Tricks For improving Android App Development

There is no denying that Android is one of the most popular mobile OS in the world and almost every aspiring mobile developer out there is training in android app development. With our vast experience in Android App development, we’ve gathered a bunch of tricks that can help you improve your android game; read on to learn more.

1: Going the Cloud Way

Cloud platforms have seen a meteoric rise and with great improvements in cloud tech, every app development is integrated with it these days. Syncing devices, allowing for data to be available across devices – the cloud approach is exactly what mobile app developers should look at to make their apps responsive, feature rich and truly functional.

2: Community Participation

Android is perhaps one of the best platforms to be working with for both newbies and professionals given its extensive community support. As the OS is open source, you can find a lot of experts in the field participating in communities and forums and this is one of the best learning grounds for you. Simply reading through the threads on most forums can give you a good idea of how to debug and solve various issues! 

3: Get feedback from your users

Being receptive to ideas and welcoming criticism in your stride can help you improve not only your app but your development skills as well. This is because you’ll learn more about design and the users’ pulse this way. Going with a Beta and getting feedback from your target audience is a good way to go about it. As the popular quote goes – your most critical customers (those who give you bad reviews and ratings), the ones who are the hardest to please will be the ones from whom you can learn a lot.

4: Always plan for security

This is surprisingly something that many apps fail at. Surveys state that even fundamental security aspects are ignored in most apps and this is not a welcome trend. Planning your app’s security and ensuring the security of your users’ data is crucial to your app’s success. After all, it just takes one security breach to bring your popularity crashing down! And with giants in the industry struggling with security issues, it would be wise to pay a lot of attention to the area and plan for it since the beginning. We also recommend security testing to ensure that your user data is safe.

5: Guidelines are set for a purpose

Guidelines were set to ensure uniformity and help your app in becoming well designed and provide a consistent user experience. While some developers ignore them, we recommend that you go through the guidelines and follow them to ensure an enjoyable user experience. The navigational drawer is one of the things mentioned in the guideline and you will find that it is a popular feature in most of the well designed and successful Android apps.

6: Have a good understanding of Android devices

It is important to familiarize yourself with Android devices if you are going to develop an app for them! It simply won’t do if you haven’t used an Android device. Community participation and getting to know the Android device for which your app is targeted is important in our opinion.

7: Watch out for the number of permissions you ask for!

Security as already discussed is a huge problem today and with the malware threats doing the rounds, it is wise to limit the number of permissions that we ask for. First, it makes for an exasperating user experience and we’ve found that most of the apps don’t even require or make use of the data extracted. When you design efficiently, you would require only minimal information and extracting unnecessary information from the user is an ineffectual and unethical practise not to mention the potential security risks that one encounters by doing so.