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Google's Android working system—which the company is updating at present at its I/ conference in San Francisco—has come to dominate the smartphone trade in sales, both globally and in its residence US market. My cofounder and I both were native iPhone and Apple users,” says Siqi Chen, co-founder of Heyday, a journaling app We would have liked to pet food our prototype product pre-funding”—that is developer jargon for testing—”so it made sense to pet food on a platform that we already use as our cellphone.” Chen plans an Android app for next year, however not earlier than the company does a major redesign.

There are extra Android apps out there than iOS apps—nearly 1.three million, based on AppBrain , versus 1.2 million available iOS apps, in response to AppShopper But that is not the perfect consultant of priority—many apps on both platforms are low-high quality, and only a small percentage of apps grow to be breakout companies. As an alternative, most promising app startups with venture capital investments that we analyzed are either constructing apps for iOS and Android concurrently or are still iOS-only. Amongst those with both, their iOS app usually launched several months ahead of their Android app.

Taking a look at 119 latest Y Combinator incubator individuals and Google Ventures seed investments, of these offering apps, more than 90% had iOS apps, about half had each iOS and Android apps, and fewer than 10% solely had Android apps. I agree with these reviewers who gave this book 4 and 5 stars; their evaluations are accurate and this e-book is an effective e book for starting Android programming in that there are very clear explanations and very helpful workouts.

The reason why I've only given it one star is that it is NOT a book for an individual initiating their programming skills with Android as the current release of the Android SDK plug-in to Eclipse has too many variations from the e-book. I stumbled for ages on the primary train where it reported that the android:icon referenced was in error - turned out that it wasn't my typing - the picture title wasn't present as expected, there's a new one in it's place.

All of the reported faults from the errata website have been included within the issue I bought (January 2012) however sadly the book is outdated with the Android world. So, I repeat, in case you are a beginner to any programming keep away from this ebook until it may be up to date to current improvement. Closing ios app development phrase - with this and another guide I pretty easily managed to make and publish an Android app in under a month. I liked it. The ebook covers the fundamentals of programming for android after which goes on to explore completely different array of elements and views that a developer would need to make use of to create their own app.