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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)

Tell a story - an example onboarding app

To demonstrate the various ideas related to onboarding, we will create an Android app that is using Fabric for Twitter authentication and Firebase SDK for phone authentication. You can use Firebase as well for Twitter authentication, but the one that Fabric is offering is more convenient to use.

We will name this app, Tell a Story. Using this app, users can write a story together. Anyone can read the stories that people create, but, if the user wants to contribute to the story, he needs to sign-up using Twitter or his phone number. Let's start simple with a couple of wire frames that will explain the exact flow of the app:

The user lands on the introduction view when he opens the app for the first time. This view contains a clear explanation of why he should want to use the app and what it is about. There are two very clear call to...