Firm Ranks Mobile App Development Platforms

Big corporate names like IBM, Microsoft, Adobe Systems and Salesforce dominate Gartner Inc.'s new list of mobile application development platform (MADP) leaders, though the smaller Kony Inc. has made the grade for the fourth year in a row.

Gartner uses its Magic Quadrant to rank vendors according to their "ability to execute" and "completeness of vision," placing companies that excel on both indices in the "leaders" category, which features just those five companies in the new June 2016 study. Kony provided a complimentary copy of the for-pay report here.

"The MADP market offers tools, technologies, components and services that together constitute the critical elements of an integrated platform," the report states. "The MADP enables an organization to design, develop, test, deploy, distribute, manage and analyze a portfolio of cross-platform mobile apps running on a range of devices and addressing the requirements of diverse use cases, including external-facing and internal-facing scenarios."

Kony, which edged IBM on the vision index and trailed only IBM on the execution index, said its Mobility Platform fits that description. "It supports the entire application software development lifecycle (SDLC) and operations (DevOps) lifecycle, empowering enterprises to quickly design, build, deploy, and manage multi-edge app experiences," the company said.

"Kony is in the Leaders quadrant this year, based on its continued strong execution globally -- particularly in building strong partnerships with system integrators, including a global alliance with Cognizant  and its completeness of offering," Gartner said in the report. "Being the largest independent MADP provider, Kony's vision also continues to be strong in relation to both the richness of its front-end development and its forward-thinking back-end services and integration capabilities."

Along with Kony, some other MADP leaders put out news releases trumpeting their ranking by Gartner.

Xamarin exec Nat Friedman, whose C#-based cross-platform technology was acquired by Microsoft, said his former company's tooling helped the Redmond software giant attain leadership status this year.

"The designation reflects the fact that Microsoft's Mobile Application Development Platform vision has expanded dramatically, evidenced by the Xamarin integration, enhancements to Azure App Service, and improved mobile DevOps capabilities," he said.

Gartner also touched on the Xamarin integration in its analysis.

"Microsoft's MADP is a broad omnichannel offering based mainly on Visual Studio, Azure App Service, and the Xamarin platform that was acquired in early 2016," the report states. "Hybrid apps are built using Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova. Native apps can be built using C# and .NET with Xamarin in Visual Studio, which is now free and open-source as part of the .NET Foundation. Developers can use Xamarin. Forms to build cross-platform UI elements for greater code reuse. Citizen developers, such as line-of-business analysts, can create hybrid apps with Microsoft PowerApps, using a no-code authoring tool (PowerApps is fully generally available in 2H16)."

Adobe exec Aseem Chandra pointed to the company's Experience Manager as the focal point of its MADP, helping enterprises build, manage and deliver enterprise apps. "Mobile is at the heart of connecting the physical world to digital experiences, yet brands are challenged with building and managing apps that provide an amazing experience for their customers and employees," Chandra said. "We believe our recognition as a leader in Gartner's report validates the unique functional and design value that Adobe Experience Manager Mobile brings to organizations."

"AEM Mobile is Adobe's MADP; however, its full mobile app development capabilities require the use of other Adobe products, including Adobe Marketing Cloud and the new Adobe.io offering," Gartner said. "Many of the back-end data integration and services capabilities are tightly integrated with the Adobe Marketing Cloud, such as messaging (push, in-app, SMS, e-mail) and location services. Adobe's mobile analytics are also very strong, offering extensive enhancements to facilitate personalization and targeting for apps developed using AEM Mobile."

At Salesforce, the App Cloud is the centerpiece of its MADP offering, further showcasing the company's an evolution from its CRM roots into mobile app development.

"Salesforce's App Cloud contains all the essential elements of a MADP to address a spectrum of mobile Web and app development needs, from line-of-business users to experienced developers," Gartner said. "Underpinning the newer capabilities of the multichannel App Cloud is a set of Lightning technologies consisting of a UI Component Framework, Schema Builder, Process Builder and App Builder.

"Lightning Schema Builder and Process Builder is used to building Web apps without coding, using a visual point-and-click approach, while App Builder offers a drag-and-drop editor to create and deploy hybrid apps via the Salesforce1 app container. For more custom-made app development, mobile SDKs for native iOS and Android, React Native framework and Cordova are available, as well as watchOS and Android Wear SDKs. Offline support has been available for apps built using the SDKs, but now Salesforce has added system-level offline support for objects and files for Salesforce1 and Lightning-built apps."

