It is fairly common belief that mobile apps are an easy way to make money, and people often ask me how to publish one and, above all, how much it costs. Actually, a brief survey is enough to discover that moving from the idea of an app to its realization is not so simple.
The process to design, develop and publish an app is conceptually similar for all app platforms (Android, iOS, Windows etc.). However, to avoid falling into the wrong hands, it is useful to get an overview of the vatious steps and information that are needed to address such adventure.
Idea
Although banal, all the great apps started from an idea. Whether it’s a video game or a business app, the starting point is to understand what market need you want to satisfy by asking yourself some simple questions.
- Are there already apps that solve this problem/need?
- If the answer is no, what are the reasons?
- If the answer is yes, who are the competitors and how strong are they on the market?
- What existing technologies can be used (GPS, social media, chat, etc.)?
- Is the app standalone (for example, an off-line game) or does it require continuous input (content, feed, updates, etc.)?
- The app will be free or paid and what will be the budget for its realization (and the possible economic return)?
Development
Having decided that the idea is valid and profitable, you move on to its developemnt. To get to a prototype for publication, you need to go through several steps:
- Decide on which platforms the app will be published (Android, iOS, Windows, etc.)?
- Choose which programming language and development platform will be used to develop the app. Will native or languages be used (for example, Android Studio for Android, xCode for iOS or Visual Studio for Windows) or development systems that allow you to share code across multiple platforms (for example, Cordova, Ionic, Xamarin etc.)?
- Design the app’s structure and the user interface by translating the idea into a project that can be converted into programming instructions?
- Write the app based on the design guidelines, a process that requires a good interaction between the various professionals.
- Build and test a prototype. If everything goes as planned, you’ll get a prototype of the app that must be tested by non-developers or at least by people not involved in the development to assure a more genuine experience.
Publish
You might think that once the development and test phases are completed, the work is done. This is not the case: publishing an app is a critical step and involves decisions that can determine the success or failure of the whole project.
- Choose the online stores on which to publish the app (Google Play, Apple Store, etc.)
- Follow all the registration and certification procedures of each app store to be able to publish, remembering to avoid delegating the operation to consultants or external companies
- Decide prices, availability (such as countries and territories) and any promotional campaigns
- Create descriptive texts, images and videos to promote the app on each store, following the provided specifications
- Upload the app for review on each store
- View the status of the app and resolve any audit issues until the final approval
All the steps described so far are the key steps to create an app. Understanding the cost of the whole process in terms of time and money is quite difficult. The only development cost can vary from a few thousand euros to tens of thousands for the same project, making it very difficult to choose the right strategy and the right interlocutor. Often you will find professionals able to cover only a part of the project (programming, creative design, communication, online store management etc.), therefore the final success will depend on a good knowledge of all the steps.
How much it costs to develop a mobile app?
It is fairly common belief that mobile apps are an easy way to make money, and people often ask me how to publish one and, above all, how much it costs. Actually, a brief survey is enough to discover that moving from the idea of an app to its realization is not so simple.
Idea
Although banal, all the great apps started from an idea. Whether it’s a video game or a business app, the starting point is to understand what market need you want to satisfy by asking yourself some simple questions.
Development
Having decided that the idea is valid and profitable, you move on to its developemnt. To get to a prototype for publication, you need to go through several steps:
Publish
You might think that once the development and test phases are completed, the work is done. This is not the case: publishing an app is a critical step and involves decisions that can determine the success or failure of the whole project.
All the steps described so far are the key steps to create an app. Understanding the cost of the whole process in terms of time and money is quite difficult. The only development cost can vary from a few thousand euros to tens of thousands for the same project, making it very difficult to choose the right strategy and the right interlocutor. Often you will find professionals able to cover only a part of the project (programming, creative design, communication, online store management etc.), therefore the final success will depend on a good knowledge of all the steps.
Latin Dictionary
A new and interesting offering by Edigeo for schools, universities and all those interested in classical languages.
The app Hoepli Latin Dictionary is the result of a ten-year team work by a group of authors who intended to put together the scientific skills of university research with the teaching experience to provide a reference work really designed for the current school.
The project and its realization aim to provide a valid support in the translation through a complete tool, that is also easy in the consultation and clear. The resulting app is an innovative product, while retaining all the merits and reliability of traditional vocabularies, making it an invaluable reference tool for students and lovers of Latin, of good readability, easy to consult, rigorous and careful in the structures and usable in its entirety.
