In the year 2012, statistics revealed that Android was the most popular OS platform across the world. The chief reason behind this is the open source nature of the Android platform and so its popularity is increasing steadily. Consequently, mobile apps developers are increasingly looking for opportunities to exploit this developing field. Indeed mobile apps development, a process that requires SDK or Software Development Kit, has helped Android in discovering its own uses. Using the tools and technologies in the SDK, Android apps developers can get a head start in creating an attractive and successful application.
As the popularity of Android apps development is soaring by the minute, businesses are looking to exploit this opportunity for expanding their business and enhancing their business profits. There are various reasons due to which businesses are looking forward to using Android apps development services as highlighted below.
- As it is an open source platform, it gives an incentive for developers to go for it as it reduces the development cost. It helps develop a secured and reliable application which is less prone to failure and is bug free.
- The time of developing an application on Android is considerably less. Hence, Android apps development saves both time and money.
- Android proves to be hassle free when you are porting the application. This flexible operating system provides customized layouts which prove to be best for any project work.
- With Linux kernel base it offers higher performance stability and provides a smooth operating system sans the fear of crashes.
- Android works on Eclipse IDE which facilitates quick and easy Android apps development process. It can be customized using Android development tools plugin which helps in improving both the quality and quantity of Android mobile apps.
Apparently this has really increased in the past 2 years ! taking a note having billions of apps on the play store makes good and valuable platform another reason to be the best !
this is a very rising field, we can see many application that are getting popular day-by-day like whatsapp, viber and all., android app development secures the bright future. 🙂
Android is a product of Google and provides open source for users, As its open source there are lot of Android subscribers available in all over the world. Due to increasing demand of Android apps now it become a big competitor of iPhone.
I agree with your point that the open source code of Android platform is one of the major reasons for the increasing popularity of this platform. Thanks for listing the reasons why businesses using Android app development services.
As a long time iOS user, i haven’t really thought of Android as a big time contender but this really has made me sort of rethink myself. Many of my friends and relatives are android users. This is great!