The Smart Tactics For Android App Development

Let’s begin with some important questions that will help you have a better insight into Android app development. Can you tell without looking at the figures which app store leads the market? Do you know which app store boasts to have the maximum number of apps on the app store and app users? Any guess?

If your answer is Google Play Store, you are absolutely correct. The Google Play Store has occupied 80% of the app market share. Increasingly, businesses are launching their Android app to avail a wider customer base. However, Android app development is not about cashing in on the businesses and if the same method is followed, the app will soon get out of the race.

The best recipe to be successful in Google Play Store is to create an efficient app that is NOT memory and battery hungry and has a good User Interface, great design, and innovative idea executed via the app. These factors, collectively, can affect the success of your Android application. Therefore, it is important to build a well-optimized, smooth running, and fast-loading app that users love.

With so many apps out there, Android developers have to ensure plenty of things to make the final product stand out. To help you, hire Android app developers from Prismetric, our developers have the required skills and experience to make your Android app to be a success. The reason that we are so confident about success is because we have unearthed a few Android app development tips that will surely aid in building apps that provide wonderful results. Let’s have a look at some of the most essential ones:

Encapsulate the latest trends in Android App development

Making the app to gain a winning edge is not possible just by exactly shaping the app idea into a reality. No matter how unique your app idea is, unless the app is not engineered as per the industry trends and user preferences, quenching the users’ thirst for the best-in-class app is implausible. Additionally, on the Android store, billions of apps are vying for users’ attention and in order to make the app add value to the projects, make certain you have tuned the app functionalities, navigation, and design as per the current market trends.

Note: Maintain an update and update the approach once your app is developed, that’s another way to keep the app updated and synced with the changing app development trends.

Master Kotlin to get an edge in Android App development

Kotlin, the programming language which gets official acceptance in the Android development realm in 2017, is continuing to create a roar in 2018 too. The end-of-the-code verbosity, sidelines runtime exceptions, simple syntax, Java compatibility, superior features, and functional programming are the reasons that have made the language very popular among developers to create function-rich apps.

Furthermore, less coding reduces the development time, Java compatibility allows the framework’s interoperability between Java and Kotlin projects and its robust coding makes the app’s interface utterly secure. All the benefits foster the developers to leverage Kotlin for Android development.

Become an expert in Android instant app

The budding app development approach is picking up the pace in the market where the users are no longer required to occupy the mobile space for app downloading or installation to browse it. It allows the users to access the app and its features squarely from a URL.

The ultimate ease, convenience, and experience that the  Android instant app offers are gearing up the development of businesses and delighting tech-savvy users. Besides, more Android instant apps can be seen in 2018.

Wearable compatibility

Emerging technology like- augmented reality, virtual reality, wearable, IoT, and artificial intelligence are taking up the market quickly. The frequent releases of Android mobile devices along with Android wearable devices are giving a push to the development of Android apps that are compatible with wearables.

Engineering such apps add convenience to the users and enable the app to stand out from the competition.

Make it visually appealing

Intuitive design is key in the app that tempts the users and captures their attention at the first sight. It is not an overstatement. Becoming tech savvy doesn’t mean the users are just interested in the convenience that the app provides. Instead, they show more interest in how the app offers convenience.

The app design must be impactful with the right balance of eye-catchy designs, high-end graphics, and a fantastic layout that provides quick access to the app features without any clutter. Wrap the app features with amazing design to make the target audience rave after your app.

Don’t overestimate development skills

There is nothing wrong with having confidence and believing in your technical capabilities, but turning this confidence into overconfidence is wrong. This is all related to overlooking the mistakes you made in the app by not reviewing the code developed.

It’s better if you attempt to do it on your own because when users find bugs in your app, the app will no longer be able to sustain its appeal in the market. Criticizing the app during development is better to launch an impeccable app that every user appreciates.

Avoid distractions in Android App development process

Many times, in the effort of making the app a full-fledged solution, unnecessary features, distractive elements, heavy graphics, non-standard icons, and others are added, which creates a mess and raises performance issues as well. These add hindrances to the basic functions working, which leads to the app uninstallation.

Stay focused on the number of features integration, UI designing, and the use of industry-standard icons while developing the app to ensure the app delights the users when browsed.
Focus on Efficient Threading 

By default, all application operations run on the UI thread or the main thread. This can affect app responsiveness, resulting in freezes, hangs, and system errors. To enhance responsiveness, off-load long-running operations from the main thread to individual background threads. This can be achieved at class level. Off-loading long-running tasks from the UI thread also prevents the “Application Not Responding” dialog. This can enhance user experience remarkably. Having separate background threads for Content Provider queries can also minimize app loading time and prevent hangs and freezes.

Optimize Battery Life

Android apps abusing the device’s battery life can be annoying. To prevent this, the Android application development company should focus on making the app skip major operations when there is no internet connection. Choosing a compact binary data format can also help to optimize network issues. Minimize “round-trip time” to the server to get faster UI/UX.

Considering stream parsers as against tree parsers can also help you optimize network issues and prevent the battery to drain. Effectively optimizing the applications working in the foreground and background can also cope with the problem of battery abuse. Designing wake-locks with the lowest possible level, using specific timeouts, enabling Android: keep Screen On, recycling Java objects, and using network location and not GPS wherever possible may be good to optimize applications that are working in the foreground.

Design UI that has Minimal Memory Footprint

When you design User Interface for Android application development, prevent sticking only to basic features or you can risk creating a memory-eating app with irritating delays. To build a fast-loading, memory-caring User Interface, first identify the potential bottlenecks of layout performance by leveraging Hierarchy Viewer Tool in Android SDK. Lint is another fantastic tool to diagnose performance issues. If you detect drawbacks in UI layout performance, you may consider flattening it by converting from the Linear Layout class to the Relative Layout class. This reduces level hierarchy as well as help you build an app UI that is smooth and does not eat up much space.

Though each tip might seem to be small tweaks, you might witness unexpectedly effective results if these factors are incorporated as a part of Android application development and coding. Let the users have more enticing apps that run smoothly, load quickly, and consume less memory space and battery life. After all, enhanced user experience is one of the key factors that determine the true success of an Android app.

Take your app for a test drive

Just the way you never buy a car without a test drive, don’t attempt to launch the app without testing. App testing is mandatory even if you consider your app perfect as opposed to other apps. The testing must be done on real devices in place of completely relying on the emulators or simulators to get the flawless app developed and launched.

So, this one is not just the developers but every business out there, they should not ignore the app testing, or else the mistake will prove to be expensive for the app.

Takeaways:

Though each tip might seem to be small tweaks, you might witness unexpectedly effective results if these factors are incorporated as a part of Android application development and coding. Let the users have more enticing apps that run smoothly, load quickly, and consume less memory space and battery life. After all, enhanced user experience is one of the key factors that determine the true success of an Android app.

These are some of the pointers based on our experiences as a renowned and expert mobile app development company that should not be left unattended. Every aspect of app development is linked to other aspects and thus failing on one will also hinder the performance of the other. Unless there are some exceptions due to which your app has worked exceptionally well for the people this is not the case always. Today, you should have every puzzle fall into place, right from idea to marketing which becomes a continuous process, to achieve the defined success for your app.

Hardik Shah

As the tech-savvy Project Manager at Prismetric, his admiration for app technology is boundless though!He writes widely researched articles about the app development methodologies, codes, technical project management skills, app trends, and technical events. Inventive mobile applications and Android app trends that inspire the maximum app users magnetize him deeply to offer his readers some remarkable articles.