The final part of my series of blog posts covering the code tips and tricks I shared at UK Tech.Days 2011, is about providing users with an improved experience when they are forced to re-install your application, whether that be due to them migrating to a new phone, or a bug forcing them to uninstall it.
So what's the problem? Well when a user reinstalls your app they have to start from scratch, any settings/customisations they make to your app are lost and this barrier to re-entry can sometimes force users to simply go elsewhere. In an ideal world a user should be presented with the option to restore their settings/customisations to you app when they load it for the first time after the uninstall/on the new device. Obviously any settings stored in Isolated Storage are lost so if you want to provide this experience you will need to save these settings in the cloud.
