Mohammad Hajarian - Department of Computer Engineering, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
Alireza Niravanshalmani - Department of Computer, College of Mechatronic, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Alborz

Today, smart phones are becoming the main computing devices with variety of features. Hencemobile applications are becoming most popular type of software that can run on these devices.In this paper author has reviewed different types of software development methodology fordeveloping high quality mobile applications and critically evaluates their strengths andweaknesses. Afterwards based on the related works a framework for alignment betweenwaterfall model and Agile method has been proposed to implement in mobile applicationdevelopment to improve the quality of the mobile applications and address issues that othersoftware development methods face in development of mobile application.

Quality management, Mobile, smart phone, software development