Mobile App Development Process in 2024 – 7 Stages of App Development
This article series describes the 7 crucial Stages of the Mobile App Development Process from a Business point of view. It is an essential guide for current and future App Owners.
This article series describes the 7 crucial Stages of the Mobile App Development Process from a Business point of view. It is an essential guide for current and future App Owners.
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In short, a mobile app development process consists of the following steps:
Research, analysis, and selecting a company to cooperate on your product with. Signing an Independent Contractor Agreement.
Clarifying your app’s vision, defining your product’s goals & its final users. Deciding which features are the most crucial in creating your MVP.
Creating a User Journey Map, clickable wireframes, visual User Interfaces, and motion design (animations & screen transitions).
A Product Owner gets to know the development team and vice versa. Defining every role in the team, agreement on rules, and next steps, as well as configuring tools.
App production with Continuous Integration: plan, code, build, test (and repeat). Ensuring Quality Assurance at every stage of app development with manual and automated tests.
Releasing includes uploading assets required by laws & promotional materials, beta testing, optimizing the product page/store presence, and everything your app approval needs to go as smoothly as possible.
Detecting crashes, monitoring app’s statistics, product enhancement, and further development. Your app stays attractive, adapts to changing market conditions and users’ feedback.
If you already have a partner – a company that will design and develop your product, and you went through Product Discovery phase, it is important to kick your project off before the development team gets to work.
The goal of the app development kick-off is to define your role as a Product Owner and to clarify every role in the team. Project kick-off means also setting the rules you want to follow, and planning the next steps. This stage may have different forms, at Droids On Roids we organize a face-to-face or remote Kick-off meeting with every client, and it takes around 2 hours.
An important part of the last preparations before the app development is project setup. How do the developers set up your project? It’s worth to follow these points: