7 Things You Need To Know Before Building An App

Tags: mobile, android, ios
Published: 2021-01-12 08:29:42


As Mobile technology and the Internet have expanded the dual relationship, they have led to a surge in mobile-based application development. Be it an enterprise, a business, or an individual has been catching up to develop an application to their needs.

For Mobile App users, the Millenials hold 21% of the overall share of using an application 50 times a day. 

As per estimates, a whopping $935 billion to be earned in revenue through mobile apps by 2023, leading to a lot more mobile app developments taking place for enterprises and other sources. 

Building an app requires strategies, design, and implementations. Allowing you to ensure the end-user problems are solved.

**Here are the Things To Consider Before Building An App**

**1.Selection of The Platform** 
An important and initial step that allows you to begin the application building process. Choose the platform that you find is more engaging to build your application.

At present, either Android or iOS platforms are being used by around 84% of mobile users worldwide. 

To formulate the right building platform for your app, it is important to know your consumers well and what platform they are more favorable to use. Accordingly, you can opt for your application development.

**2.Research Around Your Idea** 
Before beginning with the development process, go through a proper analysis of all the requirements and having research around the competitors and current market structure of the idea that your app is based on.

You should have proper analysis and marking out mistakes of your competitor, which you should not make and helps in better your application development process.

**3.Understand Your Target Audience**
The foremost need for the idea to be implemented well to research your target audience and get the insights out of them. Understand their problems and what solutions you can provide them with your application.

It is about the user with whom the direct success and failure of your application development depend. It becomes important to figure out what the user needs and give them the best service.

Once you align with your aim for development with your target audience needs, nothing can stop your app be a sure shot hit!.

**4.Validate Your Plan**
Once you are clear with the ideas and are ready to put them together for the development phase, you needed to be sure of what you have planned and what is worth the efforts and dedication that will be put along with the investment to build the application.

It helps you to finalize the ideas which you want in the application. It is critical to have a well-planned development of your mobile app. The process must align with your business objectives without failure.

**5.Opt For The Right Company** 
Once you are done with the research and are ready to roll on the development of your application.
Your next major requirement to proceed further is to find a well-reputed organization with the expertise to develop your app.

Application development is equally important, and pretty much everything depends on it to mold and shape the app as per your requirements. To do that is where an app development company fits your bill.
**Some of the critical points to look out for deciding the company:**
Technologies used
Explore their portfolio
Have a go through with the development team 
For effective communication, consider a feasible time-zone

A developer or the team that will work on the project needs to have sound knowledge and experience to develop and deliver on all the parameters in time and without any boundation.

**6.Testing Is Must**
Once you have entered into the development phase of your application and are ready with the application, it is advised not to release your app in the market without testing it properly.

To make successful testing of your application, you will require to build an MVP version of your app that has the crucial features in it to test out their functionality.

**With an MVP version to test your app, you will get the answers to some vital questions:**

The problem that your app solves with its induction into market
What all procedure your users will be able to apply to get their problem solved
Why your app is useful for the consumer
The distinguishing features of your app
The features that are fully functional and good to go
What all needs to be prioritized and structured
What all ways you counter your competition

In a nutshell, this comes out as a deep introspection that allows you to be accurate and effective in understanding the essence your app follows.

**7.The Trick To Earn**
Once your app gets launched in the market, with good response from the users. Then you need to work on additional elements to keep the trend, involve the development process, making improvements, and bringing on more features needed to work on the ways to monetize your app.

There are ways of earning with outer channels like paid ad, and affiliate marketing features. An important feature for revenue generation via apps is giving fee-based or in-app-based purchases that allow you generate direct revenue from the services.

However, the in-app-based services do not apply to each business and, if your services are in line with the services, you can very well structure out your app model with the implementations for monetizing.


The above-discussed factors help you in structuring your application development, right from the start of ideation to an overall development with implementations. 
You have to keep in mind that to get your application to succeed, you will have to provide solutions to the users, and your app will be highly successful.
As it requires effort, time and investment so strategize well, think deep and find the solutions to achieve a successful application development.