Massive Surge In Iphone And Android Application Development

By Author: David Brown
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Today, smart phones are the most sought after gadgets. Whether it be a businessman, professional, or student, everybody wants to get their hands on these phones. There is a massive hunger for smart phones throughout the world. Although Apple's iPhone had originally started the smart phone mania, but today, Google's Android is beating it with countless user friendly applications and features. Android, being an open source platform, opens up the gates for the development of numerous dynamic mobile applications. The crux of the matter is both these colossal enterprises have created a plethora of opportunities in the field of mobile application development.

Google has developed Android as an open source mobile operating system that is based on the Linux kernel. Android programming is based on Java programming language, and familiarity with the language immediately opens up the gates to every Java programmer on the planet. That is the reason JAVA programmers are in huge demand nowadays. By using Android, manufacturers can customize the OS to suit their particular hardware design, thereby facilitating them to innovate without ...
... any restrictions. According to Google chief, Eric Schmidt, about 200,000 android based smart phones and related devices are sold each day.

Some of the key features of Android are:

Flash 10.1 and AIR Support

Push Messaging

Speech-to-text conversion

High MP Camera,

Advanced GPS

Compass and accelerometer

Optimized graphics

GSM Telephony

On the other hand, Apple's iPhone is developed on Objective-C language and in a Mac OX S environment with XCode tools. When introduced in 2007, it drove the whole world crazy and the response was overwhelming. Millions thronged the Apple stores to get a view of the masterpiece and get acquainted with its ground-breaking functionalities. Today, iphone/Android application development multi-billion dollar industry with exponential growth figures. Recently,