Tips on how to make your mobile app successful

Sensitive to the market

No matter what industry you are in, success is closely related to your understanding of the market. For the App industry, Apple's App Store and Google Play are the two top application markets. The best way to understand Apple's App Store is to learn "tricks". App Store will display paid app rankings, free app rankings, and total download rankings in real time. Apple will provide these three rankings for each app type.

Review these charts frequently and mark those potential trends in your notebook. If you can do this regularly, it will greatly help your app design, marketing, and pricing models.

Your idea should be consistent with those successful apps. How do

you know the market needs your app? Look at the app ranking chart, is the app you want to develop somewhat similar to one of them? If so, then you Already a potential winner. If not, keep watching, it's that simple.

Act like a developer

Once you have an idea sketched out, you need to immediately find a platform on which to develop your app as a developer. Don't be afraid of the word "developer", it doesn't mean you need to program, it can also be used to describe those who publish apps.

For the first app developed, it is recommended to choose to develop on Apple's iOS system, not Android or BlackBerry. Because on Apple's platform, the probability of app profitability will be higher. Also, don't forget to review the Apple App Store verification guidelines. Apple will enforce some regulations during the verification process. If you do not follow the regulations, the app will not be allowed to be listed.

Looking for promising programmers

Hiring your first programmer will be a long process, but the time will be spent. Great people will save you a lot of unnecessary delays, costs, and even help you avoid failure in the future. You will also add some new blood to the team, so learning how to evaluate programmers quickly and effectively is a very important skill.

Sign non-disclosure agreements and share ideas

You must protect your ideas, source code, and other intellectual property resources. Therefore, before hiring programmers, you must sign a non-disclosure agreement with them.

Start coding

(1) icon. Ask the programmer to develop and deliver the icon for the app. You may have some icon ideas yourself that you can apply and develop a 512 x 512 iTunes Artwork image version.

(2) Hello, World!. Ask programmers to develop a "simplest Hello, World!" App application. This application function only needs to be clickable to open, and then display a "Hello, World!" string page. Give them ten minutes to develop. This is not to test programming skills, but to test whether these programmers can submit an app that can be used for testing. The app needs to include an icon so you can see how the "Hello, World!" app will appear on your phone.

(3) Submit the App. When your programmer is ready to show a beta version of the app, he/she must be able to create "ad hoc" (a version of the app that can be submitted to and run on a phone without using the App Store) ). This ad hoc version of the app must be installed on your phone before testing. It's imperative to spend time

testing your app because you can see how users are using your product.

Users will ask you questions that you have never encountered before, which is obvious, because you designed the app, and everything seems to be normal, but sometimes you can't find the problem.

Don't think about your original design document, go through all the features. Don't assume your app will work well because the last time it worked well was after your last test. Test all the features every time, especially before you finally release the app.

Put the app on the market

Now , your friends and family have tested the app you developed, and the reviews are good. So, it's time to put the app on the App Store for testing.

Let your programmer tell you how to submit a few apps for the first time, but don't tell your developer account login information to your programmer.

Apple will take a period of time to detect the submitted app and finally decide whether to accept or reject it. Apple's testing time standard is based on the type of submitter, and if you are an individual, it will take about three to seven days. If you are a company, then it will take seven to ten days.

Marketing

There are thousands of great apps in the App Store, so if you want to be successful, you need to break through. Focus on a few key areas to effectively promote your app so your customers can discover it and download it. Some of the basic elements of an app will become a marketing opportunity, and that is the key to success. Your job is to create a seamless business flow for users from discovering the app icon to clicking the download button.