For an exceptional idea to bring to life, you might have thought of creating a mobile app. Indeed, not a bad idea, because mobile apps are extremely popular now-a-days, so much popular that there are apps for everything. The rise of mobile and the rise of the internet, both are intertwined, and are also seeing a quick acceptance all around the globe. Neither of the two can be ignored as they change the functionality of the business.
However, development of a mobile application is the need of the hour, and there are various business enterprises, which are not prepared for it due to their ignorance towards the changes that are required to build an excellently developed app. Here are a few helpful tips that must be avoided while developing a mobile app.
Currently, iOS and Android have taken over the market completely, and Windows and Blackberry OS are struggling to get into the competition. Where iOS is extremely popular in the USA market, the Android OS is supreme amongst its users on a global platform. So, if you wish to launch an app, ensure that you have your app built on the cross platform. Mobile operating systems come and go, and users always prefer the one which is the latest and the best. Therefore, the development efforts must address these facts to save the mobile app from failing.
It is wrong to consider mobile as a less popular experience because mobile phones and tablets are the emerging devices in the world of internet. A mobile app is entirely different from a website. It is different in functionality, different in size, and different in capacity, but equally important. The reason why these mobile apps are popular is because the user can access them from anywhere, anytime through their mobile devices. The desktop websites are also responsive now-a-days to provide the users an experience more user-friendly than ever.
A number of mobile apps fail because of overlooking the touch interface factor. Sometimes, the developers behind these apps fail to address the difference between a mouse-based interface and a touch based interface. Researches show that an ideal dimension on which the users can precisely target the wished-for link is 44px * 44px. Mouse-based interface are excellent for small buttons, however, they do not work on the touch-based interface. The differences in both the interfaces must be kept in mind before getting your app developed.
Speed is more imperative for mobile apps than it is for any usual websites. The users who surf the apps on mobiles become impatient very easily and fast, if the app does not responses on time. They have zero tolerance for slow apps. According to a research by Google, a delay of half a minute in the loading of an app drops down the traffic percentage by 20%. Hence, it is important to optimize the speed of the apps to improve their performance, and make them popular amongst the mass.
Ignoring the essentiality of the agile approach in the development as a whole is extremely negative on the part of your app’s popularity. The linear approach of development in the past, where developers used to gather the information, jot down the requirements, develop the requirements, creating specifications, and then finally creating an app, has become quite obsolete with time. As the technology advances at a quicker pace, a different and worthwhile approach that can adapt itself with the changes is required.
The biggest advantage that mobile apps offer its customers is the instant data access from anywhere. But, these advantages turns into disadvantages when the apps are accessed from a place where data connection is weak. The mobile apps, in such cases, become worthless without a data connection. Here it is required that the mobile app should have the capacity to handle the flaky data connection without getting hanged every time.
The entrepreneur, before getting the app build, must keep these points in mind to get an app that is not ruined by any mistakes from the development end. The highly certified and top mobile app developers in Konstant Infosolutions are competent in building amazing and interactive apps on various platforms, like the iPhone, Android, Windows, and Cross-platform. Other than mobile apps, we also build web apps using PHP and Open source app development.
Vipin Jain is the Co-Founder and CEO at Konstant Infosolutions and is in charge of marketing, project management, administration and R&D at the company. With his marketing background, Vipin Jain has developed and honed the company’s vision, corporate structure & initiatives and its goals, and brought the company into the current era of success.
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