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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)

Getting users to download an app

As a web developer, getting someone to check out your app is as simple as dropping them a link and asking them to let you know what they think. You might even get onto a Skype call with them, get them to share their screen with you as they go through the app and observe their interactions.

A significant hurdle for mobile apps, on the other hand, is getting users to go to the store and download your app. You can send them the link, but they then have to follow it to the relevant store, go through the downloading process, and then access the app to test it out. And iOS makes the process even harder by requiring a password for you to be able to download the app.

Irrespective of how you recruit users for your experiments, making the series of steps as seamless as possible is important. In Chapter 11, Onboarding and Registration, we will discuss how...