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Best Android Apps and Games 2019

The importance of mobile apps in our daily life is undeniable. We are so encompassed that now and then we use one or the other app. Among the tons of Android apps available on the Play Store, the following are the exceptional apps Google Play has listed under various categories:

Best Apps of 2019

User’s Choice App of 2019: Spotify

Spotify is a digital music streaming service that gives you access to the content of various artists from all over the world such as millions of songs, podcasts, and videos. Spotify is a premium android app but you can have access to its basic functions which includes playing music which is totally free. It can be played across a range of devices such as computers, phones, tablets, speakers, TVs, and cars. You cannot download music from Spotify in the traditional sense besides you can save it to listen offline.

Best Everyday Essentials of 2019: Boosted: Productivity and Time Tracker

With an easy to use interface Boosted a productivity and time tracker app helps you improve personal and work productivity. This android app comes with multiple features such as time tracking and organizing the activities. You can also view history of your activities in a chronological timeline. Furthermore, you can also back-up and restore your data to Google Drive.

Best Personal Growth App of 2019: Meesho

Meesho is a social commerce platform which enables small businesses and individuals to start their online stores through social channels namely WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram etc. It is used by women entrepreneurs, housewives, college students, as well as shop and boutique owners, and anyone looking for a part-time job or home-based jobs.

Best Hidden Gems of 2019: Appy Weather

Appy Weather is an impressive weather app, in particular, the personal touch the developers have provided. You can avail the information in brief or detail as the app provides information in both ways. The app recognizes your current location to avoid manually switching locations as you travel. There’s a feature named Toast Notification which alerts you when it is expected to rain or snow.

Best Apps for Fun of 2019: Ablo

Ablo is a social media chat app that lets you connect with the world and relate with new people across all parts of the world at any time and in any language. With Ablo’s built-in translator there is no language barrier. You just need to type in your language and send. The receiver on the other end will receive a translated message. Overall, the app is engaging, addictive and a great pastime.

Best Games of 2019

User’s Choice Game 2019: Call of Duty Mobile

The game is a rival to the most popular mobile game PUBG Mobile. Both games are published by the same Tencent Games. It is the part of popular Call of Duty franchise from the world of PC and Console gaming which is free to play on mobile. This android game comes with five online multiplayer modes such as Free-For-All, Frontline, Team Deathmatch, Hardpoint, and Domination along with newly introduced Zombie Survival mode.

Best Competitive Game of 2019: Brawl Stars

Brawl Stars is a fast-paced multiplayer battle game developed by the makers of Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and Boom Beach. It comes in multiple game modes such as Gem Grab, Showdown, Heist, Bounty, Brawl Bawl including limited-time special events. But you cannot select a particular game mode to play as they are randomly selected.

Best Indie Game of 2019: #Drive

DRIVE is an endless driving videogame inspired by road and action movies from the 70s and 80s. As simple as possible, allowing the player to pick a car, pick the place and just hit the road. Just be aware not to hit anything else. No matter where we drive, no matter what we drive or how fast we drive. We simply chose to drive.

Best Casual Game of 2019: 1945

1945 is a long-run shooting game which is a remake of classic arcade experience which includes 16 types of famous WWII combat planes. The game controls are easy to learn and use which gives you the old feeling of playing an arcade game. It comes with great visuals, additional modes, and exciting campaigns.

Best Innovative Game of 2019: Alt-Frequencies

The makers of “A Normal Lost Phone” and “Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story” has launched a new audio mystery game Alt-Frequencies. The players sail through the radio frequencies trying to uncover government conspiracy acting as a media manipulator. It’s an interesting android game put together with a clean look and convincing set of radio stations.

Uber Cargo Store App: A new way to shop while riding

People generally ride longer distances such as to and from the airport or sometimes the ride gets prolonged due to city traffic. To make this time more productive (from a business point of view) and entertaining for the ride-sharing passengers Uber has launched Cargo Store App a shopping app in collaboration with Cargo. Uber and Cargo first partnered on 19^th July 2018 expanding their operations to San Francisco and Los Angeles. The aim was to sell goods to their passengers such as snacks, chocolates, gums, chargers, beverages, and other beauty products from the car console.

