How to Develop a Mobile App for Kids?

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• We all need to develop The BEST apps, but we
  need to be prepared enough with the groundwork
  before initiating with the same.
• When the app is focused on the kids whose
  emotions, behaviour, expectations, and attitude
  differs from age to age, gender to gender,
  becomes tricky.
• We cannot just initiate with designing and
  developing the app for kids without gathering
  enough data about the kids.

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Understand Who will Install Your App

• Here while developing a mobile app for kids, we
  need to ask following questions to ourselves
• Who will check out your kids app in the Play
  Store or App Store?
• Will they be kids or their parents?
• Who will judge your apps?

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What age of the children will use your app

• Age plays a very important role while planning to
  develop a mobile app for kids. 
• Age group 3 5 years This is an age group
  where toddlers love to explore colours, music,
  rhymes, some small sort of interaction, etc.

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• Age group 5 10 years This age group expects
  more learning activities like planting, grocery
  shopping, mathematical tables, etc.
• Age group 10 -15 years This age group looks
  for the apps that attracts them visually first
  and then look for educational stuffs that makes
  it easy for them to learn and grasp compared to
  the class education.

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How to Develop Mobile Apps for Kids?

• Focus on Attractive UX/UI Design
• Toddlers are attracted towards bright colors and
  love them a lot.
• Attractive user interface needs to be our 1st and
  foremost preference while developing apps for
  kids.

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How you can inculcate amazing user experience
(UX) in your kids mobile app?

• Make sure you focus on all the following areas
• The app should not break down at any point of
  time, it will disappoint the child
• The app needs to have easy navigation
• More interactive gestures, emoticons, etc. can be
  utilized

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What is gamification?

• Simpler definition to gamification here in
  developing apps for kids Gamification here
  means to add such gaming elements like point
  scoring, self-developing rules to play,
  competition and much more that attracts the
  children.

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• Now, lets understand how to make sure
  gamification is taken care in your apps for kids.
• Create Playful App Environment.
• Create Competition in the App.
• Allow Them to Create Their Own Profile.
• Welcome Them in the App.
• Educate Them About the App.

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How to Make Money from Your Kids App?
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• The person who will download and install the app
  will differ based on the age criteria.
• When it comes to paying for something, children
  cannot convince the parents on what is right and
  what is wrong for them.
• It is always the best idea to go for a paid
  subscription approach. Let parents decide whether
  paying for such educational apps will be fruitful
  or not.

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Thank You!

• Developing an Android or iOS app for kids
  requires a lot of in-depth research and knowledge
  on how to make the app attractive for children as
  well as for parents.
• What are your thoughts on the same?