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With the advent of mobile phones have made our life easier than before thanks to the upgraded version of the iPhone, touch screen, smartphone, etc., and various mobile technologies assembled into a single device. With high-end handsets like the iPhone and the touch screen smart phones, users can access all computer applications in the way of their mobile phones. With the introduction of Android, the mobile technology has reached a new level. Mobile development for Android is mainly based on Java.
Android is a software that was introduced by the operating system for mobile phones. It also comes with other middleware and key mobile applications. With its growing popularity, it's pretty obvious that Android will soon surpass the iPhone from a marketing viewpoint. Developers who want to stay in this busy and competitive market, they must accept the Android mobile development. So far, more than 50000 free mobile applications have been developed for mobile phones powered by Android.
There are three versions of the Android operating system available for a variety of mobile applications:
- Android 1.5
- Android 2.0/2.1
- Android 1.6
owned by Google and a group of almost 65 mobile business Android offers leeway to intervene in mobile application development. Android has given developers the ability to develop any Android mobile applications on different platforms such as Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
A few things to remember:. If you have Android developer, you need to keep few points in mind before working on the Android mobile development
- Android Apps need to be involved with more than one application module. Generally, the Android application comes with a variety of services, activities, broadcast receivers and content providers.
- Each of these components to perform different roles.
- Each of these modules must be activated separately.
- files should declare the components together with their demands. For example, if a component requires a separate hardware configurations, it should be mentioned in the appropriate file.
- There are many non-source code of applications such as layout, images, and a set of files that should be device specific. For example, developers have to build a separate layout files for different screen sizes.
Advantages of mobile development for Android: There is a trigger, called 'user-friendliness.' Mobile technology that hits the trigger, will win the crown of popularity. Let's look at the advantages of Android-enabled mobile phones compared to other headsets.
- easier to transfer data across different mobile networks is one of the main advantages of Android. There are GSM, Bluetooth, UMTS, EDGE, EV-DO, CDMA, and Wi-Fi services in the android Data.
- Android powered phones offer separate libraries for 2D and 3D graphics. There are also a number of libraries for video, audio and images.
- Android-enabled phones have a wide range of features such as touch screen, video camera, accelerometer and magnetometer, and GPS.
- All Android phones have IPC or interprocess communication message passing facility.
- There is SQLite for data storage.
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