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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen what services we can choose from if we do not want to create the backend for the app ourselves. We learned what could be important for making the right strategic and technical choices and also saw an example app, which is using Firebase as a mobile backend. You can use the app to learn from or you can enhance it and use it as a starter project for your own app idea.

The app that we examined is for Android only. What if you want to have this app built for iOS? Should you create it again, but this time using Swift and Xcode? Are there other options to develop an app just one time but for multiple (mobile) platforms? You can check out the next chapter to learn more about this.