How to Streamline Your App Development Workflow

If you are in the business of developing and selling applications for a wide variety of platforms, you may have encountered a number of challenges.

Apart from funding the project, there is also the issue of setting up systems that ensure the quality of the final product.

App development is complicated as it is, but it shouldn’t be costly and time-consuming if the end result is half-baked.

Here’s what you need to do in order to improve your workflows for building great apps:

1. Build a code library

Writing code is the most essential yet most time-consuming part of the app development process. In most cases, developers will need to start from the ground up with hardly any resources. If you want to develop and launch apps quickly, it helps to catalog existing or pre-written codes in a library.

This way, your developers wouldn’t have to spend time writing and testing out new code, and they can simply pull the resources from the library and recycle them for future projects. This enables your team to develop and launch the final product rapidly.

2. Ease up your data storage infrastructure

If you are using multiple databases for storing resources, you only give your development team extra steps to get things done. Moreover, you could be using database structures you don’t need anyway on top of increasing risks to data security.

With this in mind, it would be better to use a single database for all of your projects. This provides for greater transparency and gives your development team easier access to the resources they are looking for.

3. Use app templates

There is nothing wrong with using pre-existing app layouts for your project. If anything, working on app templates can significantly cut down the time you spend on the development process so you wouldn’t have to start from scratch.

That’s because these templates already have source codes you can use, eliminating the need to build a new source code for the project. Your team wouldn’t have to worry about the UI/UX design anymore since everything is already set up for them to work on.

4. Enhance your testing processes

App-testing is complicated, not to mention frustrating. Who wouldn’t be frustrated when they run a test only to identify a number of functionality issues? It becomes even more cumbersome when you are nearing the launch date and you haven’t fixed what’s wrong. You don’t want your development team to be going back and forth to ensure the quality of the app.

The best way you can solve this problem is by running a continuous test and providing your developers with the means to provide instant feedback. By ensuring a collaborative testing environment between the quality assurance team, the testing team, and the development team.

App development is serious business, but it shouldn’t stress your team out and exhaust you of resources. Streamlining the development process is crucial to helping you build apps that meet your goals and provide the market with quality products.

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