Create your First Ever Mobile App in 12 Detailed Steps

Creating your first ever mobile app can be a challenging and experiential moment for you. Given the fact that it is digital world, and there is a need to maintain your visibility over the internet medium. You need to have an excellent idea before you can start building it into a mobile app that will get your maximum customer base. It is the idea that will help you set foot on the mobile and web world easily.

Let’s understand how to create your first ever mobile app from the goal defining stage to actual execution stage.

Set your Goals

When you are struck with a good idea, you should ideally try to define the idea so that you can actually look to execute it. You cannot directly convert your idea into a well executed mobile app without any planning. Let’s start with defining the purpose behind this mobile app idea that you have been struck by. What do you plan to achieve by creating this first ever mobile app for your business? What are the goals you are planning to achieve from it? Is it going to fill in a gap or is it going solve an issue that you have found existent? When you have a clear goal, it becomes easy to create and run the mobile app.

Sketch your App

When you are working on mobile app design, you should ideally begin by designing your mobile app. Conceptualize the features that you want to add in your mobile app. What is the layout or structure that you want to see in the app that you are planning to design? A rough sketch will definitely help you work in a defined manner towards creating an app. When you actually begin researching for your project, and creating it, you will find these sketches essentially useful!

Research on the Idea

You will need to research on the idea that you have for the mobile app. You will need to find out if there are such apps existent within the market and what do they do? You will also need to find a perfect inspiration for your app. How are you planning to monetize your app, and what are the different technical needs that will fulfill your app? You will need to answer all these questions if you are planning on researching on the idea. There are more than a million apps in the market, and finding an app that has never been built before will be nearly impossible. So, try to focus on differentiating some part of the app or on the way you plan to acquire users. You can even get an industry expert’s opinion on your idea to know if it will work.

The Storyboard

Once you have the idea and research in place, you will need to develop a workable prototype that can help you understand how the actual app would appear to the audiences. There are different tools available in the market that will help you prototype the app. Using the drag and drop features available in these tools, you can create a demo version of the app. The whole idea is to create a roadmap to define how the app will appear and work.

App’s Backend

When you are working on mobile app design, it is very important for you to work on the backend of the app. The servers, APIs and the data diagrams will help you connect the different pages of the app, and make it easily communicative and receivable. Make sure you take all the technical limitations and other issues into consideration.

Prototype Testing

It is important to get a feedback on the prototype that you have created. Is it user friendly? Does the interface communicate in an intuitive manner? A test run among the target audience will get you a favorable response. You can also test the app prototype among your friends and family. Keep an eye on how your family/friends respond to the app, how they are using it, and what exactly they are doing with the app. These small things will help you understand if your prototype is concrete enough or not

Create the Backend

Once you have done the prototype testing, you will need to work on creating the backend that you designed earlier. You have already defined the backend before testing the prototype, now it is time to actually work on it. Set up the servers, storage systems and APIs that you need for your app. Get a developer account on the app marketplaces at this time only, as that will definitely take some time.

Designing the Skin

Your next step involves designing the app skin or the individual screens that will appear along the app.  You have already worked on it during the storyboard creation. Now, you will need to design actual screens that can be easily navigated to. Make sure you have taken the feedback from the prototype testing into account when designing the individual screens.

Another Testing

Earlier you did a prototype testing, now you will need to test the actual screens and backend that you have designed for your app. Test it among a group of audience. You can select the number of people you are going to test it on so that you can get the requisite results and feedback that will help you grow further.

Revise From Feedback

Once the testing is done, you will gain a lot of feedback. You will need to work on that feedback received and revise your app accordingly. Remember this is an important step as it will allow you to gather all the audience you will need.

Refine the App

This point is as important as revising the app. At this point you will be making the app better and beautifying it. With this effort, you can actually make the app refined for further usage.

Release it

Once you are done with all the points, it is time to release it on the app store. Make sure you have a great app ready for release!

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Juned Ahmed IT Consultant at IndianAppDevelopers.com leading web and mobile application development company, If you are willing to develop your first mobile app than feel free to contact us or join Juned Ahmed @twitter