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PROFITABLE APP
DEVELOPMENT
BLUEPRINT FOR
STARTUPS
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"DESIGN IS NOT JUST
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
AND FEELS LIKE. DESIGN
IS HOW IT WORKS."
Steve Jobs
PROFITABLE APP
DEVELOPMENT - THE
PROCESS
This mobile app development process
typically includes idea, strategy, design,
development, deployment, and post-
launch phases.
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PROFITABLE APP
DEVELOPMENT - THE
PROCESS
This mobile app development process
typically includes idea, strategy, design,
development, deployment, and post-
launch phases.
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As trite as it sounds, all great apps began as ideas.
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Once you have an idea, you need to
plan for your app’s success
COMPETITION Number of Installs
Ratings and reviews
Company history
In-app purchases -
Games & Productivity
Subscription payments -
OTT Platforms /
Streaming Apps
Premium features - Ad
Free Usage (Streaming
Platforms)
Ad-revenue - Free to Use
Apps with In-app Ads
Selling user data and
MONETIZATION
Traditional paid apps
STRATEGY Marketing
Road Map (MVP)
UX DESIGN Information
Architecture
Wireframes
Workflows
Click-Through Models
INFORMATION
ARCHITECTURE -
TOOLS Whiteboards
Paper & Pencil
WIREFRAMES - TOOLS
Whiteboards
Paper & Pencil
Sketch
WORKFLOWS - TOOLS
Whiteboards
Paper & Pencil
Invision
CLICK-THROUGH
MODELS - TOOLS
Invision
Rendered Designs
Whiteboards Rendered Click-
Through Models
Style Guides
Pencil & Paper
Invision
Sketch
Zeplin
Back-end (Web API &
Front-end (The Mobile App)
Server)
HIGH-LEVEL TECHNICAL
DESIGN - FRONT-END (THE
MOBILE APP) Platform-Specific
Native
Cross-platform Native
Hybrid
HIGH-LEVEL TECHNICAL
DESIGN - BACK-END (WEB API
& SERVER) Language
Database
Hosting Environment
(Infrastructure)
THE PLANNING PHASE
Dividing up list of tasks
Plan your approach
Intelligently reuse code
throughout an
application
THE DEVELOPMENT PHASE
Fully optimize
developer workloads
Understand the intent
of the requirements
Hockey App tool
comes in handy
THE TESTING PHASE
Functional Testing
Usability Testing
Performance Testing
THE TESTING PHASE
Fit and Finish Testing
Regression Testing
Device-Specific Testing
User Acceptance
Testing
Planning Development Testing Review
Web API (Server) App Stores Monitoring
MONITORING
Crashes | Tools: Sentry
and HockeyApp
Analytics | Facebook
Analytics, Apptentive,
and Google Analytics
Performance |
Prometheus
App Store Management
Continue to Grow &
Mobile apps are fluid
Improve
CONCLUSION
The mobile app development process
might seem overwhelming and
involved.
There are a lot of steps and difficult
decision making is required along the
way.
But, it is an extremely rewarding
process and can be quite lucrative.
Also, there might be some temptation
to skips steps in this process, but this
guide is built upon years of
experience working with app owners
that chose to skip certain steps.
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