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Lean Mobile App Development

By : Mike van Drongelen, Aravind Krishnaswamy
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Lean Mobile App Development

By: Mike van Drongelen, Aravind Krishnaswamy

Overview of this book

Lean is the ultimate methodology for creating a startup that succeeds. Sounds great from a theoretical point of view, but what does that mean for you as an a technical co-founder or mobile developer? By applying the Lean Start-up methodology to your mobile App development, it will become so much easier to build apps that take Google Play or the App Store by storm. This book shows you how to bring together smarter business processes with technical know-how. It makes no sense to develop a brilliant app for six months or longer only to find out later that nobody is interested in it. Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) first. Validate your hypotheses early and often. Discover effective product development strategies that let you put Facebook's famous axiom "move fast and break things" into practice. A great app without visibility and marketing clout is nothing, so use this book to market your app, making use of effective metrics that help you track and iterate all aspects of project performance.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)

Implementation

You can find the sample project for this chapter here: https://github.com/mikerworks/packt-lean-onboarding.

The code sample has been updated, so it will use the latest and greatest (at the time of writing). Digits, the Fabric phone authentication service, has been replaced by the Firebase phone authentication service. The code sample is now using this service and, while I was busy anyway, I have converted the Android Java example to Kotlin.

You can have a look at the app first, or if you want to configure it for your own use you need to configure Fabric and Firebase first.

Visit https://fabric.io and create an account. Once you have done that and have confirmed it, you can proceed. Enter a team name (for example packt-demo) and choose a platform (Android). After that, a new page in the wizard will show a number of options. Pick the Twitter option first. The first...