Tools For Optimising Mobile Applications
With the proliferation of Internet services around the world, the market today is flooded with all kinds of mobile applications serving on different platforms like Android and iOS. At the same time, there are a number of new-gen entrepreneurs who want to develop a niche market or sell a unique business idea through mobile apps. To achieve this, they hire an android developer or hire an iOS developer – depending on what platform they want to host.
Now, in our experience of providing varied mobile app development services, we have found that many a time clients hire an android developer without much thought. What ends up is a disaster of a mobile app – from design to usability. In this blogpost, the developers of this mobile app development company in India seek to alleviate some of the concerns of the developer community by listing out some great tools to optimise different mobile apps.
Applause
The first in our list for clients hiring an iOS developer or android developer is Applause. As the name indicates, this tool promises to do everything in its power for positive user experience with respect to a mobile app. Applause has various kinds of testing solutions performed by experts in real time environment in any country, configuration, combination. An exciting feature of this tool is the possibility of launching a beta app that makes it easy for clients hiring android developers to analyse the working of their app.
TestFairy
The second tool in our list is an easy recommend especially for big enterprises hiring android developers to streamline the development process and release better versions of their apps in shorter cycles. Endorsed by big companies like IBM, Deloitte, Vodafone this free testing tool works on the principle of inviting beta testers and generating reports inside the app itself. Yet another useful feature for providing greater mobile app development services is the provision of video recording of the testing.
Azetone
This tool is proclaimed as the ultimate personalisation tool for clients hiring iOS developers. It helps in performing simultaneous tests on different devices. As part of improving mobile app development services, this tool has an analytics mechanism that provide complete reports based on user actions and gestures inside the mobile app. With the mandate of boosting conversions, Azetone prioritises the customer for the client’s mobile app strategic vision.
Appsee
Appsee is a full-fledged analytics platform that gives insights to companies hiring android developers for developing android apps. The tool analyses user behaviour to gain clarity on the performance of mobile app. The analysis is in fact deep enough to pinpoint specific issues that cause different levels of user frustration. Any mobile app development company in India in the nascent stage can make use of this smart app to deliver optimal performance.
Testdroid
Finally, we have Testdroid that can be used for testing both android and iOS apps in real devices with option for automation or manual testing. With limited programming required, companies hiring android developers can make use of this app to test their mobile apps on a large scale and on multiple channels. What’s more? Companies can create a cloud account to try the tool for free.
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Smart App Development with MVP
In recent years, there has been a spurt in the number of businesses in the mobile space. As part of HireIndianProgrammers, our developers have been undertaking mobile app development projects both in Android and iOS. With every complex project, our developers have found that many clients are most often underfunded. This leads to a struggle for developing mobile apps in an effective manner. The projects are delivered ultimately but often we find that they could have been achieved in a simplistic manner.
In this blogpost, the developer team at HireIndianProgrammers discuss the what-how-when of MVP and its associated benefits. Clients who want to start off in a small way, owing to a fund crunch, can hire an android developer to develop a MVP for their android apps.
What is a MVP?
An MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is essentially a bare-bones, no-frills approach to developing a mobile app. Some clients may be low on funds or may want to target and build on their small business. For example, suppose a client wants to start his own online cake delivery shop on iOS. He can then hire an iOS developer to work on an MVP, a prototype of sorts and then release to a selected user market called early adopters or evangelists.
In this kind of mobile app development, the biggest onus lies on getting valuable feedback on the most essential functionality, which is what makes the entire MVP. The clients hiring an android developer need to work closely with the developer team in deciding the vital features, how to deploy them, round on a pilot group of adopters, arrange a medium for getting feedback from them and work on the subsequent development stages.
How to build it?
Our experience in providing mobile app development services enabled us to realise the importance of articulation and understanding of the client’s project. While building the MVP, the core purpose of the client’s business must be reflected in it. The next step is to locate the possible target segment – who is most likely to use the app and where are they largely residing. This must be found to start the pilot testing as they are a good representation of the larger target market.
The format for the MVP can be anything, again, it depends much on the client’s business that is hiring an android or iOS developer. It can be a basic application incorporating the essential features or it can be a landing page seeking feedback or it can even be an information page (text, audio, video) explaining the purpose of the application. In this type of mobile app development, developers have to tread cautiously to go full on with minimalistic development.
Clients hiring an android developer (or iOS) will do well to take seriously the feedback generated and deploy it in the final version. This is of course a continuous process. At the same time, in providing such mobile app development services, we have found that making sense of the different data – number of signups, number of users retained, specific feature data – will pay rich dividends in the course of developing the final version of the mobile app.
Benefits of MVP
Clients hiring an iOS developer to build a MVP are most likely to save time and costs – both critical for a mobile app development project. Why? Because the stakes here are high. Developers need to take account of time-to-market criteria. Many a time, android developers can go off the path building a bloated mobile app and end up in failure to attract user downloads.
What’s more? There may even arise the possibility that users are more than satisfied with the early product (MVP) itself. No need for further development. It is sort of a quicker enhanced development driven by the users themselves. MVP, as an integral part of mobile app development services can lead to better targeted applications quickly. For instance, clients hiring an android developer to deploy a niche app, by going for a MVP, can reduce the uncertainties and increase the probabilities of success.
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Emergence of Chatbots – Good or Bad
More clients are hiring our dedicated mobile developers at HireIndianProgrammers – be it android development or iOS development to develop a parallel website customised for their mobile visitors. Let’s face it, mobile web development is here to grow. People are getting more comfortable browsing on their mobile for various purposes – from browsing and buying products to getting support and even conducting voice searches!
