Seven characteristics of a successful application for the iPhone

IPhone dev center: News and Announcements. Written dates back to August 28, but has not lost its relevance, and for many it is only beginning to gain. I am sure the information will be useful or at least interesting. Please note that at the end is a link to valuable podcasts.

Creating a regular iPhone app is simple. However, if you take into account the following characteristics when creating a new application or improving an existing one, you can increase its attractiveness, improve its perception by the user and make your application more noticeable than others:

• Charming: These applications are attractive because of their attractive design, excellent selection of colors and sound, they are easy to use and work as expected. Using them, you remain involved in the process, and come back to them again and again.
• Innovative: Innovative applications are fresh and new, they bring to the market concepts that have not been used before or present them in a new, unusual way. These applications inspire users to make complex things simple and radically change the usual course of action.
• Well-developed: Well-designed applications provide high-quality visual design and high detail. These applications are easy to use, well organized, not cluttered, effective, intuitive and stable.
• Integrated: Enhance functionality and add new features to your applications by embedding iPhone technologies (such as addressing tools, accelerometer, camera, etc.) instead of writing your own versions of these frameworks. The iPhone software development kit provides you with a large set of frameworks, using which you will save time, simplify software codes, and also increase the stability and performance of applications using them for their intended purpose.
• Optimized: Optimized applications squeeze the entire potential of the system to a drop and use to the maximum all the proposed features of the iPhone operating system, including alternative input methods and interaction models.
• Connected: iPhone is always on and always on. Connected applications exchange information and interact well with other installed applications, allowing you to use built-in contacts and photos, or access information or services on the Internet or to applications installed on other devices.
• Localized: Since the iPhone is available in more than 80 countries, you will be able to reach the consumer, be different from others and gain a significant competitive advantage by localizing your applications. If you can also localize the application metadata store, you will be able to attract even more customers from other countries and speaking other languages.

For more information and examples of the characteristics described above, see the Tech Talk World Tour presentation series on great iPhone apps.