iOS App Development

Behind every brilliant iOS app is a brilliant idea. Once you’ve got your own app development idea in mind, the first thing you need to do is determine what problem your app is going to solve for your users. Not only does this help to define your unique selling proposition, but it will also help you to stand out from your competition. If you’re looking for assistance to refine your app development idea, our friendly App Boxer team is here to help you take it to the next level.

The app market is an extremely competitive landscape, so it’s important that you conduct extensive market research and competitor analysis, while also ensuring that your app idea will comply with Apple’s strict guidelines surrounding iOS app design security. Once again, our team is here to provide you with the support that you need during this step. We can also offer a marketing playbook to help you outline your post-launch promotional strategy.

The next step on your app development journey involves creating the wireframes that will form the foundation of the app design process. These are the blueprints that outline how your app is going to look and function. Our UI/UX designers will also use this opportunity to map out the specifications for development and identify any integration required.

App Boxer’s brand specialists will work collaboratively with you and your team to build a brand that meets the unique needs of your organisation, while ensuring that the concept will translate into the digital world.

Using a collaborative mood board, we will work to build the visual direction of your brand, offering multiple variations of our concepts to ensure we meet your expectations. Once this step is complete, you will be provided with all brand guidelines and assets to allow for consistency in marketing and promotion moving forward.

Now, it’s time to design the front-end of your iOS application. This is where our app design team will work to ensure that the brand identity outlined in step 4 aligns with your app before applying it to the wireframing. The focus here is to build and deliver a high-quality user experience. Once this is done, we will provide you with a high-fidelity prototype that you can use for marketing and investment purposes.

Your app’s User Stories is a highly detailed document that effectively outlines all the functions, technical requirements and interactions that your users have with your app. The document is used to guide the back-end development of your app, while also providing a final cost estimation, as well as a plan for future iterations.

This is where we ensure that the user interface of your app has been designed to an exceptional standard before utilising the techniques that allow us to code the usability and functionality of the app. At this point, we can begin to rely on the native iOS features of each device to improve the user experience, such as list views, navigation and building data silos to perform as one unit. iOS app development allows us to build an app that works seamlessly with all Apple products.

Throughout the development process, our team conducts regular and extensive quality assurance testing to ensure that your final product not only meets your expectations but is delivered to the highest standards. We check every function and feature is operating as intended and ensure that any bugs detected in the back end of the system are taken care of. These tests include:

• UX/UI Testing: We check your app against our original design concept to ensure that we have achieved the proper implementation of workflows as well as accuracy in UI/UX design.
• Stress Testing: Using specific testing tools, we simulate a moderate load on your app to expose any performance weaknesses when the app is under stress. We develop every app in such a way that it has the ability to scale under pressure.
• Interrupt Testing: This is where we test your app by simulating several real-world situations, such as loss of network, loss of battery power, or the interruption of an incoming call, to see how it will perform. We then adjust accordingly.
• Security Testing: The security and confidentiality functions of your app are vital to ensuring that your user data is protected from all external threats. We thoroughly test your new iOS app to detect any security issues and ensure that all unauthorised user data access is restricted. We also install SSL certificates in your app to ensure that all communication between the app and server is encrypted and safe.

Once we are satisfied with the quality of your iOS app, we will submit your product to the Apple App Store for the final tick of approval. Given the stringent security and quality testing that Apple conducts to ensure that your digital product complies with their standards, this process can take anywhere from a few days to a week to be finalised.

Once your app has been launched, App Boxer will continue to monitor your iOS app for any issues that may arise, such as with security or functionality, to ensure the highest standards are maintained. This is all part of App Boxer’s 3-month warranty that we provide on all digital products we deliver.