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A quick scroll through most any app's feedback on pretty much any app store out there reveals the truth: people are schizophrenic. For every, "Great app! Love it!" you'll get five, "I hate this app! It's garbage!" comments. It can be difficult to determine which comments you actually need to pay attention to and learn how to turn user feedback into useful fodder for actually improving your app (and your reputation as a developer). Here's how an app developer can prioritize and implement user feedback for inevitable success.

The most efficient, effective way to get your app to be downloaded and used by the general population is to make it available in the Google Play Store. Though the competition there is intense (there are more than 1.3 million apps there competing for downloads), it is the biggest market (by far), and actually makes it easier for developers to get their apps accepted than some of the competing app stores do.

From 1967 through 1976, eight-inch floppy disks were the latest and greatest thing. That was before Apple computers was even founded, before Jimmy Carter became President, and before the world even had home video consoles or personal computers. Many of today's generation don't even realize that the reason they called the old, hard-cased 3.5 inch discs "floppy discs" is that the original 8-inch and 5.25-inch discs were, in fact, floppy, if you held them up and waved them around. That was a long time ago.

Are you a small to mid-sized business looking to build your perfect application or software? Where do you start?

Building an app for Android devices gives you access to a far larger potential market than developing for just Apple devices. However, developing Android apps comes with great challenges, simply because of the vast array of different devices, screen sizes, specifications, and other variables of Android devices. This is even more of an issue now that there are so many popular Android tablets to be sure your app works on, in addition to the array of smartphones out there. Here's how to be sure your app is thoroughly tested across the Android universe.

Not all software development projects meet their intended goals. In fact, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Some go over budget, are not delivered at the specified time, or are not suitable for their intended purposes once delivered. How can your company assure that the project will be a success? The key to a successful development project is evaluation. Evaluation should be both the first and the final steps in any custom development project.