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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)

Play Store and App Store Hacks

In order to continually learn from your MVP, you must be continually running tests, collecting data, and evolving your app. However, one barrier to validated learning comes in the form of the App Stores themselves.

As we will see next, the two platforms have different limitations and requirements that impact every aspect and stage of an app's release. Store listing requirements, app approval delays, analytics, and beta deployment options, for instance, all differ between the two platforms.

However, there are ways to workaround these challenges. In this chapter, we will explore the following:

  • What split testing is and why it is a crucial tool for every app developer
  • How to run split tests in both store listings and in apps
  • How to overcome limitations and obstacles that are inevitable when performing real-world split testing
  • Essential split testing...