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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)

Firebase dashboard

If you have been playing with the app a little, have added some canvases and then gone to the Firebase dashboard, you will see all the canvases that you have just created appear here. All updates appear here instantly (of course, only if the device you are testing the app on is online).

This also makes Firebase very suitable for chat applications. It works the other way around as well. If you add a new canvas node here, it will appear instantly in the app. Just give it a try, add some nodes, play a bit and adapt the app a bit to test other Firebase functionality as well.

This is what the dashboard may look like.

To clarify this example, the title, description and hint fields, that already persist locally, are stored here as well. It makes sense to avoid data redundancy as much as possible and to store only the ID and VALUE properties of each element:

With only...