Research & Planning

Research and planning are the first steps in the mobile app development process. This phase aims to understand your mobile app’s market and audience, as well as its business goals and objectives.

This phase also helps you understand what it will take to build your project, including time constraints and budget.

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Analysis and Prototyping

As the name implies, prototyping is an important step in mobile application development. It helps you validate an idea’s feasibility and usability before actually developing it. Prototypes are used to test your app’s user experience by testing its look and feel and how easy it is to use.

A prototype is a working version of your product built quickly so that you can get feedback from users about what works well and what doesn’t.

UX/UI Designing

UX/UI Designing is designing the look and feel of an app. It involves creating a prototype of the app, wireframing, paper prototyping, mockups, user testing, etc.

Wireframing: 

Wireframes are low-fidelity sketches showing how screens will be laid out on a page and how they interact. This helps you map out what content will go where on your screen and what it will look like before you start building any actual code for them. This helps in identifying what needs improvement before coding begins.

Paper Prototyping: 

With this technique, you can create interactive prototypes using pen and paper by sketching wireframes instead of just describing them (which doesn’t give proper representation). 

When users participate early in the mobile app development process, paper prototyping gives them more time to make changes or additions before moving forward with development. 

Otherwise, it would have cost extra time and money if the apps were developed completely following the requirements set forth by the client organization/business owner, etc., at the beginning of the process!

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Development of Mobile App Code

The development of the mobile app code is the most important part of the process. It involves coding the application and making it work. As you know, this is a complex process requiring a lot of knowledge and expertise.

Testing and Quality Assurance

Testing is the process of checking the app for bugs. The responsibility of testing is on Quality Assurance (QA) team. They have to test your application on various devices and OS. 

Since simulators and emulators don’t match real devices, testing must be done using different simulators and emulators. It also needs to be tested with different OS versions, screen sizes, etc., so that it doesn’t crash when run on one device or another.

Launch on App Stores and Google Play Store

Once the app has been developed, it’s time to launch it on the app store and Google Play Store. App distribution takes place here, and it is an important step.

The next step is getting feedback from users and improving your app based on their feedback. This stage will help you improve your product and make it more user-friendly for everyone who uses it.

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