How much does it cost to make an app?
Our friends over at Golden Gekko have a great post on their blog covering a question they (and we) get asked quite a bit: "How much does it cost to make an app?" As they note, it's not a particularly easy question to answer. It's sort of like asking, "How much does a car cost?" The short answer to that, like with mobile apps, is: "It depends."
Based on the cost of outsourced development, GG estimates 10,000-60,000+ euros for an iPhone app and 15,000-60,000+ for an Android or BlackBerry app. Where things get a bit more interesting is their talk about the cost of developing an app for both iPhone and Android, which they estimate at 20,000-100,000+ euros, based on the complexity of the app.
GG gets to the heart of why cross-platform development remains such a bugbear for so many developers, and why it's still a hot topic at our events:
With normal coding standards there is very little synergy between Android and iPhone development and few developers that can...