Application Development
More Than Comfort
Accessibility doesn’t imply boredom: people are using apps for all kinds of purposes, from generating music playlists to finding someone to cuddle nearby. At DSTRCT Media we develop apps from your wildest dreams. Or from the materialistic ones. Let us walk you through the journey of crafting a digital masterpiece. We develop creative games, precise biotrackers, and erect digital megamalls from scratch. Share your goals, ideas and ambitions with us, and we will tell you what app you need. Here is the road taking us from your idea to an awesome app:
Software Design Document
This document contains detailed specifications of your future app. We establish how the app is going to work, what market trends it is going to follow, what features it will include, how they will be implemented, what tools we are going to use, what system requirements the app is going to have, and more. This ensures effective cooperation between our teams of UI/UX Designers, developers and testers.
Mockup
This is a blueprint of your future app, rendering your ideas into a visual form to help you and the UI/UX Design team share thoughts on the project. A mockup arranges the navigation, spacing and other aspects of both the functional and the visual side of the interface. This is a part of UI/UX Design process, so make sure you click here to learn more
Design
Once we have the mockup, we can start working on all the visual parts. We focus on color schemes, icons, illustrations and fonts. We also create character and background designs for games. If you have an idea of an app never seen before, don’t hesitate to tell us!
Architecture
A codebase can grow into a distressing mess of mutual comments and puns of the developers if a project doesn’t have a proper structure. By this we mean making the key functional elements of the UI/UX Design work together with the databases and hardware within a system fitting your goals. At this step, we spare some room for future adjustments – not because we collectively are control freaks, but because it helps the teams working with the code find everything faster.
Development
Now that the system is neatly organized, we write the code for everything outlined in the Design Document. On top of that, we work on database management, the security and compatibility of the app, operating on both frontend and backend.
Testing and Debugging
Test, test, test! We check every nook and cranny of the code to make sure it’s clean and bug-free, working together with our team of skilled QA testers. They are the modern age inquisitors looking for blasphemous bugs and bringing them to developers for a quick trial followed by a brutal execution. To be honest, we tend to skip the trial part.
Post-launch Updates
So, we’ve just built an app! But what if tomorrow a new cryptocurrency takes over the world? What do we do with our in-app payment system? You contact us obviously. We provide updates for your app for as long as it is running, really. Whether you find a rare bug or want to add a new character to your game – don’t hesitate to ask us for any modifications!
Frequently Asked Questions
Hi there, fellow dev! It’s no huge secret, we use the framework React Native to develop apps for iOS and Android. We utilize it for enabling cross-platform development and having a library of the trendiest features updated daily; for database management we prefer PostgreSQL and MySQL, for other types of backend processes there is Node.js; for cloud services we use AWS and Azure. You probably already know what our colleagues, the UI/UX Designers use, it’s the industry standard set of Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator and Figma.
You don’t need to run a business to receive a beautiful and easy-to-use application from us. You may ask for a game full of inside jokes to play with your friends or for a personalized notebook where you could store everything, from dynamic graphs to grocery shopping lists. It’s great that you’re determined to start a company though, we enjoy hanging around motivated people, as we consider ourselves the same. Feel free to reach out to us and discuss whatever ideas you have in mind!
Loads of smartwatch apps out there are indistinguishable and meaningless, yet wearable devices provide the data that a phone cannot, such as your pulse count. Besides, it’s easier to use your watch than a phone during a game outdoors. Since the technology itself is new, there are many unexplored creative ways to use the data. We develop all kinds of applications for wearables and can certainly share an idea or two about how to make your app a hit at a store on any OS.
It’s simple, really! An application with a native design works on just one mobile OS, either iOS, or Android, one with a responsive design is a cross-platform tool. A native application works slightly faster on any given type of device, but you would have to ask a developer to produce at least two apps to reach out to a wider audience. An application with a responsive design works just fine and saves you time and money. So, we cannot agree with your friend here, and highly suggest going the responsive design route.
