The user experience of the domestic Android Market from the developer's point of view

Editor's note: The author is Lilac Garden CTO, co-founder of Beta Coffee, Feng Dahui

In recent years in the release of Clove Garden Medication Assistant Android version of the domestic several important Android Market used, every time to release a new version of the time to feel it: almost all of the Android Market backend user experience is not good.

The information has a

All of the domestic Android Market and Google's official Android Market are not "compatible", whether it is product description information and application categories, each is a self-contained. For example, software screenshots, each have their own requirements, size, format if inconsistent, but also targeted individual processing, the developer's workload virtually increased a lot. The description of the product is also strange, some support rich text editing, and some only support ordinary text. Some update software requirements to write updated content, some do not prompt to fill out, if you want to write, you need to modify the entire APP description information. Another example of classified information, Clove Garden Drug Assistant in some Market can only be included in the "Life" category, and in another Market may be forced to be included in the "other", because there is no health or medical related categories.

Version control issues

Only a handful of one or two are aware of versioning, and most have no relatively reliable version control mechanism. There are laissez-faire: developers in the background of any updated version, there are checkpoint audit sent: You are in a can not be modified and can not be revoked in the "Audit" status, once you find the error, you want to correct only the next version. As for the audit cycle, is also strange, some lidengkequ, some need artificial contact "We released a new version, take time to review it," and some for up to a week.

Background accessibility

Some of the backstage speed is slow (it is difficult to let me figured out the problem), even the use of screenshots can not be normal display, and upload the interface, there are a lot of details, the more outrageous is that there are a few actually do not prompt upload progress, the entire upload process can only rely on the feeling, waiting, just clove Garden Medicine assistant package is still relatively large, Sometimes it's crazy to have a transmission outage.

Interface Information Confusion

After the first registration to submit the software to run the whole process is still more difficult, tips and terminology to understand a half-day to know what is going on, the copy of the difference is too large. After logging into the background, a typical situation is that most Market can not find the Post application link in the foreground, such as the application sinks. And some Market even more outrageous is that the backstage or the traditional form of the display, such as the Charm clan.

The data is not accurate.

Almost all of the Android market, statistics are not particularly accurate, some even download statistics days are not updated, and some even backstage do not do data statistics, download how much to the front page to see their own. To get the right Android download data, oh, you actually don't get the real android download data, and if you want to count the data that's open, it's best to start with an application-statistics service like the Alliance.

The process is complex enough

Process complexity This is mainly for Unicom, mobile, Lenovo, such as the rich bureaucracy of the Market, such as the user qualification information up to hundreds of information to fill out, you toss it, not a few hours, no company up and down with (and a copy of the business license) you can't make it, You must crash before you submit your application. So, sometimes, you have to give up on such a market, even if there are users who really want to download your apps from these channels, there's no way.

Conclusion

In fact, it is not only the domestic Android market for developers of poor user experience, Google's official markets are not very good. Every day on the Internet to see users grumble about this site user experience is poor, that site user experience poor what, in fact, if you go to use these Android software market, you know that the user experience is not really the bottom line.

A few days ago to participate in the Mobile Developers Conference, found that the App Market is already the standard of major internet companies, are in succession to launch their own Market, I am afraid later will be more chaotic. It is reported that the entrepreneurial team in the development of a one-time submitted to a number of Market tools, do not know when to see. Obviously, this is also a thankless task.

Or is it possible that every Android Market is working on the front desk user experience and is looking forward to the domestic Android Market's early attention to user experience issues for developers and maintainers, which is what every Android developer expects, and gives developers more energy to do what they should.

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