The dictionary is a modern study tool, suitable for daily practice, far from both simplistic and excessive complexity, which allows a very easy consultation for a wide range of users. It includes all the items commonly used by writers who usually study in classical high schools.
Product Description
Technical Requirements
This app is available on the following online stores:
Hoepli Test Farmacia
Need to get through the entrance test to the University? Be ready with the newest Hoepli Test app, specifically designed for the admission to all degree courses of Farmacia, CTF , Biotecnologie, and Tecniche erboristiche.
The Hoepli Test apps are the ultimate and intuitive tool that you can use everywhere and whenever you wish to improve your preparation.
This app id built on a database of more than 1000 questions with their corresponding annotated solutions, and enables you to generate an unlimited number of different tests and reach a better preparation. After downloading the app, you can simulate a full test of 80 questions, similar to the actual official test, or you can choose to check your preparation in a quicker way by completing short tests with 20 questions, in order to optimize your time. In both cases, you can pause the test and resume it later, you can submit it and check the solutions, or you can abandon it and start a new test.
The app is designed to simulate as close as possible the test you actually have to deal with, with all the topics of the test: biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics, logical skills, general knowledge, English.
Once you have completed a series of short or complete tests, you can access your profile and visually check the progress of your preparation and deepen the topics of the tests by viewing the commented answers.
The features of the app allow you to:
Specifications
The free version of the app is available on the following online stores:
The ambiguity of perceived value
Printed reference works – such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias, manuals, etc. –offer hostorically a sense of major quality and solidity, which is the reason why they are perceived as tools able to last over time. The purchase of a dictionary or encyclopaedia was based on the belief that future generations would benefit from it, and that kind of information would not have changed over time.
In fact, over the last few decades, reference works have evolved radically, in line with the great innovations that have affected the publishing industry: today there are available versions for computers, for mobile devices not to mention the myriad of online applications. However, despite the advantages offered by technology, certain crystallized habits remain difficult to scratch: if we need a dictionary, we are oriented to the traditional volume of paper in the bookshop, better if a well-known and consolidated author/publisher (it is useful, lasts in time, makes a good impression in the living room), while for the electronic version they prefer something free, often giving up quality.
Having worked for long time on the design of consultation tools such dictionaries and encyclopedias, it is very difficult to understand why it is better to spend more than double to use the same content, especially if we consider the pros and cons of the two alternatives.
Convenience
Functionality
A correct evaluation of these aspects should inevitably lead to the choice of an app compared to the printed volume, but the weight of the paper still contributes to distort the perceived value.
Hoepli Test Psicologia
Need to get through the entrance test to the University? Be ready with the newest Hoepli Test app, specifically designed for the admission to all degree courses in Psychology.
The Hoepli Test apps are the ultimate and intuitive tool that you can use everywhere and whenever you wish to improve your preparation.
This app id built on a database of 1000 questions with their corresponding annotated solutions, and enables you to generate an unlimited number of different tests and reach a better preparation. After downloading the app, you can simulate a full test of 80 questions, similar to the actual official test, or you can choose to check your preparation in a quicker way by completing short tests with 20 questions, in order to optimize your time. In both cases, you can pause the test and resume it later, you can submit it and check the solutions, or you can abandon it and start a new test.
The app is designed to simulate as close as possible the test you actually have to deal with. The app allows you to:
– answer, with the possibility of changing your mind only once;
– know the number of remaining answers;
– find out your score and the percentage of correct answers for each subject;
– check the correct answers;
– read the annotations to each answer;
– evaluate your progress with intuitive graphical statistics.
Specifications
• Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod iOS 9 and later versions
• Compatible with smartphones and tablets Android 6.x and later versions
• Database with 1000 questions with annotated answers
• Full test with 80 questions to be completed in 100-minutes time
• Short test with 20 questions to be completed in 30-minutes time
• Random generation of the tests with the breakdown of subjects based on the latest ministerial guidelines
• Statistics of the completed tests with scores and percentages for each subject
• Graphical trend of your progress for each subject or global
• Complete offline use
The app is available fro free on the following online stores:
Hoepli Test Design
Need to get through the entrance test to the University? Be ready with the newest Hoepli Test app, specifically designed for the admission to all degree courses of Design, Design, including: Design del prodotto industriale – Design e arti – Design degli interni – Design della comunicazione – Design della moda – Design e comunicazione visiva.
The Hoepli Test apps are the ultimate and intuitive tool that you can use everywhere and whenever you wish to improve your preparation.
