Chapter    1

Requirements

This book is about understanding the steps involved in designing, architecting, building, and publishing an e-commerce mobile application. When using the term e-commerce in this book, I am referring to selling products and collecting money from customers. I will not cover how to put ads in a mobile app or provide a referral link when a customer makes a purchase on other sites or mobile apps.

This book is about about building a mobile app that enables users to purchase products. It involves collecting customers’ names, addresses, and credit card information. The money collected will be transferred into a bank account, and the products ordered will subsequently be shipped and delivered. As challenging as this sounds, ...

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