7 Tips to Reduce Your Mobile App Development Cost

Mobile apps have become an integral part of any businesses today to meet the demands of the tech-savvy customers. Though the cost of developing an app is not economic, there are ways to reduce the investment cost for its development.

Here is a list of factors to be considered in detail for developing an intuitive, scalable, and cost-effective mobile app for your organization.

Mobile Application Development for a business attracts more customers as today’s millennial generation is focused to use the smartphones rather than the desktop. Traditionally, developing a mobile app is time-consuming and costly. Moreover, the development lifecycle comprises the ideation, development, launch, and, post-launch support.

The budget has to be planned and framed accordingly. Though there is no universal rule for cost-cutting, a judicious plan may help you to utilize the investment cost wisely. The ultimate secret lies in knowing how the mobile apps are built, launched, and maintained; the varied available platforms, market research, experimentation of app usage on platforms, and, etc.

Let us investigate further and understand the factors so that you may manage the investment cost and ensure that your app achieves the desired goals.

Factors to Consider for Developing A Cost-effective Mobile App:

Market Research:

Before concluding to develop a mobile app, it is necessary to have a thorough market research and competitor analysis. It is also recommended to have a user survey to understand their needs. This will help you to understand the bottlenecks and make a perfect plan of features and/or functionalities that could be included in the app.

Open Source Code:

It is recommended to opt for mobile app open source libraries as it curbs the need for developing apps from the scratch. The pre-built structure facilitates the mobile app developers to customize the apps as per the requirements.

The use of libraries reduces the investment cost significantly. However, there may be a need of developing apps from scratch too, and you may have to go for it for one time wise investment.

Minimal Viable Product:

It is a prototype wherein the mobile app is developed with basic functionalities. Further, it is best recommended to develop on one platform, release it to the market for response studies from the targeted audience.

The functionalities and platforms could be added on as per the users’ reaction, and, developed on other native OS too, or, can opt for hybrid frameworks.

Right Device and Operating System:

Though the responsive design is the part of the development strategy, there may not arise a need to develop an app that is accessible to all or multiple operating systems. Depending on the needs like Remote login, Notebook, or, exclusively for smartphones, one may opt for either Windows, Android, or the iPhone OS.

Selection of App Developers Team:

It is your option to select an in-house team or outsource the work depending on the use cases as both are beneficial in its own way.

Having an in-house team would help you to manage the designs and development, tweak the workflow as required then and there itself, but it may seem to be costly as you have to pay on regular basis. On the other hand, outsourcing the team may turn out to be too costly and time-consuming if you opt for economic projects and later find that you ought to compromise for quality.

A strong understanding of the project’s key components, functionalities, budget, market survey, deliverables of the team would help you to make the right choice.

Optimal use of technologies:

Knowing the flaws in the app development process is as important as you know the functionalities. Testing of the apps for its flaws and its rectification before launch is essential. Each and every aspect of the technology starting from wireframing to post-launch support is the need to save yourself from a bad reputation.

Hidden Costs:

In addition to all these, it is necessary to be aware of the hidden costs like functional services as in SMS, Push Notifications; Administrative services [app updates, user management]; Infrastructure services [servers, CDN], and IT Support services [app update, bug fixes].

Above all these, the apps are developed on the cloud or implementation of DevOps methodologies these days.

It is necessary to consider all these factors while opting for mobile app development for your business. This would rightly help you to make an informed decision for cutting costs or utilizing the monetary resources efficiently.

How Oodles Technologies can help you to reduce the application development cost?

Oodles Technologies deliver a transparent solution and follow iterative process in delivering mobile apps. There are no hidden costs involved in any phase of the development.

If you are in need of a app for internal business, client end or marketing, we help you to get the best out of the technology.

Leverage Oodles Mobile Application Development Services to manage your investment cost while creating a seamless experience for the end users.