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Google's Android operating system—which the corporate is updating in the present day at its I/ convention in San Francisco—has come to dominate the smartphone business in gross sales, each globally and in its house US market. My cofounder and I each had been native iPhone and Apple customers,” says Siqi Chen, co-founder of Heyday, a journaling app We needed 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 phone.” Chen plans an Android app for next yr, however not before the company does a serious redesign.

There are extra Android apps accessible than iOS apps—almost 1.three million, based on AppBrain , versus 1.2 million available iOS apps, in accordance with AppShopper However that is not the very best consultant of priority—many apps on both platforms are low-quality, and solely a small share of apps develop into breakout companies. As an alternative, most promising app startups with venture capital investments that we analyzed are both building apps for iOS and Android simultaneously or are still iOS-solely. Among these with both, their iOS app sometimes launched several months ahead of their Android app.

Taking a look at 119 current Y Combinator incubator contributors and Google Ventures seed investments, of those offering apps, more than ninety% had iOS apps, about half had each iOS and Android apps, and fewer than 10% only had Android apps. I agree with those reviewers who gave this e-book four and 5 stars; their evaluations are accurate and this guide is a good e book for beginning Android programming in that there are very clear explanations and very useful workouts.

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

All of the reported faults from the errata web site have been included in the concern I purchased (January 2012) but sadly the guide is out of date with the Android world. So, I repeat, if you're a beginner to any programming avoid this ebook till it may be up to date to current growth. Closing ios app development phrase - with this and another e book I pretty simply managed to make and publish an Android app in beneath a month. I liked it. The guide covers the basics of programming for android and then goes on to discover totally different array of elements and views that a developer would want to make use of to create their very own app.