The Sky Of Unlimited Possibilities: Android Applications Development

By Author: Alex Morgan
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With the increasing popularity of smart phones, Android OS market has witnessed a significant boom in past few months, and many companies are launching their smart phones based upon this technology. Since the OS has excellent user convenience feature, it has become one of the most popular platform and is considered as a pocket PC which is as good as a desktop or laptop. Some of the great characteristics like easy and cost effective application development, interactive media supportive platform, Java and Flash support and accessibility to SDK which makes it possible for the developers to make high end featured and structure rich application are responsible behind increasing popularity of Android devices. The trend can be easily noticed by the fact that more than 500,000 apps are being downloaded every single day, surpassing iOS. The gadget has already spread its wings in almost every sector, including education, business, media, entertainment and many more.

While talking about Android Applications Development, the most crucial requirement is to have a good skill of imagination. Once the design is figured out, the next ...
... requirement is a sound knowledge of technology and development. Having these two abilities, it’s not a tough task designing a powerful and user friendly application for Android devices. As Android is an open source platform, developers has a complete freedom to envision the app of their desire and turn that into a reality at very affordable charges. Here are the basic elements supported by this OS. Android OS support almost every media formats like MPC, MPEG4, WAV, GIF, PNG, BMP, H.264, H.253 and MIDI. In fact, it’s possible to convert a file of one media format into other format. It supports both 2D as well as 3D graphics, for static and dynamic graphical features. Open Graphic Library, also known as OpenGL is there to process 3D graphics.

When it comes to data transmission, it supports quite a few technologies such as EDGE, EV-DO, GSM, 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. All the Android phones are featured with 3G connectivity and some latest models support 4G as well. Consequently, staying online is a treat with this phone. And some excellent features like synchronization are there which is not possible to find in any other smart phone at the moment. Social network profile is organized in such a way it become pretty handy for a user to stay connected with all his acquaintances and friends on different account through a single app.

The device is fully enabled with screen touch, both resistive and capacitive. Accelerometer, camera, GPS, magnetometer and Peer-to-Peer data sharing are some other edges. No matter what kind of purpose you want to serve, Android phones have something special for you. If utilized properly, Android devices do not only make your social life comfortable but are really beneficial in business activities as well.

Alex Morgan is a software developer who is working in Android Applications Development department in a leading mobile software company in US and providing his services there. Along with that, he also likes to share his vast knowledge about various Android Applications Development techniques through his articles and blogs.