Addiction of Smart Phones is increasing rapidly and it is now becoming a global phenomena. A survey done by Deloitte in year 2012 shows, there are around 562 millions smart phones owners, worldwide and in next 2 years these figures will increase dramatically. When smart phone owners are increasing at this rate, creating business app early will be significant for business success and creating reliable customer base for your product. Many businesses has made mobile application to sell their services and products app but more than 50% of them got less or no attention by prospective consumer/user.
Creating a successful mobile app is not quite easy but a creative process that requires the mobile app developer an artistic and competent. He should hold great knowledge on different technologies and versatile with software development process. Developing mobile apps require the usage of one or more platforms like iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, J2ME Mobile, Windows Mobile, Symbian and more. Users can always gain advantages of mobile applications and long beach experience of mobile application developers helps developing startling applications for the clients worldwide.
Choosing right kind of mobile apps developer could be a piece of cake by following evaluation based on below points:
Experience:
By asking simple questions about kind of app you need and the knowledge level about domain is the key of getting right application. Ignoring this will not make your life easy and end up in explaining your requirements again and again. Developer will keep revising application to meet your expectation and extended timeline, increased cost and sometimes termination of the project might happen in result.
Past Work :
Ask for the type of applications released in the market. Verify and Download the application to evaluate their work from end user perspective, ease of use, quality of designs, help for user, speed of getting data from backend server etc. Design and simplicity play very critical role in acceptance of application by users. So it should be appealing, innovative, device friendly and fresh.
Development Process :
An experienced company always follows proven methods and company without process could cause project to fail. As a customer you might not aware what is this development process or think it is too technical, but it is really great to ask for document the process used in development and delivery. It must contain development and delivery flow chart, defect fixing cycle and after delivery support. Most of the Established and experienced companies follow these standard procedures that keeps you stay away from loads of bombshells. Developing process document will keep you aware about what to demand from a developer and when.
Testing Tools:
Customers always expects their product working as visualized and do not pay their heeds about technical details or any other aspects of development processes. Acceptance test cases and testing documents provided by development team can clearly clarify all user stories and business scenarios. Great care must be taken in revisions and corrections of test cases and should be done before finalizing the test cases; it will guarantee a great and successful product at the end.
Development team:
Before finalizing the project, a brief discussion with each one in developer team will be a great step. Team's relevant experience and technical know-how will be a win-win process towards putting a great product into the market. Prefer each one in team must have 3 to 5 years experience in developing mobile app.
Cost:
Lowest cost might not be always a perfect choice. Always ask number of man hours going to and also include hours for testing, project management, architecture, design and performance of the app. Most times these hours are not part of estimate and Client also not prefer to pay for these steps. Carefully these steps must be discussed with developer company and also hours to be included and then lowest cost should be chosen.
Along with great app, user acceptance of the app is very important for success and a developer knows how important it is to give great user experience and above steps explained will get you winning team and successful app.
Creating a successful mobile app is not quite easy but a creative process that requires the mobile app developer an artistic and competent. He should hold great knowledge on different technologies and versatile with software development process. Developing mobile apps require the usage of one or more platforms like iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, J2ME Mobile, Windows Mobile, Symbian and more. Users can always gain advantages of mobile applications and long beach experience of mobile application developers helps developing startling applications for the clients worldwide.
Choosing right kind of mobile apps developer could be a piece of cake by following evaluation based on below points:
Experience:
By asking simple questions about kind of app you need and the knowledge level about domain is the key of getting right application. Ignoring this will not make your life easy and end up in explaining your requirements again and again. Developer will keep revising application to meet your expectation and extended timeline, increased cost and sometimes termination of the project might happen in result.
Past Work :
Ask for the type of applications released in the market. Verify and Download the application to evaluate their work from end user perspective, ease of use, quality of designs, help for user, speed of getting data from backend server etc. Design and simplicity play very critical role in acceptance of application by users. So it should be appealing, innovative, device friendly and fresh.
Development Process :
An experienced company always follows proven methods and company without process could cause project to fail. As a customer you might not aware what is this development process or think it is too technical, but it is really great to ask for document the process used in development and delivery. It must contain development and delivery flow chart, defect fixing cycle and after delivery support. Most of the Established and experienced companies follow these standard procedures that keeps you stay away from loads of bombshells. Developing process document will keep you aware about what to demand from a developer and when.
Testing Tools:
Customers always expects their product working as visualized and do not pay their heeds about technical details or any other aspects of development processes. Acceptance test cases and testing documents provided by development team can clearly clarify all user stories and business scenarios. Great care must be taken in revisions and corrections of test cases and should be done before finalizing the test cases; it will guarantee a great and successful product at the end.
Development team:
Before finalizing the project, a brief discussion with each one in developer team will be a great step. Team's relevant experience and technical know-how will be a win-win process towards putting a great product into the market. Prefer each one in team must have 3 to 5 years experience in developing mobile app.
Cost:
Lowest cost might not be always a perfect choice. Always ask number of man hours going to and also include hours for testing, project management, architecture, design and performance of the app. Most times these hours are not part of estimate and Client also not prefer to pay for these steps. Carefully these steps must be discussed with developer company and also hours to be included and then lowest cost should be chosen.
Along with great app, user acceptance of the app is very important for success and a developer knows how important it is to give great user experience and above steps explained will get you winning team and successful app.
About Author:
Mr Divyanand Gupta (founder & CEO of Vincent IT Inc) is an industry expert and Mobile Solution Architect and Prior to launch of Vincent IT , he had worked as a consultant at IBM, T-Mobile, Fed-Ex and Sprint-Nextel and actively developing cutting edge business solutions to customers across the globe.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/vitsol
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dgupta786/
Mr Divyanand Gupta (founder & CEO of Vincent IT Inc) is an industry expert and Mobile Solution Architect and Prior to launch of Vincent IT , he had worked as a consultant at IBM, T-Mobile, Fed-Ex and Sprint-Nextel and actively developing cutting edge business solutions to customers across the globe.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/vitsol
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dgupta786/
Company Website: http://www.vincentit.com/
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