What Makes Android So Special?

By Author: Alan Smith
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A freedom transform innovate new ideas and freedom to collaborate with all. Complete Open distribution model. Excellent multiple platform support. There are just a few things which have been offered by Android. There are many other features in this platform which makes it special.

Android has been provided by Google and it is an open source mobile application development platform which has been combined and builds using various parts of various different open source projects. So if you are not a technical person you will not have much idea about this platform, however if you are a developer than what does this mean to you as a developer? Android has been exceptionally popular since its launch and many smart mobile phone companies are using this platform. Over the time it has become the biggest competitor of Apple iOS platform and the mobile device world has divided into two OS and they are Apple and Google OS.

The best thing about Android is that it will provide developers access to the source code of the platform which is running on the smart mobile phone. For mobile apps developers, it's very good because it ...
... gives them a capability to understand the device easily and develop better apps. Certainly, the access to OS of the device can help mobile developers to better understand how interface controls and the various other pieces of mobile device work independently and together. Google has gone one step ahead and mentioned that if you came across a defect then you can submit a patch for the issue and makes this is a more advanced practice. The other smart move made by Google is that it had made collaboration with companies and forms a large group of companies which is known as the Open Handset Alliance, these companies along with Google contributed to use the Android OS in their own hardware devices. By doing this, Google has confirmed Hugh success and this simply means that there is industry wide support for Google’s OS. This has worked into Google's favor and got wide adoption across well-known vendors across the world.

Many people say that when Apple is providing exceptional features in iPhone then why one need to look for Android? On this debate many developer and industry experts who worked in to Android platform as well as iPhone platform explains that there are many advantages offered by Android platform for mobile apps development. Google offers Android without any cost hence it ensures zero startup costs to begin development. This is has greatly reduced the cost for developing mobile apps. Another good thing is that the complete development tool package for the platform are free to download, Google is charging small fees to download the package but this is nominal because Google only charges a small fee to distribute applications on the Android Market.

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