Who develops apps?

Unique customer experience on the company’s apps and the website is equally important to customer satisfaction as the product itself. Having functional apps for your business can not only enhance your brand visibility but also reflect on your sales. A study by SmartInsight suggests that tablets have the highest ‘add to cart’ rates at 8.58%. With custom applications being an integral part of the process, more and more companies have started investing in app development. But, who exactly develops apps?

Basically, there are two kinds of app developers: traditional developers and citizen developers. While traditional coders conjure the source code from scratch, citizen developers use low-code or no-code software to create apps with minimal coding knowledge. Both types of app development methods come with their own sets of pros and cons.

Pros and Cons of different app-development methods

Traditional coding

This method requires an IT team or pro-developer, who is highly skilled and specialized in app development. Extensive knowledge of programming languages like Java or Swift and heavy coding is critical to the process. Experienced professionals handle the entire workflow, starting from UI/UX design to final prototype testing.

Pros

Traditional development offers more flexibility in the design process because there are endless functionalities that traditional coders can use. It’s a better choice when there’s no predefined structure for the app, and open-ended discussions contribute to the process.

Cons

Businesses need to spend more money and resources on hiring trained coders. Since the process is highly technical, it’s also not adaptive to continuous changes which may be required to facilitate the work of certain departments like Marketing and Operations.

Citizen Developers

These are people in a business who are not otherwise trained in coding but work in a visual integrated development environment to design apps. Citizen developers work on low-code or no-code platform. They use drag-and-drop app components to build key elements of the app. Crust’s open-source low-code platform can help your employees create customized apps for your business without any coding experience.

Pros

It saves time and money compared to traditional app development. The end-product is tailored for the needs of specific departments, and further changes are accommodated easily. Moreover, building apps is fast. Additionally, it gives businesses the chance to include more employees and stakeholders in their digital transformation process. Crust provides pre-built apps that you can adjust to your specific needs-. With the drag-and-drop feature, it’s a breeze to customize the UI of an app.

Cons

Although citizen developers are quite efficient, they still might be dependent on traditional coders for highly technical functionalities. The method also calls for training programs to make employees familiar with the basics of low-code development. This issue gets minimized with good documentation, such as Crust has created on docs.cortezaproject.org.

Crust provides the ultimate low-code solution for both citizen developers and traditional coders alike

Crust open-source low-code software is a multi-dimensional app-development platform that supports both coders and citizen developers. While traditional developers appreciate the time low-code saves them by eliminating the need for writing repetitive code, citizen developers cherish the software-engineering abilities low-code gives them. Try the demo of Crust’s low-code platform for your business and help your company to achieve new heights of technological efficiency.