There are many entrepreneurs who cannot miss the chance to be part of the prosperous market and think of building new social media platforms. You should read this article if you are one of them because it will tell you everything about social media app development.
Types of Social Media Apps
- Social network apps
- Media sharing networks
- Networks for consumer reviews
- Community and discussion forums
- Bookmarking and content curation networks
- Blogging and publishing platforms
- Interest-based networks
- Anonymous social networks
Current Social Media Trends
Best Practices of Social Network Design
Basic Features of Social Media Apps
- Social authorization
- Feed
- Post creation
- Post likes
- Social notifications
- User profile
- Search
- Chat
- Push notification module
- Analytics
- Content management system (CMS): Admin authorization
- CMS: Admin management
- CMS: User management
- CMS: Reported user management
Business Analysis, Project Management, Quality Assurance: What Stands Behind These Services?
You might need business analysis if you don’t know how to create a social media app and have only a rough project idea. In this case a business analyst will help you with all preparatory work that should be done before design and development itself.
Project management is also a part you shouldn’t miss. A project manager is a mediator between you as a client who wants to create a social media app and your development team who actually know how to make a social media app.
Every product needs QA, especially an MVP. If you want to create a social media app of a good quality it should be polished well.
Making a Social Media App for Android
General information on social media app development for Android at MLSDev:
- Architecture: MVVM (model–view–viewmodel) architectural pattern
- Programming language: Earlier we used only Java to develop apps for Android but now Kotlin is preferable for all new projects.
- Framework: The main framework used is Google Play Services. It allows for access to Google Services like Firebase, Cloud Messages, In-App purchases, Geolocation, etc.
- Library: RxJava2 mostly for composing asynchronous operations
Making a Social Media App for iOS
General information on social media app development for iOS at MLSDev:
- Architecture: MVVM (model–view–viewmodel) architectural pattern
- Programming language: We use Swift to develop apps for iOS.
- Frameworks: Dip framework used as a service locator.
- Library: RxSwift
Creating a Social Media Website
Below you will find the information on how to make a social media website from the technical point of view.
Front-end development at MLSDev:
- Programming language: We use JavaScript to make websites.
- Framework: Angular 2+
- Unit tests: We use the Jasmine framework for unit testing of the self-written code.
Back-end development at MLSDev:
- Programming language: Ruby
- Framework: Ruby on Rails
- Web Server: Nginx
- Application Server: Puma
- Deploy tool: Capistrano
- Databases: Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch
- Tests: Rspec
- API Documentation: Swagger
- Analytics and monitoring: AppSignal, NewRelic
- Hosting: AWS
- Source code storage: GitLab
How to Maintain a Social Media App
In general, support and maintenance at MLSDev presupposes:
- Working on additional features upon request
- More quality assurance
- App stability control
- Control of server performance
- Scaling apps
- Product update (technologies, OS, servers, security)
It is not enough just to create a social media app, all listed activities should be part of the ongoing work on your product.
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