Want to be a successful developer on the Android platform? There may be one major factor you are overlooking in your software business strategy.
Top 5 Keys To a Successful Android App
- It can be moved to the SD card.
- It can be moved to the SD card.
- It can be moved to the SD card.
- It can be moved to the SD card.
- It can be moved to the SD card.
I hope that was clear enough.
You see, when your app MUST be installed on the phone, it has to compete with all of the must-have apps that are already on my phone. After you install the Google Maps app, a weather app, a navigation app, and a handful of others like maybe the Facebook app. When I run low on space, and I will run low on space, which apps do you think get deleted first? It’s not Google Maps, I’ll tell you that much.
Widgets Prevent Moving to SD Card
I know what you’re going to say. You’re going to say that if you have a widget that it can’t be moved to the SD card.
Code your app so that it CAN be moved to the SD card if we don’t use the widget. I don’t need anymore widgets. I have plenty.
If you want your app to get a fair shot, make it as small as possible and make it movable to the SD card.
After spending a month getting Seesmic Desktop, Seesmic Web, and Seesmic App all setup just the way I want them, I am very happy with the software. But, I downloaded TweetDeck to my phone, because if I can move it to the SD card, I would switch without hesitation.
(Unfortunately, TweetDeck will not move to the SD card. However, it clocks in a 1.84 MB for the application and Seesmic is 4.01 MB. Looks like I’ll be moving from Seesmic to TweetDeck unless TweetDeck is missing some function I can’t live without.)