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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)

Canvapp - an Android MVP app using Firebase

Let's build an Android MVP app using Firebase. For this particular case, we will have an app that allows you to create and share your business model canvas, just by using your phone. Anyone can view or edit each other's canvases so you can gather feedback easily. If you do not remember what the business model canvas looks like, you can have a look at Chapter 2, Lean Startup Primer again.

We will be using a wireframing tool, such as SwordSoft Layout as shown in the following example . Let's say that the app should look more or less like this:

The first view displays a list of business model canvases and it has a sliding menu. The second view is the one that the user will see when he is creating a new canvas or when he chooses a canvas from the list. It displays a number of pages, each containing a title, description, and...