Mobile App Deployment: What It Is and How to Plan for It
In search of a comprehensive breakdown of mobile app deployment? Then you’ve come to the right place! Check out our in-depth guide for everything you need to know.
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An app is an excellent way to draw in customers. However, the process of devising an app for smartphones can be daunting, and the deployment involves several different considerations.
There are also other challenges, like design, development, and running a comprehensive mobile app test, that need to be combatted.
This guide explains the deployment process and explores the difficulties for providers of getting a new app in front of users. It’ll also help you ensure a long lifecycle for your app.
Contents
What is mobile app deployment?
Android app deployment
iOS app deployment
How do you create a mobile app?
How do you plan a mobile app project?
How do you deploy a mobile app?
The mobile app deployment process
Three steps for successful mobile app deployment
Finding the right kind of mobile app deployment for your business
Conclusion
What is mobile app deployment?
Mobile app deployment means making your app available to an internal or external audience. In the former scenario, this entails putting your app into a production environment where it can be modified and assessed. In the latter, it means releasing it to the end-user.
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An end-user can download a native app (one installed directly onto mobile devices) through a dedicated app store accessed from the device. Submitting a native app to one of these stores can be complicated. It’s important to understand what this submission process looks like, as you’ll need to put considerable work into it.
In the long term, a successful app deployment needs to consider customer appeal and basic functionality. Putting yourself through the difficulty of a deployment process is pointless if nobody wants to use what you’ve created.
Android app deployment
iOS and Android smartphones have their own individual app stores, with a slightly different deployment process for each of these. Other companies like Microsoft also have app stores, but these are less popular.
Before launching a mobile application on Android, you need a developer account with the Google Play Store and to provide metadata including a name, description, category, and icon. Apps on the Google Play Store are not subject to any kind of review process. This means that once an app is submitted, it’s available for download shortly. As such, Android devices are particularly attractive to developers.