Dear developers, it looks like a branch of the Indian government has spent valuable time and money to show us how not to make apps. This app by The Archaeological survey of India, Delhi Circle, is so useless that we thought it deserved a special, albeit short, mention. The app supposedly gives one "the experience of monuments" on your mobile phone. What it really does is list a few monuments in Delhi, show a few pictures and show where they are located on a map. It has four sections - monuments, gallery, plan your itinerary and 'about us'. The first section lists a dozen (only) monuments in Delhi with one pic and a short write up about each one. It does not mention what the visiting hours are, or on which all days it is closed for the public, or if there is an entrance fee, or if there is a fee for taking in camera, nothing. That said, it does mention which book they copy pasted the description from. In the Gallery section, one expects to see multiple photos of these monuments, possibly taken by great photographers or hand-picked from websites such as Flickr. One might even expect an option to set one of these images as a wallpaper. But no, you get one disproportionally scaled image for each monument, the same one that was used in the first section. One expects more utility in the next section, which is supposed to be an itinerary planner. It lets you select the monuments you…
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