This knowledge can be useful for beginners of mobile application developers and entrepreneurs in this field.

1. The first step of this direction it’s a great idea! The knowledge of marketing can help you to find it. It is necessary to analyze the number of downloads of selling applications, a clear understanding of the problems that solves your application and knowledge of its unique features. Such idea will come faster if you will know what client want to see.

At this step, you must correctly describe the logic of your application. The main nuance of this phase is the use of special tools, which are designed for this purpose. The best tools are: https://cacoo.com/ and https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/

3. Mockups.

Development of the previous step smoothly passes into the hands of the designer. Then designer will create design of your future application. A developer will not waste time and engage in deliberation of the application architecture, the API and other technical issues (libraries…). The designer should read Human Interface Guidelines for iOS devices  or User Interface Guidelines for Android devices before do it. The icon is the first part of your application that user will see and this is the most important part of design.

4. Development

And now, the results of previous steps going into the hands of the experienced programmers. Add feedback option to your app or add link to Facebook page of this app. Great, now all the puzzle pieces are together in your application! What will be the next?

5. Testing.

Next, a huge amount of work – it is necessary to fix all the bugs for different operating systems and different devices. You don’t need to buy all devices to check your application, the good test team with different devices can help you. The bulk of this work must be done to the output of the first version of the application.

6. Placement and Support

You should place your application in the AppStore or Android Market and post the best screenshots of your app. Also description of your app should be interested and full because this information will be re-posted with your app on different sites. You need be sure to release updates with fixed bugs and new features. Users suggest you what should be developed further.

7. Marketing

You should post press release on different sites, create contests and other useful things. This stage will be several times more expensive than all previous combined.