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Google app has deleted almost 60,000 apps that infringed its policy. Day by day Google is working on its Play Store to offer innovative and quality apps to the users. With the rise in standards, it has become difficult for app developers to get their app published on Play Store. However, if the developers follow the given below points then they can develop creative and premium quality apps.

Use Latest SDK:

The Android platform is evolving with time by introducing improved and enhanced features. It is important for developers to download the latest available software development kits and APIs. This will help them in developing an app that runs well on latest Android mobile devices.

Design Simple Layouts:

The simpler the design, the lesser the time it takes to load the app. Designing simple layouts ensures a clean and smooth user interface. The lesser the features are used in the app, the higher will be the efficiency.

Remove Bugs:

Once you have finalized the design and coding of the app, then remove all the backend bugs. This will improve the functionality and increase the runtime of the app.

Test it:

First test your app on Android emulators, and then use Android devices to ensure smooth user experience. This will ensure that the app has a great layout as well as optimum functionality.

Mobile market is huge and growing. The introduction of smartphone has redefined the way we communicate and how businesses connect with the audience and promote their brands. Technology has transformed all means of communication personalizing it more than ever.

According to analysts, smartphones will overtake desktops while becoming the major source for accessing Internet. To match the pace of mobile domination, developers and businesses have focused their attention on this field to use mobile technology to its maximum. Here, we have listed down a few useful tips for designing successful mobile apps.

Design to the Details:

It is a challenge to stand out in the sea of mobile apps. To be successful in the swarm of more than 1 billion apps, the developer needs to focus on the design details. A well design mobile app attracts potential users as they would love to use it for its quality and interactivity. To do so, use subtle images, fluid layout, and minimal designing as these things will enhance the user interface.

Maintain Design Consistency:

Maintain the consistency of your app, especially if you are creating a game app that has multiple levels. The app design should also be consistent to the brand style so that people can easily connect to it. The app design should also follow the design guidelines provided by the OS platforms.

Using Mobile Screen Size to Maximum:

Keep the features to a minimum for a friendly and efficient user-interface. Too many features will not only make the design crowded but will also slow down the app. The ineffective elements should either be hidden or removed to avoid distraction. Use large buttons and tabs so that users can easily tap on it.

Make the Login Process Easy:

Leading apps such as Yahoo and Sprint have stopped hiding the passwords behind asterisks. Recent studies suggest that typing passwords on mobile is painful and mistakes are repeatedly made when logging in. Keep the process simple and easy so that it does not push away the users.

LinkedIn, a leading professional website, has revamped its mobile app on April 17 for both iOS and Android users. The company has introduced ads feature to its mobile app that gives greater prominence to the information shared by users.

The ads, similar to Facebook’s promoted posts, will allow companies to show their ads to smartphone users. The advertisements will be loaded on the news stream as a part of “small test.” The brands can promote their status which will appear in the news feed of the users who are not following the company.

The company also aims to make it easier for the users to interact with content shared on LinkedIn. The ads will have added options of liking or commenting on the shared news or information directly from the home feed.

The revamped app provides richer and more engaging content to the users based on their interests. Not only a new feature is added but LinkedIn has also improved its layout featuring larger photos and responsive navigation bar.

The users can easily swipe the screen from left to right and access a list of options such as private messages, connection invitation, calendar, featured jobs, and related groups. The “in” tab, beside the search bar, provides notifications of pending messages.

The social networking site aims at providing a customized and interactive experience to its users. Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google have also hopped on the bandwagon, improving and revamping their mobile apps and allowing their users to interact in a more effective way.

Recent research reveals that smartphone users spend 80% of their time on apps. On average, a user spends 2 hours, 38 minutes on smartphones, out of which 2 hours and 7 minutes are spent using apps, while the remaining 31 minutes (20%) are spent on surfing the mobile websites.

Within that 80% of the time, almost 32% of it is spent on games while Facebook consumes about 18% of the time. Around 30 minutes are spent on Facebook at each visit whereas some consumers spend hours on end on Facebook through their smartphones.

Being a social media giant, Facebook enriches the user experience of its mobile apps for attracting more users. This time, Facebook announces the launch of its Home App for Android users in the UK and the US. The app will appear on the cover screen of the mobile phones. The first layer will contain images while the newsfeed and messages of friends will appear at the top of the screen.

The “Home” app will be pre-installed in HTC Corp. while it will also be available for Samsung Galaxy SII, SIII, and forthcoming S4. For US users, the app will be available on Play Store from April 12. “Chat Heads” is an icon to notify users if they have received Facebook or text messages. This icon will pop up even if the user is on another app.

The app will have a smooth navigation allowing users to easily move, drag, and push the screen. With such an interactive and user-friendly app of the largest social media site—Facebook—the businesses will be able to advertise their brands more effectively.

The app has an added feature, launcher, which provides users with a menu of favorite and popular Android apps. It is also embedded with Facebook buttons for sign-in, photos and status updates. The chairman of the Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, negates all the rumors of launching a Facebook mobile. He says it would attract only 10 to 20 million of Facebook fans out of 1 billion fans. With a user-friendly and interactive Facebook app, the company will not only increase the chances of using Facebook but also open avenues for businesses to advertise more.

Today’s good news is RIM’s special BlackBerry 10 event scheduled for January 30 2013 and promises of , a new OS and two new phones. It’s been a long while since we’ve seen a Blackberry smart phone up in the charts and we at Appostrophic hope that January 30 changes that.

In other interesting news the “Flagship” war has gone completely awry with HTC, Apple, Samsung, LG pushing their flagship high end phones to compete for the King of the hill title.

HTC One X was a surprising hit and HTC has put a lot of marketing effort into this one product while LG Nexus 4 is standing strong against Samsung Galaxy SIII and while iPhone 5 is trying to maintain its position in the top tier, it lacks the innovative features and user friendliness that Android phones seem to offer.

While we’re on the subject of iPhones, it should be noted that rumors of iPhone 5S are already circulating and while hopes aren’t that high for this upcoming offering from Apple, it should be interesting to see how Apple manages to counter the 5” screen, 1080p phones.