The various elements of an app’s structure

Normally, a mobile application can be structured in different layers including, business, and data layers.

Building the ultimate app architecture

While building better app architecture is vital for any business, not many partners succeed in doing it.

Here are a few considerations you need to check at the time of architecture:

1. Determining the device

Here you need to keep the device types in mind. This covers the screen size, CPU characteristics, resolution (DPI), storage space and memory, and development tool environment availability.

The features in the application might have special requirements from hardware or software; this is why at the time you need to have the knowledge of devices that the app will support.

2. Considering bandwidth

There are times when connectivity is either intermittent or not available. Your app architecture needs to be build keeping in mind the worst network scenarios.

Design your caching, data access mechanism, and state management considering times of intermittent connectivity.

Batch communications and choose software and hardware based on it.

3. Defining user interface

You have the world and entire future ahead to show your creativity. Do not pour it all at the very first stage.

Keep your user interface as simple as possible. It has been noticed that a muddled UI becomes a major reason behind a mobile application’s failure.

4. Navigation methods

This one again comes on the design front. However, it requires expertise in both front and back end.

There are numerous ways to navigate through app features, it is important for you to analyze which one’s good for yours. The list includes:

• Single view
• Stacked navigation Bar
• Tab controller
• Scroll views
• Search driven
• Model controller
• Gesture-based

Understand your customers and the app requirement and according chose the navigation method as it directly impacts your user experience.

Bringing a consistent flow to the architecture

App architecture designing is a process that has to be executed in a defined flow. The flow basically includes three different layers. Namely:

1. Presentation layer

This layer comprises UI Components and UI Process Components (Views and Controllers).

Being at this layer, the team has to define the way the mobile app will present itself in front of the end-users.

On this layer deciding the features and their location is primarily focused.

However, simultaneously, the team also decides other aspects like the theme, font size, etc.

2. Business layer

As the name suggests, the layer focuses on the business front. In simple language it focuses on the way business will be presented in front of the end-users.

This includes workflows, business components, and entities beneath the hood of two sub-layers named Service and Domain model layer.

3. Data layer

At this third stage data, related factors are kept in mind. This includes Data access components, data helpers/utilities, and service agents.

How to choose a better structure.

Peerbits is a trusted name in the world of application and for the past many years.

And with our immense experience, we will give you some tips on how to choose the right architecture for your mobile app.

Firstly, if there are no constraints for budgets, then you must prefer going for the development of native apps since they render better performances and intuitive features.

The right mobile architecture also depends on the type of your target audience. In case, your target audience consists of both Android and iOS, then you must look.

However, if you need to cater to audiences of OS like Blackberry or windows then you can opt for which could turn out to be cost-effective; however, there would be a compromise on the usability.

Another option could be to go for the web as well as native development. These two can complement each other and help you in a better engagement of both customers as well as the employees.

The native mobile applications can render an optimal user experience; whereas, can enhance the visibility of your business as it reaches out to the customers with all the devices.