Process Of Developing Educational Apps Through Android And IOS

Whether it's educational institutions or private companies, all sorts of organizations are building learning software to teach their students and train their employees respectively. Android and iOS are the two biggest platforms to create such applications and reach out to wider audiences. 

Hiring experienced app developers like RG Infotech is the best option to make your application a success. 

With the increase in demand for Educational applications in all types of industries; the market is filled with competitors and it has become more important than ever to bring out new and highly responsive platforms in the market. 

Market Overview

The pandemic has worked as a catalyst in the growth of the ed-tech industry. And after the pandemic breakout, the online education industry is growing steadily. 

Here is a quick market overview of the ed-tech industry:

• In 2020, US Educational Companies raised almost 2.2b.

• Education apps are the second most popular category in the App Store. 

• Recently the largest funding deals went to the tech companies that are selling services directly to the consumers. 

Types Of Educational Apps

Educational apps are used for different purposes which divides the e-learning application into different types. Check out the fours types of educational apps:

1. Classroom Apps

Classroom apps are basically to connect students with their teachers, where they can learn remotely. These apps are also a source of sharing notes and study material with students. 

2. For Kids

E-learning apps allow children to learn via visual content like graphics, animations, infographics, etc. These apps help small kids to grasp difficult topics easily in their initial classes and help parents to make their children smarter, through smart learning. 

3. Courses Apps

These educational apps are for all whether you are a student in school who wants to learn something out of the course or a working professional who is working hard to upgrade himself with the latest technology. Here, along with a few free courses, paid courses are available based on a subscription. 

4. Preparation Apps

These apps are different from normal educational apps as they conduct regular tests and examinations to analyze your preparation for the respective exams. These apps are helpful for competitive exams to institutional term examinations. 

Steps to be followed to develop an Educational App:

Building educational apps on Android and iOS are the same except few features and technology used in it. Check out the basic steps involved in Educational App development. 

1. Discovery

All the product designing and development starts from the discovery step to gain information about the product and information related to it. 

Discovering is all about finding the history, and present market value to decide the future success of the educational app. Under discovery, focus on:

• Define Target Audience - The success of your educational app will depend on your target audience. The whole marketing and branding process of your app will depend on the targeted audience.

• Competitor Analysis - It's essential to know your competitors to understand the product market’s value and future. Host a competitor analysis to understand the demands of the targeted audience better and where the other educational apps might be lagging in fulfilling their requirements. 

Conduct competitor analysis - knowing about your competitor is very important. They help you to understand the present product value and future demands of your targeted audience from the particular app. Conduct a competitor analysis. 

SWOT Analysis – Find the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats related to the education apps will help you in designing the app in such a way that you can customize the whole service and maximize the benefits.

2. Prototyping 

Once you know what the final product is going to look like, it will be easier for you to begin with app development. It will give you a brief idea about the performance and look of the final application to understand the user experience better. Designing the UX/UI and integrating the functional prototype will give a final app look.

The main objective of prototyping is to think from a user perspective and improve the app functionality to enhance the user experience. 

RG Infotech provides excellent and advanced prototyping services where all user roles can be tested like a learner, teacher-parent, etc. Enjoy the real feel of using an app via prototype and improve your app functionality. 

3. Educational App Development

The app development step is most important for programmers' code and quality engineers' tests. App development is a long process of designing and building the app architecture. 

While developing an app, you will be integrating multiple third-party applications like audio or video, and teleconferencing SDKs like Agora or Twilio. 

RG Infotech can develop your education in both ways from scratch or provide you with a pre-developed solution. 

Developing is a time-consuming process and requires experienced developers like RG Infotech to design and develop your application. 

Before going for app development, finalize your Operating System, devices, and all sorts of technology integration in the application. 

If you are planning to launch your app on both iOS and Android, hire an app developer who is well-versed with the requirement challenges of both systems. 

4. Product Deployment

Releasing the App in the App Store and Google Play is not as easy as it might look. Product deployment is the final stage. And RG Infotech knows what to do before deploying the educational app to their clients. 

Here are a few steps you should not forget before deploying the final product:

• Always do stress testing of the server component

You must know the performance of your education application under too many users who are using the app at the same time. It tells you about the efficiency of your app under high stress. 

• Set DevOps

Setup of the DevOps process during the development process is easy, but maintaining it during the post-release is quite challenging. So setting up a seamless system where doing updates post-release should be easy.

• Ad-hoc distribution models

Some solutions are available for only internal employees; for instance when you made an app for the staff training. 

On the Android system - you can share via using a file or link through messaging.

On iOS - It is done through Mobile Device Management.

Conclusion

Developing an application on Android and iOS is quite similar except few features and costs of the educational app development. However, it's better to do a lot of research before choosing any particular Operating System, as numerous factors will directly affect the process of Educational app development.