8 Key Points to Consider While developing a Mobile Application

Nitin Nimbalkar
4 min readJun 13, 2019

In this current technological era, app development companies are growing very fast, and more than 80% of the companies are focusing on more rigorous strategies’ for boosting their app development. Thus, having a mobile application undoubtedly’ enhance your visibility and make you stand tall in the competition as it is quite tricky, as the market flooded with plenty of options and everyone is looking for the best one.

Here are the given some of the essential points which you should consider while developing an app:

Market Research

Market research plays an important role before hitting the market or before developing a mobile app. So, analyzing the market closely will give you a better insight into your competitor’s strengths, strategy and weakness as this information will prove to be useful so you can avoid repeating the same errors which your competitors already performed. However, researchers often overlook customer reviews, but reviews can give you a better glance of your users like and dislikes about the specific type of an app. Hence, you must ensure that you can take a note of issues and try to resolve them in your mobile app development. So, this strategy can also give you a chance to win over your competitor’s consumers.

Understanding about Ongoing Trends

Trends don’t stay constant, it keeps on changing. So, it is utmost necessary for an app development company to know what the latest trend is going on before developing a mobile app. Therefore, as of now augmented reality app development, on-demand solution and unity game development are in trend. Thus, this will help you by giving the change to let your company know and help you to improve your app to reach the top of the mobile app market.

Platform

The primary idea behind the mobile application is that they should be in access of multiple users. So, when you are initiating to build a mobile app and then keep in mind’ platform plays a significant role. Hence, before choosing a platform, you should analyze factors like age group, a country which you are targeting and a type of business or industry, and so on. For example, if you are choosing a country, like USA, then you must be focusing on iOS and Android, which are primarily used in the country and can give limited importance to windows.

Native vs. Hybrid Apps

· Native applications are smartphone application built specifically for an operating system using a programming language like Java for Android and Objective C for iOS.

· Hybrid apps are web-based developed using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which are subsequently configured to work on smartphones platforms. Besides, it is less expensive but requires modification and testing to run error free.

Native apps have the advantage of running smoothly’ once they are built, but comparatively expensive.

Test Your App More Often

It is utmost important to test your mobile app before launching it in the market. So, you should have an experience of how the users will see your iOS and Android app development. Therefore, your app should be creative, easy to understand, and deliver high performance because testing before launch it will allow you to eliminate errors before it reaches the mass market. So, it is essential to test your mobile app for successful regular Mobile app development.

Make sure your app meets your idea

No one wants to create an app which has already created because every company targets something unique and innovative to attract their set targeted audience. Therefore, it is essential that your app should meet your vision. So, while developing a mobile app’ it is always better to highlight your app USP and innovative ideas, but without overstuffing it. Besides, you can also ensure that every screen of the app reflects what your app has already promised.

Optimize Your Mobile App

Nobody like to see an app which consumes more than 100Mbs from the limited storage of smartphones so from a user perspective if an app uses few MBs from their phone storage then it must be capable of doing their task more efficiently. Therefore, it’s better to avoid unnecessary variables and objects because it can even lead to slow down the performance of your mobile application.

Design

Designing a mobile app also plays an essential role in its success because the more user-friendly your interface, then the more users will be inclined towards downloading it. So, when you are designing your app, keep in mind that your content should be your primary concern and remove any unnecessary elements which are of no use. Hence, this will help app development companies to spend their time on this part of the application.

Loading Speed

Your app should respond as soon as possible, because if it’s showing waiting or loading, then the user will get irritated. Suppose a user wants to check movie tickets availability and the app is taking more time to show results then the user will get annoyed and then he will go for the other alternatives. Thus, the speed should be considered necessary while developing a mobile app.

So, before starting a mobile app one needs to have a clear idea and a perfect method for developing an app because this not only enables success in your company but, it also helps you to give complete satisfaction to your clients.

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Nitin Nimbalkar
Nitin Nimbalkar

Written by Nitin Nimbalkar

Over 17 years of experience into various IT domains, I have developed expertise in developing business strategies and management.

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