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How Much Does It Cost To Make An App Like Uber Or OLA

how much does it cost to develop an app like uber or ola

Those of you who live in large populated cities where parking a car is mess and city is full of never ending traffic , will always love to use taxi services . Thanks to companies like OLA and

Uber , who has started taxi booking through the convenience of mobile application wherein we need not to worry about traffic and parking space , we just have to sit back and relax and enjoy the experience of personal car without bearing the expenses of personal car ,

Therefore many business owners are running towards building a cab booking app . The app stores are flooded with the car booking apps in last few years . But you are of course reading this article in order to find out the actual cost of building a cab booking mobile application , and therefore we have to firstly understand the approaches to business process and most importantly functionality of the mobile application . Obviously the cost will all depend on the level of functionality you want to implement in your mobile application on first phase . So lets discuss some major points first !

How does the app work ?

The app can be elaborated in simple steps as :
  • User request for the car on the basis of availability and type of car required by the user . The details are automatically sent to nearest driver .
  • Driver has the option to either accept the ride or decline it .If he declines it , request will be passed to other driver .
  • Custom can track the car on real time basis and can get to know about estimated time of arrival.
  • Custom can pay either in cash or thorough cashless system as per his convenience . Another good feature is custom can estimate the total journey price well in advance .
  • Lastly after ride completion , driver is rated by customer on the basis of numerous factor .
When we are talking about the app like Uber or OLA , always keep in mind that these companies uses two different kind of apps and that is Customer app and Driver app .

Driver App Allows :

  • Editing personal profile
  • Going off duty and on duty by app . Only on duty driver will be displayed on maps .
  • Activity alert . The alert to driver if he is chosen with estimated fare .
  • Calling to passenger directly though app .
  • Generating daily/monthly reports of past booking and earnings .

Customer App Allows:

  • Manage personal information
  • Book a cab
  • Call the driver
  • Getting an estimate of ride fair
  • Track the approaching taxi
  • Automatic payment execution
  • Rating the driver

How much does it cost to build an app like Uber or OLA ?

Well is totally depends on the level of functionality as required by you and the complexity of those functionality .

Location & Coverage ( Maps , GPS , Routing )

GPS location is generally use to fetch location on real time basis , user can easily browse from the list of available car at the location nearby to him , and can locate the car with map integration . Routing server is  required for getting various distance and routes information .
The easy to book looking app for the user have more than unimaginable functionality behind the scenes .
The cost of building :
The developer usually needs 200 hours to integrate the location and routing feature .

Payments

Payment can be collected by the driver either in cash or through online wallet . User can in advance pre fill their wallet , and in order to encourage user to get their wallet refilled , companies offer certain kind of cash back and promotional discounted price . In addition to it , user can estimate the fare even before he actually start his journey . To estimate the ride fare , different company may have different criteria , but following in general it will be usually calculated on the basis of Base fare , together with cost per kilometre , cost per minute .
The cost of building :
Payment gateway integration is tedious job . Usually most payment gateways gets integrated within 50 hours and getting fare estimate required 40 hours totalling to 90 hours .

Registration & Profiles

Most mobile apps required pre sign up even before they start using the mobile app . Signing up may be either from phone number , social media or email as per the requirement , and shooting the sign up email or notification on sms will also be the part of it . Lastly review and rating will also be done by customer and driver .
The cost of building :
To implement registration and profiles , developers usually need 30 hours .
 


Communication & Notification

To ensure privacy of the user and in order to provide regular updates to user , push notification in app , sms and email shooting to user has been introduced by the cab booking companies to ensure customer convenience . The passenger is able to communicate with the driver as soon as he accept the rides without even asking the phone number .
The cost of building :
Integration of push notification required 40 hours , and sms and email integration requires additional 50 hours , to the total of 90 hours .

Design

In order to make your app a huge success , a good designing is the only key , with ensures smooth interaction with the user .
The cost of building :
Designing can take between 72 hours to 180 hours which ranges from a simple design to eye catchy one . LEt’s consider an average of 100 hours for average app building .
  • Wire framing with take 28 hours
  • User interface will take 45 hours
  • User experience will take 27 hours
Our cost starts from $ 40 per hour and hence an app like Ola or Uber can be build within $ 25000 , depending on the requirement .
There are few more things which need to be consider while having an app idea of creating an app like Uber or Ola . You must ensure all the functionality as required by you before handing the project to an mobile app development company that is developing an app for you . Contact us now for more information .
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AVOID THESE MISTAKES WHILE DESIGNING YOUR APP

There has been a sharp rise in the app development industry. Due to this very reason, the number of jobs in the IT industry keeps on augmenting. But… what it takes to design an app, let’s find out!

According to recent studies, there are millions of applications worldwide and the number keeps on growing with each passing day. Not all the apps make it through the success benchmark and lot of apps fail due to poor app design. Here we will be explaining the mistakes that you must avoid while designing your app.

Finding out the errors in the development phase is an easy task. We can just allow users to test the applications and according to the results, errors can be corrected. However, if we ignore the errors in the testing phase, then it becomes really difficult to test the application.

There is always a trail left behind…

 

With this entire app development process on the rise, even the most experienced developers will leave an error. No matter how good they are, they will always leave an error behind. This error will negatively impact the brand image. The worst part is that the error may be so minute that we may not be able to detect it. But  it will seriously impact the app performance .

