Thursday, May 13, 2004
Must Have Features For Any Smartphone Application
Posted by Mike Temporale in "DEVELOPER" @ 02:00 PM
I spent a fair amount of time over the last couple weeks testing some pretty cool applications for the Handango Champion Awards, and it was a lot of fun. With everything said and done, I feel that, although these are great applications, there are some key features that they all should have to make the end users experience much more pleasing.
Do these sound reasonable? I'm sure there are more features, but I feel these changes would offer a more pleasant user experience.
- Smart Filter/Search - If your application has a large list of items, the application should support a smart filter feature in the same manner as your phones Contact filter. At the very least you should support page up and down along with scrolling. Although a smart filter is preferred.
- 100% Clean Uninstall - When the application is removed, all files and folders should be removed. This includes the empty application folder. Also, if there are any settings or data files created by the application, the user should be prompted to keep or remove these.
- Sounds & Music - If your application talks, sings, beeps, or chirps, please check the active profile settings before making any noise. If the profile is silent, then the application should also be silent.
- Registration Codes - If your registration code is all numeric, then please set the input type to numeric and not mixed. The best solution I saw for this was when applications prompted you on your desktop during the install for the registration code.
Do these sound reasonable? I'm sure there are more features, but I feel these changes would offer a more pleasant user experience.
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