Mobile Applications Market : Mobile Applications Market Growing at fast pace. Revenue will grow to $58 billion by 2014. 98 Billion Mobile Applications will be downloaded in 2015 Survey of online job board Dice shows that there is shortage of mobile app developer. Good career prospect for IT professionals.
Gartner Report : Gartner Report Market research firm Gartner forecasts that global mobile app store revenues will grow to 58 billion in 2014.
Few Success Stories : Few Success Stories Ethan Nicholas game ‘ iShoot ’ earned him over $600,000 in short time. Robert Nay, a14 year developer released Bubble Ball which topple Angry Bird out of top spot. George Weiss, a 84 year old, developed successful app Dabble. There are lot of other examples, point is if you know how to develop mobile app and if you have a great idea, there is no limit to amount of money you can earn.
Different Platforms : Different Platforms Platforms that have major market shares- Android Iphone Blackberry Window CE Others
Android : Android It is an OS for mobile devices. Developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google. Google purchased the initial developer of the software, Android Inc., in 2005. Over 500,000 android devices sold daily. Over 600,000 apps published so far.
Android App Devlopment : Android App Devlopment Apps are developed in customized version of Java. Java is currently one of the most popular programming languages in use. Development environment can be set up in window, mac or linux . No special hardware requirement as in case of iphone devlopment .
System requirements : System requirements Windows XP (32-bit), Vista (32- or 64-bit), or Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit) Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later (x86 only) Linux (tested on Ubuntu Linux, Lucid Lynx) GNU C Library ( glibc ) 2.7 or later is required. On Ubuntu Linux, version 8.04 or later is required. 64-bit distributions must be capable of running 32-bit applications. For information about how to add support for 32-bit applications For more info visit - http://developer.android.com/sdk/requirements.html
Software requirements : Software requirements Java Development Kit 5 or 6 required. Eclipse is recommended IDE. Android Development Tools plugin . Android SDK For more info check this link - http://developer.android.com/sdk/requirements.html
Home Work For Today : Home Work For Today Download and install software needed for android development.