5 Steps Process Of Mobile and Web App Development

Software application creation might look like a long complicated process.

However, if you understand what is required in each phase and you are willing to do the work, you can complete the project. This process is commonly used in the work environment.

5 Steps Process Of App Development

1. Application Ideation

What problem are you tackling?
What solution are you providing?
How is your solution going to solve the problem?
How is your solution better than what is currently out there?
How are you going to measure the impact your solution has on the problem?

Identify and note down:

Who will be using the app?
What will the users do with the app?
Which devices will they be using the app on?
What will be the critical functionalities that must be on the app.

2. Application Design

Identify the critical features of the app.
Design your app to cover those features first.

Atleast:

Create wireframes of how your app will look like. It can be as simple as sketches on a paper.
Identify all the pages you app will need so that the users can accomplish their goals on the app.

3. Application Development

Choose the tools to build the app. Frameworks, languages, libraries.
Start building the app from parts you are most comfortable to the parts you are least comfortable.
Learn on the way as you solve problems.

4. Application Testing

Your application will not be working 100% of the time. Testing your application as you build it helps you spot problems earlier. You can then process the problems and find solutions that work early on.

5. Application Deployment

If it a web application, you will have to deploy the source code to the server and set up an online database server.

For mobile application, you will have to ‘build’ your application and setup an online database server.

Note: Application Testing and Deployment are not to be done only after you have finished building the whole application. It is important to test your app as you build it. Once you complete a feature, you can deploy the application. Deploying an application earlier on helps you test the application in the server that it will finally be saved in instead of on your computer.

If you are working on an undergraduate project, look at your project guide book.

Try to understand what will be required. What are the things the lecturers will be looking for on your project? When do they expect you to submit and present those items.

If you have any question, if you come across a certain term. Google it. You have access to Google all the time.

If you can’t find satisfactory answer, ask your peers and your lecturers. You can ask even ask friendly lecturers from other departments. They know cross-department things about the academic world.

Ensure you ask your question in such a way that shows you have tried other means finding solutions.