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Building your own apps? Try these top tips!
Many thousands of people are developing apps. Many of those apps fail dismally to achieve what the original vision holders hoped for. How can you increase the odds that your app will be used by, and useful for many?
The answer: learn from the gurus. Listen to those who have done it many times before.
The nice thing about building educational apps is that the financial models for them are different to normal consumer apps. Success is judged by how useful they are, as opposed to the revenue generated by shifting millions of copies. This is shared with in-house enterprise apps, where quite often the employee gets them for free, allowing the developers to focus on making apps as useful as possible, rather than stressing about pay-per-download.
What's the connection with our top tips?
The connection is that Apple have recently released an excellent guide for in house app developers, listing top tips, and advice that - although aimed at iOS developers making in-house apps, are in fact useful to ALL app developers, across ALL platforms.
The guide is divided into the four key stages of app development:
Starting with Planning: make sure you, and your people know what you are building, and all sign up to it.
Then looking at Design: great tips to help you simplify, and prioritise features, as well as interviews from gurus in this area
Next the actual Development: All you need to know to get started. The specifics here are obviously pretty Apple / iOS centric, but the sections on Web Development, and Back Office Integration are great advice whatever your platform
Finally, Deployment: This section is pretty much 100% Apple. Very helpful if you are new to iOS development, but only of of brief interest to other app developers.
Learn from the masters. It is a great overview that we recommend to any aspiring app developers.
If you like to print stuff out, go for the PDF version, otherwise dive in and get exploring on the online accelerator site.
The answer: learn from the gurus. Listen to those who have done it many times before.
The nice thing about building educational apps is that the financial models for them are different to normal consumer apps. Success is judged by how useful they are, as opposed to the revenue generated by shifting millions of copies. This is shared with in-house enterprise apps, where quite often the employee gets them for free, allowing the developers to focus on making apps as useful as possible, rather than stressing about pay-per-download.
What's the connection with our top tips?
The connection is that Apple have recently released an excellent guide for in house app developers, listing top tips, and advice that - although aimed at iOS developers making in-house apps, are in fact useful to ALL app developers, across ALL platforms.
The guide is divided into the four key stages of app development:
Starting with Planning: make sure you, and your people know what you are building, and all sign up to it.Then looking at Design: great tips to help you simplify, and prioritise features, as well as interviews from gurus in this area
Next the actual Development: All you need to know to get started. The specifics here are obviously pretty Apple / iOS centric, but the sections on Web Development, and Back Office Integration are great advice whatever your platform Finally, Deployment: This section is pretty much 100% Apple. Very helpful if you are new to iOS development, but only of of brief interest to other app developers.
Learn from the masters. It is a great overview that we recommend to any aspiring app developers.
If you like to print stuff out, go for the PDF version, otherwise dive in and get exploring on the online accelerator site.
Do you have any other tip tips sites you'd care to share?
- 20 Awesome Ipad Apps For Primary (k-12)
The best apps for learning and teaching are likely to be those recommended by other teachers, and learners. Today's list comes from TCEA (A Texas association of teachers helping to encourage good uses for technology in the classroom). They have collated...
- Apple U-turn Is Excellent News For Cross-platform App Developers!
The big news of the moment amongst App developers, is the surprise announcement by Apple that they are relaxing some key restrictions on how Apps can be made. In particular they say: ?we are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create...
- I?ve Hacked You ? Now Pay Me!
All this week, Dutch iPhone users have been seeing this message on their beloved devices your iPhone has been hacked because it?s really insecure! Please visit xxxx/iHacked and secure your iPhone right now Together with a request for $4.95 for help...
- How To Compare Pocketpc Smartphones?
We end up buying an awful lot of smartphones - many of them PocketPC based. (probably almost 3000 over the last couple of years) it is always a really messy business, haggling with suppliers to get the best price. And it gets extra complicated trying...
- Best Ipad Apps For Esl Teachers #4 - Cloudon
Click to DownloadCloudon is a great app for teachers and students who want to have access to MS Word, Powerpoint, and Excel programs from their iPad. This app has most of the features of these programs and allows you to download to DropBox, which is...