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Custom mobile app development services by third-party companies often look like a long and complicated process. In most cases, cooperation between a client and a vendor seems so overwhelming to customers because they don’t know what to expect and are afraid that they won’t be able to support the development team with the information they need. However, by hiring a team of professionals, you’ll avoid a significant part of the stress. Specialists will do everything to make the development process as easy and understandable for the customer as possible. Let’s see what you should expect from each development stage and how hiring an experienced team makes the process easier.

However, by hiring a team of professionals, you’ll avoid a significant part of the stress. Specialists will do everything to make the development process as easy and understandable for the customer as possible. Let’s see what you should expect from each development stage and how hiring an experienced team makes the process easier.

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The number of mobile phone users is quite big, and this research shows that it’ll only continue to grow. That’s why mobile applications became a necessity for any kind of business. Therefore, at some point, many companies resort to software development agencies that provide enterprise mobile app development services or those that work with startups. There is always such an option as hiring freelance developers, but choosing the right specialists might be challenging and bring unexpected outcomes for someone who has never worked in an IT sphere. In this case, hiring a ready-made programmer team is the best option as it eliminates the possible risks and extensive waste of time and money.

The main goal is to give customers a clear understanding of which result they should expect from the company that provides app building services. We’ll look at the stages of mobile app development, how long they take, and how costly each of them may appear.

CUSTOM MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DESCRIPTION

The development process is always complicated and can hardly be described in a few sentences. However, we’ll try to provide you with an overall picture without going into the details very much. Each of the stages will be described more extensively in the next paragraphs.

Custom mobile app development services start with the pre-development, or discovery stage. A project manager/product owner on the client’s side works with the business analyst on the side of a mobile development services provider.

CUSTOM MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: DISCOVERY

Discovery Stage: Short Description

The discovery stage is all about forming a perception of the project. At this point, various specialists gather information from both the client and the service provider’s side. Their main goal is to understand how an application will function, look, and other details.

Altogether, at the end of the discovery stage, all team members get a plan that describes the application in the smallest detail, how it will look, and how it will function.

The discovery stage is, undoubtedly, one of the most crucial development phases. That’s why so many specialists are involved in it. They include project managers, business analysts, UI/UX designers, etc.

Discovery Stage: Timeline

The main point of the discovery stage is collecting as much necessary information about an app as possible. Companies that provide the best mobile app development services always consider this stage crucial. To do that, the service provider assigns a business analyst to collaborate with the person on the customer’s side. Usually, it is the member of the client’s team who has a helicopter view on how business is working in general and what the needs are. Additionally, they can identify the employees in an organization with the knowledge required to work on some particular modules of the future solution, like the general ledger or manufacturing module.

Mobile development services providers always give you, as a customer, wireframes/mockups, and a Software Requirement Specification document (SRS) at the end of discovery. An SRS is built on the information gathered by the business analyst. It also includes all visual components (wireframes, mockups, diagrams, etc.),

CUSTOM MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: DEVELOPMENT AND LAUNCH

Development And Launch: Short Description

The development stage is the longest one and probably requires the most immense amount of work. Programmers do the coding during it, and QA engineers check an app for bugs and possible improvements. All this work can be organized in different ways. There are various SDLC models for it, which we’ll discuss later on.

Development And Launch: Timeline

SDLC stands for Software Development Life Cycle. The concept implies stages an app goes through while being developed. Mostly they are:

CUSTOM MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: SUPPORT, MAINTENANCE, AND UPDATES

Support, Maintenance, and Updates: Short Description

Support, maintenance, and updates stage imply everything that the app goes through after it’s released, and people have started to use it. Even though QA engineers have worked hard during the development stage, some bugs will occur only after the launch of an app, and they should be fixed immediately. It can be problems with the app’s usage on the old device or a different OS. Problems with the operating systems appear quite often, but we focus on choosing such technologies that allow avoiding them. That’s why we mostly deliver Flutter application development services when it comes to cross-platform solutions.

Support, Maintenance, and Updates: Summary

This stage is very long-running, so it’s nearly impossible to do the time estimation. But the expenses for it can be evaluated approximately. Most companies who provide custom enterprise mobile app development services state that the support, maintenance, and updates stage requires about 15 percent of the whole development budget per year.

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