Developing And Designing iPad Apps: Typical Problems
17 Nov 2010 | iPad Development | Angela Topchu on Google+
Always to stay connected, keep a track of all the latest news, get necessary information, and have an ability to watch different shows and movies. This is all available with iPad and iPhone apps that have a nice, user-friendly design.
But the process of developing these apps is very meticulous. It requires a detailed work. Consequently developers make some mistakes in design, and as a result, their application don’t look professional. So, now we can define and analyze some main typical problems that prevent iPad apps from becoming popular.
This is a list of the most common application design mistakes.
Wrong Interface Buttons
If you have worked with iOS SDK, you have seen the library of UI elements that you can either use from stock objects, or write yourself from scratch. Of course, most developers save their money and time, and use buttons, tables and sliders by customizing stock objects. This is when the first problem comes.
Some iPad app developers create their own table and navigation and ignore the highly-customizable UITableView within a UINavigation Controller. This is not comfortable for users, as instead of a nice animation, users get some clunky and amateur one while using some app functions.
Graphics with Low Resolution
Another problem is the usage of low-res graphics. iPad apps require high-resolution graphics. Everybody knows it. But developers sometimes ignore this rule and come up with another problem.
Our eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels. Text in books, web pages, and emails should be crisp at any size. Still, some applications have a clear and beautiful logo on the loading screen, and the same logo in top navigation (which is a smaller version of the main logo) is blocky and pixilated.
Why wouldn’t developers create the same graphic for both? Why don’t they pay attention to details?
Animation Issue
Also there are some problems with animating when you get an application which has buttons that animate and buttons that don’t which is confusing.
Be careful with animation. Over animating is able to slow down iPad owner’s ability to navigate applications.
Multi-tasking
Not every iPad app has the ability to execute more than one task at the same time. In other words, some applications are not ready for multitasking.
Every time we return to the app, we see a (full screen) loading splash; sometimes it seems like a simple reminding of what app we’re using now. Just test your application’s behavior before submitting it to the iTunes store.
Avoid These Mistakes
As we can see nothing is perfect and it’s obvious that everything needs to develop the right way. Poor design of mobile apps is something we can meet nowadays, and but if all developers work carefully with all the details it will be easy to fix these mistakes.
I’m sure that with time all iPad Apps will be more progressive, advanced and will have multi-tasking.
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