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Mistakes To Avoid While Android App Development by appfity(m): 7:38am On Mar 23, 2020
Mobile Apps play a crucial role in the competitive business world. Creating a successful mobile app is not that easy. Many tend to make common mistakes that affect the outcome.

Android App Development is a process of creating a useful application for a device running on the android platform.

Attracting new visitors to your app each and every day is not a that easy task. There is a different set of expectations associated with every single person using your app.
Common mistakes to avoid while android app development:

1)Not using intents:

Many developers forget to use intents. The intent is a simple messaging object that is used to communicate between the android components like activities, broadcast receiver, content provider and other services. Its also used to transfer data between activities. It performs different tasks like sharing content, Recording video, Taking pictures, Adding events.

2)Not using fragments:

The fragment is a part of an activity. This was first introduced in android 3.0 honeycomb.
There is no need to access any permission to create a fragment in your application. It provides a consistent UI for android devices. We can also reuse these fragments. Launching different activities for each app separately is not an efficient idea and it needs memory for an app. The flexibility that fragments provide is a true benefit they can be easily combined with other operations and reused repeatedly. It should be always used in mobile app development for these reasons.

3)Avoiding the usage of bitmap:

Smartphone users love the content in the form of an image. They convey a lot of information at a quick look. But the main problem is it takes a lot of memory. Since the loading of images takes lots of memory bitmaps are the common way to do this. Before displaying the image it has to be loaded in memory.

Follow Android app development rules for bitmap display:
Always measure the view that you are showing in the image.
Crop the large image accordingly.
Display only what is needed.

4)Blocking the main thread:

Every time when an app is launched on Android, the system starts with a Linux process with an execution thread. This means that the applications run in the same thread, called the main thread. Blocking the main thread creates a less responsive user interface. To avoid this you need to use UI thread for bitmap loading, network calls, SD reading, and writing, querying a database and processing of images.

5)Not using minSdkversion14:

Its the latest version introduced in android SDK. developers need to move on using the new version instead of using the old version. Old phones and devices add complexity to the code and are difficult to maintain. So if you developing a new android app and want to provide a great experience to users then you should use the latest version of the android software development kit.

6)Develop an app that works well for a variety of devices:

So many different Android devices are available here, it isn’t sure that your web content should fit in every device. However, you can improve it using Android app development strategies.
Instead of normal PX pixel use density pixels.
Should not make static tabs
Icons of system notification should not have colour.
Always use an Android emulator.
Resizeable bitmaps should be created.

Both android and iOS app development is a simple process. Many mistakes with coding and images can be reduced by using proper android app development guidelines. Like carefully handle images and bitmaps. Change is needed, however, it’s the app developer's job to go with the changes in app development and making it unique.

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