A Guide to Building Mobile Apps
A practical guide to building a mobile app for iOS and Android. From deciding whether you even need an app, through native vs. cross-platform, MVP and design, to releasing in the stores and life after launch.
A mobile app isn’t a website with a different icon. It’s a completely different animal. It lives on a phone that knows the user’s location and photos, it goes through review at Apple and Google, it has to survive system updates, and you don’t build it once but twice over: for iOS and for Android. Each of those decisions costs time and money, and most of them get made before anyone writes the first line of code.
This guide walks you through all of it, from the question of whether you even need an app to its life after launch. No theory here. We wrote it from real work with clients, from things we’ve seen work and things we’ve seen crash hard, and we put it the way we’d tell you over coffee.
Who this is for
For founders, marketers, and product people who won’t be coding the app themselves but want to understand it well enough to make good calls and not get taken for a ride. Completely free. Read it in order, or just cherry-pick whatever you’re dealing with right now. The depth lives in the individual lessons.