Chapter 2 – The App Development Lifecycle

Provides an overview of the high-level steps in the app development process

• Design
  • Initial Design Steps
  • Making It Look Like an App
  • Design Early, Design Often
  • Secondary Design
  • Error Handling
  • First Run Conditions
  • Transitions and Other Animations
  • Scrolling and Element Obstruction
  • Text Length Assumptions
• Development
  • Development Is Not About Screens!
  • What’s a Feature?
  • The Name of a Thing Is not the Thing
  • Schedule, Planning, and Budget
  • Spikes (In an Software Sense)
  • Developer as Designer
  • Planning Should Not Be Optional
  • Feature Sequencing
  • Functional Before Fancy
  • Frontend Versus Backend
  • Skinning
  • When Design Isn’t Worth It
• Testing
  • Testing Should Start Before Development
  • Overly Optimistic Testing Mindset
  • Regression Testing
  • Negative Testing
  • User Experience Testing
  • Testing Development As You Go
  • Automated Testing
• Repeat as Needed
  • Your Competition
  • Your Budget
  • User Testing
  • Schedule
  • Apple Versus Consumer Reports
• Wrapping Up