How to write App specifications documents? 

An App specification document is nothing but a sequential story of what all your intended App user can possibly do on your App. The more you describe the user story, the better your App Development Company will be able to understand the scope and complexity of the App project and be able to offer you a better quote or estimation. A mobile app spec template outlines project details, features, and goals. It serves as a roadmap for developers, ensuring a clear understanding of the app's requirements and objectives.

Introduction of Application

You can write as “We are looking to develop a taxi app like uber but with a twist related to the occasion of travel, and we are targeting everyone in New York area at first so that they can book cars for occasions like wedding, birthday parties, business meetings, leisure etc and the driver and cab would be tailor-made for the occasion.”

Brief Introduction of Your Startup, Experience, Founders

Tell others what you are up to, are you funding privately or have raised a seed, experience of co-founders, long and short term vision of the startup. Consider you are hiring not just an App Development Company, but a team that should be knowing you and feel confident and glad to be a part. Sharing most amount of information on your behalf because that’ll be most meaning in understanding your requirements.

Mobile OS Platforms to Target

Mention the kind of devices you want to target. It will be beneficial for you to ask for both the Android and iOS platforms in the beginning. Although based upon your target audience, you can either ask for just Android or iOS. In fact, it can be great if you even ask for a dedicated website. You can always ask separate cost per platform, so mention that as well.

Services Needed from the App Development Company

An App development Company like our’s (Agicent Technologies) could offer a lot more than just coding services that can be related to your requirement like

App Design & Development services.

App Development Services.

App Design Services.

App Store Optimization, App marketing.

Full Stack Development.

Consulting Services.

So you should mention specifically what you are looking for if you have the design already then you only need app development service, and if you are a developer yourself then you can ask for only app design services. You can ask for App consulting services also when you only have an idea and concept, and looking for a Mobile Consultant to understand everything, create wireframes, propose development approach etc.

Most of our first-time customers need all the services, and we happily offer the same. Although no one is stopping you from getting a custom service from our side.

The Core of This App Specs Document

The App Shall Be Having These Categories of Users

End users (People looking to find, review, and go to bars).

Bar Owners (who maintain their profile, send offers etc).

Admin (Owner of the app).

Functionality for End User

Sign up using Facebook, Google, and Phone.

Update profile (enter DoB etc).

Allows permission to track location.

Allows permission to access camera, photo, contacts.

App would capture age (should be minimum 21 years), gender, email ID and phone number of party-goers.

Once the user confirms he is 21 or more, he shall see the next screen for bar location (current location or search his city). After choosing your city the user shall then select which type of bar (for example sports bar, dive bar, speakeasy/prohibition bar, arcade/game bars). Clubs from city like Vegas and Miami.

After choosing your city and type of bar you are looking for then it should pop up a list of bars (coming from backend) and we should rotate every two weeks (using admin) which bars are going to be the top 10 in that area, it will be easier to do this once we get users downloading and hitting the application because then we can pull data and users comments on who got the most hit and which bars most users seem to be attached to.

Scope of the Features

These are all the mandatory features that your application should have. It ensures that you are meeting the market demand of a standard application in its niche. If the base idea of your app is a little different from the regular then defining it will build a clear story of what is important and can’t be left without.

Errors

Lot of initial builds of any application has multiple bugs. Although, there are certain errors that aren’t accepted. For instance, a crashing application or your application getting stuck on a particular screen. Many a times, the application faces proper navigation issues which shouldn’t happen in the first place.

Communications

It is important that you make sure that the story is complete from your side. The more precise information is imparted regarding the application, the easier it is for the developer to develop your application.

Source: https://www.agicent.com/how-to-write-app-specs