2.2. Building Great Android Apps

With hundreds of thousands of apps in Android Market, how do you create an Android app that people will find, download, use and recommend to others? Consider what makes an app fun, useful, interesting, appealing and enduring. A clever app name, an attractive icon and an engaging description might lure people to your app on Android Market or one of the many other Android app marketplaces. But once users download the app, what will make them use it regularly and recommend it to others? Figure 2.1 shows some characteristics of great apps.

Fig. 2.1. Characteristics of great apps.