How to Start Developing an App

For business, a mobile app is a way to increase sales and audience loyalty. Customers can use the app to make a purchase in one click or quickly contact the manager. Companies can use the app to easily remind people of themselves through push notifications. These will notify one about great deals or special promotions. You can integrate a store’s bonus or discount card into the mobile app so that the client doesn’t have to carry it with them in the wallet.

In e-commerce, purchases with mobile apps in the eGrocery segment are one of the main market growth drivers. Over the past five years, the share of small food orders has increased from 50% to 94%. And eGrocery’s annual online ordering growth was 390%.

The effectiveness of apps in these niches is several times higher than the investment invested in development.

Step #1. Determine the business requirements of the project. To do this, answer the following questions:

Step #2. Make a technical task.

Designate application functions, interface design, user behavior in it. Classic TOR for development includes:

Often, a business doesn’t have a clear TOR, but only a description of business requirements. We at Friflex help to draw up a TOR if it isn’t there or if there are difficulties in the process of drafting.

Step #3. Choose a technology.

There are three main approaches to mobile app development:

We at Friflex specialize in the Flutter framework, which combines the benefits of cross-platform and native approaches.

Flutter allows you to:

Benefits of development on Flutter:

Step #4. Form a team.

When creating a mobile app, you can go about it in two ways:

Companies more often resort to the services of a dedicated outsourced team when it’s necessary to develop a project from scratch or quickly finalize a project. It’s often more cost-effective for businesses.

To create a cross-platform app, you don’t need as large a team as for parallel development for iOS and Android. A single Flutter specialist can perform the tasks of two native developers. A lesser number of people won’t affect the timing and efficiency of work.

In order to allocate a team of specialists to develop an application in accordance with the goals of the customer, we need only 10 days from the date of receipt of the app.

The benefits of outsourcing development:

On average, the development of an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) takes two months, and the creation of a full-fledged application takes at least three to six months before the first release.

Possible payment models for development services: Fix or Time & material.

The Fix model describes the scope of work and a fixed cost. Time & material is an approach in which the Customer pays not for a fixed cost of services, but for the hours of work of specialists employed on the project. This allows you to flexibly build the development, design and testing process, as well as realize maximum transparency on the project. The customer pays for services according to the hours actually spent by the developer.

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