subject: Android Application Development - A New World Of Possibilities [print this page] Ever since the release date of Google Android Operating System, Google Android applications market has been growing day by day. From the time when this operating system has taken the world of mobile application development by storm, it has been achieving popularity over mobile application development. With these trends, it has been competing very well in the mobile technology world and has seen a gradual increase in the number of its smart phone users.
Mobiles growth curve is strong and mobile is becoming quite a phenomenon on the Internet. It is true that number of Android applications is fewer in comparison to iPhone, BlackBerry and Symbian; but with time, use of Android Apps has increased.
Now Android Operating System with its applications is getting a strong hold to rule the smartphone market. In recent days we have seen the phenomenal growth of Android Platform i.e. 15 points jump in just 3 months. No other hand phone device has shown such tremendous growth within such a short span.
Google Android is an open source platform. It has become popular among Android application developers because they don't have to pay any license fee for its development. Similarly there is no restriction imposed by its company like you find in case of iPhone and other operating systems. There are no problems of lock or unlock and jailbreak etc.
Android has a huge developer community. Being an open source development, you can take benefits from this big community. For any kind of problem during development stage Android developers can take help of the community to solve that problem including debugging of Android apps.
As Android is based on Linux core, it exhibits rock solid stability. It never crashes easily. It also shows security against viruses. Android Apps developed on this platform exhibit same characteristics and hence, they are more stable ones.
Android apps are not sold cheap in the market. So it is good opportunity for the third party Android Application development companies. These companies may have good return over their investment on Application developments.
