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Important ingredients used to create a successful mobile app

Avatar for Ali Raza Ali Raza June 9, 2020

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I am sure you must have read this before, but it’s worth repeating. Creating a great mobile app can skyrocket your business. When you create something it is quite natural to expect an increase in customer loyalty, trust, and keeping them coming back for more. Does the following post emphasize how to make a mobile app worth acknowledging? Or What keeps an Android application great of all time?

The crème de la crème; meaning the best person or thing of a particular kind. I am sure you must have come across several apps but now, how many apps do you remember? It might be a few games, social networking apps, and a few utility apps. Can you think of anything these apps have in common? Well, the common part is that there is nothing common among them. I mean from WhatsApp to Instagram to Zomato, Truecaller – all these are unique in their very own way. Also, they come from different genres but have something in common that makes them so successful and desirable.

Getting the opportunity to be in the main 100 versatile applications is a huge achievement; which is difficult to do! What appears to be incomprehensible might be just practiced with a lot of commitment, difficult work, and time. In case you’re prepared to advance the past three elements, discovering achievement doesn’t involve HOW, just WHEN. Further below I would like to mention certain aspects to consider to make your mobile application successful among others.

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1. Usability comes first

Creating a high-quality app is extremely important. So try to come up with something innovative, informative, easy to navigate. It should focus on interaction and simplicity, be not complicated, and include things that are expected or maybe beyond expectations.

2. Not a me-too product

We all know what the #metoo moment right? Similarly is the “metoo” product – a replica of an existing one! In today’s competitive era, there are high chances of making a me-too application. I mean the task of cloning a successful application is way easier than coming up with a new idea from scratch and working on it. For example, you will find a wide range of candy crush applications at the app store. On the other hand, if the app is too similar to an already existing one, people may not feel any need to switch over to your product. As a result, initial downloads will remain low.

3. Are the visuals appealing

Presently there is a motivation behind why coders shouldn’t attempt fiddle with the visual parts of versatile applications. UX/UI planning is a particular field, an area held for master visual specialists and illustrators. Being an innovative group, experts are relied upon to think of suitable, fascinating sprinkle screens, symbols, catches, content, and other visual components of an application. In addition to this, many mobile app developers recommend choosing a nice name for an application as it is extremely important.

4. User-friendly

Most of the mobile applications come with pages of user-instructions. And thinking that everyone will spend an adequate amount of time learning how to use the app by reading the instruction manual is too naive of you. In this way, what should be done is to take a stab at clarifying the activities, control, and generally speaking usefulness of your application to the end-clients in a fast way. With the goal that the last can begin utilizing it directly in the wake of downloading. On and all, never make things unreasonably hard for your end-clients.

5. Compatibility

Let’s assume for a while that your mobile application has already captured the attention of a user but further what he finds is that the application is not capable of his device- It would be a shame! iOS applications in comparison to Android are quite at ease since they have to test their apps on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus, maybe with older versions that would be supported. Whereas for Android, Testing compatibility is much more challenging especially when it comes to testing on actual devices. So ensure that your created application is compatible with different devices effectively.

6. Security

Security breaches are happening day in day out! Therefore, one of the most important features of an eCommerce app is security. As soon as the users become skeptical regarding the security of the app they will never want to register on your app ever again.

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So what do top mobile app development companies usually do is try to make their apps highly safe and secure. After all, data confidentiality is extremely important and users do not intend to take things lightly especially if their data is leaked.

Besides, create a mobile app that perfectly works offline as well. Of course, this might be next to impossible for an eCommerce app but they might have a few features that could work offline. Game apps should be able to work offline, I mean nobody likes to use their mobile data each time they wish to use the application. Why not take a step further and allow end-users to give liberty to choose either offline or online mode.

7. High quality yet cost-effective

The world of software and mobile app development is growing at a fanatic speed. Users often tend to take two picks out of certain parameters – quality, time, and price. Given that you need to complete activities inside determined cutoff times, it comes down to an immediate exchange off between the nature of the application and its cost figure. You have to play out the exercise in careful control of giving top-quality applications, at sensible costs. Disappointment on either tally (especially the quality viewpoint) will put your application on the backfoot.

In a nutshell,

Mobile app development is certainly not a rat race where you need to finish off things as quickly as possible. Take your own sweet time and come up with an app that features some element in your application that would surprise users (top-class animations, additional functionalities, etc.) – – which would fill in as the application’s amazing variable. Engineers for the most part prompt creation of portable applications for both the iOS and Android stages, for expanding their odds of progress. The significance of centered portable application advertising, utilizing the World Wide Web (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Behance, application survey destinations, and so forth.) can’t be overemphasized either. A completely decent application can fall flat if individuals don’t know about its reality!

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