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Mobile Commerce Applications are the new ‘in’ thing. Learn how to develop them

Nowadays customers don’t have to think twice before making a purchase, as everything of their liking is just a click away. The present time is ruled by e-commerce market with more and more websites offering their products and services online. And, now it has gone a step ahead with the introduction of mobile applications, which are successfully taking over the mobile websites, with Myntra, an online shopping application being the latest instance of the same. Earlier a website, now Myntra is a full-time application where number of goods can be purchased by the app users. Once the customers download the mobile commerce application of Myntra, they are ready to make the purchases.

Today a number of companies are offering Mobile Application Development services as the world of mobile commerce is growing thick and fast since the evolution of mobile applications. Even though today most of the businesses in the market are running on e-commerce platform, still in the coming times it’s expected that m-commerce may fully take over e-commerce market.

Here we will be providing a few steps that will help the developers in deploying a successful mobile commerce application:

It’s great to form a black-box prior to the implementation

While developing the M-commerce applications, the developers need to take care of several aspects such as audience using the applications, theme for the application, purpose to launch such an app and many others. Once you integrate these day-to-day functions in the app, it signifies the utility of commercial interaction with the customers. For this purpose, it’s advised to come up with a black box in advance that creates appropriate approach for app making while also offering absolute clarity to the app developers.

Suitable User Interface (UI) Design

As the m-commerce app is launched on the app store, it’s necessary to take care of the UI, as they are directly linked with the end users, thus the designing is done in a distinctive manner that best possible utility of the app is done. While developing an app, ensure its navigation through a page is trouble-free and dynamic, as well as simplicity of controls over touch components. Taking care of the designing aspect of the UI is necessary so that scrolling from a single screen to another doesn’t consume much of the loading time. On the hindsight, it’s vital to ensure the data security in case of M-commerce apps as well.

Ensure the stability

Today it’s the major concern of most developers that they have to ensure the stability of the m-commerce applications created by them as the process for the same begins before the launch itself. This requires a clear-cut effort while the testing is done owing to the apps being highly-functional. Prior to the launch and marketing of the application, a developer must ensure the smooth running of the application on every device. Accordingly, there must be schemes and advertisements introduced consistently to remain a part of the competitive market. Besides, having payment gateway integration of the app is necessary for safe and smooth transactions.

Summary for Facebook – The sudden shift of Myntra from e-commerce to m-commerce application has emphasized on the utility and advancement of mobile applications and in the coming times we can expect more of this. Here are the easy tips for the developers that will help them in developing a mobile app.

Arun Goyal

Managing Director @ Octal Info Solution, Arun Goyal is a tech-enthusiast and visionary entrepreneur. He loves to talk about technology, and expresses his views about the trends in tech-world through this blog.