Top Android Application Development Tools

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Android application development tools help in the development of new application for android operating system. Usually the application for android is developed in java language using Android SDK. There are various tools available in the market as:

Android SDK (Software Development Kit):-It involves various tools as debugger, libraries, handset emulator, documentation, sample code and tutorial that help in application development for android.

Eclipse: - It is one of the best Android Development tools that provide a comprehensive emulator that can be fine-tuned to initiate an exhaustive range of device characteristic. The best thing in eclipse is it provides you an environment where you will be able to experience your application in the real time.

Hyper Next Android Creator (HAC):-It allows much easier creation of android application by beginner than Eclipse or Net beans. Application Developed in Hypertext android creator enjoy good support on wide range of devices. The programming language is much more similar to English and application development is user friendly.

Titanium Mobile SDK: - IT provides ...
... developers with an ability to create quality native, mobile web or rich hybrid application to all platforms from a single code base using java script. It also can access to native mobile functionality like geo-location, accelerometer & maps.

Adobe Air: - Adobe air runtime enables developers to package the same code into native apps i.e. it allows the reusability if the code. Running on action script HTML, CSS Air allows user mostly to develop cross platform mobile application saving the time and minimizing the development cost.

Native Development Kit (NDK):- This is a tool that allows implementing the code in C/C++ for Android devices and it also provides a lot help to the developers as they can reuse the existing code, but there is a drawback in NDK as it increases the complexity of the code, basically it is used with Android SDK.

Vuforia: - It is an Augmented Reality software Development kit (SDK), it enables the creation augmented reality applications. It provides application programming interfaces (API) in C++, java, .net languages.

Basic4Android:- It is an rapid application development tool for native android application, it is an alternative to programming with java and android SDK it has examples which gives developer an ease of access but still it is prefer to use Eclipse with Android SDK through it has intellisense editor, many libraries, GUI designer but it also lack in support for object orientation. This tool is good for new.

There are numbers of tools available that can be used for designing android application. Selecting the right tool for development depends on the nature of android application needs to be developed as here many tools provide inbuilt library that reduced the burden a lot.

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