IBM, the leader in execution, offers the Mobile First Platform, which relies upon the company's Bluemix cloud for Mobile-Back-end-as-a-Service (MBaaS) functionality.

"The IBM MobileFirst Platform is a comprehensive MADP spanning the full software development life cycle and offering elements addressing app design, development, testing, deployment and management for mobile hybrid apps (using Cordova)," Gartner said. "An extension of the IBM MobileFirst Platform is IBM MobileFirst for iOS, where IBM has partnered with Apple to develop more than 100 template apps with specific iOS feature support. IBM has added new App Builder and API Connect products to enhance front-end and back-end productivity. The MobileFirst App Builder gives developers a visual development tool that generates native mobile apps, along with Objective-C and Android Java code that can be edited in the native IDEs."

Gartner also ranked 12 other companies in its quadrant exploring the burgeoning mobile app dev space. The research firm said that some three-quarters of enterprises will use an MADP platform by 2020, up from the one-third of enterprises reportedly using such a platform last year.

Reference: https://adtmag.com/articles/2016/06/20/madp-rankings.aspx

Elements In App Optimization

A great many individuals are investing more energy in their cell phones and inside versatile applications. Versatile applications are quickly supplanting sites as the advanced center for organizations and brands. In any case, how would you get your objective business sector finding and utilizing your application? 

For organizations or brands with existing channels, like a morning TV, appear or a famous web administration, obtaining versatile clients begins with initiating their present fans or clients. Organizations without a TV broadcast appointment or without huge client bases like Pandora, Facebook or Twitter still more often than not have email records and a site with guests. 

Advancing another portable application through these channels is vital, yet neglects to address the greatest hotspot for new clients – individuals hunting down your administrations in the application stores.

Client acquisition channels

With the blast of a portable application, use comes to an expanding rivalry for clients. The most famous channels for procuring portable application clients are application store inquiry and publicizing. 

For everything except the exceptionally greatest portable applications, publicizing spend is designated to a paid introduce battle, on an expense for each introduces (CPI) premise. Between an expanded rivalry for portable clients, and non-versatile brands seeking portable promotion stock, CPI costs have soared in the course of the most recent 36 months. 

As indicated by the versatile publicizing stage Fiske, the expense of securing a dependable client (a client who opens the application no less than three times) has ascended from $1.13 in September of 2012 to $4.14 for September 2015. 

Since both Google Play and Apple incorporate downloads and download speed in their application store rankings, CPI battles are likewise utilized as a part of "burst" crusades. The objective is to "purchase" a burst of introduces to ascend the diagrams and ideally get clients naturally because of expanded perceiving ability. Purchasing enough movement to hit the main 100 or so in the US application stores would require contributing $50,000 k every day on a CPI burst crusade with expectations of obtaining natural activity.

Accomplishing visibility in the app stores 

The main wellspring of application disclosure and application introduces is application store seek. More clients discover applications to address their quick needs by opening the Apple App Store or Google Play and looking. At the point when a client enters an inquiry, the outcomes and rankings are to a great extent controlled by: 

• The application store posting and its importance to the pursuit

• Application execution measurements including a change from pursuit, downloads and appraisals

Building a procedure for making and dealing with an application posting for perceiving ability and transformation is called application store streamlining or ASO. 

An application posting advanced for perceiving ability and transformation from significant movement signs to Apple and Google that your application is a decent result for a given inquiry. Consolidated with the subsequent increment in downloads and appraisals, your application will begin to climb the rankings for those hunt results. An upgraded application gives a defendable, long haul position in the application stores for movement from your intended interest group.

Step by step instructions to optimize app listing 

Our information lets us know that individuals are hunting the application stores down elements utilizing a few word phrases. The application stores are colossal, with every store every lodging more than 1.5 million applications. Obscure or short quests result in unessential results, so we have been prepared to be particular while seeking.

By recognizing your application's most fundamental and separating highlights, you get a thought of how you’re the objective business sector is prone to discover your application in the application stores. It is critical to comprehend how you would portray imperative components, as well as how your intended interest the group would depict and look for them.

On the off chance that you are not kidding about natural application store activity, ASO and the ROI of gaining natural application store clients, working with an application store insight stage particularly intended for application store enhancement is prescribed. 

With a rundown of pertinent expressions, we can now begin to construct our application store posting. Apple and Google Play have distinctive application posting fields, yet there are a few similitudes. 

