The Best Of The Android Application Development Tools

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Android OS, the operating system designed by Google, is targeting mainly touch-screen devices, like tablets and smart phones, ranging from low-end to high-end ones. It is a Linux-based operating system and was officially unveiled in 2007, along with the founding of Open Handset Alliance. Applications for android devices are mainly designed in Java language with the use of Android Software Development Kit. SDK itself is a complete package for development tools, composed of various software libraries, an emulator, small sampled codes, tutorials and debuggers. The company has also designed and released its own integrated development environment, Android Studio. It is basically an open source IDE designed for developing Android applications. It is fully laced with amazing templates, wizards and various terrific WYSIWYG-style layouts editing.

But apart from Google's own tools, developers around the world have contributed to build other tools as well. Some most popular tools are as follows:

Vuforia: The tool used for ...
... developing apps that provide a 3D interface, or say applications that make use of real world images. It provides an ability of indulging the real work elements in application without writing any specific code section for the same. It is a product of Qualcomm to assist app developers to create reality-based apps in lesser efforts.

Gimbel: Gimbel basically provides an complete platform for developing Geo-based applications for Android devices. And again. It is a great tool developed by Qualcomm to assist developers creating Geo-apps for multiple platforms.

Titanium SDK: Next comes the tool that's capable of developing native apps for mobile operating systems like, iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone. It basically works over JavaScript syntax, including more than 5000 APIs that provide highly reusable code percentage.

Basic4Android: This tool is mainly used to develop cloud-based applications for Android devices. The tool itself provides inbuilt libraries for easing the development of enterprise level applications. Apart from app development, the tool can also be used in testing. It provides a facility of developing as well as testing apps. It is capable of testing applications connected via database and developing real-time 2D games as well. For appropriate monetization aspects, it also consists of Google's AdMob library that assists developers with embedding various ads in their application. Also no runtime libraries are required while developing applications via this tool.

ADOBE AIR: This tool enables developers to develop applications which are kind of platform independent or say the application code written using this tool is capable of running over other native apps for iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire and lots of Android devices. The simplicity of this tool makes an app reach over 500 million devices through various mobile app stores. The tool basically runs over HTML and CSS with a blend of Action Scripts and develops cross-platform mobile applications.

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