Android Development

Android Development for Beginners

Published by Lumy Rani Joseph 

We are going to know about Android development to form foundation of every android apps.

Overview of Android Development:

Android runs in a virtual machine called Android run time, so that apps are quicker to start and run more efficiently. Let us learn about the overview of Android, Android devices are hugely popular with the demand of smart phones and tablets. So, we will get to know basics of Android development. Currently, there are more than 2 billion active Android devices all over the world.

Basics Introduction About Android Development:

  • What is Android?
  • What are the different versions of Android?
  • Features of Android.
  • Applications of Android.

What is Android?

Android is an open source and Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and so on. Android was developed by the Open Handset Alliances, led by Google, and other companies.it is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software’s.

Versions of Android:

In Android Operating system, we can see a significant Evolution of android versions from 2008 to 2020.Android 1 is the first Android Operating system, ever. As if now, Android 11is the latest major version of Android operating system, it was announced by GOOGLE on February 2020.The Android operating system has evolved over time, both in terms of user interface and security It also improves in terms of the performance and software possibilities it offers.

API Level identifies each framework of API revision for different Android versions Initially, Android are designed to name as names of sweet treats, after Android Pie Version9 onwards, it’s started naming with numeral along with Android

Features of Android Operating System:

During each of the Android sequence of versions, Android providing an amazing feature for its improved performance & user-friendly design. There are lot of user-friendly features such as multiple language support, voice-based features, multi touch, multi-tasking and screen capture. These cool features are useful for easiness to handle the smart devices, in this busy going life

Applications of Android:

There are many Android applications in the market. The top categories are −weather, movies, TV’s, business, games, wears, education, and so on

Android applications are usually developed in the Java and kotlin language using the Android Software Development Kit.

Once developed, Android applications can be packaged easily and sold out through the App stores. Android powers millions of mobile devices in more than 150 countries around the world.

It's the largest installed base of any mobile platform and growing so fast. Every day more than 1 million new Android devices are activated around the world.

Android is one of the world’s most popular mobile platform.

  • It is an Open Source and Linux -Based operating system available for development. It has larger developer and community reach. It has a very powerful development framework to build great applications
  •    It allows developers to deploy apps to different screen size devices.

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