Both have an application name or title. This is the best place for your most essential components or focused on expressions. Apple gives a space of 255 characters for a title while Google just permits 30 characters. Pick your application's Centre components for the title – Your title is one of the principal things a client will see. In the event that you list what they're searching for, they will be more disposed to navigate to your full application posting. 

Apple has a private/concealed keyword field constrained to 100 characters that are utilized to help Apple comprehend what keywords the distributors think the application is important to. Break phrases into words, and isolated by commas without spaces and evacuate copy words. For instance, on the off chance that we had an elements list as takes after:

• Shoddy Flights
• Aircraft Bargains
• Rebate Get-away
• Travel Bargains
•  Rebate Airfare

We would fabricate the keyword field as takes after

Cheap-flights, airline, vacations, travel-deals, discount, airfare 

Apple would then file this application posting for quests including "modest aircraft", "markdown travel" and a few different blends. Together with the keywords utilized as a part of the application name, a "keyword matrix" is made and listed by Apple. 

Google is comparative however rather utilizes the freely unmistakable fields of short and full portrayal rather than a private keywords field for deciding how to record your application. Google Play's indexation procedure utilizes the portrayal; Highlight your applications' key elements utilizing the expressions individuals would search for. 

There is a great deal more to building and executing an on-going application store streamlining methodology that conveys results. Improving an application posting is just the start of a long haul ASO process, however, it is likewise the beginning of naturally increasing increasingly activity in the application stores.

A Guide to Mobile App Outsourcing

Outsourcing in the IT world has become very popular because of its benefits and cost-effective solutions. It has opened new ways to get rid of the challenges and delays of in-house development.

Do you also want to outsource your mobile app project?

In this guide, I have explained everything you should know about outsourcing along with its advantages and how to choose an ideal outsourcing partner.

 

Outline of the topics covered in this guide:

• What is outsourcing and where it came from?
• Why people prefer to outsource their smartphone application projects?
• How outsourcing market has performed in the past years?
• How much your smartphone application will cost in other countries?
• How you can search for the ideal outsourcing company?
• How outsourcing can be beneficial for you
• Things you must consider while outsourcing
• The future of smartphone application development outsourcing conclusion

What is outsourcing and where it came from?

In the business world, the term “outsourcing” is referred to as contracting another party for business. The word “outsourcing” came from American glossary “outside resource” in 1981. It also refers to transferring employees or services from one company to another company.

However, in-house and outsourcing each have their own merits and demerits, but outsourcing comparatively offers a better option to get the optimal work output in a minimum time frame. It helps to hire a genuine developer who can understand the clear picture of your smartphone application and develop it in a sophisticated way. Nowadays, from small to average as well as big companies, all are outsourcing their work due to its enormous advantages.

Why people prefer to outsource their mobile applications projects?

Reduced price is one of the major factors that enforces companies to incline towards mobile application outsourcing. Generally, offshore agencies have the technical devices and other resources that are necessary to perform all the development tasks. Thus, you don’t need to set up a whole in-house team with all the required resources, this is another strong reason to prefer outsourcing.

Thinking of offshoring your smartphone app development to a third a party is a more viable and economical option for businesses as well as individuals. Usually, people prefer developing markets like India and China to outsource their projects due to the optimal cost benefits instead of developed markets, which has expensive development prices.

How outsourcing market has performed in the past years?

According to a report by  the outsourced services from 2000 to 2015 achieved a great hike in the global market. Here is what the statistics are saying.

• In 2000, the total revenue generated by outsourcing was $45.6 billion and it reached $99.1 billion in 2012.
• A slight downfall of nearly 20 percent was observed in the total revenue of the outsourcing market in the year 2013. The market again recovered in 2014 reaching $104.6 billion, but subsequently dropped off by around 25 percent in 2015 with only $88.9 billion.
• The highest outsourcing revenue was generated from Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, while the least from the Asia Pacific region.

 

How much your smartphone app will cost in other countries?

Since Android and iOS are the two major players in the smartphone industry, let’s see how the cost of developing a mobile application (Android/iOS) differs in different countries.

Many developers have a misconception that building high-cost mobile apps also guarantees top quality; however, building apps for low prices may also lead to unexpected results. Here is the estimation of cost involved in different countries and platforms.

