In the modern world, creating a working application isn’t as hard as people think, but application development is a quite sophisticated process that involves a lot of thinking and pre-planning. It could be as easy as creating a project with the IDE, writing and putting a bunch of codes together to make it work, debugging and checking for critical errors, and then submitting it to an App Store. Or it could be as hard as back-end logic programming, interface design, QA testing, deployment and maintenance. Whichever you choose, you will have to go through many phases and deal with all kinds of objectives and problems along the way. 1. Research Every application comes from an idea, so make sure you can refine that idea into a real foundation for your application. Always focus on your target users, and consider what their motivations, their characteristics and their goals are, and why they should use your application. After the process, you should know and understand how the c...