How to Develop an Android App?

In this article, he has to learn how to develop an android app with simple steps—step 1 download Android studio, which is basically free on Google. Just write on it as Android Studio. So you can download it from here and just install it from there. Now you have the structure to built an android application. You have developed an app using JAVA and KOTLIN language. So I can choose one language and develop an application using an android studio. If a person does not know these two languages, it will simply search on Google and Youtube for the tutorial video. 

Android is a popular computing platform based on the Linux® operating system. The initial commercial version of Android hit the market in 2008 in the form of a mobile phone platform, back when the most popular cell phone for a business user was the BlackBerry, when the iPhone was beginning to make meaningful waves across all sectors, and when the majority of phone users were still tapping out texts from a flip phone.

Android has “paid its dues,” so to speak, in the smartphone market for the past decade. The success of Android and iPhone devices has rendered the one-time business mobile device market leader BlackBerry to be the subject of a Bruce Springsteen song: Glory Days. Interestingly, Android’s unprecedented success has helped push BlackBerry into a diverse set of offerings, including shipping devices running the Android platform. (Kudos to the BlackBerry team for pivoting and adding value to their shareholders and the broader market despite experiencing the retreat of their earlier dominance.)

In 10 years, Android has effectively become the world’s most popular operating system by several measures. Despite the robust popularity of the flashy and capable Apple iPhone platform, Android shipments worldwide meaningfully outpace Apple’s offerings. While Apple’s devices continue to demand an ever-increasing price point, Android devices scale the global marketplace. Yes, super-pricey Android models are sitting next to the latest iPhone. Still, there are also relatively low-cost Android phones and tablets available for sale at Walmart and Amazon.

As Android has matured, it is finding its way into various devices, including televisions, projectors, automobiles, and even recreational vehicles. Want to dim the lights in your camper or activate the awning? You can use the Android-based touchscreen interface to manipulate the controls. Or, use your smartphone equipped with Bluetooth to communicate with the RV’s Android-based control system. There are many of these types of interfaces finding their way to the market. Some user experiences are simply fantastic (like drone controllers), and some are less than fantastic, like the controls in my uncle’s RV. This article introduces the Android platform and discusses how you can use it for mobile and non-mobile applications. The ambition is to get you on a path to making awesome apps for whatever platform arena you feel called to make your contribution.

A brief history of Android

The Android platform was spawned from the efforts of an organization known as the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), which had at the outset the mission of collaborating to “build a better mobile phone.

Although a single device (the G1 device manufactured by HTC and provisioned on the T-Mobile network) started it all, Android devices are now available in virtually every market on the planet — not just for mobile phones.

It is beyond this article's scope, but ask yourself if there is not a correlation between (arguably) the world’s most successful Internet/search company also being the driving force behind the world’s most popular mobile platform. More eyeballs view Android devices every day worldwide than any other single computing platform.

If you want to write code that can run literally anywhere globally, you need to learn about the Android platform, so read on!

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