• The study conducted on mobile app development cost states that India is the country with least average charges per hour of $26 and $30 for Android and iOS, respectively.
• On the other side, North America is marked as the country with highest average rates per hour of $168 and $150 for Android and iOS, respectively.
• When the cost is estimated on the basis of complexity, the simple the smartphone application will cost nearly $3,000–$8,000, whereas the complex application may require $50,000–$1,50,000.
• Outsourcing to the other major mobile app development markets such as UK, Eastern Europe, South America, and Australia also offer the solutions at optimal rates as shown in the graphs below.

Charges per hour for iOS app development

 

How you can search for the ideal outsourcing company?

With so many alternatives available on the Internet, you can search for the outsourcing companies based on the following factors.

Google Search

Definitely a good start. But there are a lot of good companies that are not present in the top five positions of search results. However, the right keywords will help you identify the best outsourcing agency. But I would suggest going with the other options as well.

Freelance portals

Freelancing portals like UpWork, Freelancer, Elance, etc., are also great platforms where you can find the perfect outsourcing companies, along with their client reviews and ratings and other important links to check their past work.

Conduct interviews to check their skills

Once you shortlist the companies, you can further conduct a short interview to check their technical skills. This way, you will have a clear idea of whether the outsourcing agency is aware of the latest technologies or not. This final interview will help you to come to a conclusion.

How outsourcing can be beneficial for you?

Millions of apps are developed across various platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows, etc. On average, 50 million apps are downloaded on Android and iOS platforms. This exceptional growth is increasing the demand for outsourcing the smartphone application development work.

Outsourcing can be beneficial in many ways. I have explained some of the major advantages that make it more powerful than in-house development.

Saves money and time

It is not an intelligent decision to pay $170/hour to do the same work that you can get done overseas at the rate of just $100/hour. Therefore, cost saving is one of the major benefits of hiring an offshore company.

Also, outsourcing helps to bring up the best outcome without any long-term commitment.

Easy communication/ 24*7 customer support

“The better the communication, the better is the result”. By outsourcing, you can easily communicate via. Skype, phone call, email, video conferencing at any time. Most of the offshore companies also provide 24*7 customer support helping you to get the issues resolved immediately.

Experienced developer

Instead of hiring a fresh team, outsourcing helps you to get an experienced team of developers, specialized in your niche with qualified knowledge and skills.

Things you must consider while outsourcing

In order to get the solution with 100 percent cost-effectiveness and quality, searching for a company is not enough. To avoid the

Here is what you need to consider before hiring a company.

(A) Be clear and descriptive about what to outsource

“You will get the precise outcome if you have well explained your requirements to the outsourcing partner”. Therefore, be clear and descriptive about the important details like:

• What features you would like in your application?
• What is your deadline to publish the application?
• What is your budget?
• Which market you want to majorly target?
• How your smartphone app should look like?
• Which platform your target audience is based on?

(B) Put the quality prior to cost

Cost-saving is the first objective of outsourcing your mobile application overseas, but the quality is the prior thing that can’t be ignored. It’s true that outsourcing to developing countries like India and China can reduce the cost, but the quality of the mobile app might be compromised if you choose less-skilled developers.

(C) Sign the non-disclosure agreement

Signing a non-disclosure agreement before finally handing over the project, provides confidentiality of your ideas and it also shows that you’re serious about your project.

 (D) Take a tour to research about the company

Just looking at some aspects doesn’t give a complete idea about the work of the outsourcing company. Thus, deeply research the company details like their previously completed projects, number of clients, experience, team size, etc., and then decide the one you want to go with.

(E) Don’t forget to regularly test

Don’t just blindly trust in the outsourced company. Monitor your app progress at regular time frames. The outsourced development team should be able to provide a testing platform to ensure the progress of the application.

The future of mobile app development outsourcing – Look Bright

Outsourcing is a great alternative to in-house development from the past 10 years, sometimes put a big question in mind – “Whether it will be alive in the future or not”?

The increasing mobile app development market is a good indication where the business needs to outsource the work in other countries. Full control on project activities, cost and time saving, quality outcome, no need for resource investment are some of the strong advantages of making outsourcing to grow fast in the future.

Taking a look at the huge growth of outsourcing in the past few years, it can be undoubtedly said that outsourcing is carrying a bright future with it.

Conclusion

In this post, I tried to cover each and every aspect of mobile app development outsourcing. From defining the term outsourcing to the future of outsourcing, the guide has described everything you need to know about it,

Do you have more than outside of this guide or want to share anything about outsourcing? Feel free to write in the comments below.

