How to build an app: Steps you need to follow & Things you need to consider

Before you start with your app development process, there are several things to consider and steps to follow. Here's all about how to build an app successfully. 

 

With the continuously increasing number of smartphones and smartphone users and the rapid growth in the demand and usage of mobile applications, it has become essential for every business to have an app now. However, there are more than 5.5 million applications already existing on the App Stores of Android and iOS. The app market is expanding at a skyrocketing speed and thousands of applications are getting introduced every single day. Every business right from startups to enterprises is adopting one or more mobile app development platforms to take their businesses online and to improve their brand recognition and brand value. 

 

But to build an app successfully, and to give the app a competitive edge, it is necessary to consider a few crucial things and follow some steps. Here's all about how to build an application and bring value to your online strategy or app development idea. 

 

You need to be ready with a great mobile app development approach so that the audience may simply love your app. Your target audiences should not think of switching to your competitors in any case. For this, you need to read this article to know more about it. 

 

Now, before digging into the steps to build an app, let's take a look at some Stats reports related to app development. 

• Around 52.3% of the online traffic comes from mobile now.
• By the end of 2023, mobile applications are expected to generate a revenue of 935 billion dollars or even more. 
• Around 90% of the mobile internet time is generally spent on browsing apps. 
• In the iOS App Store, there are over 2.2 million apps. 
• The Google Play Store has over 2.9 million apps. 
• There are over 7 billion mobile users across the globe today. 
• The app economy is expected to reach 6.3 trillion dollars by the end of 2022 that was somewhere around 1.3 trillion dollars in 2016. 

 

Here are the steps for building an app successfully:

• Choose your app name first. Make sure your app name is unique and catchy and definitely is relevant to your business type. 
• Select the colour theme for your app and ensure it is relevant to your business type or your products and services. 
• Customise your app design.
• Then execute the back-end development and implementation of the app features and functions. 
• Now you need to test your app on as many devices as possible considering for which platform you are building the app. And make sure your app is bug-free, high-performing, smooth, and offers a uniform experience across all devices and versions supported by the platforms. 
• Publish the app
• Promote it
• And ask the users to give their feedback so that you can make modifications to the app accordingly. 

 

And now you need to go through a few important things you need to consider before starting your app development. 

 

Plan well:

If you are determined to build your app now then you must have an idea ready as well in your mind, right? Planning your app is important. Consider how you want your app to look and what features you want to include to make a concrete app development plan and then get started with it. 

 

Conduct proper research:

Your app success depends on your way of researching to a great extent. Conduct proper research and study your competitors to know what your competitors are still lacking in. Consider their strengths and avoid their weak points. This will help you to come up with an app that has all the features that your competitors do not have and that the users are still looking for in your kind of apps. 

 

Know your target audience well:

You are building your app for your users, right? And your users are going to bring revenue to your app. This makes sense to give your audience or users importance and understand them or what they expect from your application. 

 

Consider the app development cost:

Next, you need to consider the app development cost. You must have a budget and you want to stay within the limit. Consider your project requirements and share the same with the app development company or developers to know how much it will cost approximately depending on the requirements, features to be included, tools that need to be used, the app development time, and the other factors. 

 

Android vs Apple:

Android and Apple or iOS are the two most popular and commonly used app development platforms now. People search for an app either on the Google Play Store or on the Apple Store. Consider your requirements and know the features, guidelines, cost factors, versions, the type of users, and pros and cons of both the platforms before choosing the platform for your application. 

 

Now, apart from these above-mentioned points, you need to know a couple of more things like whether the app can be built for free, what app development tools and technologies you can use as per the project requirements, and what you can do to keep the interface simple, clean, yet informative and engaging. With all these things, you can definitely end up with a great mobile application. 

 

Rob Stephen is a highly experienced app developer associated with a renowned app development company in Australia, GetAProgrammer. The author has shared the steps to follow and things to consider to build an app successfully and seamlessly in this article.