Mobile Application Development Process and Steps Analysis for Students

This assignment provides a comprehensive overview of the mobile application development process, detailing each stage from initial concept to final launch. The process begins with idea generation, followed by screening to assess the viability and technological feasibility of the application. A feasibility analysis then determines the potential profitability and user-friendliness of the app. The core of the process involves the actual application development, which includes coding and collaboration among team members. Rigorous testing, including unit and performance testing, ensures the application's functionality and user experience. Finally, the assignment covers the launching phase, where the application is made available to the public through app stores and marketing channels. The assignment also includes a reference to a relevant journal article. This assignment is ideal for students looking to understand the lifecycle of mobile application development.

Product & Service
Development

Steps involved in the
mobile application development

Idea generation
For the development of the mobile application the first step arises is the generation of the idea
for idea, this generation of idea comes from the needs and requirement of the consumer, or
either through the feedback of the previous services provided by the company. Some times'
idea generation comes from the new product launches from the competitors.

Screening
The second step of the mobile application development is the screening. This step tells the
necessity of introduction of the new application. Moreover, this step also checks whether the
existing technology would be capable to cope up with the development of the application. This
step also analysis the break even point of the mobile app.

Feasibility analysis
This analysation comes after the screening. It checks whether the development of the mobile
application would be profitable to the company or not. Whether it will be easy for the
consumer of the service to use it efficiently. Thus, this step is similar to the business analysis
of the service in the market place (Yang, Lee and Cheng, 2016).

Application development
At this step the concept of the idea is clear, therefore, this step in mobile application
development includes the development of codes, utilization of templates and collaboration of
various team members of the organization to develop the final service, which would facilitate
its consumers. Development of application involves coding in single as well as in different
coding languages.

Testing
Once the application has been developed then it is the time to test the mobile application. This
testing of application can be of different forms i.e. unit testing, final testing and performance
testing. Unit testing is similar to functional testing, while final testing involves testing of the
complete application. Moreover, in performance testing the beta versions is tested for feedback
by some specific consumers of the application.

Launching
Launching is the final step to mobile application development. Launching means introducing
the application for the public use, this could be done either on hosting either on the android
app store or the apple app store. Once launched it could be marketed through various sources
such as magazines, newspapers etc.

References
Books and journals
 Yang, Y., Lee, P.K. and Cheng, T.C.E., 2016. Continuous improvement competence,
employee creativity, and new service development performance: A frontline employee
perspective. International Journal of Production Economics, 171, pp.275-288.