How to make a social networking app for android & ios

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Quick Tips on Social Networking Application Development - Hidden

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Social networking apps are among the most popular apps gaining a lot of attention from both developers and users. With the quick accessibility of Internet, the phenomenal growth of social media is evident. Right from microblogs, instant messaging apps, forums, business networks, photo-sharing platforms to chat apps, social media apps development is opening up new avenues of possibilities. This statistic shows the number of social media users worldwide from 2010 to 2016 with projections until 2021. In 2019, it is estimated that there will be around 2.77 billion social media users around the globe, up from 2.46 billion in 2017.



The idea of enhancing new social interactions with the help of mobile technology isn’t going anywhere soon, so it would be useful to learn a bit about the technology stack that social networks rely on. Considering the rapid popularity of social media apps, the market potential is increasing. Social media has demonstrated a paradigm shift towards smartphones and tablets. If you are looking to build a social networking app, it is important to partner with a reliable mobile app development company. Equally important is whether your app going will be available on iOS and Android? Or just iOS? Note, that iPhone app development cost is usually 10 or 15% higher compared to Android.


Types of Social Networking Apps Development â—? Professional or Personal Networking Social Media Networks to enhance communication and connectivity among people. They can be divided into following categories for personal networking (Facebook), for professional networking (Linkedin) and dating services (Badoo).


â—? Professional or Personal Networking Social Media Networks to enhance communication and connectivity among people. They can be divided into following categories for personal networking (Facebook), for professional networking (Linkedin) and dating services (Badoo).

â—? Media Sharing Networks This type of social media lets users exchange video and photo content such as Flickr, Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Snapchat. These type of apps provides feature to scale content such as creating and publishing short videos; allowing to creating video channel.


â—? Online Services Yelp comes across as one of the most prominent review sites providing a wide range of data that helps users to gather all necessary information to make purchasing decisions based on geolocation and the ability to leave reviews and recommendations on local business.

â—? Discussion forums Communities, forums, Q&A-services such as Quora, Reddit, and Digg fall under discussion forums. The very fundamental of the interaction between users is the requirement for knowledge sharing.


â—? Social Publishing Platforms Social media apps related blogging and micro-blogging platform allows amateur bloggers and professional bloggers to create and publish text and media content. These include such popular platforms like Twitter, Medium, and Tumblr.

â—? Bookmarking Sites StumbleUpon and Pinterest are services where the user collects content in the personal library, which can be followed by other members of the community.

â—? Interest-Based Networks The most attractive opportunity that provides social networks is to find like-minded people with similar interests.


Social Media App Development Tips â—?

Channelizing and Displaying Creativity

Users should be able to display creativity and extraordinary talents, as well as showcase important milestones. Several functionalities such as profile and cover pictures, customizing backgrounds or adding filters to images and much more help users channelize creativity. â—?

Channelizing and Displaying Creativity

Social media is all about building network and contacts. It helping to connect with interesting people. Social media app developers should focus on creating algorithm to help find friends and let people invite friends with just a click.


Simplicity of Newsfeed

Users should be able to display creativity and extraordinary talents, as well as showcase important milestones. Several functionalities such as profile and cover pictures, customizing backgrounds or adding filters to images and much more help users channelize creativity. ●

Conclusion

One of the most difficult parts is to estimate cost while hiring top designer or developer for your app. It is highly complex considering each app’s environment such as hosting, office infrastructure, app marketing and more.


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Conclusion

One of the most difficult parts is to estimate cost while hiring top designer or developer for your app. There are several factors that determine the pricing of social media app development. All of the little details are carefully considered because, though they may seem small, they must be carefully and seamlessly implemented into your app. Hidden Brains has successfully delivered several social networking apps. Our team of expert app developers can help you build custom social networking apps for iOS and Android. Get in touch with our team for a free quote today.


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