Cargo app was first launched in June 2017. Since its launch, it has partnered with a bunch of big industry players such as Grab & Go, Coca Cola, and SeatGeek.

How do Cargo Store App works?

Riders can download the app from the App Store or Google Play Store. After downloading the app riders need to slide into Uber and scan the QR code on Cargo Box. Now the rider can start shopping from the app. Once the purchase is complete Cargo will start shipping the items directly to the rider’s home without any delivery charges within two to five business days.

Riders can also enjoy the in-ride entertainment such as watching movies on Movies Anywhere App from Universal Studios which the riders can purchase between $5 and $10 each or in a bunch for $15 and $20.

Products:

From the app, riders can shop Electronic products as wells as Cosmetic products such as:

Apple AirPods
Apple Watch Series 4
Away: The Carry-On
Amazon Echo
Bose QuietComfort 35 Wireless Headphones
Christian Louboutin Nail Colour
Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer
Echo Dot – Charcoal
Fujifilm Instax Square SQ6
Glossier the Makeup Set
Mophie Charger
Nintendo Switch
Oculus Go
Quip Electric Toothbrush Set
Ray-Ban Wayfarer Classic
Tabletop Foosball
Voluspa Crisp Champagne Candle
Wander Beauty Gold Eye Masks

The only hurdle while using this app is you can only use it when riding Uber. You have to be in the car with a driver who has installed a Cargo console and then you can download the Cargo app to shop. According to Cargo CEO Jeff Cripe, about 30,000 Uber drivers in 10 U.S. cities have downloaded the cargo consoles.

Benefits of Cargo Store app for Rider and Driver:

Making a purchase will benefit riders to get 10% value back in the form of Uber Cash which they can utilize on future rides or while shopping on Cargo app during Uber rides.

Whenever the rider purchases from the Cargo Box in-car driver will earn 25% of the total purchase. If the purchase is made for the first time through a new app then the driver will earn extra $1 for each first purchase. Even though shopping costs money it is still a win-win situation for both Riders and Drivers.

According to a survey, millennials in 2019 make 60% of their purchase online. Undoubtedly online shopping is gaining an edge over traditional shopping. This new partnership might help Uber to step into the e-commerce business.

Nintendo brings Dr. Mario World for iOS and Android

In the month of June, Nintendo announced that it is going to launch its latest smartphone game Dr. Mario World on 10^th July. But Nintendo launched the title a day earlier to the launch date. Dr. Mario World a game series originally debuted on NES and Game Boy in the 90s is now available on both Android an iOS. Even after 30 years of its launch, it feels the same with some new twists in the game. The only difference you will feel while playing is game controls. On previous games, controllers were used to moving the capsules whereas now it has become easier with touch screen controls.

Game Developers:

Dr. Mario World is developed by Nintendo EPD a division of Nintendo in collaboration with Japanese company LINE and South Korean company NHN Entertainment.

About the Game:

Dr. Mario World is basically a single-player free-to-play puzzle game where you control your character with swipes and taps on your smartphone screen. You have to play this game within a time limit terminating the viruses with the help of a limited number of color-coded capsules. To eliminate the viruses you have to match the appropriate capsules with the right colored viruses. The objective of the game is to completely remove the viruses from the board before running out of time and capsules.

It is a vast game with multiple locations to explore and characters to meet. The game consists of various Dr. Mario characters such as –

Dr. Bowser

Dr. Toad

Dr. Peach

Dr. Bowser Jr.

Dr. Luigi

Dr. Toadette

Dr. Yoshi

Dr. Ludwig

Dr. Wendy

Along with Dr. Mario characters, there are even more assistants such as Goomba, Green Koopa Troopa, Piranha Plant, Spiny Cheep, Hammer Bro, Paragoomba, and others. All these characters come with different skills that can make the virus busting easier.

