Give yourself a try! Building a mobile app is not hard as you think. Well, it takes time and depend on what you are going to build. You just need to get your ideas to spill them out on your paper, and start to do something.
Step 1: What is Your Goal? Define Your Goal
Have you got your great idea? Now it's the starting point for you to get into your project. Once you get your idea, you must define the purpose of your mobile app. What is it look like? What kinda problem is it going to solve? Defining a goal for your mobile app is also going to get things done faster.
Step 2: Sketching
Do not be lazy to develop rough sketches. You should lay the foundation for interfaces on your mobile app, so you will know what it will look like. In this step you conceptualize the main features, layout design and structure of your mobile app. Start from sketching your main interface, Login Window - Dashboard / Home - Core Interfaces - Profile Interface - Purchase Interface, and etc.
Step 3: Research
Before you head up to development, you have to make sure that your mobile app has original content. What is considered original content? Well, it is something that was never said before or never done before i.e. content that was never published online. So does it mean to be unique? Not really. All you have to do is whether you are designing contents or features, try to approach them from a different perspective and never do 'copy-paste' on your mobile app.
Here are four main purposes:
- Find out whether there are other mobile apps doing the same thing.
- Find information on technical requirements for your mobile app.
- Find design idea for your mobile app
- Find out how you market your mobile app.
The next step after researching the design and technical requirements (number 1-3), you have to do marketing and monetization. you should think about your strategy of publishing it onto the market. You need to know how you approach and reach your target users and make them see the value of your mobile app.
Figuring out how your mobile app is going to get money. Will you set it as trial or charge your users to download it? Or will you set up ads on it? This strategy would be a good idea to earn money, but also think about that as well.
Step 4: Test Your Prototype
This step requires coding. When you're done with your rough design sketches, you have to put them on your workplace (the software to build your mobile app) and start doing your code. There are many programming languages to work on, but depending on your mobile app. Your mobile app will work as well as you run your codes. They allow the features on your mobile app run as well. If you have any trouble or get any bugs on your mobile app, fix and track it whether it has bugs.
Step 5: Publish
Publishing your mobile app is including how you find the right market. Remember what the purpose of your mobile app is.
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