Android Application Development

Android is Google’s mobile platform.

It’s designed to run on a variety of different phones with different specifications. Each manufacturer in the Open Handset Alliance can install and use Android software fee free.

To add a point of difference to their products manufacturers have begun skinning Android installations, so an Android phone from a manufacturer from HTC will look different to a phone from Motorola.

In the Australian market Android penetration continues to be low, however in 2010 Outware Mobile expects to see substantial growth as more devices are released.

Android applications are written in the Java programming language.

The compiled Java code — along with any data and resource files required by the application — is bundled by the aapt tool into an Android package, an archive file marked by an .apk suffix. This file is the vehicle for distributing the application and installing it on mobile devices; it’s the file users download to their devices. All the code in a single .apk file is considered to be one application.

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