Guide to Build an App Fast and at Lower Costs

by JONATHAN PAUL Jonathan Paul working at PHPProgrammers, a leading

While app development is quite an expensive investment and needs substantial time to be completed, this article presents a simple guide to follow if businesses want it faster and at a cheap rate.

Even building a simple app will cost you some hundreds of dollars besides taking up a lot of time to complete. But, most businesses today are in the need to take a plunge into the mobile apps world to get their services or products faster to the market. Despite the need, businesses often fail to come up with an app soon. They either lack the time or are reluctant to put a lot of money at stake. To their surprise, there are actually ideas to make app development faster and more affordable. While you obviously need to find out a team for app development that is savvy at their job and can deliver your app at the most optimised time and cost, there are other ways too. Have a look.

Get a local app development partner

There’s a lot of companies that offer award-winning app solutions but serve with offshore development. Naturally, they will end up being expensive and will take up more time in delivering the solution. These do not happen when you allow your app development to a local partner. There is no communication issue and that ensures all of your requirements are stated to them soon.

Develop an MVP (Minimum Viable Product)

The cost of developing a full custom mobile application is mostly high because the developers had to get everything, from conceptualisation, prototyping to development and testing. So, why not get a simple version of the app initially, which is called the MVP (Minimum Viable Product). It is developed by including the most crucial features. As it starts making money in the market, you can eventually get its full-featured version developed.

Don’t go for low quotes

In the quest for a development team that can get your app developed at a cheaper rate, never ever choose the one that offers lower quotes. It simply means they outsource the development from an offshore agency or will not provide enough attention and quality services to your app. Thus, choosing a company that charges a bit higher price is always good and then try out your negotiating skills to lower the costs.

Choose for cross-platform development

While developing cross-platform apps with tools like PhoneGap or Ionic greatly reduces the time for development, the app solutions are not up to the mark. They are buggy and slower than native versions. However, modern tools like React Native do not cause such instances and can save both the time and costs that you would have otherwise spent on building the app for iOS and Android separately.

Do some research earlier

The more you research about the market, the companies providing app development services, development tools and frameworks trending, the more optimised solution you can choose for yourself. Thus, spend some prior time in contacting many development companies, studying their development models, work portfolios and quotations offered. Getting ahead with the right company will add a lot of value to your app reducing the costs of development.

With a doubt, app development is quite a risky, costly and time-consuming venture. However, if you do everything from the start with much calculation and anticipation, you can easily avoid the uncertainties that can raise the costs of your app or make its development slower.

Jonathan Paul is the team lead and expert app developer at GetAProgrammer, a leading Android and iOS app development company in Australia. It is helping businesses expand their digital footprints with robust mobile applications. Have an app idea? Get partnered with GetAProgrammer!