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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)

Pricing strategy

Let's assume that you want to sell your app, or that you want to add in-app purchases. What will your strategy look like? When are you going to charge money? Right from the start, enabling the user to download the app in the first place? Or will you offer a trial period, allowing the user to evaluate your app first? Or will it be an app with premium features that can be unlocked with an in-app purchase? The answers to these questions will depend on the nature of your app, the region of your users, and the nature of the device operating system.

Price perception

Price perception is an important element here. Everybody knows about the psychological effect of the 99 cents approach. We know that $0.99 is just...