurance in app development is to make sure that bugs, mistakes, and potential risks of your app are addressed at an early stage of the development process.

11. Security Testing

Mobile application security testing can help ensure there aren’t any loopholes in the software that may cause data loss.

Mobile Application Security Testing includes authentication, authorization, data security, vulnerabilities for hacking, session management, etc.

12. Publish of App on Google Play & App store

To serve your customers or audience, you will need to publish your app on Google Play and the app store. Google Play store Console is used to publish an android app, apps get approved normally in 3 to 7 business days. Google Play charges $25 per year to use and publish your Android apps.

Similarly, we can publish an iOS application of App store connect, It takes normally 1 to 7 days to get the app approved if everything is according to the rules of the app store. Apple store charges are$100 per year to use and publish your iOS apps.

13. Maintenance of App for future

Every app requires ongoing maintenance and content updates to keep users happy, engaged, and coming back for more. Depending on the complexity of your app, you can also incur additional costs for servers, emergency maintenance, push notifications, payment processing, and more.

Get Top Quality App Today

If you have an idea and want to develop a quality app for your business, and want to discuss it with me, you can reach out to me via my Email at rashiddaha80@gmail.com, or you can connect with me on Upwork.

I’ll assets you How to get it done.

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