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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)

What are your technical requirements?

Not every app is an island. In some cases, apps are required to integrate with other platform-specific services or apps. In such cases, you are presented with firm restrictions that could limit your development options. At a minimum, it will help you get your development priorities straight.

As we'll see next, cross-platform toolkits exist that allow you to release across multiple platforms. Though these tools open up certain courses of action, they restrict others and may hinder compatibility with other native apps. Depending on your technical requirements and integration needs, this particular problem could trump all other issues completely.

What are your technical capabilities?

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