This app id built on a database of more than 1000 questions with their corresponding annotated solutions, and enables you to generate an unlimited number of different tests and reach a better preparation. After downloading the app, you can simulate a full test of 60 questions, similar to the actual official test, or you can choose to check your preparation in a quicker way by completing short tests with 20 questions, in order to optimize your time. In both cases, you can pause the test and resume it later, you can submit it and check the solutions, or you can abandon it and start a new test.
The app is designed to simulate as close as possible the test you actually have to deal with, with all the topics of the test: Logical skills, Vebal comprehension, Italian grammar, Computer science, General knowledge, English.
Once you have completed a series of short or complete tests, you can access your profile and visually check the progress of your preparation and deepen the topics of the tests by viewing the commented answers.
The features of the app allow you to:
Specifications
The app is available fro free on the following online stores:
Hoepli Test Professioni sanitarie
Need to get through the entrance test to the University? Be ready with the new free Hoepli Test app, specifically designed for the admission to all degree courses in Health Professions.
The Hoepli Test apps are the ultimate and intuitive tool that you can use everywhere and whenever you wish to improve your preparation.
This app id built on a database of 1000 questions with their corresponding annotated solutions, and enables you to generate an unlimited number of different tests and reach a better preparation. After downloading the app, you can simulate a full test of 60 questions, similar to the actual official test, or you can choose to check your preparation in a quicker way by completing short tests with 20 questions, in order to optimize your time. In both cases, you can pause the test and resume it later, you can submit it and check the solutions, or you can abandon it and start a new test.
The app is designed to simulate as close as possible the test you actually have to deal with, with all the topics of the test: logical skills and general knowledge, biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics.
Once you have completed a series of short or complete tests, you can access your profile and visually check the progress of your preparation and deepen the topics of the tests by viewing the commented answers.
The features of the app allow you to:
Specifications
Main Features
The free version of the app is available on the following online stores:
Finnish Dictionary
This app provides the Hoepli edition of the Finnish-Italian/Italian- Finnish Dictionary from Lorenzo Amato, Katia Brunetto, and Lena Dal Pozzo. With over 25,000 headwords graphically displayed in a clear and immediate way, the dictionary is characterized by a rich and updated content, making it a user-friendly and high-quality dictionary, a step higher than other dictionaries of the same category.
In addition to the search in the broad wordlist, the app allows you to run full-text searches and provides a useful option to search the phraseology providing for a real context of the spoken language, and making the dictionary a useful tool for quick reference as well as a safe and practical language guide for both idioms.
Product Description
Technical Requirements
Main Features
This app is available on the following online stores:
Phrasal Verbs Dictionary
According to The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, a phrasal verb is a “verbal idiomatic word that consists of a verb and an adverb (for example, break down), or a verb and a preposition (for example, see to)”. Starting from this assumption, we can consider phrasal only the verb which, in conjunction with an adverb or a preposition, changes the basic meaning becoming idiomatic and acquiring a new and different semantic valence.
The app Hoepli Phrasal Verbs Dictionary by Fernando Picchi is a comprehensive guide to using and understanding English phrasal verbs. For each phrasal verb, various Italian translations are provided, which faithfully or extensively reproduce the meaning, further clarified by a wide range of examples, which also illustrate the use.
In addition to the index, where it is possible to automatically find the entries matching the characters you type, the app allows you to search for specific phrasal verbs. The Glossary option allows you to search for Italian verbs translated through an English phrasal verb, while the Full Text option allows you to search for Italian and English terms within all dictionary entries. To narrow the search scope, the Categories option lets you select specific categories (for example, anatomy, botany, policy, etc.).
Database
Technical Requirements
Main Features
This app is available on the following online stores:
Informatica – Manuale di teoria ed esercizi
Times when computing was strictly reserved for IT gurus are far away. Increasingly powerful hardware has laid the groundwork for ever more intuitive user interfaces that allow to take advantage of the technology in no time.
These are the basic principles that guided me in the design ” Informatica – Manuale di teoria ed esercizi ” for the series Hoepli Test, a book intended primarily for those who must prepare university admission tests, public or military competitions, but which is also characterized as a valuable reference tool to learn the basic concepts necessary to address the world of computing, both in terms of hardware and software.
The arguments are organized for large thematic areas balancing synthesis and completeness to provide an effective tool that allows learning all that revolves around computing science, from the developments of the first computers to networks, the internet and the latest communication tools.
Each area is accompanied by numerous practical examples. At the bottom of each area there is a series of exercises, always complete with commented solution, for a quick learning.
The book ends with a glossary of terms to recall all the main concepts that must be part of everyone’s computer baggage.