We have made a list of the most commonly occurring errors in the designing of the app. This will assist the designers and developers to do designing and development respectively very efficiently. This list goes on as follows:

  • Ignoring the flow of application

It is very essential that the application must have a proper workflow and it must be convenient for the users to use. It will be huge mistake if you don’t think about the flow of the app before designing. It may make the users confused about how to reach a certain feature of the app. It may also happen that something comes up after the beginning of designing which you ignored due to which you will have to undo previous work. So it is important to keep in mind about the proper flow of app.

  • Designing the app for all the platforms at the same time

Both android and iOS are completely different from each other. Investing money on both the apps together is not a good idea because if your app fails, then you will have to suffer losses on both platforms. However if you  prefer to design your app only for one specific platform, then you can get a brief overview to see the reviews of all the people. So even if you design fails, you can improve the design on other platform. This will save lot of money

  • Expecting users to use the services without offering anything

This is foolish and one of the biggest mistake that app designers make. If you don’t provide anything then asking for registration from the users is not a preferred step as the users will not waste their time to register. However if you are providing something, then you would have to show the consumer what you are providing before asking them to subscribe. You can do this be providing screenshots and description on the app store page.

  • Ignoring the importance of on-boarding

On-boarding is the first step when users use the app after downloading. First impression is everything. If you are not able to produce a good impression for your app, then no one is going to use it. Explain the whole process of how to use the app to the users. Make proper slides or animation explaining each and every detail.

  • Not giving importance to the UX of the app

A great design is very necessary for attracting the user. If you don’t have a great layout design of the app, then you will have difficulties in bringing more downloads of your app. So make sure that your app has a great design.

  • Too many features

Make sure that your app does not incorporate too many features as it will make the user confused about the different features of the app. Start with the basic design and then gradually add the features which will compel the users to use the app.

  • Having different design layouts

Too many layouts of design in the same app can confuse the user. It feels as if the app design is not standard and makes it very ordinary which will give a bad image of the app

  • Doing beta testing by yourself

As the alpha testing is done by the developers and designers themselves, the beat testing must be done by someone who has  no knowledge of the app. This is because we have to get both perspective of the app, those who use the app and those who don’t use the app.

Winklix  is an mobile app development company located in the heart of India. It is one of the best app development companies in India. Looking in case you are looking for the best app developer and designer in feel free to contact us anytime !

 

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THE FUTURE OF MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT

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When I was young I remember a TV show stating about the future world. In that show it deeply described about how technology is going to change the world. And I always used to wonder- will I be able to talk and control the machines in the future? Well now… I have the answer fast forwarding to today. The big heavyweights in technology like Google’s Home and Amazon’s Alexa has been making their presence felt with the help of voice recognition technology through which we are able to talk with the appliances. This has been made possible due to Internet of Things.

In the current scenarios, developers are already looking to explore new technologies and their specified areas:

Voice Recognition Software: 

Talking to Siri is just a beginning of how we will be able to control the devices with our voice. This technology not only helps in communicating with the apps and smartphones but it assists in providing dedicated service to the user

Machine Learning:

As we all are aware of the recent acquisition of Deepmind by Google which has led to growth of an artificial intelligence agent which has learned to play the games better than the humans and it keep on improving itself. This is the best thing about machine learning; the machine keeps on evolving and learning. Machine learning apps are truly a technology to look for in the future.

Cyber security:

The confidentiality of a person data in very important. With the recent rise of blockchain, this has given an entirely new prospect of ensuring safe, documented and secure transactions. This is certainly the technology to watch out for. This will give rise to blockchain apps in future.

Mobile app development with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is a technology for which everyone is excited about. The reason behind this excitement is the reason that one day our daily tasks will be done automatically. Isn’t it amazing?

Well… the trend has already started with the Google’s acquisition of Deepmind which has received tremendous response. IBM has recently launched WATSON which with the help of Big Data has been used for treating the patients in a hospital. WATSON scans all the details of the patient and comes up with the best possible treatment of the patient. Isn’t it fascinating? 

There is a start-up which is developing software which can detect the presence of rare disease just be reading the facial expressions. The rare disease shows symptoms in your facial structure which is read by the AI enabled machine, thus helping in detection of disease.

Blockchain and high end secure banking solutions

Recently there has been huge innovation in the way banking is done. There are apps like Monzo which are taking large strides in the mobile banking. It allows users to keep an eye on the account balance and charge very low on foreign currency transactions. It got its banking licence approved recently.

Blockchain has been creating a lot of buzz recently. The rate at which blockchain is growing is extraordinary. It creates a digital ledger for the transactions which provides an incorruptible data or record of the transactions made which is hosted in many places. It can be updated by lot of users instantly. In every organization, security is the key in the every transaction. Blockchain provides exactly that as the blockchain keeps an entire record of every transaction.

Chatbots

Everyone who has used the internet would have saw chatbots on various websites. The websites use these chatbots to help the users to resolve their queries, and answer the frequently asked questions. There is a great future ahead of chatbots. They have very high demand presently and will continue to have in the near future. 

In the future it may happen that chatbots will be used as logging software. Logging in is a very time taking process but with help of Chatbots and AI, this process and be quickened and can be made smarter. Rise of the chatbots is foreseeable. 

Chatbots are like mini apps inside the apps. Chatbots can helps in the free app services like Facebook messenger, Whatsapp to tempt and attract the customers. 

As we can see that there is a huge scope for these types of technologies and app. In the near future there will be a great demand of these types of developers and apps. The apps are incorporating these technologies, changing our future. These services will produce the outputs that will completely change the lives of people.All these type of technologies will give the rise to new apps. If you have an idea that can transform the lives of the people incorporating these technologies, then contact us as we are the best app development company  and we will assist you in turning your dream apps into reality.