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Sharing your experience through the blog on Habré is great. But posts cover too general topics. We thought that those who are faced with the creation of mobile applications have many specific questions that we could answer. Therefore, we are launching the Councils .

Our CEO Andrei Baskov answers questions about project management and a mobile studio, sales manager Dima Kostin about customer relations, test lead Polina Trevogina about testing, I'm talking about promotion and strategy, art director Alexander Yudin about design and engineering.
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We understand business applications. Do not ask about the games, we also decided to exclude technical questions (how to make Xamarin friends with Unity).

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Under the cut, for example, the answer to the question "How to develop a mobile application cheap."

First, think about whether you need an application? A mobile site will cost less and is often more useful than an app.

If you really need, try out-of-the- box solutions: Mobiumapps and Notissiums for online stores, My Apps for beauty salons, food delivery, bank or conference.

If ready-made solutions do not fit, you will have to develop from scratch.

When developing an application, there is a simple formula:

  cost = experience × time 

Mobile studios are paid for their experience and time spent on project coordination, management of designers and developers. If you want to make an application cheap, you will have to thoroughly study how good applications are made and spend a lot of time and effort.

1) Design the application, invent what task it solves, list all the screens. Ideal would be to draw a navigation scheme .

2) Find a freelance designer . Choose from the portfolio that you like. Remember, freelancers are often irresponsible guys. Make a plan of work and every day ask the designer how the project moves.

3) Write an extremely clear and detailed TOR, attach the results of the design and design.

4) Hold a tender. Send TK for evaluation in 20 mobile studios, choose small, unknown from regions. It is desirable that the portfolio was at least one project. After receiving the cost, write to all the studios that you were offered two times cheaper, but you want to work with them. Promise projects in the future, focus on the "work on the portfolio." There are studios ready for 100 thousand rubles to develop an application for two platforms.

5) After signing the contract with the studio you need to be tough. They received little money, a lot of work, no motivation. Ask the studio for a detailed development plan and talk with their manager every week, ask how things are going on the project, ask and test the latest build. Immediately pay attention to the inconsistency of the layouts or TK and insist on correction.

6) After completing the project, meticulously test the application yourself, give a list of bug fixes, ask how progress every day. Send the application for testing in Fixber , ask your friends to test and submit a new list of bugs for revision.

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