The Top Of The Android Application Development Tools

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Google’s Android mobile operating system was designed primarily for touch screen phones and tablet devices. The project initially launched by Android Inc, which was later financed and then acquired by Google. In 2007, Google unveiled Android as an open-sourced mobile OS with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance.

Android is of course an exclusive trend in market with a share of 42% across various devices worldwide. It has almost defeated all the mobile operating systems such as iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry because of it is available for free.

Even Android development tools are available for free. There is no need for purchase of a special developer-phone or register your hardware. If you have an app, you can get it published on the same day of submission.

Let us come across some top Android application development tools.

Android SDK
Google offers Android Software Development Kit (SDK) for free. It comes with the API libraries tools required to build software for Android platform that may power smartphones, tablets, and now PCs too. It also comes with tools to test and debug apps. ...
... It is the most preferred software development kit for Android development.

Android SDK:

·Eclipse + ADT plug-in
·Android SDK Tools
·Android Platform-tools
·Current Version of the Android platform
·Current Version of the Android system image for the emulator

Native Development Kit (NDK):
Native development tool kit is used to implement some parts of the apps using native-code languages such as C, C++. The NDK provide great help to reuse the existing code libraries written in these languages. However, NDK is not always beneficial for most of the apps. There are many drawbacks in using NDK. Code generated using NDK sometimes do not increase performance but generally increases complexity. That’s why many expert developers avoid using NDK; however, they also recommend using it in special condition.

Titanium Mobile SDK:
Titanium Mobile SDK is also quite popular in the developer community across the world. It offers the ability to create native application, web-based mobile application and hybrid applications using single code-base. It even allows developers to build app for multiple platforms. Still, depending completely on Titanium is not a wise idea at all. It has some disadvantages like flexibility limitation, complexity issues, etc.

With these development tools, it becomes easy to design and develop application for Android platforms. This information is brought to you by Rapidsoft Technologies expert Android developers.

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