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Barclay's Pingit Review

First of all kudos to the app developers.  The idea of making a common app for any bank access is a very innovated  development in the integration of various banks and their accounts. Barclay's  have taken a wide step in this development. Lets move on to the app, The Barclay's Pingit has given a very rapid development in the recent days. Initially it had very limited facilities like checking balance and sending money,but now they had enabled the view to show the various transactions done with the accounts and a separate view for Pingit transactions. 

           

                  The Version 1.2 of Pingit has improved a lot in the various options to see the bank transactions, local branch and share it with various friends. The GUI of the individual views (Bank transactions,show balance, Pingit transactions and other options ) were designed very well but the home view to all these options wasn't impressive. The user wont be given a clear view of various options available in the app.Couple of the options are hidden from the main view but still connected via the main view. The real estate of the user screen hasn't thought properly before the design. On a whole the views were assorted and user needs ample of time to understand the culture of the app. 

With respect to the performance the app  has given its best where it can. The transactions made through the Pingit is ultra fast and it reaches the receiver the next moment. The transactions are made through the mobile numbers connected to the respected accounts and bank. It has made it very easy and secure ,faster than anything. But often the app gets an error because of no connection with the server. Though the device has got enough of service provider signal it fails to make the connection with the server. The app works even in GPRS connections. 

The Pingit app has got enough of security features enabled. It wont store any data in the card . All data directed to device memory . It just store the policy, phone number and app UID. In the latest version released it has crashed the whole app in blackberry device. and it holds up lots of memory. The App also runs in background which is major flows in the security. Any secure App will never be given permission to run in the background.This causes information threat.Even you dont exit the App it has to auto-close itself so that the data security can be maintained.