{"id":2770,"date":"2018-02-20T20:08:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T02:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2018-02-20T20:09:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T02:09:47","slug":"do-you-need-a-mobile-app-probably-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2770","title":{"rendered":"Do you need a mobile app? Probably not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/18f.gsa.gov\/2018\/02\/13\/why-your-agency-doesnt-need-a-mobile-app\/\">This post<\/a> from the folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/18f.gsa.gov\/\">18F<\/a> does a great job of covering why you should default to a responsive web site rather than a native mobile app. While tools like cordova and react native decrease the effort required to build a native application, the ongoing maintenance costs shouldn&#8217;t be underestimated.\u00a0 It is easier to outline the reasons why you should build a mobile application, because there are far more reasons why you should not. From the post I mentioned above:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>extreme bandwidth constraints or offline operation<\/li>\n<li>heavy use of sensors that are not web standards<\/li>\n<li>third party interactions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d add:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>branding needs, where you have a compelling application and expect to be be installed on the user&#8217;s home screen. Expect to spend $$$ on marketing the app<\/li>\n<li>extreme performance. This might be graphics\/video, battery or network performance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/data_bates\/status\/966010743081463808\">via twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/data_bates\">Sara Bates<\/a> added:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>push notifications, (if used wisely)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your application doesn&#8217;t meet these criteria, I&#8217;d think long and hard about launching with a native mobile application, and think about what you could do for your business with the extra budget.<\/p>\n<p>You can likely prototype your app with a responsive website and then build a native mobile app when you know more and\/or have user feedback. This can be a great way to economize, because you can leverage outsourced mobile app teams and point them at the prototype as a living requirements document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post from the folks at 18F does a great job of covering why you should default to a responsive web site rather than a native mobile app. While tools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,7,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-mobile-technology","category-phonegap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}