Friday 2 December 2011

Why Android???



                     The second post for this blog is coming after a very long time.A month and half in assignments and  exams makes it really hard to blog.The application development did take a backseat during this duration and hence the exams ended I went on and started work on updating Vocopedia.Now vocopedia has been updated to v1.5.Also I got Vocopedia copyrighted and a paid version will soon be up.Before we start with android application development it would be essential to know why Android ?

WHY ANDROID ?? 

 For a user:

         Android is an open source operating system based on Unix currently owned by Google.It is one of the most popular and probably the best Operating System for Mobile Smartphones and Tablets.No doubt
android was chosen for ultra low cost tablet Akash.It has multiple app stores the main among it being the Android Market managed by Google.It is known to have 2,00,000+ apps in April 2011 and is the fastest growing app-store behind apple's App Store only.Also there are many free apps for android available(say 60%). It has the best user interface,usability and a developer network in the word that develops applications,scripts for your phone to make it better day by day. There are Custom Roms (custom builds) available that make your phone fast ,smooth ,cool and awesome. Cyanogen Mod being the best of them with CM9( Android 4.0-ICS in development) being the latest.No doubt I am an all and all Android guy !!Android phones make other phones look obsolete.And the best part is you can get an android phone for as less as 6K while for iPhone in India you have to pay 50K.So you want to buy a phone?Go for Android anytime.

For a developer:

                 Android development can be a great decision as a hobby or even a full time profession.Android development is basically done in Java.For developing an Android Application there are mainly two requirements, Android SDK and Eclipse IDE 1.5 and above.Why develop for Android ? For anyone wanting to start into mobile application development android is ideal since no. of phones getting activated in a day is more than 4,00,000.Also a lot of tutorials and help is available online for Android.In order to publish your app in android market you need to pay 25$ one time only on the other hand for Iphone you have to pay 99$ every year which is also the same for windows phone 7 and for nokia-symbian apparently no one bothers.
Also the applications can be developed in Windows,Linux and Mac Os.For iPhone you require Mac and for Windows Phone 7 only Windows.From hardware point of view you can create hardware specific applications.Android development is not limited to apps but in kernel development,performance enhancements,and literally unleashing the power of your devices which cannot be done on other platforms.The Kernel development  for my made me a fan of Linux and that is why I have started studying Linux Kernels for the same.Plus it will improve my knowledge of  embedded systems programming (My Favourite Subject) .
           From next post onwards android application development tutorials will be coming. Till then

                                                             Happy Droiding !!! 

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