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Here is what I’ve learned about being data efficient when developing mobile phone applications. The first and foremost thing, is to please the user by reducing as much as possible the amount of data our mobile apps use and the battery drain they inflict on our mobile phones.
Data is not cheap here in Africa. There is no “free” WiFi everywhere and anywhere, with the result that our data hungry apps are frowned upon by users who hate apps that will hog their hard earned data. I do too, when I’m the user.