How to Develop a TikTok Clone App

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How to develop a Tik-Tok clone app

Now, who isn’t familiar with the very famous TIK-TOK app which was earlier known by the name Musical.ly owned by the company ByteDance. This Chinese music video platform enabled the users to create a small music video of 15 seconds. In essence, this app brings in pre-recorded music, videos, and tunes that are popular. The users can then lip-sync to make videos, add filters and effects and do all kinds of creative acts to connect and interact with people across the world. There are around 800 Million active users of TikTok within 5 years of its launch. As the accomplishments of TikTok are widely obvious, there is an emerging competition to make TikTok Clone apps. The chances of earning money from this market have soared.

To develop a clone app like TikTok, first, you need to completely understand how the TikTok app works. If you like watching content on comedy, DIYs, dances, acts, and stuff, then you can use the app as a viewer. All you have to do is keep scrolling all the way through the variety of content available. You can also use the app as a content creator, all you need to do is turn on the camera and record your activity, edit it using a filter and post it.

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Now that we are a tad acquainted with the app functions, let’s talk about how to develop a TikTok Clone app. 

 

1. Know your Audience:  Locate and find your target audience. Usually, video content consumers fall between the ages of 15 to 25. This forms the basis for all the other features of the app. Find out what are the target audience’s needs and then develop the features of your app.

 

2.  Ways to Develop the App: There can be two options: either you can choose Custom app Development or Mobile App Development Services.

Now using an in-house team for the development of the app can cost you a fortune and it can get on your nerves to manage. You will be requiring a working space, you will have to invest in hardware, Designer, Developer, Database expert, Front-end and back-end developers, Sales, and marketing team, Product manager, etc. The other option is to appoint a company with Mobile App Development services. This way you want to be bothered about each explicit aspect of the entire development and deliverance of your App. 

 

3. ‘Must –have’ features: The main features that you will require are

  • Login/Sign in A simple user interface with clear user login and registration. You can provide different options like sign up with an email or mobile number.
  • Edit Profile feature to customize the profile accordingly with profile picture, username, etc.
  • Video Editing: the Editor must have filters, add effects, and cropping options.
  • Sharing:  share and repost option to other platforms like Whatsapp, Facebook or Instagram is a must-have since there is no meaning in creating something that you cannot share.
  • Search Option:  for users to find out people or content of their interest.
  • Hearts and comments: This feature is the measure of the popularity of video. The more likes or comments a video has, the more popular it gets.
  • Settings: similar to any other regular app settings to change passwords, block/ unblock people, etc. 
  • Stickers, Filters, and Effects:  features like slow motion, reverse, screen flipping, black and white, colorful screen, etc. adds impact to the overall looks of the video
  • Add sound: A music library with all kinds of music, of all the possible genre, in most of the languages.
  • Live Streaming:  It enables the likelihood of engaging with the life audience directly.

 

4.  The Technical Requirements:

·         You will require Artificial Intelligence technology to sieve the data for the users.

·         You can use cloud storage like Amazon S3, Google, or Azure Server for storage

·   If the app is for Android, use Kotlin and Java programming language and for iOS development, use Swift or C.Flutter, Xamarin, and React Native can be used for hybrid app

·         Google mobile app analytics For Real-Time Analytics

·         Database integration: Cassandra, SQL, MongoDB or MailChimp

·         Video and audio transcoding

·         A cloud communication platform like Twilio for text messaging

·         Payment gateways like e-wallet or PayPal

·         Database management with Datastax


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