App development is a tough industry. To help you keep your app (or potential app) on the cutting edge of mobile app development, here are four tips you might not have considered yet.

1. Not-Your-Usual Tips
FOR YOUR APP TO KEEP UP
With The Times

2. Instructions for use
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3. App development is
a tough industry.

4. Development companies
big and small close down
every day.

5. It is therefore important that
your app is able to keep up
with the times.

6. Big question:
How do you STAND out?

7. Here are FOUR tips to help you
keep your app (or potential app)
on the cutting edge of mobile
app development:

8. 1.
FASTER IS BETTER

9. Reducing the size of
the actual file will
make sure the app
downloads smoothly.

10. Try to keep loading or downloading times
closer to five seconds than to ten.

11. 2.
LISTEN TO YOUR USERS

12. Your app should
literally be able to
listen to users.

13. Speech recognition has progressed. If your
app can understand text input, then it should
be able to understand voice input, too.

14. Fortunately, Google has given third-party
developers access to their speech recognition
technology.

15. Take for example the
technology that runs
when you say “OK
Google” can now be
used in your app.

16. 3.
LOOK, MA. NO HANDS

17. For your app, the next
natural step to
recognizing speech is
to offer a hands-free
experience.

18. This means that when it executes a function,
your app needs to provide some sort of
feedback —voice feedback, if possible.

19. The interactions between the app
and the user depends on the type
of app you have,

20. but you have to make sure that the
conversation is not just one way.

21. At the very least,
let your app
beep or vibrate
when something
gets done.

22. 4.
INTEGRATE, INTEGRATE,
INTEGRATE

23. You cannot assume that users will stop
using other apps once they start using yours.

24. There is no such thing
as a single app for
everything.

25. Whether it is sharing through Facebook or
Twitter, opening in Chrome, copying a
shareable link or saving to Dropbox, ensure
that your app plays well with others.

26. At minimum, make sure that your app
allows for sharing through external apps.

27. Take note: The average smartphone
owner uses just 5 apps heavily.

28. If your app integrates well with those five,
it might just be the sixth.

29. You have probably already read about
how to develop your app with a great
user interface.

30. You know about
tips like making
buttons easy to
press even in small
screens, and
keeping your app
simple.

31. “
But so do your competitors.

32. To be able to STAND OUT
from them, make sure to
consider these four tips
when developing an app.

33. Thanks!
Any questions?
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