Five ways to use Mobile Apps to grow your Business

As of mid-2015 Google officially announced that more consumers access the Internet via mobile devices than on desktop PCs. For this reason, the savvy business owner will find ways to use mobile apps to grow his or her business. If you are wondering how this marketing model can work for you, consider the following five ways to use mobile apps to grow your business. Some, if not all, can be effective in building brand and increasing sales, so take advantage of as many as humanly possible.

1. Develop apps for delivery of promotions

One of the most successful ways to use an app to grow your business is to create one to give away as a freebie. People love to get something for nothing so an app that is useful, but free, is going to be a great way of promoting your business or line of products. One thing to be cognizant of, however, is that you need to target your market before having an app developed. Would your audience, your potential customer base, be more likely to use an Apple phone or a Windows phone? At the moment Apple is king so chances are good that you might want to have your app created to work with iPhones and iPads. When it comes to app development, iOS would need to be the operating system since that is what those two devices are built on. It’s vital to get a good app development iOS team on board, however, to ensure that your app fully delivers to its target audience.

2. Build a following with social apps

From Facebook, to Twitter to LinkedIn, there are social apps that keep you connected with followers. Although these wouldn’t be apps you have developed specifically for your company, they would still be apps you could download and use to ensure that you are staying in touch with your audience and keeping them engaged.

3. Create an informative app

No matter what your industry, an informative app is always a big hit. Today’s consumer wants to be informed about everything from trivia to politics so an app that provides useful information, of any kind, will probably be a huge success. You can interject ads for your company in the app and this will keep your name fresh every time the app is used.

4. Companion apps for your products

Some products simply cry out for a companion app. Usually these are a functional part of the product which could also be used as a standalone but are made much more enjoyable with the app. Again, look at the Facebook app. Yes, you can access Facebook from your mobile device, but the app lets screens load much faster and the messaging app is even faster yet.

5. Build exposure with a free promotional app

Some companies have paid an app development company to create an app that has absolutely nothing to do with their own industry. By placing the app in the app store as a free download they can be assured that anyone who downloads it will also view the free ads built into the app.

These five ways to use mobile apps to grow your business are just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many ways that both iPhone and Windows mobile apps can benefit your company that it really is worth your time to find some that will help build a stronger customer base and increase your visibility with your target audience. It’s a mobile world we live in so why not let mobile apps work for you?

Microsoft is Ditching Android App Ports for Windows Phone

Mobile app developers who wanted to easily port their apps from Android or iOS to Windows 10 devices were in luck when Microsoft announced it created tools to help with that transition last year. But now Microsoft is going back and dropping the Android bridge, focusing on just iOS.

In a blog post, Microsoft announced that while it has been updating the Windows Bridge for iOS, it is dropping the Windows Bridge for Android project with an interesting explanation.

“We received a lot of feedback that having two Bridge technologies to bring code from mobile operating systems to Windows was unnecessary, and the choice between them could be confusing,” wrote Kevin Gallo, director of Windows' developer platform. “We have carefully considered this feedback and decided that we would focus our efforts on the Windows Bridge for iOS and make it the single Bridge option for bringing mobile code to all Windows 10 devices, including Xbox and PCs.”

The two projects for iOS and Android were very different in how they bridged apps from those platforms to Windows and were obviously platform-specific. While many app developers create apps for both iOS and Android, there are Android-only developers that are now missing out on the Windows Store market unless they want to rewrite their app.

The solution for this is the acquisition of Xamarin, which is an app development company. Xamarin allows developers to use a homogenized C# language which easily moves between all three platforms. This is more of a forward-looking move, as it won’t help developers who already have their apps on iOS or Android.

There is some speculation from Extreme Tech that the Android bridging was cancelled because being able to seamlessly port any app would cancel out the need for developers to create Windows-optimized apps.

Reference From:- http://mashable.com/2016/02/26/windows-ditching-android/#0llNeN_TOsqP

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Basic Questions to ask before Developing a Mobile App for your Business

No one can deny that mobile is the new digital standard and a modernizer for brands worldwide. A lot of global corporations and businesses have understood that a mobile presence is indispensable for business success in the current market. Your customers should be able to effortlessly communicate with you via any device where on earth they are, so a full-featured dedicated mobile application should be developed. Really, having a mobile application for your business or promotion or for whatnot can be a game-changing marketing tool to boost revenue and traffic.

If you’re planning to develop a mobile app for your business, there has never been a dead-on time. But before you invest some precious time, capital and manpower into a mobile development project, you should probe these questions.

 

Who is the target audience?

