4. Determining Your App’s Components

Chapter 3, “Prototyping and Wireframing Your App,” discusses the process of deciding and communicating what you want your app to look like. That’s very important, and many app creators don’t do a good job of that. But it’s not sufficient. There is far more to an app than screens, transitions, and animations. Your app needs to function, and it needs to function well.

In order to find a developer who is an appropriate fit for the needs of your app, you need to figure out what your app needs. This chapter goes through many of the common needs of different kinds of apps and helps you decide where your app should fall in the spectrum of possibilities. It looks at the various components, or specific pieces of technical ...

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