Dr. Mario World has a multiplayer option wherein you can play against each other or together. You can watch the progress of your friends and family and also you can give them power-ups within certain intervals to help them out. Play the various mini-games that pop up at times to access new characters and earn new skills. There are optional in-game purchases during the gameplay which could cost you $1.99 to $69.99 per item.

Device Compatibility:

To play Dr. Mario World on Android devices, the device should be running on Android 4.4 KitKat or later versions of Android. For iOS users, the device should run on iOS11 or later versions. As of now, the game supports English, Japanese, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Korean, and Chinese.

Pre-order your food with Uber Eats new “Dine-In” feature

Food delivery Apps are constantly evolving to make the customer experience better. To earn money on just food orders without even physically delivering them GrubHub, Postmates, and Uber Eats are adding pick-up options to their apps. In this process, Uber Eats is testing its new Dine-In feature in few cities like Austin, Dallas, Phoenix, and San Diego. This feature will be very handy for those who do not want to miss the ambiance of a restaurant or do not like to stand in queues for long hours waiting for their food to come. As a result, they can pre-order their food before they go to the restaurant and have it there as a normal customer or takeout.

How does it work?

Dine-In appears next to the Delivery and Pick-Up options at the top of the Uber Eats app. You just have to place the order from the menu and choose the time you want to eat. The app displays the time required to prepare the food and according to that, you can schedule your time to arrive and have your food. The app notifies you as your order is prepared and advances towards readiness. Besides time, the app also displays the distance to the restaurant, total bill amount, and restaurants rating. This feature does not include delivery drivers, hence, Uber Eats is not going to levy any sort of delivery or service charges. Diners will pay through Uber Eats app and also can tip the restaurant streamlining the experience for both.

How it will help restaurants?

According to Uber, this feature is an effort to bridge the gap between customers and restaurants. Uber Eats wants restaurants to focus on what they do the best such as making delicious food and providing excellent services. Restaurants who focus more on food presentation, don’t do delivery and avoid paying the delivery drivers from their hard-earned revenue, Dine-In feature will help them to attract customers. As most customers get to know about the new restaurants while ordering through the app, the Dine-In feature will let customers experience their meal in person.

Restaurants participating in the Dine-In option will be charged by Uber Eats. The charges will be less than that of delivery services. For Uber Eats, it seems to be an easy way to earn profit from restaurants that partner with this platform without investing money into delivery drivers. For restaurants, this feature will bring customers filling the vacant tables. Restaurants have a benefit of getting 100% of the tip left by the customer.

Other Dine-In apps like Allset and restaurant reservation apps such as OpenTable and Resy who are in business from years could face tough competition from this new feature of Uber Eats. International expansion of this feature is under planning but as of now, Uber Eats has no official announcement about it.

Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall a role-playing game for iOS and Android

One of the most famous and most loved fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones broadcasted its last season in May 2019. There is also news about a prequel in making to Game of Thrones. Transformation of such a famed product into a game is an added advantage for the fans. Acting on that, on 27^th June 2019 Behaviour Interactive, HBO, and GAEA announced Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall.

Game Developers:

Behaviour Interactive, is one of the biggest independent video game developers. Creative director Justin Jones the man behind Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes has created Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall with Behaviour Interactive. GAEA a game development company from China and Behaviour Interactive worked together for about two years to develop this game.

About the game:

Game is set a few decades before the timeline of the show, just after Lord Commander Brynden Rivers disappears while ranging beyond the wall. In this game, players will deal with the events in Westeros.

Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall is a role-playing game. Players playing as Lord Commander need to assemble and lead the heroes into battles against the wildlings, giants, and other dangers of the North. Players can recruit the characters from across the seven kingdoms and command a castle of the Night’s Watch in an attempt to protect Westeros. They also have to manage the characters as they have different strengths, abilities, and traits that make them unique.

