If you stay glued to app industry, then you'll be aware of the fact
that Android dominates the mobile industry with 76.6% market share than
Apple (source: IDC). In fact, Android apps market share is growing
faster compared to Apple. These factors clearly suggests that building
an Android app will prove beneficial to you in the coming years.
Even
though, the demand of Android apps is increasing, many well-designed
applications are not accepted or re-used by the users, owing to some
common issues that are being observed in most of the applications such
as:
- Poor Battery Life
- Slow Response Time
- Fragmentation issue
These
are the biggest reasons that make the users quit using Android
applications. In fact, these reasons even put negative impact on the
developers and/or the mobile application development company reputation. Reading this blog, however, will help you know about some
useful tips that you should consider when building an Android app. Let’s
have a look at those tips:
Optimize Battery Life
For
making your app a hit with users, it is imperative that the app should
have limited impact on the batter life of the device it is being
installed. This can be achieved by building an app that can modify its
functionality and behavior according to the host device. Or else, follow
the below mentioned key points to limit the impact of your app on your
device's battery life:
- If you're no longer connected to a network, make sure to disable background service updates;
- Avoid running such updates when your battery is low;
- Try to reduce the round trip to server for improving user experience;
- Code you application so that it uses a network-based location rather than GPS (whenever possible) and so on.
Use Tools That Helps Improve App Response Time
In
order to make your app a success, it's very important that it responds
faster. Luckily, there are some remarkably useful tools such as Systrace
and TraceView that helps to code an application in a manner that makes
it load quickly. These tools help figure out the bottlenecks that make
your app response slow.
Use Latest Android Version
One of the biggest issue that you will face when performing Android app development
is the fragmentation issue – you can find different Android versions
available in the market, and on your current device as well. Moreover,
phone carriers and manufacturers often doesn't update the Android
powered devices version at the same time when Google does, and take
months or years to run the updates. And so, many users still use
outdated versions that increases malware risks.
But, in
comparison to fragmentation issues that leads to security
vulnerabilities, the greater risk it creates is rendering different user
experiences. In essence, with multiple Android versions, running
security measures becomes quite taxing and challenging for users. That's
because, each device offers different experience to users. So, make
sure to switch your old Android version to an updated one. This will
provide advanced functionality to the users, and thereby assist them in
coding robust applications.
Conclusion
Implementing
the aforementioned tips when coding an Android app will definitely help
you improve the efficiency of the app to a greater extent.
