Android Application Development

 

Keywords: Android application development, Android

 

• Why Android Application Development?
• Key Features Of Android

 

Talking about emergence of Android application development services, lots of exciting things are happening! The emergence of Android is viewed as a major tipping point in the growth of the mobile development industry.

 

By optimizing unparalleled knowledge pertaining to the dynamics underlying the mobile market, Android Application developers are able to provide outstanding porting services to convert existing Java ME titles to the Android platform.

 

Why Android Application Development?

 

The mobile phone has become the most vital communications device around the world, with over 3 billion users worldwide. Yet, companies faced the challenge of devising something that would meet the ever increasing needs of the tech savvy mobile users. As a result, the emergence of Android application development benefited a vast cross section of developers, wireless operators and handset manufacturers.

 

However, Android has been triumphant in providing a most comprehensive suite of unprecedented mobile benefits for developers, consumers as well as manufacturers so that developers and users would enjoy total access to state of the art handset tools and capabilities.

 

With emphasis on providing compelling and user-friendly services, developers utilize Android application development to make it possible for consumers to enjoy access to less expensive mobile devices that come with rich Internet applications, best services and easier-to-use interfaces -- ultimately creating a superior mobile experience.

 

Key Features Of Android:

 

• Additional hardware support
  Android is completely capable of utilizing still/video cameras, accelerometers, GPS, touchscreens, compasses and accelerated 3D graphics.
• Connectivity
  Android supports a huge array of connectivity technologies that include Wi-Fi, GSM, Bluetooth, CDMA, EV-DO, EDGE and 3G.
• Java virtual machine
  The software written in Java can be executed in the Dalvik virtual machine and compiled into Dalvik bytecodes.
• Messaging
  All MMS, XMPP and SMS, inclusive of threaded text messaging, are available forms of messaging.
• Media support
  Android supports advanced still/video/audio media formats like AAC, GIF, AMR, PNG, H.264, MPEG-4, MP3 and JPEG.
• Handset layouts
  This platform is adaptable to both larger, 2D graphics library, VGA, 3D graphics library based on OpenGL ES 1.0 specifications and traditional smartphone layouts.

 

Even though there are a number of features and specifications already introduced for Android. However, with the release of the SDK various Android specifications and features are slowly being released.