A short (15 min) presentation on our (http://cutehacks.com/) best practices when developing mobile apps. First presented at AppAcademy October 2013 (http://appacademy.no/). Other speakers were http://www.toppstudio.com/, http://shortcut.no/, http://brewinapps.com/ and http://agens.no/. One interesting note: Everyone advised to use the different platforms native APIs when creating apps, if you could afford it.

1. Experiences so far
Three years of hacking
October 2013

4. We develop for
iOS
WP
Android

6. We develop in skewed parallel
iOS app v1.0
iOS app v2.0
Android app v1.0
...time...
Android ...

7. Recommended starting platform
Norway: iOS
Rest of the world: Android

9. Recommended frameworks
For the highest quality:
Native
To reach many on a budget:
Cross-platform

11. ●
GPS
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Accelerometer
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~200MB offline files
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Databases
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OpenGL ES
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Network changes
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Push notifications

12. Mobile design tips
1. Keep it clean and simple stupid (KICASS)
2. Design for the thumb
3. Iterate

14. Usertesting
1. Pen and paper
2. http://www.usertesting.com/
3. Testlabs
4. Use analytics

15. Phases in an app project
Ide
Mockup
Design
Server
App
Test
Publish

16. Estimation techniques
1. Count number of unique screens
2. Count needed server endpoints

17. Some important experiences
1. Include analytics and logging from v1.0
2. Getting a 4.5+ rating takes a lot of work
3. Don’t force the user out of your app

19. Current challenges developing apps
1. Multiple platforms
2. Seamless offline

20. The app-hype might be over,
but the industry is growing.

23. Thanks for listening!
http://cutehacks.com
@snowpong