10 Tips To Hire a Best Android App Development Company

Having an app is a great idea for success, and having an android app means you are ready to walk on the path of success. As Android has already reached to 180 countries with 1 billion Android devices, and 150 million app downloads, it's a great opportunity for businesses to jump into the market with an ideal Android app. Not just an app idea, but you need to search for a development company who can effectively convert your app idea into reality, secure your idea, and give you desired results. Well, it's tough to find the most trustable one among the crowd of hundreds of android app development companies. Also, it's not easy to share your app idea with the one to whom you met at first time. So, here are the ten points you must consider before you share your idea or hire any company for your app.

Company that Serve Your Needs

Many companies offer their own services to make your app. Before they listen to your idea, they begin to describe their own idea. But you want the company that listen to you first, they must understand your requirement, they must understand your app-concepts, and they must be able to let you understand what your idea is, and how it can turn into an app. It means you must look for a company that offer services based on your requirements.

Total experience

An experienced company is an able company to understand what you want, and to deliver what you desire. That's why it's necessary to check the overall experience of company, particularly for android app development.

Team of Android Developers

Some companies hire freelancers to get your work done. But this is not what you want. You need a company with a team of android developers for your app security. So, you must inquire for their total team of android developers, and make sure that they are working in that company.

Technical Expertise

An app becomes a successful app when it is made up of ingredients like excellent ideas, creativity, technical skills and superb performance. Except ideas, all the other ingredients are mixed by the development company. And therefore, you should inquire whether the development team have all such ingredients or not. Being an android developer, they must possess a deep knowledge and experience of Java programming language, Android SDK, UI/UX development, etc. Regarding creativity, their years of experience is enough to achieve the same.

Ratings of Previous Apps 

How to know whether the company is really experienced or not? What's the surety of their perfect work? Their previous work gives you surety for their experience and their level of expertise. Tell them to share the details of their previously developed android apps, and start verifying their work. Don't forget to notify the app ratings as this will help you determine the performance level of app.

Quality Assurance

For a genuine app development company, maintaining strict quality standards are the foremost part of an app development process. To check for quality assurance, make sure that they provide app testing services and also, they must assure you for a bug free app.

Steady Communication

Whatever activities take place in your app project, you must get inquired about all of them. For this, a constant and steady communication is mandatory between you and developers. Schedule your communication timings with developers for constant reports and other ongoing details of activities.

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Property Rights

Once your app gets ready and released on the app store, each and everything should remain in your control. You should have full rights over your app, its source codes and its elements. This is because of your security from confusions may arise in future regarding app ownership or other matters.

A Careful Look Over Entire Agreement

Go through each line of the agreement, and be sure that everything is according to your requirement list and finalized pricing. Clarify all your doubts if any, from the company. And most important confirm that hidden cost is not there to arise in future.

App Monetization Assistance

An experienced company knows very well about the app monetization strategies. Ask them for proper assistance, and apply their assistance in your app, if your prime goal is to generate a huge revenue from your app. In addition to app development, some companies offer app monetization services to help their clients to increase their app revenue.

Conclusion

Don't hurry to hire a development company, you met at first. Search for 4-5 companies, collect their quotes and compare the prices. It doesn't mean that low prices are always the best option, you might require to compromise with quality which results into nothing at the end. Always go for the one with reasonable price and best quality standards with huge experience.

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iPhone App Development - Key Points To Develop an iPhone App That Can Attract Massive Users

Over-saturated iphone app market with more than 1 million apps have created a tough competition for iPhone app development companies to come up with new apps. Yes, it's right that there is an app for everything. It means if you really want to hit the grounds, you need to generate an app idea that hasn't surfaced yet. Having an ideal app idea and submitting it to the app development company is not just enough. You must think beyond the app idea which includes its design, development, updates, and most importantly user engagement. Ignoring such can put you down below the competitions with a big loss of app investment.

Shelter yourself from bigger loss and put yourself safe aside by learning the key points to develop an iphone app.

Set With Simplicity

Why people like to turn their smartphones on whenever they require to perform any task? Because they are always in a hurry for immediate results, and smartphones are widely known for their speedy results. The secret? Not smartphones, but apps are able to perform functions quickly. Yes, device functions are also responsible for app performance. But well-designed apps     are kept at the center for immediacy. Next is the user's capability to go through app functions. This ability depends upon the simplicity of app. The more it is simple, the more users will be able to go through it hurriedly. Designs with too much highlights, sceneries, etc., can lay a bad impression on users, making them helpless to remove it from their smartphones. Power and beauty of simplicity work better than surplus attractive designs. However, for apps like games, you can go with same, but be sure for high resolutions.

Maintain A Perfect Balance Between the Functions

After designing, you must turn your focus on its functions, features, elements or whatever you name them. Not little or not too much, average number of functions must be placed at each slide of app. Too many functions at one slide will hide the beauty of design and also, create confusion among your users. Fewest number of functions send a signal to the users that the particular app has nothing useful to play with. Therefore, it's mandatory to maintain a perfect balance of functions in app. Good balance between the functions may later result into good balance of your app success.

Thumb Design

You might have noticed that apps have their particular icon, and the size of that icon is not bigger than your thumb. Mostly, everybody uses its thumb to execute each and every function of a smartphone. Not only an app icon, but you have to keep buttons, slides and scrolls that equals to thumb size within your app. Also, don't forget to maintain an appropriate distance between each button.

Color Schemes

Colors are deeply related to the feelings of users. Mind becomes more active whenever eyes catch a color. So, you must use a spectrum of colors for slides of your app, but within the limits. It will help your users remember your app and its slides, on the basis of colors. 

Take a Good Care of Uniqueness

“Oh yes, this is the same app that I used a few months ago”. This expression comes when your app functions are similar to the functions of some other app. Elaborate your ideas, make a list of features and functions, and check the Apple app store to see if there is an app that has parallel functions like yours. If you find such, then delete the functions, add some new one or try to give a new shape to your existing functions. Uniqueness must be there to leave a good impression on the user's mind.

Design For Your Users

All the above described points are for the comfort of users. If they feel ease by using your app, if they like your app deigns and colors with proper navigation, if they can tap any button, scrolls and slides easily with thumb, they please to have your app for a long time. Make a user-centric app, and you are ready to enter the competitive region.

Spread the Words of Your App

How to let the people know about your app in the crowd of 1 million iPhone apps (and growing). Promotion is the only answer to your question. Spread the words of your iPhone app development on the sites where you find the maximum number of your targeted audience. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media sites are often used for app promotion.

Constant Updates

What if you served with the same food day and night!!!. No doubt, for sometime you will eat it, after some time your quantity will decrease and again, after some time you will stop and go for the search of another one. Similarly, your app will be used by everyone initially. After some time, users will decrease the app usage and again, after some time they will remove it and search for a new one with advance features. Constant updates save your app from being removed from users' smartphones. Providing something new to the users through existing app means to give them a reason to come back, and keep your app forever.

Conclusion

At the end, keep your users at first and start your design accordingly. Make a list of features that you think your users will like. Also, make a list of features that you think your users will deny. Promotion is necessary even before you launch your app. It's a way to create excitement among users about your upcoming app. With this, you are already making a bigger line of users for your app. And when your app launch, you will see a great number of app downloads. Don't stop, when you see the high scores of app, keep going, and be ready to next update or upgrade.

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