Tips for Developers to Develop Lucrative Android Applications

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Author:- Aadam Gibson

Tips

for Developers to Develop Lucrative

Android Applications

Android is one of the most innovative amongst the smart-phones and tablets. Android technology offers several exciting future opportunities. Android application development process is quite easy to kick start with the help of SDK. The entire content of the Android source code is accessible online, with extensive documentation and a friendly community. A treasure of tools and demos for IDEs will make easier an otherwise steep learning curve. If you are planning to develop a great Android application, there are certain tips and guidelines that can walk you through the development process to create innovative and engaging applications. It will ensure a smooth and easy development process leading to a successful Android application development.

Let's start tour of some useful development tips which helps developer to develop innovative and creative applications... Use Android's Platform Patterns How can you encourage people to share information using your app. The usual method is via platform intents. It is advisable to expose intents to your application and there are myriad of intents from which your app can benefit. The most popular is the generic intent - ACTION_SEND option. Proclaim that you provide with an ACTION_SEND option and watch how users rush to your app via normal message and picture sharing applications. Tips for Developers to Develop Lucrative Android Applications

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Rely on Hierarchy Viewer To Create Views Using View Hierarchy you can easily explore activity UIs and it can assist you visualize complicated layouts. If you aspire to take advantage of this tool, you’ll either require an emulator or a phone with an Android OS development version. This tool will support you during the entire development cycle of your layouts along with styling development.

Capture PNG/PSD Several useful data can be exported to assist you when you’re compiling or fixing your designs. You can keep a screen-shot object model of the latest view hierarchy tree or can also export the current state as an assimilation of layers available to switch off and on, or move as layers in a PSD for use via Adobe Photo-shop.

Use Themes Themes are meant to assist you in managing styles in an entire app. To design your app with strict styling early during the development of your app will enable you easily deal with device idiosyncrasies at a later stage when you will develop your app for the best performance on various resolutions and sizes of screens.

Offer Translations Android market is an essential part of global smart-phone. You can pitch a greater section of audience by simply offering translated title and narration for your app in this market. Start from the user base and gradually move on to offer localized text for particular regions that appears to be of interest in your application. You can see and download details particular to specific locations in the Android Market.

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Standardize Naming Convention In the res/values/directory you'll find attributes. Create some logical and sensible guidelines and then stick to them. In this way, later on down the line while an important bug fixing, your development partner would be able to find unassisted items.

Keep it Simple It is advisable to develop simple and error free app rather that trying your hand in developing highly complex application having numerous errors. Leaving scope of committing mistake is not recommended and emphasizing on simple and error free apps is the best choice. It is simple and user-friendly applications that can make a mark and gain mobility amongst the users at large. If your simple but innovative concept of app can be brought to life before the client, it has fair chance of becoming successful. Simple apps are easy to understand, and are frequently used by the users for performing tasks in an optimal manner. Such apps are highly appreciated by the users.

Don't Lose Focus

Another golden rule that you should follow while developing Android app is not trying too hard to make it unique. Passion of making your app out of the box may diversify your focus from the actual goal leading to non-functional and complex app in terms of design, UI or functionality. Chances are your app may end up being entirely different with loads of errors and also unappealing to the users. So, be focused and try to make it as simple as possible, which will also keep you focused towards your actual goal.

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Comply with Basics of Design and Development Irrespective of the type of design and development, i.e. if you are creating mobile or web app, the basics will never change. For instance, in terms of navigation, you should emphasize on keeping the navigation simple and easy allowing the users to have great user experience. The basic objectives of certain functionalities remain same in all apps. In brief, you should not ignore the actual objective of offering a user-friendly and appealing UI driven app that can provide the users with best experience. This can only be possible if you do not forget the basic design and development objectives. The above stated pointers can be termed as basic guidelines, which will certainly lead you to achieve success in developing android app. Whether you develop apps on your own or hire Android developer for Android Game Development or any other app, it's of the essence that these simple tricks are followed.

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