How to create a mobile app that meets customer’s expectations

No matter what business you are running, but in every business if your customer is disappointed then business never going to flourish. Developing a mobile app that meets customer’s expectation is very crucial. There is not a single approach to develop a perfect mobile app for any business; it totally depends on the requirement. But analyzing the requirement carefully and implementing it perfectly will make an app best. Your app must contain all features requested by the customer. App should be easy to use and responsive, should created with great design and unique features. Here are things you should consider before creating a mobile app.

Who is it for? – There is an old saying “All well if ends well”. Any app ultimately goes in the hands of end users. So developers need to consider the users of the app. If the end user is satisfied, everyone is satisfied.

Why are you building it? – The very important question that could help developers is “Where the app going to be utilized?”. Afterward developers will work on the answer as it is utilized in communication, transaction, gaming, ordering etc.

Data – While creating an app you should also consider what information will be conveyed through this app. The information should be precise according to business. Usually end users get frustrated when they suffer from improper information, lack of data etc. So developers must ensure that their application validates all the information.

Don’t forget good design – Although app should be simpler but it should be good looking and hypnotizing. So try to create pretty colorful screens, good sound effects, Beautiful fonts, popping design to impress users.

Responsive UI – UI is the screen where user interacts. So it is most important task of a developer to ensure UI is perfect or not. UI is most important asset which determines where end user will like the app or uninstall it.

Easy login – It is said that “First impression is last impression”. If the app has long process of login into application, end user will get frustrated and panic. So facilitate the users with easy login option like login with Facebook, email, Google+ etc.

Compatibility – The application should be compatible with every platform. Let everyone to enjoy the benefits your app. It should not be selective.

Simple but creative – Don’t make your app so much complex that user get frustrated and delete it. Try to keep it simple but don’t forget creativity. If your app will have unique capabilities, it will be more desirable to users. (for more)

Building an app like Uber, Here are the things you need to do

One of my technical partners told me yesterday, I want to build the next Uber app. Well, this is obvious. We always used to hear this from potential clients too and it’s coherent. The charm and success of Uber app have impressed everybody. Uber changed the service market on large scale and made on-demand services the new world trend which later accepted by food, cleaning, design and numerous other market segments.

But the genuine question here is it easy to build an app like Uber? Well, an easy question with complex answers. This post is here to guide you through important development aspects.

If you really want to make an app like Uber, you have to make two slightly different apps, one for the passengers and one for the drivers and later both would be connected to your admin panel.

Passenger’s app features

You can offer login and registration to users through social media, email and phone number.

– A booking interface required where users can fill details and can hire a taxi.

– You can facilitate users to see ratings and reviews of particular driver.

– You have to integrate your app with maps, and have the facility of location based search so that users can see nearby driver and can call him.

– You have to push notifications to the user to keep him updated during the booking progress and inform him about offers and coupons.

– You should add fare calculator to estimate fare during booking.

– You should facilitate users to send and receive messages so that they can discuss the trip with drivers like information about exact pick up point.

– You have to add payment gateways so that users can also pay the fare by digital mode.

– Display the ride history of previous booking and trips, and also allow them to book for same trip in just one click.

Driver’s app features

Some of the driver’s app features will be same as of passenger’s app like login, push notification and messaging, GEO location and map. Additional features I am listing here.

– Drivers should get notifications on new bookings. Drivers should have facility to accept or reject particular request.

– There should be separate profile for drivers that passengers could view. During drivers registration he could add his driving license, pan number and all other necessary details.

– Navigation map should suggest drivers the best and shortest routes.

– Driver can estimate the fare price with discounts and offers.

– There should be page to display trip stats, earnings and payrolls.

Last but not least, the admin panel. The space from where you could store, manage and review all the in-app activities. This page should offer you quick review of all activities, total earnings, totals cabs available for rides, total passenger booked cab, total passenger cancelled cab, passengers approached to the app. From here you can manage revenue and payroll, collect data and can do research for further enhancement etc.

So I want to build an app like Uber start it from today. It is the best business idea, which had already showed its impact on past.

