Android Development: An Overview

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• Android Development An Overview

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Android Development An Overview

• With technology advancing everyday and the advent
  of Smartphone, trend of using mobile based
  applications has grown by leaps and bounds over
  the past 4 years. There is a huge demand of
  android applications as they are easily available
  and most of them are free. Android apps are
  gaining tremendous popularity throughout the
  world and will soon turn into a needy perspective
  in the days to come.
• With the coming of 3G, 4G and other advances in
  the telecom technology, high speed internet is
  easily available in Smart devices. This opens a
  plethora of opportunities for Android developer
  community to explore the newer areas which were
  until now deprived due to lack of high internet
  bandwidth. One of this is live video streaming.
  Live video streaming is trending these days as it
  allows user to watch live games, news and other
  events while on the move. Other benefit is video
  calls and conferencing. High internet speed also
  allows the user of the smart device to leverage
  the power of cloud storage. Cloud storage is
  really a plus given that it is robust and cheap.
• The core of the android development is to satisfy
  the requirement of the application and should
  maximize customer experience, identify growth
  opportunities, drive efficiencies and build
  market share.

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• While these advances has helped the smart devices
  to evolve but there are many challenges faced by
  application developers in order to meet the
  growing expectations of the user and to provide
  the best solution for which it is created.
  Feature upgrade and launching new versions of the
  application ensures apps not just meets, but
  exceeds client expectations.
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• There are many other challenges faced by Android
  application developers to meet the client
  expectation with the app. In a normal scenario
  Smartphone app designer would design for iPhone
  and iPad applications given their popularity and
  then would want that similar app be developer for
  Android devices. This poses a great challenge for
  the application developers to create same user
  experience on Android as on iOS platform. There
  are many user experience features that are
  intrinsic to iOS. Developers can create custom
  components for this or customization of native
  libraries is the can be other solution to emulate
  iOS experience. Otherwise developer should go
  ahead and suggest changes in the designs due to
  the constraints in the Android.
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• Another challenge in developing Android
  applications is to cater to different android
  versions along with different screen sizes. It
  happens in common scenario that application may
  work perfectly in a specific version and may
  behave differently in others, therefore in those
  cases coding for specific version is to be done
  and scenarios are to be handled specifically.
  Adequate testing of the application across
  supported versions and screen size is very
  important to bring out any compatibility issues.
   

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• Conclusion
• There are tremendous possibilities in android
  development arousing due to its rapid evolution
  and contribution of open source community.
  Android applications for social networking, file
  sharing, bank transactions etc. are in high
  demand. Android has a growing section of third
  party applications, which can be acquired by
  users either through an app store such as Google
  Play or the Amazon App Store. It can be easily
  said that this decade of computing belongs to
  Smartphone and Android apps are playing the most
  crucial part in expanding the reach of Android
  devices.  

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