 

For a mobile app creator, it is very imperative to identify their target audience because they lack confronting sales prospects. The unsurpassed method to find your app’s target audience is by researching and exploring the market prior to, during, or post the concrete development process. Find out which segment is more obsessed with your app, you can get an idea about the design and functionality according to their predilections, which will also help you with framing a marketing plan determined by the past achievements and failures.

Which mobile app platform to develop for?

 

Unquestionably a lot of media attention is given to Apple’s brand iOS platform, but Google’s Android operating system is quite extensively dispersed across the world of mobile devices and tablet. Prior to developing your app, you must gauge what your target audience prefers and then choose accordingly if you would count on launching cross multiple platforms or, possibly only support any of the one iOS or Android.

What should the app do?  

Nowadays, there is an app for everything from finance, lifestyle, entertainment, education, retail, healthcare, food, telecom, media, fashion, travel, real estate and lot more. Numerous approaches are there which you can espouse, but you must endeavor to deliver an engaging yet helpful app with cutting-edge features and general information. It all relies on your business, the user and what you wish to cater them with. You can also think of building more than one mobile application for diverse purposes if you believe that your business is big enough to upkeep such a project, but it’s not off beam to keep it simple.

Which basic features should the mobile app incorporate?

 

There are countless mobile applications available in the store, but not all of them have extensive features that every app must-have. The list of features and functionality that without fail must be integrated to cater an outstanding user experience, as well as user interface, are

• Feedback system
• Mobile commerce
• Loyal programs
• Scheduling
• Direction and maps
• Video gallery
• Push notification
• Mailing list
• Fan Wall
• Contacts
• Coupons
• Google Calendar
• Custom Form
• Social media integration
• Advanced Analytics
• Games and a lot more

 How to go about with application designing?

 

Once you have decided other particulars, the next aspect to determine is the design. Then, you must conceptualize about features, functionalities, esthetics, appearance and a lot more. It’s the gospel truth that design is an important element of developing an app. If your mobile application is deprived of aesthetics, feel, readability or navigation, it is star-crossed or good-for-nothing. According to the statistics, the average smartphone users download around twenty-five apps, and you must make sure that yours is a unique one. Appropriate Wire framing helps in working out the fundamental layout and design of the app. Further special prototyping will support in creating an actual and functional version giving an apt indication as and when required. On the whole the app must be well-designed, efficient, user-friendly and highly functional because users have a lot of options available in the app stores.

Whether hire an in-house team or outsource?

 

Every coin has two sides, similarly, in one way we can have a greater control and supervision over the mobile app development project if carried out in the house. It also gives you the opportunity to share your ideas and have a more practical approach, which is all quite crucial for a marketer. The other side of the coin says it can be time taking task, and more costly. Generally, in-house mobile development teams are more expensive compared to the outsourced equivalents. Businesses that choose to outsource the project to a reliable company can with complete control save money and time without the burden of developing an app.

How much would it cost to develop a mobile app for business?

 

Do not assume that as a lot of mobile apps are free (or at a low price) to download, a notable mobile app can be built overnight for the price of a drink at the bar. The mobile revolution may have restyled how we dwell, buy and connect—but one time-tested proverb remains as true forever: you gain what you are paying for. Moreover, this question is more like asking how much would it cost to build a house or buy a motorcycle – it depends on what kind of motorbike you are willing to buy or type of  house you want to build. Although it is feasible to give a rough estimate on app development costs based on the customization one requires in the mobile app.

How to go about with future updates and app maintenance?  

 

Actually, the mobile app is not just a one-time task, it needs recurrent updating and maintenance. If you develop a cross-platform mobile app, you will only have to maintain iOS & Android both. A mobile maintenance strategy requires only planning not for critical failures, but also more routine circumstances like upgrading the app to the latest versions of Operating System or modernizing the app when any of the backend APIs alters along with testing.

Also, do not forget to keep in mind the causes that avoid rejection of your mobile app on stores such as

• Trademark & Logo illegality
• Containing porn (Note: Android does permit it if you are using a third party adult market.)
• Making an attempt to upload unfinished or beta app
• Prolonged load time
• Using 3^rd party payment system
• Unfriendly User Interface
• Damaged links
• Making use of private APIs
• Irrelevant keywords terms
• Misusing brand’s button and icons etc.

By knowing them, you can have high probabilities of your mobile app being approved at the first go.

So, prior to contriving a mobile application, ensure you ask yourself with above-stated questions. They will certainly prevent you from developing a mobile app needlessly, or creating an obsolete app.

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