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Why app development companies prefer Xamarin platform for mobile app development?

Xamarin is basically San Francisco, California based company founded in 16 May, 2011 and later acquired by Microsoft on 24 February, 2016. Xamarin platform brought a revolution in the app development industry. It is well equipped with amazing features and modern style that draw attention of developers and even Microsoft a giant in the IT sector shows interest and later acquired it.

Slowly and steadily Xamarin platform is proving itself as a leader in cross platform development. In a rapidly changing technology world, Xamarin makes it possible to build, test and monitor applications that perform beautifully. Xamarin not only helps in enhancing an application’s quality but also helps businesses derive better commercial value from apps.

Xamarin is considered as one of the best cross-platform framework because it has distinct advanced features that you wouldn’t find on others cross-platforms. App development companies considering Xamarin platform as first choice because

• Native technology – Xamarin is capable to provide native UI to access device based hardware features and OS based software features.

• Easy coding with C# – C# is general purpose, modern, easy to learn object oriented programming language which is best for cross-platform technologies.

• Cross-platform – Xamarin offers to share application logic across multiple platforms.

• Multi-platform (Android, iOS, Mac) – Xamarin is able to integrates smoothly in all the dominant mobile platforms like iOS, Android and Windows phone.

• Cost effective – Xamarin saves development and maintenance cost because of code reusability.

• Cloud integrations – Cloud integrations are possible with Xamarin.

• Speedy Development – Codes can be shared across different platforms makes development easy and fast.
• Seamless API integration facility – Xamarin has unique binding technology that makes it capable to support newly released feature of OS as well as device.

• Easy availability of developers – Developers who has knowledge of C# can easily work on Xamarin.

• Test cloud – Xamarin has test cloud that enables developer to test application automatically.

• Code reusability – 2/3 of Codes written using C# in Xamarin can be shared across the various mobile OS platform.

• Supports MVC and MVVM – MVC and MVVM patterns is very suitable for Xamarin.

• Visual studio IDE and .Net class libraries – .Net class libraries are available to the developers as Xamarin apps can be developed using visual studio as well.

When Xamarin was introduced to the market, it was not so popular at that time, but when Microsoft acquired it, developers’ shows interest and in very short span it becomes popular. Today top developer firms and IT giants is focused on expanding the training and tooling of Xamarin. Now companies are considering increasing Xamarin products and replacing old apps with Xamarin. Xamarin has enabled the developers to develop, build and test apps for quickly than before. May be we can see certain modification and newly added features in Xamarin but vision of developers says that future of this development framework is very bright.(for more)

Why your mobile apps do required one page website

Well, it was a debatable topic since the existence of mobile application. Many developers agree while few disagree with the idea. Some developers find it ridiculous to have a landing page for the application. It’s like promoting your app through a website. But it is very important to understand the benefits of have landing page for your application. If you do create a landing page for your application, it will show your confidence, believe on your app, informative, and will add you in elite category of developers. Some benefits of adding landing page on your websites are.

Advertisement and informative – Landing page narrates the vision of your app. It will tell users what your app will do for them. And apart from this you don’t need an entire “Website” to advertise your app, all you need a landing page.

Customer Friendly – Your landing page will say your potential customer that you really concerned about what they want and will convey message to your existing customer that you are not running away from your responsibility. Existing customer will feel that you really care about their feedbacks and feature requests.

Anticipation – For startups or new product you can add a sense of excitement and suspense among users with coming soon or countdown style landing page. Improve SEO – The search engine work is to give relevant content as a search result. You can improve your SEO ranking on Google, Yahoo, and Bing etc. with a perfect landing page and good quality content in it.

Higher Conversion rate and lower conversion cost – A perfect landing page with increase conversion rate as you are giving visitors pages focused on precisely what they searched for. Landing pages will decrease conversion cost as it is inversely proportional to your quality score.

A/B Testing – It is hard to perform a full A/B testing approach on the main site but with a landing page you can perform full A/B Testing and customize your message based on the audience of your target.

Easy to locate you – Landing page will exponentially increase the possibilities for users to locate you via search engine.

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