Tag: mobile app development

Do you have a great app concept but aren’t sure how to make it a reality?  If so, you should partner with a reliable mobile application development company right away. It can help your business to have a leg up on the competition in the increasingly global market.  A mobile app for your business can help in increasing the sales of your products and the exposure of your company. So, mobile application development has become an integral part of digital transformation. But you might think why should you outsource mobile application development services? In this context, I would refer to the famous quote of Peter F. Ducker, “Do what you do the best, outsource the rest.” Your internal team can work on more demanding activities that suit their skill sets. Or, it may not be financially feasible to invest in a developing team for a one-time activity. Once your application becomes ready, what will your mobile application development team do? That’s why outsourcing is always better! According to a Deloitte report, “The outsourcing and shared services sector will grow at an over 7.4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2019 to reach US$ 971.2 billion by 2023.” Here we have listed some of the best possible reasons why outsourcing mobile app development is the best solution! Eradicate recruitment hassles by outsourcing mobile app development Recruiting new employees is a cumbersome process. Also, it involves a hefty recruitment cost. And how would you know that the candidate has the right potential to develop your mobile application. Because there are several hurdles and critical success elements that are unique to mobile app development. You can’t hire only mobile app developers. You will have to hire a product manager, UI/UX designers, API/ Backend developers, QA, etc.  But you can leave the worry by outsourcing it to a reputable mobile app development company. It will likely have a team of those experts and a list of success stories to prove their expertise and experience.  Access the global talent pool  When you collaborate with employees from other nations, you have access to the top technical talent from across the world. Thereby, you won’t be bound to hire talents residing near your office location.   Let me share the success story of WhatsApp which is now owned by Facebook. Brian Acton and Jan Koum (founders of WhatsApp) outsourced the majority of WhatsApp’s mobile application development to some developers in Russia. This helped them to focus on other issues like customer support and administrative tasks. Besides, outsourcing mobile app development helped them to minimize costs. And they got access to the high-quality work of an international development team.  Get the benefit of end-to-end services At each level of the app development process, there are several aspects to consider. That’s why mobile app development companies offer end-to-end solutions.  It means you can get everything, right from the conception of your app to the complete result to any technical support. This will help you to accomplish long-term digital success for your business. Improvement in operational efficiency Marc Benioff, Founder and CEO of Salesforce, said at the World Economic Forum that “Speed is the new currency of business.” And if we talk about speed, outsourcing mobile app development can help you get quicker services. How so? A reputable mobile app development company will provide you with a timeframe. Because of their extensive expertise working on a wide range of difficult projects, they can significantly speed up the app development process. Besides, they have the expertise of meeting project deadlines as well. Many outsourcing businesses provide an initial test assignment that allows you to evaluate their job quality. Meanwhile, you and your internal team may focus on other things that are important to your business.  Cost-effective method in mobile app development According to a Deloitte study, 64% of the companies consider cost-savings as the primary factor driving them towards outsourcing.  Because hiring and maintaining a mobile application development team is a tedious job. And as we discussed earlier, the team will include QA, UI/UX designers, and many more.  Outsourcing your project to a team of experienced developers can help you cut expenses and keep them under control. This allows you to enhance your income while also allowing you to save money to invest in another area of your organization. Conclusion:   Choosing the right outsourcing partner is becoming increasingly important in today’s environment, which is constrained by physical distance. You won’t need to set up the office space necessary to keep a team together, which means you’ll save money on the upkeep and operation of the workspaces. And developing mobile apps is an integral part of staying ahead in this digital era. After all, apps are one-stop shops for all of your business’s requirements and expand your business.