The emergence of new trends like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and so on will provide new opportunities for businesses to serve customers better than before. There has also been a growth in the number of internet businesses that primarily conduct business through mobile applications. As a result, we have been providing more mobile app development services – along with our web development services – in recent years for our clients. Our mobile app developers – both in Android and iOS have noticed a growing trend amongst our clients, especially marketers, opting for Chatbots. In this blogpost, we at HireIndianProgrammers seek to explain about Chatbots, where and how to use them and the associated benefits and ills.
Chatbots are basically virtual assistants embedded into any online application – be it mobile app or websites. Like any other virtual assistant, they help in addressing customer queries in a smart way. The Google Assistant, which many of us, are familiar with, works in a much bigger way. On the other hand, Chatbots are being implemented in several websites to make a fruitful user experience. For instance, a client hiring an android developer to orient his e-commerce website to mobile may want to implement a Chatbot application to enhance the user engagement by addressing queries in a chat conversation manner.
But here’s the catch. In our experience at handling several mobile app development projects, we can assure you that Chatbots do not address queries all the way. Certainly not to the extent of Google Assistant. Chatbots are not equipped to answer extensively. Rather, they are tuned for specific queries and adept at just that. Android developers and iOS developers would therefore do well to understand the client’s requirements with respect to the mobile application and assess whether even such an application is required.
Why, you ask? This is because users are preferring/ visiting your mobile app over others. Therefore, mobile app developers have to tread carefully while developing a Chatbot. Most often, Chatbots are not able to answer the human queries (which are wide ranging) and invariably provide a list of articles to the user. Not only does it add to the confusion, but it also forces to fend for themselves. To put it in another way, it makes for a bad user experience. The user is likely to switch to another application. The odds are greater if clients hiring mobile app developers end up implementing a Chatbot for processes where human intervention is crucial.
So, where can Chatbots be utilised productively? Mobile app developers working on Chatbots for their clients who hired them, can utilise them for simple and much importantly predictive queries. In this way, mobile app developers remove uncertainties from the system. For example, if the developer is working on an e-commerce app, he can devise a simple Chatbot at the checkout page with regard to any queries related to payment. The process can be further simplified with the provisioning of presets for customers to choose from, thereby rendering it hassle free.
Long story short, mobile app developers can look for simple and specific query tasks that can be easily achieved by a Chatbot, wherein the sample space for answers are limited. By implementing this, it also makes the conversation shorter.
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Designing the Search for Your Mobile App
The search bar has become an integral part of our lives. With a few clicks, people are able to look up on something they want to know. The advent of smartphones has transformed the search process even more. Most mobile applications too have Search integrated into it. As the scope for mobile-online business models widens, web developers will have to look for ways to design the Search functionality innovatively. Doing so will directly and indirectly result in more end sales. After all, when it comes to mobile applications, it is all about convenience. Hiring dedicated android developers or iOS developers will enable clients to develop rich applications aimed at bringing positive in-app experiences.
Our developer team, providing a variety of mobile app development services, delve into the process of designing Search. It is influenced by factors such as context, app functionality and depth of information.
The first thing that mobile app developers must know before attempting to designing Search is the difference between desktop visitors and mobile app visitors. The latter category of people wants a faster and convenient experience. But owing to the limited real estate in the case of mobiles, the significance of the Search bar becomes more realised.
We will look at two aspects in designing Search – the layout and physical design of the Search bar itself and the displaying of results as per the app.
With regard to physical designs and layouts, there are many kinds such as a top/ bottom layout, bar/ tab/ magnifying glass designs etc; Clients who want to hire mobile app developers would do well to provide information of their business and what they want to achieve with their mobile app. This information will be useful in formulating the design elements and layout of the Search.
A top layout is relevant for mobile apps driven by search, or in other words, visitors open your app primarily to search for information on products – eg: cab aggregator apps focussed on pickup and drop destinations. On the other hand, a bottom layout Search enhances the primary purpose of the app.
Depending on the screen space for your mobile app, you can appropriately design the Search – be it bar/ tab/ magnifying glass. For instance, if you have used the YouTube app, you might have noticed the magnifying glass for a Search. This is due to lack of space in the top navigation bar that is occupied by the logo and the upload video functionality. Therefore, adhere to intended purpose of app and implement it effectively.
The second aspect – presenting the results – is more related to the target segment of your business. There are different kinds of searches namely simple, filtered and predictive search. In Simple search, it is left to the visitor to type the relevant query. Mobile developers can display results according to the search keyword.
Filtered searches are appropriate for online businesses selling products, especially those that sell a vast inventory of products. Visitors will be able to customise and narrow their searches.Clients can communicate to their hired mobile app developers on how they want to display their results (products) in an appealing manner. Predictive search is useful for apps containing large amounts of content. It helps the visitors to come to know related search queries as they type. This search also greatly aids in smooth repeat purchases – case in point – cab aggregator apps that display recent ride destinations even before they type.
The team at HireIndianProgrammers has a mix of both android and iOSdevelopers. We have developed several mobile app development projects for our clients, both android and iOS. Our mobile app development services also cover support and maintenance with no messy contracts. If you are in the stage of developing an online business venture or expansion of the same or improve upon your mobile app, you can hire an iOS developer or an android developer, depending on your needs.