After the disappearance of Lord Commander Brynden Rivers (a.k.a Bloodraven and eventually as the Three-Eyed Raven) from Night’s Watch, players follow his footsteps beyond the wall into the dark mysteries through the eyes of first ranger Alvar Spyre and his right-hand man Dramon Blackwood.

Players can use the mysterious powers of the Weirwood Trees to visit key moments from the history of iconic characters Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, Jaime Lannister, Melisandre, and Tormund Giantsbane. With the help of this feature, players can collect different costumed versions of these characters across various game events and further use the characters in other gameplay modes including combat.

With detailed hero interface, players can customize their units by using different traits, equipment’s, and skills. An important Meta layer also exists in the game where players send their ravens to fetch items, tactics, and abilities to strengthen their roster.

Pre-registration rewards:

Players can start registration for the game on its official website and it is also available on Google Play Store and App Store. Pre-registrations for Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall from the official website will receive bonus characters and items along with the game updates, interviews and more.

More players pre-register the greater will be the rewards.

For 250K registrations 10,000 copper pennies.
For 500K registrations 10 Shards of Jon Snow, The Old Bear’s Steward.
For 750K registrations a Knight of Vale.
For 1M registrations 10 Shards of Daenerys Targaryen, Breaker of Chains.

The developers did not give any official date for the launch of the game but will release sometime in 2019. The game will be available in China as well as other territories.

Hopper App now expands its services to predicting hotel prices

After testing a beta version of its new service for almost a year in New York, Hopper announced its hotel services last week on Thursday. Basically, Hopper app is an AI-based airfare forecasting app that precisely tells travellers when to buy the flight tickets at best prices. Now it has expanded its services to hotels which will help travellers to book hotels at minimum prices without wasting their time on price comparisons.

Hopper app uses Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to predict hotel prices. Since its inception, the hotel figure has multiplied in the last one year from 200 hotels across 20 U.S. markets. This app now covers 270,000 hotels in 200 countries across 1600 major cities and are directly available for booking on the Hopper app for iOS. As 90% of sale comes from push notification, Hopper app will notify you the instance prices drop or it will secure a private deal.

Important points of Hopper App:

With Hopper app, you can filter the hotels by city, neighbourhood, and points of interest and also by rating, price, and amenities.
Besides monitoring the advertised rates Hopper app also monitors private rates of hotels in order to provide the best deals for the users.
Hopper has earned exemplary reviews for predicting the future airfares for up to one year with 95% accuracy.
Travellers can save up to $61/night when the prices are at the highest by booking the hotel at the right time.
As you go on using the app, it will learn your preferences and will give you more personalised suggestions accordingly.

3 best ways from Hopper app to save up to 50% on hotel bookings:

When to check-in: At what day you check-in can change your savings from 15% to 47%. According to the Hopper, to check in to a hotel, Tuesday is the most expensive day and Sunday is the least expensive. Check-in on Sunday can save you up to 19% when the prices are high.

Book in Advance: Book your hotels in advance whenever planning for vacations. Hotel reservation prices fluctuate not more but similar to flights. Regardless of the current fare of a hotel, you can get a discount if booked in advance. Therefore, it is important to book hotels in advance if you already know the plans.

Prefer booking hotels directly: You can see hotels advertising online and on other third-party apps. These apps may offer you hotel bookings at fewer prices but booking hotel directly can give you more perks in a more discounted price as compared to third-party apps.

Hopper app features “Watch a Hotel” characteristic that will observe and forecast the prices of a particular accommodation. This way you can select your favourite travel destinations and book those instantly as soon as the prices go down.

Hopper app will charge 10% as a commission on hotel bookings but not more than that. In case the amount exceeds the said commission hopper will transfer it back to the client’s account. The app will roll out for iOS this week and in the following weeks for Android users.

