Whosoever thinks that the smart phones are only a passing trend and will soon be long gone, is definitely only kidding themselves. In this age where texting, video calling is replacing traditional calling and people carrying out important activities straight away from their smart phones, one can safely predict a prolific increase in the requirement of highly efficient and technically sound apps.
However,a random look at the present day apps gives a pretty morbid picture.Surely, there is a range of apps which are truly class apart and offers the best an app possibly can, but their other counterparts are not so fortunate. Mostly, they appear to be like a squalor version of the same.
Much perturbed by the fate of present day apps, Google released a checklist which is intended to help app developers to build a rather focused and high end app and separate their apps from falling into the doomed generic category. The checklist can be viewed as the present day concise Bible for various app developers. It will help you, as an app developer, to serve your user base better and come up with enigmatic, interactive and intuitive user interface. The checklist is given below:
1. App to be tested for its core quality
2.Layouts to be optimized
3. Creatively exploit the extra screen area
4. Assets designed for tablets to be carefully used
5.Touch targets and fonts to be adjusted
6.Home screen widgets to be adjusted
7.Full feature set of apps to be offered
8.It should not require hardware features
9.Tablet screen support to be declared
10.Best practiced to be followed while publishing the app in Google Play
Google'schecklist and building popularity of Android
As more and more android devices come into play and a lot of erstwhile iOS dedicated developers plan their shift in the android market, it is important that you follow the guideline with precision. With this checklist, Google look to standardize the apps created under its ecosystem. It is all praises for Mint.com, Instapaper, and TinyCo for coming up with the most efficient and user oriented mobile apps.
Checklist - the search engine czar's attempt to buckle up!
Up until now Google has widely followed and endorsed the policy "build once, ship everywhere" when it came to mobile app development, but right now it looks as if the tables have changed. But with rampant criticism for its apps and the success of its new Nexus 7, the search engine czar seems to buck up its mobile app development arena. With the checklist, we hope that Google will be able to have its Google play flourishing with apps explicitly designed for its tablets. It is here interesting to share with you all the comment of Tim Cook, the famous Apple CEO, on the Yelp app for Samsung Tablet:
"Look at Yelp. Lots of white space. Tiny text, hard to read. Compare that to the iPad. This is a reason that momentum on the iPad continues to build."
The comment comes in the heat of the moment when Google is trying to hard to weed out the malicious looking apps from its environment. Let us all hope that the market place is soon flourished with good quality apps for Android phones.