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The competition in the app market is too high for you to compromise with the quality of your app. There are a plethora of high-quality apps that are built every year and still remain unnoticed. But with high quality comes high costs and when we say high costs, we mean it. This may be a reason why most people avoid app development altogether — which, in turn, does more harm than benefiting.

The world is going mobile rapidly so it becomes important to make your place in the same world. Businesses have doubled their revenues and sales with the help of their mobile app. So, when you see it from a birds-eye view of the long term benefits, these initial investments seem quite worth it.

However, mobile app development costs can still be high for startups since the capital is limited and there is not much to offer. But that shouldn’t stop any startup from reaping the benefits of having an app, right? For the same, we figured out some great strategies to help you reduce app development costs.

There are many ways to cut the cost of your mobile app development without compromising the quality of the app. Let’s have a deeper dive into the various factors that significantly influence mobile app development costs.

It’s All About the Requirements

The first and foremost tip is, make sure to write clear and in-detail requirements about your app development project. By writing a detailed document, you can clearly communicate about your requirements with the app developer that will save their time and effort. So put your thoughts of the app together in an organized yet elaborated manner.

Let’s take an example of our client, who wanted to develop a Women Safety application. Our client contacted us and shared the document, containing requirements about the project. Our client was very clear about his concept, so our business representative instantly understood the concept. In fact, our professional app developers did not face any challenge while developing this app and completed this project in a tight budget and time constraint.

So, if you yourself don’t have a requirement document, that just means you are not clear what you want in the app, which will lead to numerous changes in the app, resulting in an increase in the development time and cost. Make sure to gather your requirements and note down those requirements in the document so that the development team or company gets a clear picture in mind.

A product requirement document, also called a PRD, is a highly-structured list of your app features as well as the projected tech stack. Here are some key PRD components:

• Project objectives and product idea
• Company background
• Timelines
• App features
• Platforms
• UX and UI design (or requirements for it)
• Project execution milestones and control points

Outsource Or In-House

Hiring dedicated developers and outsourcing the project to them remains a favorite cost-saving strategy of both large- and medium-scale enterprises.

Mobile app development outsourcing will save money for you in the long run. Your project will be managed by experienced developers, and the overall quality will be superior. It gives you various options & you can choose the best suited for your project. You can either go for a fixed budget, or you can also go for an hourly basis payment model.

If you compare this with the cost of hiring an in-house team of developers, it will cost you much less. You can’t ignore in-house expenses such as electricity bills, internet bills, and other utilities other than fixed salaries.

Choose Cross-Platform Development

There are two approaches to creating apps in mobile development — native applications for each specific platform and cross-platform applications that are supported by all modern OS.

Native Applications are considered the most expensive to build from an investor’s standpoint. The clear reason being writing code separately for each operating system, Android & iOS. Whereas in the cross-platform application development process, a single code is written for application to run on multiple operating systems.

Less Development Time equals Less Development Cost.

If you are building your first mobile app, and don’t know where to start, you can take a look at this article.

A Complete Guide to Build Your First Mobile App
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Start With MVP

MVP (Minimal Viable Product) can be simply defined as the most basic version of the app that solves the problem. MVP holds a massive prominence in the app industry, especially among startups that are looking to validate their ideas in the market.

It is one of the quickest and most utilized approaches for businesses around the world to validate their idea. Employing an MVP to test their idea into the market is a tremendous quickstep to avoid potential disappointment.

But how will it reduce the cost? Well, something that I can tell you being a part of an app development company is that the more features and functionalities you add in your application, the greater will be the resources that will go behind its development, which means the cost will be greater. MVPs are undoubtedly the best bet for any startup.

What this means is that rather than developing a full-fledged app, the cost of MVP will certainly be less than half.

Keep it Simple!

You must analyze practically the features of your application and the real purpose of creating an app. If you do not need it, do not go! It’s that simple!

When we talk about the overall design of the app, you need to be pretty sure that it should not be cumbersome so that user participation becomes a challenge. So; on your side, you need to do a little analysis of the real needs of the users so that you can project big by little.

The design of the application must be simple but attractive to maximize the number of downloads. Keep UI/UX Simple — One of the strategies to reduce app development costs is to go for simple yet elegant designs. A good UI/UX design is essential, especially for new users since adaptation becomes easy.

Now let’s understand how FlutterDevs as a Mobile App Development Company helps our client reduce their development cost without compromising on the quality even a bit.

This Is How FlutterDevs Operate: Our Process

Once you have an idea for implementation, the most important factor is to check it’s Technical and Economical feasibility.

In technical feasibility analysis, your concepts will be analyzed by our technical experts to check if it technically possible or if it has some challenges.

In economical feasibility, the project is analyzed for its budget. A lot of times the complexity of the project can increase the budget which should be kept in consideration and the client should know about this.

At FlutterDevs, our expert team members Do Free Technical and Economical Feasibility Interactions, so that the client knows about the product before investing their money.

Final Words

Despite the fact that professional app creation isn’t cheap, by following our advice, you can reduce the cost of mobile app development without losing the quality of the final product. You can do a lot of cost-cutting in various ways. But, the most important factor which will control all the above factors in selecting the right mobile app development team. Your app efficiency can be optimized and you can get a fully tested high performing app from the day-0.

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