How to Build Efficient Apps by AT&T

Want to avoid apps that are slow to load, respond to input and drains battery life? Of course you do. And AT&T wants to help you by offering the best practices for building responsive and energy efficient apps.

AT&T’ Developer Program lists out its best practices for app efficiency:

• Understand Mobile Networks
• Handle Multiple Simultaneous TCP Connections
• Reduce Inefficient Connections with Periodic Transfers
• Deal with Connection Opening Problems
• Close Connections As Soon As Possible
• Offload to Wi-Fi
• Handle Duplicate Content and Caching
• Utilize Pre-fetching
• Manage Peripherals
• Upgrade from HTTP 1.0
• Handle Screen Rotations
• Comparing LTE and 3G Energy Consumption
• Content Optimization for Mobile Devices

The Best Practices Guidelines go into serious how-to detail for each of the bullet points above. If energy efficiency and responsiveness are important to you, then check it out by following this link.