##Starting your App
This small document is designed to help get you started on building your first mobile application. Regardless of your technical experience, or no-how, understanding the development process helps you to better understand what you are getting yourself into.
These questions should all be answered to the best of your abilities, and as thoroughly as to the extent of your knowledge that you have. This will serve as a document that we can refer back to toogether to help guide us during the application's formation and live.
We will work together off this document to answer questions you have, and to create further questions. You may not understand everything, but if we are both on a somewhat similar page it will help to make communication vastly easier.
Product Planning
- What is it exactly you want this application to do?
- Do you have any plans of how you want it to look? Have you drawn anything out? If not, do so, this will help tremendously when building the actualy application. Any small amount of ideas helps.
- How do you plan on marketing this application?
- Where will the app's actual resources come from? Do you have a designer you plan on working with?
Business Logistics
- Do you have an LLC or a company already setup? This is important as with the App Store they request a company to be setup and configured if you want to begin displaying ads such as iAds, and for tax purposes.
- Do you have, or plan on having a website to help market this product?
- Do you plan on maintaining this application for sometime, or do you plan on launching this as a one-time application with no updates?
- What is your budget for this application? With a budget in mind we can plan accordingly to give you some runway if you plan on supporting the application for a few months to come.
Important Reads
- https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/referencelibrary/GettingStarted/RoadMapiOS/AppDevelopmentProcess.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40011343-CH4-SW1
- The link above may seem a little dense, but do read the Defining the Concept, Designing a User Interface, and Defining the Interaction sections. You may not completely understand the vocabulary used, but that is okay. This is more of an introduction as you will be hearing these words come up frequently as we work through building the application together.
- https://medium.com/@KyleTibbitts/market-first-code-later-7f0af110a7b0
- This is just a great resource to get your head wrapped around the idea of what makes succesfful applications. You don't need to follow this 100% but it will give you the vision that others have had to be succesful.
Resources to help with designs