Saturday 27 October 2012

The How-To On Android App Building For A Smartphone

By Preston Mathew


If you set yourself to building an Android app, you will no doubt encounter a number of systematic issues which you can utilize to walk you through the whole development process. First, you have to decide early on what the app you are thinking of developing will be primarily for. Keep your target user in mind as you figure out what the app is meant to do or the purpose it is meant to serve. At the same time, you can use this period to determine whether you will make a free app or it will have a price tag.

There are a number of platforms you can build the app on. The next thing you should do is to identify which platform would be most suitable for you. You would have to make sure you have registered yourself as a developer since these platforms only allow registered developers to work on them. Before you can download the Android platform, you have to register for it first. When you do, you will need to have a coder. In the beginning, it used to be that this was not easy for many new developers. Even seasoned developers who are working as freelancers also had a problem with this. These days, however, developers no longer have to do any coding. There are already a lot of app creator coders available.

The next step will be the designing of the app, which will call for your creative mind to be in use.

You will be expected to show the best that you can do at this point. You have a successful app in your hands when your design is so good that it can catch the eye of the users. They will pounce on it eagerly once you release it. Although good coding is entirely separate from good design, they are working towards the same goal. It is important that you strike a balance between a spectacular design and an easy-to-understand design in the interface. The design should not overwhelm the other functions of the app, such as the scroll functions. The key here is to keep at it until such time you are confident that you have come up with something useful.

The next stage would involve the testing and evaluation of the apps. this ensures that what you have as the end product will not fail to work. Take into account the differences of working capacities of the many brands of phone models that are Android based. The testing of the app would serve to check that they will work on several models even if they have a lower capacity. Wireless signals are often used on apps that run on internet connections. You'd have to test not only the signal performance for this one, however. You may also test the transitions by going from portrait view to landscape then back to portrait.

If there necessary changes and tweaks to be made, it is now time to load your app onto your online Android platform. Then settle in for the wait for the app to be approved. Building apps also requires some good marketing strategies. Word-of-mouth remains, to this day, an effective tool for marketing so, while waiting for the app to be approved, spread the word. If successfully approved, take the recommendations from the users, both good and bad and use them to make necessary adjustments and better your app.




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