If your business is ready to take the plunge into mobile app development, you'll need to find a great developer to help you make it happen. To ensure the process goes smoothly.
Innverse Technologies India Based Mobile Application Development Company,
suggested looking for these some most important key qualities during your
search for the perfect partner or agency.
Partnership
First and most important point is to focus on looking for a
partner, not a contractor. What’s the difference, you ask? The contractor
will do what he’s paid for (hopefully) and then move on to another project/client.
But you should expect more. Whether you’re a big company or a small start up
(with aim to grow) you need a partner to help and participate in growing your
business. Someone experienced who can deliver not only the requested code, but
also the consulting, inattentiveness, support and many other qualities that
I’ll touch on later.
Maybe you don’t realize it at the beginning, but you’re
potentially building a long term relationship here. If everything’s goes well
you’ll be building next versions of your product, you’ll target new markets and
platforms and you need someone who’ll be there with you and who can grow
together with you.
App Strategy
This is a very basic and important step in the process of Mobile
Application Development. It is not just about creating an app for your
business, but to ensure that the app meets your business needs. The app
strategy involves the mobile agency to carefully evaluate your business needs
and derive the challenges in providing the app solution. Furthermore, they need
to work out a plan to efficiently overcome these challenges and provide you the
perfect app solution.
The best mobile business partners are always stargazing, from
discovery to deployment, strategic planning is always at the forefront of their
design and technology work. At the end of the day, your app is a business
investment — you are developing it to establish brand presence, and increase
user reach and revenue. Constant strategic brainstorming, planning and
implementation are all critical to achieving these goals.
Clear communication
The quality of the cooperation with your partner depends on the
communication. Hence, the quality of your business depends on it – it’s so
simple.
The communication is most effective if both sides speak the
same-
language – the
business language in this case. I may assure you that best developers will be
eager to learn your business and at the same time they will introduce you to
some technical details of their work, just enough that you know where are the
current boundaries of the technologies you build on, what’s feasible and in
which directions you can innovate.
Good,
proactive communication also gives you one really important advantage – a peace of
mind. If your partner is reliable, responds precisely and promptly to your
questions, communicates problems early then you don’t have to worry if you
don’t hear back from him every few hours. It just means that everything is
running smoothly
App Designing
Apps without intuitive UI are lifeless and boring. So, App
Designing plays a major role to create a lasting impression on your users.
Look at some of the popular apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Paytm, Flipkart,
etc., which has just about everything that a user might need. So, ensure that
your mobile agency offers similar look and feel to your app through responsive
designs.
App Development-
There are way too many developers available in the market, but here is the catch: not many follow the standards required by popular mobile platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows, etc. As a result, the apps would never see the light of the day. Hence, choose a mobile agency that has a good team of developers who have a proven record of working on several published apps in various app stores.
Collaboration
Authentic collaboration requires active listening, patience and drive. It promotes creative thinking, insightful brainstorming and speedy problem solving. Some of the best app ideas have come from a few people sitting in a room with a whiteboard, thinking out loud and building off of each other's thoughts.
Through experience and expertise, a good mobile partner recognizes that collaboration is a proven practice. They make the conscious effort to have regular team meetings with clients to leverage their unique experience, creativity and the client's vision to create amazing mobile experiences.
Authentic collaboration requires active listening, patience and drive. It promotes creative thinking, insightful brainstorming and speedy problem solving. Some of the best app ideas have come from a few people sitting in a room with a whiteboard, thinking out loud and building off of each other's thoughts.
Through experience and expertise, a good mobile partner recognizes that collaboration is a proven practice. They make the conscious effort to have regular team meetings with clients to leverage their unique experience, creativity and the client's vision to create amazing mobile experiences.
Support and Maintenance
Once your app is delivered and is successfully released in various app stores, you need a follow up mechanism to monitor its performance and statistics. A good mobile agency compliments their iPhone application development services with robust support and maintenance that include: changes due to regulatory concerns; minor, incremental and major enhancements; major upgrades and additions; corrective maintenance; security reviews, etc.
Commitment to user experience
User experience (UX) is much more than good graphics — it's about giving people an emotional and satisfying response to an app. Good UX considers the user's complete experience as he or she interacts with a product and generates an emotional connection between the user and the app. A good mobile partner comprises UX "wizards" — user interface (UI) and UX designers who are committed to designing mobile apps that offer truly intuitive function and a beautiful design interface.
App Marketing
In order to
create more visibility for your app, app marketing by mobile agency could be of
great help. It helps to build a profitable business model by increased adoption
of your app by users. Hence, choose a mobile agency that lists out creative app
marketing techniques to quickly monetize your app.
App Porting
It is very essential to diversify to your app on to
various mobile platforms and that’s what app porting does. The biggest
advantage that you get through app porting is the cross-platform compatibility
for your app. That means more and more devices can access your app bringing
more business for you. Most mobile agency don’t support this service owing to
the complexities involved in it.
Pricing model
There are basically two pricing models to choose from: ‘fixed
price’ and ‘time and material’. Which one you choose depends on your situation,
but basically you should choose fixed price when you know exactly what you want
to build and you don’t envision any changes throughout the project. You just
want to get a price from the developer, maybe to compare it with other prices
and choose the lower one. I must however warn you that this is probably the bad
approach as the IT industry and its clients has already learned the hard way
many times. The key reason is that the requirements almost always change, so
why would you like to put yourself in a position, where you already have signed
a contract with fixed content and fixed price? The changes can be really
expensive in this situation.
So should I hire a freelancer or an agency?
If you are from a software company then a freelancer may be a good
fit for you, as you probably have many of the agency capabilities inside App development company and you
just need some additional manpower for a limited period of time or some missing
technical skills. However if you lack expertise in software development you
probably would like to go with the agency.
Results-driven
This is probably the most important aspect to look for in your
mobile partner,The right mobile partner will have a proven track record of
working successfully with various types of integration technologies,
infrastructure platforms and companies ranging from disruptive startups to
Fortune 500 companies.
Carefully reviewing a mobile firm's mobile products can reveal
insights into the company's capabilities. Additionally, reading reviews of
the company's apps can provide a snapshot of its apps' market performance,