The best way to make an app (or any product) that your users love is by understanding your users, and that means conducting user research. While big companies like Google can afford to conduct sophisticated and expensive user research studies, basic user research can be done very cheaply.
Listen to Rich Fulcher, an Android designer and developer, as he first explains some of the ways Google conducts User Research and then discusses some of the low-cost techniques you can use to improve your products immediately.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lnv928kXpQI%3Flist%3DPLAwxTw4SYaPmv_X_hZbMj6xunrBtqHGDI
If you want to learn more, check out UX Design for Android Developers.
