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

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786467041

Length 378 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Android

Concepts

Soft Skills

Authors (3):

van Drongelen

Krishnaswamy

Adam Dennis

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

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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

Fun with Charades - Initial vision

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

Reading list and references

How to choose the right tool

If you decide to try a tool similar to one of these, the first step is research. The best place to start is with the needs and priorities you have outlined in this chapter. Compare your needs and capabilities against the strengths and weaknesses of the tools available in the marketplace. Since the digital ecosystem changes so rapidly, don't be surprised if there are differences in price and quality.

These are just a few of the most popular cross-platform development tools on the market in early 2017. Here are a few others to explore:

Ionic: This is an open source HTML5 app framework
Sencha Ext JS: This is designed to build data-intensive HTML5 apps
Mobile Angular: This is a mobile UI framework that uses Angular JS and Bootstrap
Progress Telerik platform: This is a development platform for iOS, Android, and Windows phones
Unity: This is a cross-platform game engine that includes mobile, but extends well beyond
Libgdx: This is an open source platform for cross-platform...