Here's how you can effectively lead remote or virtual teams in mobile applications.

Goals should be on track. Personal improvements goal, project goal (mid term) and day to day goal. Usign an AGILE framework we already define all that is project related in terms of mid and short term. Personal improvement goals are still needed and needs to be addressed. Those have to be measurable and work related following the best willingness of the resource. Is he willing to move to a more senior role?, needs to improve the code knowledge?, needs to improve communication skills?, is he willing to take more ownership? Those are samples of what can a personal improvement goals may be. For everything else study, understand and apply an AGILE framework.

Set clear goals for the app, this way everyone will know the goal that must be set. You can do so by doing meetings and asking if anyone needs help. If things are not clear, you should excpect a lot of back and forth which will lead to many problems and most probably missing the deadline.

Yes giving regular updates on an on-going issue will help you stay ahead of your customers complaints. Because no update is an update !!

Set some online tools for your team to be able to connect, if anyone needs help or so they can ask on these platforms. Not only the platform should allow text, but sometimes video or voice calls. This way you can insure good communcation between the members.

One of the best things about mobile development is that, with the right tools, you can handle everything remotely. IDEs come with emulators, eliminating the need for physical devices. Sharing builds and reproducing exact device scenarios is simple. Git for version control and Slack for communication are invaluable. By sharing device configurations, screens, and using Trello for task distribution, combined with a modular clean architecture and automated test cases, remote mobile app development becomes seamless.

Right tools are essential but also don't let those tools to be your bottleneck. Always go straight to the point. Let's say you need to request an access to a platform don't worry to address this request in all the channels you may need: ask the request in the platform and notify as well the person of interest and keep updated on the steps the stakes. Do you need some ticket to work on in the board? Don't wait to create it for you. Be proactive, create it yourself and ask for clarification or for fill up some information. Don't misuse the tools. if a chat channel is indeed for API talking you need to stick with the topic and discuss your fragment/architecture directly with your Architect of in a proper mobile dedicated channel

Use git for version control, to be able to save all the previous versions of your app. The best IDE, for example Android Studio for Android Development or XCode for iOS Development. Some task tracking tools like Jira or Trello, to make sure you keep track of the status of each task.

Give trust, deadline and do not micromanage but give accountability. If a resource is valuable everything will came from there. You will trust and be able to delegate more the resource will grow.

Trust your employees. Don't micromanage. When you trust your employees, you make sure they will give the most they can. Life happens, so sometimes your employees wont't be able to work at the regular work hours, so trust them that they will make up the time lost.

Discuss the business impact and performance metrics of the features/screen/module built by mobile developers in regular 1:1 meetings. Appreciate and leave positive feedback if a feature is performing great in production in terms of UI performance and crash rate. Vise versa discuss opportunities to lean and improve if the module is performing poorly on production.