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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)

Do you need to create a backend yourself?

It totally depends on your app's needs, but for most apps there is no reason at all to create a backend yourself, at least not for your Minimum Viable Product (MVP). There are plenty of readymade backend solutions available.

Most solutions support push notifications, data storage, social sign up and login (sign up or login using your Facebook or Twitter credentials for example) and data synchronization functionality, including offline support for your app.

If you have to program all these things for yourself, it could take up a lot of time and it will probably take even more time to make it error free.

Almost all solutions come as freemium service and most of the time the free options are good enough to build your MVP. Some of them, such as Firebase, come with real-time support, making it a great base for a chat app. Later, we will...