Mobile applications are now what consumer software was in the early 90s and what websites were in the 1st decade of the 21st century. Every company has a mobile application out there; well, almost every company. And though some mobile applications directly impact a business by generating leads and enabling sales like apps that facilitate ticket booking or the ones which support ecommerce, there are other kinds of apps that help increase brand awareness. So whether you are selling tickets to your motivational seminar (event application), want to sell your real estate (property listing apps with virtual tour) or want to connect local businesses with end customers (service listing app) there is an app for all your business need. And if you are considering whether or not to invest in a mobile application, here is one important piece of information which you should consider – YOUR COMPETITION ALREADY HAS A MOBILE APPLICATION OUT IN THE MARKET AND PEOPLE ARE USING AND LOVING IT. Now that we both know you should be more proactive in your decision to get started with your mobile application, here comes the million-dollar question – whether to go forward with Native apps or Hybrid apps? Which platform to choose will depend specifically on two things (in that priority) – the requirements of your application (every function that your app is supposed to perform) and your budget (no surprise there). However, making up your mind as to which platform to go forward with can sometimes be as testing as choosing between which of two women you want to marry (or men, for that matter), both of whom you happen to like quite the same. Though a simple Google will flood you with ideas and suggestions, intended to solve your dilemma, it which may actually end up confusing you even more. Here is rather an article which talks about something more important – the myth surrounding this eternal battle. 1.  Myth: Hybrid Costs Half of Native Fact: Hybrid costs approximately 30% – 40% lesser than native. This popular myth owes its existence to some early age consultants and sales experts, who wanted their clients to see the stark difference between hybrid and native platforms, in terms of cost, and thereby beguile their customers to choose hybrid platforms. But this sleazy trick has suffered a rather painful death in today’s world when customers buy a solution and not promises. The hybrid platform allows the app to be developed in a single platform but then it has to be configured for both the platforms separately. The team also has to test the application after it has been developed in both android and iOS environment and solve any issue and test it again in both environments. This effectively sees a reduction of the effort of only about 30%-40% depending on the feature density of the app. A reduction in cost is always equivalent to the reduction of effort. So a hybrid app, for both OS platforms, costs effectively 30% to 40% lesser (and not 50% lesser) as compared to the total price of building the applications in native platform. 2.  Myth: Hybrid takes lesser time to build than native Fact: Hybrid takes slightly more time to build than native A native application is built on separate platforms for iOS and Android. Two separate development teams work in parallel to develop the app. In a hybrid environment, one team develops the app and then configures it for both the platform. Since one team works for the hybrid model as compared to two teams, the development time for the hybrid is slightly more than that for native.  3.   Myth: Hybrid Apps are Unsafe Fact: Hybrid app can be just as safe as native apps When it comes to the safety and security of the data that your app uses, what constitutes a good secure application is not the platform on which it is built but the security measures considered by the developers. A good team of hybrid developers will use all the basic safety guidelines that a team of native developers will use – passwords should be encrypted while stored in the device, HTTP requests should be made over SSL and Javascript should be obfuscated to make it illegible to anyone spoofing on the data. 4.    Myth: Hybrid apps have poor performance Fact: Hybrid apps perform as good as Native for most cases The performance of a mobile application depends on other things as well and not just it’s built. The physical capability of a device and the version of the OS (which also means the version of the browser) goes a long way to determine the performance of a mobile application. In the nascent days of hybrid development, because of the considerably poorer configuration of device hardware and OS, hybrid apps did perform relatively slower than its native counterpart. But with advances in the devices and the OS, most hybrid and native applications will work at par on two devices of similar or identical configuration. It is important to note however those applications which are power-hungry like gaming applications (with high graphics and FPS) are better built-in native rather than a hybrid. 5.   Myth: You can’t build everything with Hybrid Fact: Apart from resource-hungry or resource-intense applications, all other applications can be built with the hybrid. Explanation: Since native by definition uses the same platform as the device OS, so apps built-in native can control core features of the device more seamlessly than a hybrid app, for example – device camera, GPS, call, WiFi, etc. For a long time, hybrid applications did suffer from the limitation of not being able to build every conceivable feature. But as the platform evolves, it keeps solving most of its problems. In its current state, a hybrid application can incorporate almost all features that a native application can. Even in case of some challenges, there are a lot of good Cordova plugins available which will help the developers to easily mitigate any problem. However, hybrid applications are still struggling to make room for resource-hungry