Mobile Apps: the total price of their development
Every person, not only the client is allways wondering, how much it would be cost to make the Mobile App. It’s interesting for everyone: the variety of prices, the stages of the process, the aspects, which influencing the total price. It’s hard to appoint and summarize the price even of such simple things, as bread or butter. With Apps it’s rather difficult. Are high prices a guarantee of good guality of the project? How much would be cost the mobile App? How long would it take completely develop it? What should the clients know, before developing an App? Lets figure out.
While developing every App there are similar stages, such as:
– to appoint the target audience and to identify customers needs
— to create technical specifications
— general assessment of project
— project implementation
— testing
— release of the app
But, however, the total price in every separate case varies. There too many factors, which influence on the cost of developing the mobile App. Lets arrange everything in order.
The cliens pay app’ developers for working hours. It’s worldwide practice. As longer it would be taken to create the app, as higher price would be for project. The key feature — the rate of working hours affects not only the qualifications of the developer, but his location: ($ per hour)
Indian developers — 10–80
European developers — 20 -150
British — 35 -170
Australians — 50 -150
USA and Canada — 50–250
At the same time, these developing period depends on the app’ features and characteristics. The harder and bigger the application is, the more efforts and, therefore, time for developing it requires.
Application can be divided into simple, medium complexity and complex.
Simple application — in which the server participates, i.e. It is the local application which performs actions for communication with an external server, not seeking the applications from outside. It take less than 600 hours to create such an app.
Medium complexity applications — these has a connection with an external server, and exchanges datum with the server via the API. They have more complex architecture, such as connection with maps, etc. Developers build it for 600–800 hours.
Complex applications — can be called those, which have the connection with an external server. They have a complex archicture, use complex additional databases, work with maps, payment modules, chat rooms, etc. More than 800 hours spend developers on this type of app.
That’s why, the richer functionality, more complex architecture and intricate design — the more expensive the app is in development, because it occupies more time to implementation.
From this follows next. The cost of the mobile app depends on complexity of:
— functionality
— architecture
— design
Each of these items include the following sub-items. There are many of them, the full information, specific features of the app you can get while communication with the developer in each case, but here are the most common.
Functional features of mobile app, which raise a complexity :
- integration with some additional services, libraries, databases,
- online chats,
- social media connection,
- API, to exchange datum
- admin pannel
- in-app buy
- some hardware tools (sensors, metrics)
There are also different variations of architecture complexity. The OS of the application — the main factor of app complexety, therefor, of the price. The developers more often create apps for iPhone, Android, iPad, Windows, Facebook and Blackberry. Some clients wish to have two or more versions for different OS at the same time. Some applications released in one version and then are adapted for another one.
Design — is the first thing, that draws the attention of the user. On UI and UX components directly depends the success of app. The complexity of interface and animation raises the total cost of the application.
From the complexity (and deadlines also) of the project, depends the number of people for development of mobile App. With small application can handle even one developer. For more complex should be involved multiple developers, to divide the tasks between each other. It saves time, and every participant is responsible for his area.
The creation of the app — is only the part of the work. It is necessary to present application and support it. It’s also additional expences. The app should be updated, servers and hosting should be maintenanced. To release app product developers use internet-marketing and on-line promotion.
Let’s summarize. While developing an application there are a lot of processes and they all affect the final cost of the product. The most valuable are: complexity of the structure (design, architecture, functionality), the country of the developing company and additional expences. SoftDnepr.com