10 Steps to Build a Billion Dollar App

1) Discovery Stage — Laying Down the Foundation of your Mobile App

• Step 1: Ideation
• Step 2: Competition Analysis
• Step 3: Knowing your Target Audience
• Step 4: Find the Best Way to Monetize Your App
• Step 5: Designing MVP 1.0

2) UX Design — Designing User Experience for Your App

• Step 1: Information Architecture
• Step 2: Wireframing your App
• Step 3: Workflows — Test the Navigation
• Step 4: Click-Through Models — Real Device Testing

3) UI Design — Crafting the Aesthetic & Functionality of Your App

• Step 1: Create Style Guides
• Step 2: Create Rendered Design
• Step 3: Develop a Clickable Prototype

4) Design to Development Handoff

• Step 1: Design Files to Stay Organized
• Step 2: Sharing Key User Goals
• Step 3: Prototype Handoff to Developer
• Step 4: Design Specs Handoff

5) High-level Technical Design — Deciding Technical Aspects of Your App (Front End)

• Option 1: Platform-Specific Native App
• Option 2: Cross-Platform Native App
• Option 3: Hybrid App

6) High-level Technical Design — Deciding Technical Aspects of Your App (Back End)

• Step 1: Choice of Programming Language
• Step 2: Database and Data structures
• Step 3: Hosting

7) Mobile App Development — Step by Step Approach

• Step 1: Planning
• Step 2: Development
• Step 3: Functional Testing
• Step 4: Performance Testing
• Step 5: Edge-case Testing
• Step 6: Device Specific Testing
• Step 7: Usability Testing (UT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Step 8: Review

8) Deployment

• Step 1: Release Cycles
• Step 2: Continuous Deployment
• Step 3: Developer Certifications
• Step 4: Automation
• Step 5: Hosting Environments
• Step 6: App Features Compatibility
• Step 7: Web API (Server)
• Step 8: App Stores

9) Monitoring

• Step 1: Launch Time
• Step 2: Crashes
• Step 3: UI Response Time
• Step 4: Analytics
• Step 5: Technical Performance
• Step 6: Battery Performance
• Step 7: App Store Maintenance
• Step 8: Cellular Data Consumption

10) BONUS: Further App Improvements

• Step 1: Scaling the App
• Step 2: Security Measures