There are multiple ways in which you can get your mobile app developed. Let me list them for you.
- Be your own developer: Learn coding and code the app by yourself.
- Hire a developer: Search a developer who will understand your requirements and build your app.
Both the options given above are practical and will eventually get your app developed provided you have the following:
- Be focused and know what you want to do.
- Gaining Education – Learn programming and learn how to code for mobile apps. With coding you will also need good designing skills so that your app should look usable and user friendly. For many people, it’s not practical to learn coding due to time and difficulty constraints. In case you are one of those don’t worry I have another option for you.
- Hire an App Developer or an app development agency – Hiring or outsourcing is not easy, as you need to get the right person or team on board. Not only coding experience but should be known to the entire aspect of app development else you will have to hire more subject matter experts to fill the gaps.You need to ask right questions while you interview the probable person or agency you want to hire. Measure technical understanding and gauge their experience about mobile application development. According to me hiring should be considered as an option only when you have a good budget as it may go expensive.
According to me Costs will dependent on how complicated the app requirements are, how much of its design is personalized or whether it can incorporate existing design features (the code for which may already be available to use), and how experienced the development team is.
In case budget and time are critical constraints then I have another option which can help you develop you mobile app. You have an option to “build yourself” without coding.
I must tell you that mobile technologies have advanced to multi levels which providing a number of industry-specific applications as well as numerous other business use case scenarios. Relevance of mobile has grown a lot for several businesses sectors, such as transport, retail, e-commerce, health care, real estate and more. Big organizations spend huge amount of money in developing mobile applications for native platforms like iOS and Android.
On the other hand those who do not have any technical expertise nor a huge budget to build their own branded mobile application. Writers, artists, journalists and other professionals who feel the need to promote their work online also need their mobile app.
Considering the money and time constraint, ‘Do-It-Yourself’ mobile application building platforms to emerge. These platforms provide a tools which allow anybody to create a mobile application easily without having to write a single line of code.
You can create a range of mobile applications for various mobile devices, smartphones and tablets. Similarly, these platforms provide technical support as well as other useful resources to build and publish a branded mobile application for various platforms like Windows, Android, Apple, BlackBerry and more.
Appdeveloper.com is one such platform which provides tools and resources for you to build you mobile app without any knowledge of mobile app designing and development.