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Mobile App Development for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide
A plain-language walk through the whole path from app idea to a working, published app, with no coding background assumed and realistic expectations at each step.
Building Apps
Building Your First App
How to plan, build and test an app for a shop, a business or yourself.
Choosing an App Idea That Solves a Real Problem
How to test whether an app idea answers a genuine need before you spend time or money building it, using conversations, small experiments and honest questions.
Mobile App Development for E-commerce: A Guide
What a store app typically needs, including catalog, cart, checkout, accounts and notifications, and how an app differs from a mobile version of a website.
Mobile App Development for Enterprise: A Guide
What changes when an app is built for employees and large organizations: connecting to existing systems, controlling access, protecting data and maintaining it for years.
Mobile App Development for Small Businesses: A Guide
Helps a small business owner decide whether an app is worth building, what costs to expect, and which simpler alternatives might meet the same goal.
Mobile App Testing: Best Practices and Tools
How to test a mobile app on real devices, which kinds of tests are worth running, and the common categories of tools that help beginners and small teams.
Setting a Budget for a First App
Understand the types of cost in a small app project, from design and development to accounts and upkeep, using clearly hypothetical numbers to show the arithmetic.
Writing Simple User Stories for Your App
Learn to turn what people need into short written stories that guide your app's features, with a plain template, examples and tips for keeping them small.
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