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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)

The Flyng Case Study

Flyng is an iOS app and it is about dating but in a (slightly) different way. Let's have a look to see what the business and technical challenges for Flyng are. So far, this book has been full of a lot of theory. By now you know what the Lean start-up methodology is and, more specifically, how you can apply the methodology to mobile application development.

We have seen many samples for iOS, Android, and web apps, and we have learned what we need to do to learn from our users at an early stage and how to gather feedback quickly, all without too much (technical) effort.

Various providers offering their services have helped us with that. Think of a mobile backend as a service (MBaaS), such as Back4App and QuickBlox, onboarding instruments, such as social sign on and phone number sign on (digits), and analytics services.

The Lean start-up methodology is...