Deciding What to Program

So how does one go about deciding on what they want to make for a program? It all comes down to your background. Good at graphic design? Try your hand at making a game. Good with coding? A program that can serve as a useful tool would be your best route. Since my drawing skills are on par with a monkey (though I can make a mean stick figure) I figured my best course of action would be to make a useful tool for the phone.

Therein lies the problem. With so many apps and whatnot available on the market, what do you do? Rack your brain trying to figure out a new, innovative idea or do you put your own brand of style into a program that already exists in some form?

Let's face it, there are many, many variations of the same application in the Android Marketplace. Why just search for the keyword "weather" on the marketplace and it spits back about 2,000 results. They all mostly do the same thing but it's up to the developer to make them unique. Some give you live radar, some give you a detailed description of the allergens in the air, and others keep it simple by just displaying the temperature at your given location. It all depends on what you are in the mood for. You try out a few of the applications and from there you decide what you like best whether it's the functionality of the program or maybe one program looks and performs better on your phone than others.

That's what I will be doing for my first program. Nothing too fancy but adding my own style to it to differentiate from the other applications on the market.

Stay tuned....