ANDROID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

By Sakthi Raajan GS Android Developer

AGENDA

GOOGLE STATISTICS

ANDROID ECOSYSTEM

APP MONETIZATION

ANDROID & ITS EVOLUTION’S

BUILDING BLOCKS OF ANDROID

REQUIREMENTS OF ANDROID

MARKET SHARE & ANALYSIS

- Andy Rubin ,Co-founder Android Inc .,SVP ,

Mobile and Digital content and Google Inc.

- Sundar Pichai , SVP at Google ,

where he overseas Android, chrome & Google apps.

GOOGLE STATISTICS

“Over 850K Android Devices

activated Everyday”

ANDROID ECOSYSTEM

What is Android ..??

Android is an Linux based Mobile operating

system .It is an combination of

Software Stacks such as OS, Middleware and Key

applications

EVOLUTIONS OF ANDROID

BUILDING BLOCKS OF ANDROID

ACTIVITY

INTENT

BROADCAST RECEIVER

SERVICES

CONTENT PROVIDER

ACTIVITY

It is a single screen with an User Interface.

Activity provides the screen for the user to interact with.

One App may have one or several activities

INTENT

Intent is a tool which makes an activity to move from one activity

to another

It is sometimes called as ‘Software Glue’ as well as ‘Linker’ .

There are two types of intents . Such as:

Explicit

- Open’s explicitly an certain activity.

Implicit

- Open’s some activity with certain service

CONTENT PROVIDER

It provides a specific set of application’s data available to other

applications.

Many databases are available via the content provider . For

example Contact Manager.

BROADCAST RECEIVER A Broadcast Receiver is a component that does nothing but

receive and react to broadcast announcements. App is given a fixed amount of time to react on broadcast.

Examples:

Incoming call Battery Low Bluetooth ON

SERVICES

It is an faceless component and does not have an User Interface

It runs in the Background indefinitely.

Examples:

Music Player Downloads

REQUIREMENTS OF ANDROID

JDK (Java Development Kit)

> Java programming language is used to build Android application

Eclipse IDE

> Editor, Debugger, profiler, deployment

Android SDK

> Libraries, samples, documentation, handset , emulators, debugger, command

line tools

Eclipse ADT plugin

> Give you a powerful, integrated Android

development environment

Debugging

MARKET SHARE

MARKET SHARE (cont’d)

USAGE SHARE

CATEGORY ANALYSIS

FIRST POWERED ANDROID DEVICE

HTC Dream (T-MOBILE G1)

CATEGORY ANALYSIS (cont’d)