Mobile Game Development

While this is a no-brainer, but your app should be such that it can be put under any of the categories that are prevalent in the Play Store and Apple Store. Knowing the app category will cut down your competitive research time to a great extent. So, I’ll recommend knowing both the primary and at least one secondary category your mobile app belongs to.

Finding ways to protect an app idea before it gets copied is one of the most common mobile app questions we come across. Truth is, you will have the control on your app idea till it is launched in the market. Once deployed, the second your competitors see the positive reviews, they will try and implement the idea in their mobile application as well, until and unless you have patented your app idea, which again works only on some levels.

Meanwhile, while you are at the ideation cum conceptualization stage, you can protect your idea from getting shared by signing an NDA with the app development agencies you are in talks with. At the end of the day, the only way to protect your app idea is to act on it before your competitors do.

Another one of the realistic mobile app development questions is the time it would take to develop an app. Depending on the complexity of the application, you should at least have a rough idea of how much time you should expect the app to be developed in.

While it usually takes somewhere around 6 to 7 months to finish the app development process straight from ideation to launch, some technical apps can even take up to a year or even more. You don’t always have to wait that long for your development process to end. Here are the ways you can speed up your app development timeline.

Measure this time against the time you have decided upon for launching your app and then decide if you want to create an MVP first or wait till the whole app is full fledgedly developed before launch.

Like Time, Cost is another factor that depends entirely on the number of features you are planning to have in your mobile app. Getting a quote on the price range from different app development agencies will help you form and fix a budget. To make it easier for you to estimate the cost, we have created a guide titled – How much does mobile app development costs, which would help get you a range that you must keep aside.

Meanwhile, here are the factors that compose the complete cost of the project –

• Designing
• Coding
• Development
• Testing
• App Integration with existing systems

When in talks with your choice of mobile app development company like us, make sure your list of questions to ask an app developer are the different elements they are including in the price they are quoting and a rough estimate of what you might have to pay over and above, in the name of app updation or its expansion.