What young entrepreneur should know about the mobile world? My personal journey and the stuff that i learned when creating "Fandome"

1. It’s all about the Mobile

2. Yonatan Levin

3. > 10M users
Ruby,
Golang,
Python,
Android, iOS
40 cities

4. > 600
members
Google
Supported
Meetups,
Hackathons
Android
StudyJam

5. 1.3Bn Smartphones shipped
60% of traffic comes from mobile

6. Google play services paid out $5 billion+
App Store total sales of around $15 billion

7. “With great
power comes
great
responsibility”

8. Product

9. Product
Tell your story.

10. Product
Focus on core and vision,not on features.

11. Product
Don’t build the whole solution.
Be small and smart - MVP.
Try it - rebuild - try it again

12. Product
A/B Testing, Analytics -
Measure everything from day one!

13. Product design
Don’t care about scale infrastructure.
Your engineers will do.
Later.

14. Design

15. We need a good designer!

18. UX

19. Templates & Examples - Freebie
Toolkits & UI:
InvisionApp
Downgraf
Axure

20. 3 Main Things
- Who is your user
- Where he use it
- When he use
Don’t be selfish, be part of ecosystem

21. One design to rule them all
- Design for multiple screens first
- Same user experience across all device
- Don’t be afraid to
change

22. K.I.S.S.
Keep It Simple, Stupid!

23. Support multiple screens
Really hard in Android
- Different screen resolutions
- Screen sizes
With Iphone 6 and IPhone 6+
- Became harder on IPhone too.

24. !=
Design for the Platform

25. Follow the path, Luke
Android:
https://developer.android.com/design/patterns/index.html
https://developer.android.com/design/material/index.html

26. iPhone:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserExperie
nce/Conceptual/MobileHIG/
http://iosdesign.ivomynttinen.com/
Or feel the dark side power

27. UI

28. Sketch it

29. For tablets too

30. Tools for Mockups
Make it interactive, give your friends to play with.
Framer
Solidify
Hotgloo
Moqups
iOS Special:
Designcode
InivisionApp

31. Free Icons:
PixsHub
FlatIcon
iOS special:
StreamlineIcons

32. Free Photo resources
Death to the Stock Photo
Unsplash
New Old Stock
Public Domain

33. Designer
If you still need one…
https://dribbble.com/
http://www.folyo.me/

34. Development

35. Web vs Hybrid vs Native

36. Web vs Hybrid vs Native

37. Development Cost
Any platform
Emulator
25$ Google Developer
account

38. Development Cost
Must have Mac
Iphone
100$ Developer account yearly

39. So on which platform you
developing first?

40. Android Versions adaption

41. iOS Versions adaption

42. Where to find
Hard to find and mostly impossible to team
with:
Friends, Stack Overflow, Tech Meetups.
Learn by yourself:
http://www.codecademy.com/
https://www.coursera.org/
https://www.udacity.com/

43. Not from scratch - Android Libraries
Full list here
My favorites:
- Square picasso - to download an images
- OkHttp - fast and easy http client
- Tape - to save tasks when you offline
- Android Animations - animations
Place to search: Android Arsenal

44. Not from scratch - iOS Libraries
Cocoa Controls
iOS Frameworks

45. Development Cost
UI:
DO IT BY YOURSELF!

46. Development Cost
Mobile:

47. Development Cost
BACKEND:
ALREADY BUILT FOR YOU

48. Backend

49. Analytics
From day one!

50. Submission Process
IPhone - could take weeks
Android - couple hours

51. Featured
For Android:
Follow the guide:
http://developer.android.com/distribute/essentials/index.html
For iPhone:
UI, Press coverage and friends @ Apple

53. levinyon@gmail.com
+972503456408
facebook.com/levin.yonatan