Spotify separates Music and Podcasts tabs with the new update

Spotify rolled out a major update to refine the view of “Your Library” in its mobile app. But this update is only for premium subscribers. The new update separates Music and Podcast from each other making it user-friendly and accessible. It is simpler to get started and to stay updated giving you a personalised experience. Prior to this update, Spotify provided a podcasts entry in a list that included mostly music related items like playlist, songs, albums, artists and more.

In new version dedicated tabs are given for both Music and Podcasts making it easy to toggle between the two. Inside the Music tab, you can see Playlists, Artists, and Albums tabs, while Podcasts tab has Episodes, Downloads and, Shows.

Music:

Playlist: The songs you listen to are added to a playlist along with the liked songs and playlists you create. A download option is given to listening to songs when offline.

Artists: It shows a list of artists and to add one in this section just follow the artist.

Album: While playing songs in the playlist if you liked a particular album, it will be saved in this section.

Podcasts:

Episodes: It shows new podcasts along with the one you follow and previously listened podcasts to resume it where you left.

Downloads: You can listen to the podcasts you have downloaded when offline.

Shows: Podcasts you follow or listen most frequently are organized in this tab.

Users do not need to worry about the previously saved music as the redesign will retain the saved data. This redesign comes with few other changes. Spotify has created a new automatic playlist called Liked Songs which you can see in the Playlists view containing all the existing and past liked songs. Another change which Spotify made is it launched a new playlist called “Your Daily Drive”. This gives the experience of listening to the radio.

Besides acquiring several podcasting companies such as Gimlet Media and the podcast creation and hosting platform Anchor, Spotify announced a new podcast partnership with Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company ‘Higher Ground’. In this partnership, the Obama’s will develop, produce, and also lend their voices to select podcasts. To compete with Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Apple HomePod Spotify is testing similar devices.

By users and paying members, Spotify is the world’s biggest music service. This new update from Spotify will compete with music apps like Apple Music and Google Play Music.

Google Assistant brings “Tell me a Story” feature to Android and iPhones

Google assistant’s “Tell Me a Story” is a story telling feature of Google Home smart speaker which Google has brought to Android and iPhones through Google Assistant on the occasion of National Tell a Story day on April 27. This feature was first introduced in 2018 but it’s made available only now on Google Home devices. Google is taking a serious approach towards Assistant as last month, Google added free YouTube music to Google home devices.

In the month of October last year, Google teamed up with Disney and Penguin Random House to develop a feature called “Read Along”. This feature automatically plays sound effects to the stories you read from select Disney Little Golden Books like Coco, The Three Little Pigs, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Peter Pan, and Toy Story-3. You just need to say “Hey Google, let’s read along with Disney” and the speakers will play the sound effects to key points in the story.

There is also an inspiring book “Ara the Star Engineer” for young girls to explore the wonders of STEM illuminating the motives like courage, creativity, coding, and collaboration. Over 20 stories including the classic bedtime stories such as Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood and other family favourite stories such as Goldilocks, The Tired Alien, The Chef Who Loved Potatoes, The Cats Elopement, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Blaze and The Monster Machines are available on Google Assistant.

Few of the family favourite books are available for download:

Charlotte’s Web
The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
The Collected Stories of Winnie-the-Pooh
Penny and Her Marble

There are options to pause, resume or skip the audiobooks through the voice assistant. Just say “Hey Google, read my book” and you can resume from where you left. To skip to the next chapter just say “Hey Google, skip to the next chapter” and Google will read you the next chapter.

Although the selection of supported books remains limited for now. If you have a good collection of Google play books then you can simply ask Google to read the book with a specific title “Hey Google, read Sleeping Beauty”.

However, Google is not the only one offering audiobooks and narrated stories to kids. Amazon’s Alexa assistant can play audiobooks as well as books without professional narration when connected to Kindle or audible accounts. Amazon has announced last year to make more than 1,000 kid friendly titles available through its free time unlimited program where parents need to pay around $2.99 per month.

Audiobooks are available on the Google assistant in English in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, Germany, and Japan.

