5 Best Advice you can hear about Android App Development
There still exists the predilection of people to associate App Development with iOS and iPhone, but recent trends in the market suggest otherwise. Android App Development has become a more desired platform for businesses and other organizations to create a commercial advantage.
With the advent of technology, consumers have started adhering to the use of online platforms like websites and mobile apps for various reasons such as shopping, banking, blogging, ordering food, grocery shopping, checking news and other local events, etc. the list goes on.
Why Android is dominating?
No matter what the reason is, Android has become a dominating platform as it offers a vast array of functions, features and options for both the developers and its users. According to several Strategy Analytics report, Android is leading the market by 81 per cent of the share, and this report has not remained unnoticed by the business organizations.
Every company has started investing a part of their finance in Android app development to represent their company in order to connect to the market and increase their user base.
The main goal of a business organization is always to increase its profit and revenue generated by choosing a very effective marketing strategy. The business strategists know, that to expand a business, developing an app for their company will be profitable in the long run.
An Android app brings the services a company offers to the fingertips of their clients; a client needs service, it’s just one click away. Thus, with the increase in demand for Android App Development, there has also been an exponential increase in the demand for Android App Developers.
Planning on choosing Android as your career?
Choosing the right career can be a difficult task, especially when there exists this common battle of choosing between Android Development and iOS Development.
In case you are in two minds as to which platform to choose, this article is going to help you do it. There always exists the option of choosing both the platform as a career but then there arises the question of whether you can handle it.
Therefore, you might want to begin your developer career from Android as it has a greater reach within the masses. It is open source and provides a plethora of hardware devices in which you can work on to develop apps, whereas iOS restricts you to a very limited amount of hardware support.
Also, Android app development is very cost-effective; you do not have to spend a dime to develop apps other than the initial payment you make while creating an account in Google PlayStore.
As it is open source, you do not have to pay any licensing fee to the company, instead, you can incorporate advertisements in your apps to earn money as there does not exist any restriction on the number of downloads an app must have to show advertisements.
Major benefits you can get choosing Android Development as your career are:
- Android App Development is open source hence no licensing fee to be paid.
- It has a larger development and community reach. You can easily be a part of the Android developer community through various online platforms like develops.android.com, where every participant is willing to help one another and share their experience and knowledge.
- Android Apps help in increasing the marketing of your business, resulting in an increase in both user base and revenue generated.
- It provides inter-app integration service
- It does not require any cost in development, thus very pocket-friendly.
- It has a higher success ratio as compared to IOS App Development.
- The platform provides a very rich development environment, where you can explore a plethora of features and functionalities, and easily integrate them to enhance the performance of your app.
If you are still looking for more reasons to choose Android Development as your career, you can continue reading the article as the reasons are unending.
Why choose Android over IOS?
The reason is simple — it is open source. But that is not the only reason why you should go for Android. I have listed down some of the major reasons that made me take the decision of choosing Android to begin my app development career.
- Programming Language
The Android App development environment supports programming language like Java, XML, and Kotlin, etc, which are very basic and easy to learn. You do not have to undergo deep learning in any of the mentioned languages, making it very easy and approachable for both the beginners as well as advanced level programmers. Java is a very common programming language hence it is widely accepted and known to all developers. Whereas, iOS supports Apple’s Objective C programming language. You need to have a thorough and deep knowledge of C and C++ platform to start developing some very simple interfaces in iOS.
- App Development Tools
Android has its very own open source development tools and platform, which are free to explore without any limitations. Also, Android provides support to integrate third-party apps and tools into the system, like APIs developed by other developers, making various features for the developers easy to try and make changes to the existing system. iOS too has its own development tools and platform, but it restricts the developers to limited tool utilization, and they cannot integrate any external or third-party apps, making it difficult for them to experiment and incorporate new features.
- Multitasking
The development platform offered by Android is very versatile and can be moulded to perform functions in any way we like, making it very dynamic. It also makes the feature of multitasking available to the developers, but for that, you need to have a good knowledge about the SDK platform, language and integration functions. iOS with its limited set of tools does provide multitasking feature to its developers but it’s not as dynamic as the latter. Also, novice programmers might find it a little complicated to involve multitasking in their iOS app as the platform is way too fragmented.
- Cost and Development Time
As previously discussed, android development does not require any cost while development, but it does consume a lot of development time due to the availability of several versions of phone and devices to test on. A developer needs to make sure that the app he is developing is performing and suitable for every API level currently available in Android Smartphones without any bugs and issues. In this case, iOS becomes easier, as it does not have too many hardware devices to support hence making the specifications for app development, much less complicated as compared to Android. iOS developers are limited to creating apps for only one platform and thus do not consume much development time in doing that.
- App Publishing
The process of publishing an android app to PlayStore is also very easy. All a developer has to do is create an account in PlayStore and pay the registration fee. After that, he or she needs to get the APK license and sign it to create the unique private key for their app which can be done through the Android Studio IDE itself. The next step involves the Alpha and Beta testing of the app which is done by Google PlayStore itself just to confirm that there are no bugs in the app and that it is safe to use.
iOS makes the process of publishing an app a very time-consuming affair. The steps involved in publishing it involves more costs than you would need to pay for the Android App in Google PlayStore. Thus, it is a very time inefficient and costly process. The Apple Store insists on verifying and validating each and every prospect of your app before it is finally approved for publishing. The entire process may take days to be completed.
Thus, from the perspective of market trends, development tools, features and versatility, Android App Development can be considered as a win-win career option in all aspects. Although, trying iOS Development is also not a bad option, but starting with Android can help you gain experience in developing apps faster and easier even with basic knowledge in programming.
As an app developer, I got to know the ins and outs of the Software and Online World. Hence, I started expanding myself, and I moved on to become a web developer as well. I started out my own website Beacon To Buyers that is mostly an affiliate marketing plus a blogging website.
This is just the start. So, for the ones reading this — “Rome was not built in a day”
Start with something small, like Android App Development. Then move on to IOS or even web development. Explore the market, observe what is trending and try to build a product or solution out of that. Publish it on Google Play Store or buy your own Domain from GoDAddy and launch your SAAS (software as a service).
For readers who do not know what SAAS is. I will surely tell you all about it in my next blog.
