Lovely How to Avoid Pits and Falls of Smartphone Application Development?

When most of the company's officials meet me, they ask a similar question. Why their mobile applications didn't give the desired result? The answer is simple, Smartphone applications development require something more than mere programming. Today's post will uncover how to avoid most common pits and falls of mobile application development.Whether you are developing iPhone, Android, J2Me or Blackberry application yourself or getting it developed from a social media agency, you need to take care of the following pointers.

Forgetting the User

Usually the application developers are technical guys not like you and me. When they develop they focus on the application, its function and compatibility. Most of the time, they forget the user of the application. If this is the case you must understand why, who and how is the user going to use this application.

Over specifying yourself

If you think you are developing an application only for iPhone because you customers use only this platform think again. Your application must be focused to be compatible with every platform from developments side as well as from viewers screen size and navigation purposes. If your apps limits to only your specification you are going to bound yourself.

Limited Considerations

If your application doesn't give freedom to the user like colors then it surely going towards a limitation. Most users find difficult to read with different colors. Color, clarity and choice is what your customer is looking for, else other choices are also welcoming.

Ignoring Integration

When you designed mobile application is isolated in itself the user would easily get bored and switched towards a better option. Ignoring integration is the last mistake you can make. Instead try to insert options for integration with your web, social networks and emails to give freedom of expression to the user.

Over doing it

If you develop an application that is jack of all but master of none, it's not going to work. Most users like solutions for their problems rather than an application for distraction. This means your application must be a focused one and its usage must be optimized according to traveling needs.

Indifferences

If you application seems to function differently on different platform it is an alarming sigh. You must look for intuitive applications controls and these apps must perform with the same speed and functions on every platform you use.

Inspirational European Influences on Water Fountain Development

In previous articles I've covered the Ancient Roman, Middle-Eastern, and Chinese contributions to water fountain use, design and technology. This article covers some of the European adaptations. The trade routes between countries and cultures in the known world allowed for the advancement of the use of water, practical and aesthetic, and for the technology that allowed advancement. As each region/ culture encountered new water fountain technology, it incorporated and adopted methods that reflected local resources, values and aesthetics. These different perspectives were, in turn, exported out of the area to re-influence new ideas and adaptations.

The European concept of water use was born in ancient Rome during the Imperial period. Villas of the wealthy prominently featured water displays that ranged from still-water reflecting pools to hydraulically-powered jet fountains. As the Roman political influence waned, its aesthetic approaches to the use of water remained. Technology and its application to water use within different cultures advanced and was shared or copied over the centuries, so that by 1500 AD the European aesthetic and practice of water fountain technology had developed to the point of a unique expression. Playfulness.

This all seemed to come together at the Versailles Chateau where, at the peak of its water fountain use, over 1400 fountains were operating within the expansive grounds. The back story as to how this came about is fascinating and grist for a different article, but for now - decades of labor at a cost of millions of lives, and staggering amounts of money went into converting what had been a relatively dry area into a water-fed playground for royalty. Much of that grandeur remains today, and the existing water fountains created by artists of that period remain as impressive multi-spouted works of art and engineering. At one point, before full completion of the water supply lines, guests at the Chateau were limited to one bowl of water daily for personal use, while the water features went through more water each day than did the entire city of Paris! Such was the priority of water use.

Middle Eastern water robotics which were both artistic in design, and practical in application, were adapted to the European mind-set, and the outcome was water powered robotics designed purely for human amusement. This peaked throughout Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Hydraulically powered figures and trick fountains were the rage of the wealthy. Entire miniature villages, its inhabitants carrying on their routine chores, were created for the pleasure of wealthy aristocrats. Trick fountains were set up to soak unsuspecting guests who, when seated, would trigger a water jet in the seat of the chair or bench, or when stepping on a stair or floor tile or walking through a gate would trigger a similar drenching experience.

There are precious few of these playful displays still to be found today. A sixteenth century English tree fountain, randomly spouting water, is still functioning and popular, and there are other scattered examples that remain as mere shadows of the original displays. However, the best preserved fully functional display remains intact at the Hellbrunn Palace near Salzburg, Austria. If you find yourself anywhere near that part of the world, it is worth a stop to experience a water display pretty much the as it amazed and amused guests in the 1700's.

This playful use of water is reflected in the designs of many contemporary water fountains -- from the complex computer-controlled Appearing Rooms Fountain that creates walls of water allowing an interactive walk-thru and that change randomly, to the small, personal indoor water fountains in homes that feature urinating children, a classic Italian design, to spouting frogs. As you choose your own indoor or garden water fountain today, you have a wide variety of designs, materials and presentations that are the culmination of influences traded and improved upon over more than two thousand years.