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Lean Mobile App Development

You're reading from   Lean Mobile App Development Apply Lean startup methodologies to develop successful iOS and Android apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467041
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
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Preface
1. Yes, There Is an App for That FREE CHAPTER 2. Lean Startup Primer 3. Challenges in Applying Lean to Building Mobile Apps 4. An Agile Workflow in a Nutshell 5. A Pragmatic Approach 6. MVP is Always More Minimal Than You Think 7. Minimal Viable Product Case Studies 8. Cloud Solutions for App Experiments 9. Native, Hybrid, or Cross-Platform 10. There Is an API for That! 11. Onboarding and Registration 12. Do Things That Do Not Scale 13. Play Store and App Store Hacks 14. A/B Testing Your App 15. Growing Traction and Improving Retention 16. Scaling Strategies 17. Monetization and Pricing Strategy 18. Continuous Deployment 19. Building an Unfair Advantage 20. The Flyng Case Study 1. Appendix

Leveraging cross-platform development tools


There are a variety of cross-platform development tools on the market. In this section, we will quickly scan a few of the most common, and discuss their strengths and weaknesses.

Adobe PhoneGap

Adobe PhoneGap is an open source distribution of Apache Cordova. It is not a framework for app development, but serves to package and release apps that have been built in web technologies such as HTML 5, CSS, and JavaScript. It is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud and offers similar benefits to other hybrid options:

  • Write a core codebase in client-side web languages, and release it natively on some of the most popular platforms
  • Developers with no native experience can turn a web app into a native app
  • There is a wide selection of additional tools that make it easy to preview, build, and download test apps

PhoneGap's weaknesses are also in line with other cross-platform tools:

  • Its performance is not on par with native apps.
  • The graphics capabilities are wanting, and...
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