Friday, August 23, 2013

How To Create A Good Iphone App : Tips From Iphone

The app store has billions of apps to choose from hence a user is has too many options to choose from. Hence it’s no surprise users have grown quite selective in choosing which app to have in our iPhone. This creates the need for the developers to realize what a user will count upon before selecting the app. No doubt it’s the usage advantage of an app that will make it popular among users. But the usage advantage can be showed off only when the user downloads the app and use it. And for that the users have to first select your app over thousands of other competing apps. A user will not know the sophisticated codes or programing language the developers must have used to get the app developed, rather the user will just use his concise, probably read the content or just arbitrary used an app getting attracted to its icon. This brings in the need of having the right kind of icons for the apps. App icon is very important from UI perspective. Following are some of the tips at iPhone have itself suggested to the developers, so that they can come with the right icon. Need of a good icon can be measured from the fact that bad icon is among top three reasons for which apps get rejected from the app store during the review process. 



  • Get a unique shape
While developing an icon for the app, it is good if the developer uses a simple shape that makes the icon easily recognizable from a distance and at the first glance. Having a recognizable and catchy icon is important in order to attract the users. However, one more point that the developer needs to take care of is the fact that the app icon appears at different size in the app store, home screen and notification. In the app store it’s of large size while get small in the home screen of the phone and smaller in the notification. So, the developer needs to develop the app considering this fact. The app must remain recognizable everywhere.
  •  Get the colors right
The right selection of the colors is also very important. It is recommended that the developer use a limited palette. Using too many colors make the icon perplexing. However, the developers’ talent lies in getting a very effective and explanatory app using one or two colors only. 
  •  Get rid of photos in app
In the app store there is no dearth of apps that uses photos. But somehow, this ambulation is not very promising. It is better to keep the photos off from the icon.
  • Too many texts complete NO
The icon is not meant to explain the complete thing about the app. For that purpose there will be content and UI. But the icon is just to attract the user and to give them an idea about the app. It’s just like the logo for a brand, which is more off like a tool for the retention of that brand. Hence, there is no need of using too much of text in the icon and making it look full. Rather the developer can keep it simple.
Being creative is the root to all. The developer must keep in mind that creativity always stands tall as it makes a thing unique. So as the icon is just like a face to the app, so the developer must take great efforts to make it as creative as possible. However, keeping the aforementioned points in mind is also very important.

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