Mobile Apps | iPhone Apps Development

1. Mobile apps have increasingly become more involved in the business process. Be it logistics,
management, service, maintenance, one of the first queries when it come to approaching a iPhone
application development company is, how long will it take to develop this app?
While the obsolete fact is that this depends on a number of factors, here are a few of them listed
one by one.
Scope of the Project: If you are asking for an iPhone app with no integration to a website or
payment gateway or CRM, all it needs is a few days. Meanwhile if it is a complex app for a large
retailer that involves products or service offering, payment gateway, social media integration and
hundreds of other information, reviews it could take a few months.
Design and Documentation: If the app requirement is graphics intensive (e.g game) it takes longer
to build the app as it requires plenty of time for conceptualization and execution. Unlike web
designers, iPhone designers are rare to find and they charge much as well.
Likewise, some individuals can’t articulate what their app needs to do. Only after documenting the
requirements and milestones in a Statement of Work (SOW), it’s easy to work with the development
team to move forward.
Third Party Integration: Complex iPhone apps like shopping cart need to be integrated with a
payment gateway so that users can order products/ services. It requires APIs to be developed and
involve extra development efforts to achieve the goal of the application being developed. To achieve
this, third party systems take a good amount of time and impact the timelines of the project.
App Testing: Testing the quality of the app is vital to give assurance that users don’t face issues after
the app is launched on the App Store and it takes about 10 to 15% of the total time depending on
the complexity, number of features, and third party systems integration.
App Maintenance: Mostly mobile applications require changes post launch and to add new
features. In many cases, it even requires continuous maintenance. E.g Angry Birds, Foursquare and
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