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Did you search for “how to develop a mobile app?” If so, this article might just be what you need right now. Here we offer you a detailed explanation of the crucial stages of app development from initial conception to launch.

Building anything from scratch takes time and effort. Similarly, when developing any mobile app, there are 7 crucial stages of development to ensure a successful application. Hence, having a proper understanding of different application development stages helps you organize each step at different levels to create a successful app.

7 Stages of App Development

The mobile application development process doesn’t start at the developing stage. There are several prerequisites like ideation and validation before you can move on to the development stage. Whether you are a beginner or a founder, understanding the initial stages helps streamline the development process in later stages.

So, let’s explore the Preliminary Steps before moving on to the 7 development stages.

Preliminary Steps: Ideation And Validation

When it comes to app development, you must start with a clear vision for your application to assemble a collaborative team who shares your vision. When you have a clear ideation for your mobile application and what you want to provide on it, you can pitch your vision to other like-minded individuals. Thus a team is created whose collaborative effort makes the idea a reality.

For example, Uber’s founder who developed an app when he couldn’t find a cab leading to a successful application with solid validation and a successful venture in 2025. However, Uber was not built alone but with a team who shared in the same vision of the founder to create a successful mobile application.

In short you need:

• A clear vision
• A customer who need the solution
• A product or the actual solution
• A team who shares the same vision

Idea Validation

Ideation alone would make a difference if your product or service isn’t a viable solution to an actual problem. So, asking these questions helps you find the viability of your idea:

• Does the product contain value in the market?
• Can you sell the product to the target audience?

Once you know the answers to these questions, the application development stage starts.

Stage 1: Design and Development

The core process of the 7 stages of app development is designing and developing. Through design, you formulate your vision into a product with specific details that you wish for your application. 

The designing stage ensures product discovery, where everything you envision comes into formulation in a product. In designing, these steps are crucial:

• SRS or Software Requirement Specifications to understand purpose, objectives and software requirements of your product
• UX design or User Experience map
• Wireframes
• UI designs i.e. color, style guide, motion design, themes, typography, etc.

A seamless user experience ensures more engagement on your application. So, if you want a smooth UX/UI design, Coderminds can provide you a seamless user experience and creative UI design for your mobile app. 

Through continuous collaboration on design with the team and changes the best design gets finalized for further development.

Stage 2: Planning

Before the crucial coding part of the app development phase starts, a course of action plan ensures collaborative efforts towards a singular goal. A plan of action ensures all the team members understand their roles and responsibilities in the project and work towards it simultaneously. 

Stage 3: Building The Actual App

This is a crucial app development stage where you transform your product from paper to practice. Your team employs skills, development tools, and vision to make the idea a reality. In this stage, coding comes into picture with two main teams of developers in action: 

• Frontend
• Backend

A project manager ensures team collaboration with daily updates on tasks.

Stage 4: Testing

Every app development team needs a QA or quality assurance team to test the app functionality. As previously mentioned, ensuring a seamless integration of ideas, tools, and skills ensures a user-friendly application that’s easily navigable by users, enhancing their experience. 

With a seamless user experience, customers feel more comfortable using the mobile app, leading to higher revenue for the company. Hence, the QA team under the development project ensures the app functions smoothly with two core testing phases:

1. Core Testing
2. On-Demand Testing

Here’s how to ensure a seamless app experience:

• Check for bugs
• Has an intuitive interface
• No drawbacks of using the app
• Does not lag
• Running smoothly

Stage 5: Deploying and Maintaining

In the app development phase, deploying and maintaining mobile apps ensures the long-term success of the app. Are you wondering why bother with maintenance once the app deployment is complete, after quality assurance? 

Through maintenance, you refine and smooth the app functionality through continuous checks on its performance. These corrections during maintenance include privacy policies, quick bug fixes, and continuous configuration for a stable app version over time.

Stage 6: The Ultimate Test Post-Launch of MVP

The last stage of app development as per is the ultimate test of the app by its users. Post-launch of the full-scale mobile app or MVP (Minimum Viable Product), users’ test and feedback becomes the guiding map for your app success. Through their reviews and continuous maintenance or fixes user experience of the app improves reflecting better versions of the app over time. 

Stage 7: Marketing

Technically, the last step of app development is post-launch of a minimum viable product for users to test, however, today’s competitive app market requires strategic marketing for mobile app success.  Whether it’s a startup or established tech giant, through marketing, your product reaches a wider audience both locally and globally. Hence why marketing is the last stage of the application development process for an app’s success. 

Here are some marketing strategies employed by Codersmind, a leading digital marketing and application development company:

• PPC campaigns
• Blogs
• Social Media Advertisement
• Google Ads

Reach out to Codersmind to find tailored application development services along with robust marketing strategies to boost your product visibility online.

Concluding Lines: Ready to Build Your Own App?

Now you know the key stages of application development for the successful deployment of your mobile application. Whether you are a beginner or a new entrant in the world of startups, having an innovative and collaborative development and marketing team can ensure a continuous product success. 

One such innovative and collaborative Mobile app development and Digital marketing team is Codersmind. Our team of skilled developers and marketers ensures a collaborative approach to mobile application development for a successful launch. If you wish to opt for a mobile application development service, reach out to us to know more about our working process.