The mobile application
development market is dominated by Android, which is an open source platform.
Today, Android app market is inundated with more than 750,000 apps that are
being already developed. With major Smartphone players like Samsung, Sony, HTC,
etc. joining the Android bandwagon, large group of consumers are looking for
mobile app developers for building innovative applications. This in fact has
provided Android application developers with a wide open market for
distributing their apps with apps been developed across wide range of
categories such as education, health, real-estate, games and business
applications.
Today, developers have
a preference for Android platform because of its various functionalities, wide
capabilities and large community of developers. This has allowed developers to
create innovative apps that besides being of great quality could be availed
within a reasonable budget. Moreover, with the availability of mobile devices
that comes with high end graphics and other cool features, the quality of the
Android apps gets enhanced.
Android mobile app
developers rely on the use of various technologies including Java, Python, Ruby
etc which indeed are ideal for Android application development projects. This
platform is a multi-user Linux system in which each app runs with its own Linux
process. Additionally, developers can get easy access to a range of development
tools that are available in Android software development kit (SDK) for easier
development.
It also allows
developers to get a quick flavour of Android app development. Developers can
get quick access to the existing APIs in order to build robust and complex
third party Android applications. Other advantages of Android development are
wide library for images, a complete library for 2D and 3D graphics and
Bluetooth technologies for transfer of data, SQLite for data-storage and IPC
message exchange.
Today, Android
Application Development platform has outshone other mobile platforms and has
gained a strong foothold in the mobile application development industry.
Businesses looking to carve a niche for them in the app development arena
should opt for Android app development. This
indeed would help them reach a wider audience base as compared to other mobile
platforms. In a nutshell, this platform allows space for the applications to
grow and expand as per the growing needs of a business that too with easy
feature integration.