Helpful Checklist For Developing A Unique Messenger App

While Android phones are lifeless without proper messenger apps, here this article provides a guideline to the entrepreneurs in the apps world on what to consider for a messenger app with absolute user-friendliness.

Ever since the concept apps evolved, the one kind of app that is ruling the heart of millions of smartphone users is the Messenger apps. Some of the incredibly famous ones used by the millennials are WhatsApp, Skype, Facebook Messenger, Viber and SnapChat. There are innumerable ones to add to the list and giving people a wide pool of options. But, that doesn’t necessarily mean arriving in such a hypercompetitive or saturated market with your own kind of messenger app is pointless and is easily defeatable! People wait for variety. The look for new experiences. So, it's actually a win-win situation for the businesses if they can bring up some unique concept in their messenger app. Here’s a checklist of all new things you can include in your messenger app. However, make sure to appoint an experienced team of Android app development in Australia who can brilliantly help you in your endeavours.

#1 Profile customisation

This feature will let users express their own unique personality or identity to their respective social circles via their profiles. It means they could change their names, put display icons in separate avatars, put nicknames, choose fonts, background wallpapers, use status templates and so forth. Apart from user’s ‘last seen online’, the app could also provide location or place the user is currently is.

#2 Chatbots

Chatbots are still an underutilised concept in the messenger apps and so you can have it in your app to make it out-of-the-box. Chatbots uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) and is a kind of interactive software that communicates with the users with texts just like another user. The software is programmed to respond in such a way whenever the user sends a natural voice text or types something in the app. Many mobile application development companies in Australia today are working on Artificial Intelligence to launch chatbot platform and hence partnering one such firm for your app development.

#3 Broadcasting

Very few messaging apps till date has been using this feature of broadcasting which enables the users to select many contacts at a time and create a group then send away message together to all of them whenever needed. It’s far different from group messaging because the users can neither see who are the others receiving the same message nor they will be annoyed with the replies of others.

#4 Gamified content

While messaging are getting so an interesting turn with inclusion GIFs, animations, apps developers in Australia are now trying to incorporate gamification in the app to bring some fun for the users. For instance, they can create personal quizzes for their friends to solve and get a scoreboard for the same, start playing mini puzzles, compare scores with friends. So, there are some other exciting things to do apart from just chatting, voice and video calling.

Having a messenger app just with the features that every other app are offering will surely be lame. But with some best Android app developers in Australia from an award-winning mobile app development company, you can create a messenger app with a twist that will stand against other conventional apps in the market.

Alex Forsyth is a seasoned mobile app developer working at Envertis, a well-known firm for Android app development in Australia that has been most successful in converting challenging app ideas into striking reality helping businesses thrive in the market.

Alex Forsyth is one of the expert app developers in Sydney who is working for Envertis, an earmarked Australian company for mobile app development which has been delivering dynamic and revenue-centric apps to businesses.