Three Things You Need To Understand Properly Before You Can Create Good Mobile Apps For Churches
We can give you three important things to be fully aware of before you can hope to be able to develop very good apps for churches. App development entails knowledge and skills when it comes to the technical side of things such as the design and programming. That is not what we are going to talk about here. Rather, we are focusing on practical 'church-related' things you need to have some understanding of - against a background where you need to know how something normally works, before you can be in a position to create an app for it. Of course, if you are developing the apps at the churches behest, you can have people from the churches to guide you on the things we are just about to explore. But if it is an individual endeavor, and the resulting app is something you plan on actively selling to the churches or even their members, you need to have a full understanding of a number of things.
Churches mobile apps, in order to be very good and effective, would require the app developer to have an understanding of the Scriptures. An example would be an app that would help the users read the scriptures online. The fundamental information you have to educate yourself about include the books in the Bible: what they are, how many there are, and the like. You may come up with an app other than one that would help you read the bible, but you still have to know the basics on the bible. The worst thing that could happen is you would have your church app rejected because it was deemed inappropriate or unsuitable for anything biblical.
To ensure that the mobile apps you develop for churches are useful and good, you also should have a clear understanding on the worship practices and procedures. You may, for instance, have to create a prayer app (to help people in saying their prayers). As an app developer, you are supposed to have an understanding of how one prays, why they are having difficulties saying those prayers, and how they are coping with these difficulties. If it is a confession app you need to develop, you need a similar understanding of the confession process, and the manner in which it can be automated without allowing it to lose its spirituality. This is why most of these app development tasks are left in the hands of Christian app developers, since the non-Christians would have a harder time than most.
Thirdly, before you can be in a position to create good mobile apps for churches, you need to have some understanding of how churches manage their finances. This is the only way that you can, among other things, figure out ways of commercializing your church apps or work out what to charge the churches should they approach you to develop bespoke apps for them. Developing mobile apps that are not viable, especially for church use, is not something you want to do, so you should make sure you learn all you have to and understand as much as you possibly can.
