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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

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On https://www.programmableweb.com/ or http://mashable.com/, you will find many APIs that you can use for inspiration. You will also find many mash-up solutions there. You can find many APIs that you can use for your app. Most of them are not explicitly intended for mobile apps but as long as the data can be consumed as JSON or as XML then that does not really have to be an issue. On the website, you can search for particular categories, particular data types, or just browse through the latest additions. As you can see, following the weather is always an interesting kind of data source and there are many apps using this data. One example is the app InstaWeather (See http://instaweather.me/). In a later paragraph...