How I Become a mobile app developer without any academic experience.
I focused myself in this writing how I have been expert in app developer without academic experience.
I always follow shortcut techniques to do something. I wanted to do everything easily. I wanted to be engaged in various professions since childhood. Actors, cricket and football players, world famous poets or writers, doctors, engineers and many more were my hobbies But two years ago I thought of becoming an Android developer.
I had a laptop with very low configuration. 2 GB RAM and 500 GB hard disk. I dared to download and install Android Studio version 2.3.3. This is where my journey began.
With the help of Google search engine and YouTube, I keep practicing day by day. I wanted to make Android app with a website convert. About a month and a half after seeing a lot of errors, I succeeded and run a WebView app. I was very happy But after a while I started to think that the app was not complete! I started searching again on Google for ‘how to add splash screen.’ I kept trying to read the article on some websites. After a lot of failures, I was able to add a welcome screen. Gradually I was able to add rating dialogue, share button, progress bar , swipe to refresh, push notification and more.
To build myself as a skilled android developer my first search keyword was ‘how to website to android app’. its very funny keywords. right? :p I have searched many times before with the keyword ‘Android app builds on which platform’. (Although some of website temporarily confused me there have shortcut ways for make apps) Then I did Google search to install Android Studio.
Then I started searching on Google to create PDF Android book app. I created a poetry app with some famous poems from a particular fondness towards poetry. In a few days, I created many WebView's and PDF book Android apps and published them on Google Play Store with admob ads. But the success did not come as expected. After waiting for a long time, I noticed that no one was downloading my app. I was very disappointed. I started searching on Google again. Why!
Eventually I realized that I focused more on quantity more than quality. I unpublished all the apps and decided to work with only one app. I started studying the material design of the app also started researching how to add high quality and uncommon content to my app. I followed some developer apps from Google play and tried to build same in my android studio.
Gradually I realized that there is a lot of competition among developers. I have to do something that no one has given before. I also understood that success cannot be achieved only by creating a quality app. There are some more important things to keep in mind for success.
For example:
- App Icon
- App Title With Aso
- Short Description With Aso
- Full Description With Aso
- Screenshot
App store optimization (ASO) is important for any app. So before publishing a quality complete app, it is important to get an idea about ASO.
I strongly believe this if anyone can type ‘how to’ on Google search engine than nothing is impossible for him.
I don’t have any academical experience for programming. also I was not a good student. Somehow I completed the post graduation but the creative mind forced me to make something new, make something different. Then I opened Google and keep writing on search bar ‘how to’ ‘how to’ ‘how to’.
