In past few years, the mobile and internet technologies have witnessed tremendous growth across the globe. With continuous advancements and development, products & services produced by both the technologies have become the integral part of our day to day life. The mediums of communication are changed over the last few years, and Mobile Phone is emerged as one of the most useful mediums for communication. Further to this, because of advancements in technology, the usage pattern of mobile phones is changed in last few years. Mobile phones that were essentially developed as a communication device in last decade have now become multi functional devices.

Therefore, in order to fulfill the different types of needs at both individual and business level, the demand of mobile applications is increasing in rapid manner. Considering the demand, software and web application development companies are venturing into mobile apps development and providing customized mobile apps development services to their clients.

Android - An Overview:

Since its inception, Android is emerged as one of the most prominent technology platforms using for developing mobile applications. In broader term, Android is a Linux based open source technology that has been developed by Google and an Open Handset Alliance (a pool of 84 software, hardware and telecommunication companies). It is based upon Linux Kernel, Middlewear, Libraries and APIs, that are prepared and written in C programming language. The application software executed on application framework that consists of Java compatible libraries based upon Apache Harmony.

Broadly, applications are developed with Java using Android Software Development Kit (SDK). The code is written in a customized version of Java and, mobile apps developers can develop third party applications for Android based mobile phones. In market, there are other mobile apps development tools available including Native Development Kit. For data storage and restoration purpose, a lightweight database "SQLite" is used along with various features.

Since its inception, various versions of Android have been introduced in the market with new features and enhancements. Versions which have been introduced in the market are Android 1.5, Android 2.0/2.1, Android 1.6 and, more new versions are likely to get introduced in next coming months.

Salient Benefits of Android Apps Development:

Android provides range of features and benefits for developing customized mobile applications which are mentioned below:

In recent years, the usage and penetration of internet and smart-phones is increased at global level and the demand of industry specific mobile solutions are likely to get increased in coming days. In this way, Android would continue to have prominent growth in coming years.