Google enters in Indian primary education market with Bolo- a speech recognition app that helps kids to learn and read

The tech giant, Google is expanding its suite of apps with the learning app aimed for primary school children in India, called Bolo. The language learning app-Bolo is for primary school children in the country in an effort to cement its grip on the world’s fastest growing internet market.

The app leverages Google’s speech recognition technology to help children figure out reading in both Hindi and English. Bolo-the Hindi word for “speak” features a range of games and tasks, including an index of 50 stories in Hindi and 40 Stories in English sourced from storyweaver.org.in. The app rewards kids as they progress in their reading comprehension and vocabulary skills.

How the app works?

Bolo, which is powered by Google text-to-speech technology, first asks kids to read sentences. Then the app listens and reviews it, with the help of voice assistant called Diya. Diya can speak English as well as Hindi, and will give compliments to kids who finishes the assignments.

With the rise in use of smartphones in India, Google is looking for spreading its presence in the country. This has advantageous rural area students as it helps them in enhancing their reading skills.

What is so unique about the app?

Bolo app is aimed at helping kids who are unable to go to school or does not access to it. What’s works more in the favor is, that the app can work in offline mode as well. This has proved advantageous because children get less distracted while using the app.

So what’s in store for students…

Enhance reading skills in Hindi and English
Interactive and instant feedback
Encourages reading habits with text-to-speech technology
Words games and in-app rewards to keep students motivated

Few words from Google source-

“We believe technology has the power to help transform teaching and learning, and have been actively directing our products, programs and philanthropy to ensure that all students are able to benefit from it,” Google said.

Let us look at Bolo’s technical aspects.

The app is completely free. Yes you heard it right. Also the app can be used without signing-in to an active Google.
The reading material in Bolo app is free. In future, you may get more content as Google is working with more third party companies. Currently, Bolo app comes with 50 Hindi and 40 English stories.
Bolo app required less than 50 MB storage space in your mobile phone.

Wrapping up!

Google’s entering in India’s education market which involves about 1.5 million schools with 250 million understudies, has tremendous growth and is attracting big bucks. Yet another edutech giant-Byjus offers a learning app for students and those preparing for college. Microsoft has likewise made a push on this front. Furthermore, Facebook this week launched an online education site — called We Think Digital — to help around 1 million individuals in the Asia-Pacific region think critically and be progressively attentive about things they share on the web.

Netflix launches smart download for watching videos offline

Netflix declared the launch of new feature on iOS gadgets that will help make it less demanding to watch its shows when you’re disconnected.

The “smart downloads” highlight, as it’s called, will naturally delete a downloaded video after you’ve got done with watching, at that point download the following one – however all this only when you’re connected with Wi-Fi.

Just like on Android and Windows 10, Netflix subscribers can manually turn the Smart Downloads feature on and off as required. Smart Download just takes a shot at Wi-Fi so there’s no risk of utilizing cellular data information unintentionally if that is a worry.

The thought is that clients will never again need to experience the repetitive work of dealing with their download — erasing those they’ve watched or downloading new titles, for instance. Rather, the application can deal with the download for you, so individuals can invest more time watching Netflix shows.

Smart downloads bode well for the individuals who plan for discontinuous network- like suburbanites who take underground trains, for example, or the individuals who travel through dead spots where remote connection drops. It likewise bodes well for those on restricted data users, who are cautious about not using streaming video applications except if they’re on Wi-Fi.

Offline features like this are critical to pulling in and holding clients in developing markets where network concerns are the standard. That is likely why Netflix organized Android over iOS, for the initial dispatch of smart downloads.

Smart Downloads attempts to be astute about which episode to erase nonetheless. For instance, on the off chance that you have the initial three episodes of the series downloaded, the feature will download scene four after you see scene three and consequently erase scene one while keeping the second and third scenes.

To utilize smart downloads on iOS, you can toggle the option in the Netflix application settings. It at that point turns itself on when you’re associated with Wi-Fi, to guarantee your data plan won’t be utilized and your device storage won’t top off as you watch disconnected. The feature will alarm you when the episode is being referred to have been downloaded.

