Android
Android Development
While developing for iPhone platform presents an excellent user base to serve an application for, Android development presents a unique approach on mobile application development. As oppose to iPhone development which is somehow tightly coupled with Apple’s well established iTunes based business model, Android based development is much more open. This provides opportunities for developing many upcoming devices coming from numerous device manufacturers that are choosing Android as its de facto operating system. Interestingly, these devices are not limited to mobile phones, Android based devices are proliferating in forms of land line devices, GPS devices, and other dedicated enterprise devices such as mobile PoS systems.
At Apptango, we engage with our clients to provide them a consulting service to educate them about what is possible. Using Android as a platform to deliver their applications that include following Android specific advantages.
Advantages
- Business model is more open
- Multiple Manufacturers
- Multiple Devices
- Potential presence in other verticals such as hand-held PoS systems
- Ability to multitask – applications can run in the background
- Java based application development – makes it low barrier to entry for existing java based code
Android Technology Expertise
- Location based services
- Multimedia Services
- Social Networks Integration Services
- Website Integration Services
- Java based Game development
- Push Notifications
