Designing Android apps people love can be tough. These are some of the things we learned from designing and developing Go!Chat for Facebook during the past 2 years, after about 15 million downloads and a 4.5/5 app rating. Screenshots are from the new and revamped Go!Chat coming on late December '12 in the Google Play Store.

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