mobile app technical design document

GUIDELINE TO BUILD THE MOBILE APP DOCUMENT

For building a mobile app, the action plan with all the information about the project is always recommended at the moment you have thought about the project. The information about the project must be documented properly. It is known as Product Requirements Document (PRD) or Product Specifications Document. This document contains all the elementary information about the project as:

What is the logic behind the project?
What are the technical specifications?
What are the constraints?

The precise and accurate documentation of the project helps in guiding the mobile app development team from the initial stage to the last moment to build the ultimate goal of the project.

The aim b e hind the product requirements document is to design a perfect and attracting product that can meet the purpose of the requirement. For achieving maximum perfection, extensive research of the market, trending products similar to your idea, competitor's projects, technologies, users, and potential of your developing team is an urge of the document.

A lot of information in the document, more it is gonna to help the product development team. Though there are many ways to document the requirements here we have come up with the important aspects that must be included in your PRD.

A guide to building an effective and working mobile app requirements document:

Business Requirements:

The criteria and conditions those are essential to meet the organizational dignity should be summed up in the business requirements section of the PRD. What your company is and what it aims to serve its users with a mobile app ( the purpose of the mobile app) must be clearly mentioned to the mobile app development team.

Include the following information within business requirements section:

These considerations are commonly included when mapping out business requirements for a mobile app requirements document:

What is the aim of the app or product?
What do you want to build specifically?
What are the current issues and problems in the market that you app efficiently can solve?
What potential your app has to solve those problems?
What is your vision for the project?
What new aspects are essentially required to be added to the project to make it well for working?
What is the functionality of the app?
What are the essentially required features of the app?
What are the designing and branding features that you need to include in your product?

Technical Requirements

Once you have a clear mindset of the business requirements, the next step is to summarize the technical specifications of the product. The technical section covers the outline of the technical needs, features and functionalities.

Include the following in technical requirement section:

On which platforms you are going to build the mobile app (for Android, iOS etc.)?
What are the supporting versions of the selected operating system?
Include the detailed information about your servers, current services, and databases.
How will you gonna to maintain the project needs (at the moment as well as in future)?
Include current API/services documentation.
To build the app on any platform you must have that credentials or developer accounts for Apple, Google or another developer. Include this also in your PRD.
If required, include other credentials needed for platforms, systems analytics etc.).

Dependency

Generally, the product or mobile app development and the developing team depend on the various aspects to meet the goal of the project.

These dependencies can be on:

Hardware for the app on which the app will be interactive with the users.
Credentials API/ Service documentation (also mentioned in technical requirements).
Profile/account/platform.
If your app relies on any third-party software.
Flowcharts, documents, or information relevant to the ultimate product.

Assumptions

Before starting any project, it is natural that we start assuming about the project, it's working, how it's going to be completed, the features and the environment it is requiring. These all assumptions are supported by our experience, knowledge, or trending information.

Restrictions

The restrictions for the development team as time frame, budget and scope of the project. Also, resources, staff, risk tolerance, and quality requirements can sometimes be the constraints for the mobile app development team. Thus you must include all aspects of your documentation so that you can efficiently work within the specified environment. If you have hired a mobile app development team, then, you must make all the constraints clear to it.

Submission Documents:

You must be ready with all the process and documents for the release of your app on the required platforms. As, if you have built the app for Apple users, you must be needed to follow the Apple's guidelines to launch your mobile app on the iPhone app store, similarly for Google Play store and all.

Conclusion:

The above-mentioned aspects, when crafted precisely will help in achieving the ultimate goal of the project. The mobile app requirement document plays the role of the foundation for a successful product. Constructing the technical requirements, specifications, business requirements, dependencies, assumptions, constraints and submissions in one document would support your development team to dig out pearl from the sea of available aspects(platforms, credentials, hardware, technology, API, servers, databases and so on). The more you include the refined and precise information in your PRD, more are the chance that your app development team would come up with the best results.

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