After the release of Android in 2007, it brought a revolution to the mobile app industry. Brought to you by tech giant Google, this open source mobile device operating system has strengthened the smartphone app market. Today, most of the Android apps are freely available to users as well as Android app developers. Due to its open environment and development strategies, Android-based smartphones have grown tremendously in recent years.
Today, the Android app market is flooded with apps. It is growing at a rate of 32% every month. Android mobile operating system has become the most important platform for mobile application development. With more than 750,000 apps developed, many developers hope to create apps for Android devices.
With some of the major smartphone manufacturers like Samsung, HTC, Sony and many more, joining the Android brand, it has successfully attracted a large group of consumers that finally caught the attention of mobile app developers to create innovative applications. Android app developers enjoy a wide open market to publish their apps. It is an open source platform based on Linux so it has fewer restrictions for development as compared to iOS development. The core library support also provides a great foundation for building and designing innovative Android apps. Android apps can also be developed on any platform such as Windows, Linux, and Mac OS-X. Due to these features, most companies prefer Android development over other mobile platforms. Also, the demand for app development has seen a huge increase in recent years. Developers prefer the Android platform due to its extensive capabilities, various functionalities, and large community of developers. Android apps are largely developed for its wide range of categories, such as health, education, real estate, gaming, and business apps. It is also preferred by most developers for its wider range and offers great quality within a reasonable budget. The latest mobile devices come with high-end graphics and other cool features, increasing the quality of Android apps.
The Android Software Development Kit (SDK) provides a wide range of development tools to make development easy, such as libraries, debugger, device emulator, sample code, and documentation. It also helps new developers to quickly try Android app development. Developers can easily access existing framework APIs to build robust and complex third-party Android apps.
Some other advantages of Android development are: a complete library for 2D and 3D graphics, extensive library for images, audio and video files CDMA, UMTS, GSM, Wi-Fi, EV-DO and Bluetooth technologies to send and receive data, Inter-process communication (IPC) message exchange, SQLite for data storage. Eclipse IDE technology ensures easier and faster Android application development. It makes extensive use of the ARM instruction to provide efficiency and performance to applications.
Along with numerous other features, the Android app development platform has outperformed other mobile platforms and gained a substantial market share in the smartphone app industry. Businesses looking for a deep mobile presence should opt for Android app development to meet their specific needs. Also, an Android app can reach a larger audience than other mobile platforms.