“The faster our users can get to the next episode of their favorite stories, the better. Now, fans on the Netflix iOS app can get in on the fun and convenience of Smart Downloads, spending less time managing their downloads and more time watching,” said a Netflix spokesperson in a statement about the launch. “The feature is one more way we’re making it easier for Netflix fans to take the stories they love wherever they go,” they added.

Netflix shares these directions for controlling the feature here:

Turn Smart Downloads on or off from your Downloads section

Tap the Downloads symbol
From the top of the My Downloads segment, select Smart Downloads.
Use the switch to turn Smart Downloads on or off.

Turn Smart Downloads on or off from App Settings

Tap the Menu symbol.
Scroll down and select App Settings.
Under the Downloads heading, use the switch to turn Smart Downloads on or off.

Mobile app – Factors to determine the development cost

Are you planning to build an app, but doesn’t know from where to start?

Well, the first and foremost point to decide is the cost to build the app. But then the question comes that how to calculate or finalize the complete cost of the same.

So, there are multiple factors to look into before coming to a final conclusion. Below are a few important factors to look into to determine the cost to build a mobile app.

There are 2 types of entrepreneurs: one who decide whether or not to execute the plan according to the estimated cost and then there are those that put the product or idea ahead of everything else.

Pricing can be quite complex when outsourcing mobile app development service, thus understanding the factors that influence the overall cost of mobile app development is very important.

Having said that let’s dive in together to explore few of the most important factors that influence mobile app development cost.

PLATFORMS: You first need to decide which platform/platforms you want your app to be in. Android or IOS or both. Android is much more fragmented platform compared to IOS and hence require more testing time. Android has a different screen size, handsets, resolutions and operating systems. So while making an app that has to work on devices with varying sizes, re-sizing of graphics and multiple testing will be needed to ensure app looks good on all the devices. The app also needs to be tested on as many devices as possible to make sure it doesn’t face any operating system peculiarities. Also, there is no forced updating of the operating system on few android devices so there are still a lot of devices running on old versions of the operating system.
FEATURES & FUNCTIONALITIES: What functionalities should it have? What services should it deliver? There is a whole bunch of features an app can have such as:
a) social logins
b) Camera gallery
c) Calculator
d) Payment options
e) Integration
f) Location-based service
g) Chat service and many more

Clearly the more features an app has costlier it becomes, but yes few of the features are provided by 3rd party/API’s which does not require from the scratch coding and hence saving development time and cost.

CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS): Going further toward the backend we need a content management system abbreviated as CMS. If your app requires updating content after every time period then your app needs a CMS system built in addition to the backend. Basically, CMS enables different owners or managers or admin to update their content to the backend like updating new products, changing pricing, algorithm parameters and many more.
DESIGN: While designing app we need to do multiple tasks, user research, competitive audit, user experience design, interaction design, mobile app interface design, graphic design, logo & icon and the list continues. Whatever the design decision should be problem-solving design because the main purpose of the app is to solve the problem. Most of the people just look at competitor’s app and try to chase them and build something similar to theirs, well blindly chasing the competitors is a non-effective strategy rather than re-inventing something better which can solve customer’s issue and save their time should be the main goal.
MAINTENANCE: Every app requires ongoing maintenance, content updates to keep the user engaged and coming back for more. Also if your app relies on a server to store information like user details or payment history then you need to pay to manage that information as well. Emergency maintenance, push notification, payment processing and many more. We provide simpler, cost-effective mobile app development to save your development and maintenance cost as well.

DO YOU HAVE AN APP IDEA IN YOUR MIND?

Paying focus on the above-mentioned point you can get a better idea of the cost of development. You need to analyse all your potential partner based on above five points, some might score more and some less in different assets but keep one thing in mind that sometimes sticker price with low-end developer partners and cheaper price might be misleading. The right app development partner might be a bit expensive but worth the cost.

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