In a time when we’re always running short of space on our mobile phones, music streaming apps save us a lot of trouble. Gone are the days when we used to keep hundreds of songs on our mobile phones, using up all its space.

Music streaming apps are not only beneficial for its users but also for the music producers who spend a considerable amount of money in making the music. Earlier, due to piracy, much of the music found in the mobile phones of users used to be pirated. This costed them a lot of money. With the music streaming apps, however, music industries could save themselves from piracy since all the music streamed is paid for by the app.

Makes you want to step into the music streaming industry with an app like Spotify? Not sure about the cost? Here’s an estimation based on the features of the app:

Facebook Authorization

Time Required: 36 hours

Much like Spotify, you would need your users to register on your app to enjoy the benefits you have to offer. Users find the process of registration a bit boring and hence avoid registering at all. However, if you provide them with an option to register with the help of Facebook, they would definitely register themselves on your app. You can then use their information to recommend them songs which they would prefer to listen based on their activity on Facebook.

Android: 16 hours
iOS: 16 hours
Backend: 4 hours

Profile Management

Time Required: 40 hours

Every user should have a profile. In Spotify, this profile contains information about your playlists, followers and those you’re following. The profile section also contains information about the recently played artists. Yet another feature you would find in the profile section is the feature to find your friends on the app. You can use this feature to follow what your friends are up to, as well as what featured accounts are up to.

Android: 16 hours
iOS: 16 hours
Backend: 8 hours

Settings

Time Required: 280 hours

Settings is one of the most time-consuming modules of the app. You have multiple playback options, the option to connect to a device, a few social options, tweaks in the music quality, notifications, ads and the regular about section giving you information about the version of the app, its licenses, terms and conditions, privacy policy and support. Apart from that, there are options for deleting cache and saved data, as well as logging out.

Android: 120 hours
iOS: 120 hours
Backend: 40 hours

Library

Time Required: 60 hours

This feature contains all playlists, stations, songs, albums, artists, and shows that you could possibly want to listen to. Apart from that, this section shows all of your recently played playlists, stations, songs, albums, artists, and shows.

Android: 80 hours
iOS: 80 hours
Backend: 32 hours

Premium Services

Time Required: 32 hours

Much like Spotify, you would need to allow the users to opt for premium services on your app. If you wish to have premium services, you would need to make sure that the users can get an idea of the premium services while using your free service so that it compels users to go for the premium services.

Android: 16 hours
iOS: 16 hours

Now that you know how much it would cost you to get an app like Spotify developed, start finding the right mobile app development company to develop it for you. BrainMobi is one of the top mobile app development companies with a proven track record of developing amazing apps which are loved by all. We have a team of mobility experts who cater to every single requirement of yours. So send us an email at sales@brainmobi.com for a free quote on your idea!

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Social media started off with a website called Six Degrees which had been named after the famous Six Degrees of Separation theory which says that all living things and all other things in the world are about six or fewer steps away from one another in such a way that a chain of “a friend of a friend” statements could be used to connect two random people in a maximum of about six steps. Originally given by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929, this theory was popularized by John Guare in his play in 1990.

The site only lasted for four years(from 1997 to 2001), but it laid the stepping stones on which many of the social media sites were made. It allowed users to make a profile and befriend other users. It even allowed users who didn’t register to confirm friendships. This way, they connected quite a few people.

The internet quickly moved from Six Degrees, into an era of instant messaging and blogging. While blogging might not seem like the conventional social media, it fits because now people were able to communicate with each other through a blog. This way they could put their thoughts through to an audience, and the audience could respond with their own views about what was said by commenting on the blog posts. The term “blog” comes from the term “weblog” coined by Jorn Barger who the editor of the site “Robot Wisdom”.

From there, people started going deeper into instant messaging, and ICQ was born. Most members of Gen-X remember ICQ and AOL’s instant messenger.

Next came the internet revolution. With around 100 million people having access to the internet by the year 2000, it became quite common for people to engage socially online. Back then it looked like a hobby at best. Yet, an increasing number of people began utilizing chat rooms for making friends, dating and taking part in discussions about topics they wished to talk about. This was still not all there was to social media. Its biggest boom was yet to come.

Remember MySpace? MySpace was the first social media profile site. It was the hangout place for most of the people. With the option to set up a profile for yourself and to make friends, MySpace was everything one needed. It has been used by musicians to promote their original and cover music, and in the process, be heard by producers and other artists. Its fame slowly died and other websites came into the limelight.

One website that particularly redefined social media was LinkedIn. It was different from other social media websites since it had a niche of professionals wanting to connect with each other. The site now has over 500 million users worldwide and is still the most famous social media website for professionals. LinkedIn leads the revolution of making social media websites unique. Most of the social media websites we have today have a unique touch to them and it is this uniqueness which makes them famous. While MySpace was a fairly general social media site, LinkedIn, wasn’t it. It has always been and still is, a website for connecting professional business people for connecting with one another to network, socialize and to find jobs.

February of 2004 saw a new shift in the social media as the social media giant Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg. With over a billion users worldwide, Facebook is numero uno when it comes to social media. Launched as TheFacebook.com for Harvard students, this website has seen a lot of changes including the look and feel of the website, and of course, its domain name.

Two years later, far from the East Coast(where Facebook was founded), on the West Coast, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Noah Glass, and Evan Williams created Twitter. Inspired by the popularity of text messaging, Twitter had the limit of 140 characters to every post. This was the unique distinction that set Twitter apart from other social media websites existing back then. With 328 million monthly active users, Twitter is the ninth largest social network in the world.

This was the social media boom. With dozens of social media websites each providing their unique social media services, users weren’t short of options. One of the earliest such sites was Flickr. It is still one of the most famous photos sharing sites, though it is now overshadowed by others such as Photobucket and Instagram.

Soon sites such as Tumblr, Foursquare, Pinterest, Spotify etc came up, each with its own user base, each serving a niche. With this expansion in the user base, social media websites now started attracting businesses which wanted to reach out to a larger audience and those which wanted to connect better with their customers. Businesses now started sharing their Facebook and Twitter handles so that their customers could connect with them. Social media icons started being seen everywhere, so much that it was unusual to see a business or a brand without them.

Currently, social media websites are full of features which keep users hooked on to them for hours. Social media has shifted from being text only to including photos and videos to mainly focusing on videos now. With a hoard of new features such as live videos, photo filters for both live inputs and stored photos, a blend of AR and VR, etc, social media is bound to be an even more important part of our lives.

BrainMobi is a top social media app development company. Our team of the best social media app developers is ahead of the trends in social media with their state-of-the-art algorithms, and innovative approach towards the requirements of our clients.

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