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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)

Repository and Git workflow

The build server needs to retrieve the code from a repository. It is always a smart idea to use a repository, even when you work alone. Two well-known Git-based repositories are GitHub and Bitbucket (also known as Stash). Both come with a free and a paid plan. GitHub offers private repositories only in the paid plan (see https://github.com). A private repository is accessible for your team members only. A public repository is available to anyone. Bitbucket offers private repositories in the free plan, so let's create a Bitbucket account at https://bitbucket.org.

A common Git workflow is shown as follows. For the development of each new feature, a feature branch will be created. Once completed, and code reviewed via a pull request, the feature branch can be merged into the development branch.

Using a smart branching strategy, at least two important...