We know that software is running the world. No matter which mobile OS you use, iOS or Android, your mobile screen on times are going up, up and above every day! But as a software development team or the person being a founder of some sort of problem-solving application, you might need to take care of many things, including the cost of development.

So, here we are discussing the factors that might affect the pricing of your new application development.

Business requirements

The first thing first! The core factor affecting you to determine the price of your next application will be to prioritize the business requirements. When you say business requirements, you should understand that things like when you want your application to be ready, do you have a team of in-house developers ready, are you going ahead with the offshore mobile application development and more.

With the expert application development team and project managers, you will be able to get the most bang for your buck proposition. There are various natures of an application depending on the usage of the user. For instance, an application that has cloud functionality for uploads and computing, scalable e-commerce applications, apps with online portals and communities – as per nature the development cost would go up and low.

Based on the platform

A cross-platform capable hybrid application is always good for increasing your market share. But, it might become complex and costly to build an application that can work on both major platforms, ie iOS and Android at the same time.

Native applications might end up becoming cheaper for someone, but that could also cut down your ability to increase the market share from the next big platform and could limit your ability to reach a broader audience. So, select your platform and you would be able to see where your planning goes for the new application development.

Features, functionalities and UX

Where database-intensive applications need a lot of API collaboration, the complexity of the technical side would increase the cost. Where in case of an e-commerce application or gaming application, graphics, UI, UX and traffic would matter the most – here you should consider improving user experience more than anything else in the application.

A normal note making the application would not need location functionality or a text-heavy news site would not need a video player embedded in it. Chose your features accordingly to save both time and money on development!

Scalability and maintenance of the application

Once you make the application live, you would need to keep adding more features and scale it as your user base and marketing needs start growing. Starting from normal user logins to sending custom notifications and adding trackers like cookies and machine learning tools would take a lot of time, research and resources to go behind the scenes.

Saying that you should always consider starting your application development by developing an MVP initially to save cost and check the viability of your idea!

Testing and connectivity

Quality control and testing the usability of your application plays a major role in building a successful mobile application. As an application would get access to a lot of APIs and work with multiple analytics and marketing tools to help the development team.

When it comes to testing the application, many use third-party testing teams or even ask their users to test the platform before making it live for the masses. Either way, you would need to invest some time and resources to get the best version of your applications.

Also, all the OS and platforms do not work in the same way. For example, Apple and Google both imposes a lot of restrictions and rules for developers to submit their applications on their platforms. So, to pass those parameters and creating a perfect application for users.

Summery

The cost of developing your new application will keep varying from changing the launch timelines to even investing time and resources into marketing.

 

So, if you are planning to launch and develop a new application for the market – make sure to strategise it and apply the best development practices and project management ideas to minimise the costs.