Mobile App Development: Everything You Need to Know

Every day tons of mobile apps makes their entry to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Where some of the mobile apps are social marketing apps, others are games, e-commerce or music apps. A professionally built app follows a professional mobile app development process and at Silex Softwares, we develop apps with following such a process. Read on to know how we develop mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Windows operating systems. Any app development follows a typical process that includes an idea, a good strategy, eye-catching design, best-in-class development and deployment, and then post-launch phases. Let’s delve in and check how the process works. Idea There should always be an amazing idea to start an app. We work with our clients’ day in and day out to understand their idea and objectives and then we refine their idea to give it a perfect shape by preparing a detailed specification document. Wireframes Next, we start creating screens of the app by assigning data and functions. We do this for each screen and then define the user interaction and flow with the creation of wireframes. Design Once done with creating wireframes, we make your app look pretty by designing the concept, icons, graphics and everything in between. Under this process of mobile app development, design and identity assets are defined by our team of expert app designers. Development Now the actual development of an app starts. We now by coding the app and its related server-side components start making an Android or iOS app functional. Testing Next process in the mobile app development process is testing. An app has to clear many testing phases to move towards the next step. The testing process may include, Usability testing, Functional testing, Performance testing, Finishing Testing, Device-specific testing, Regression Testing and most importantly user acceptance testing. While testing an app our QA team thoroughly scrutinizes your app from screen to screen and ensures your app works perfectly.rnAs issues are spotted in this phase of the mobile app development, the testing team reassign the non-performing issues to the developers so that the issues can be fixed. Debug and Revision After testing team ends up with finding and reporting the issues, our developers fix all the issues and give the app a final touch by making it free of bugs. Extended Review At this point of the app development, an app is fully tested again. Before our clients spend a sizable amount of money and time on marketing their app, we test the app with a group of potential users. After this extended review, we permit the app for deployment. Submission After successful development of an app, we submit your app to the relative app store to help you start making ROI. rnIn a Nutshell The mobile app development process might seem complex to some, but all the steps are extremely rewarding to make an app a great success. Happy mobile app development!