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Android SDK Review

Best in class open source mobile app development platform

Valuable Features:

- Open source SDK is a boon for developers, especially those who like to customize the underlying kernel/OS to suit their needs. - UI development through the XML template, is very comfortable for beginners. - Multiple platform support e.g. can be run on Windows, Linux, as well as Macintosh. - Can be very easily integrated with 3rd party open source libraries - Thriving user community helps get answers to your queries. - A large number of supported third party libraries available. - Supports one of the most popular IDE Eclipse

Room for Improvement:

- Initial loading of emulator takes a lot of time - Developing apps for tablets is comparatively difficult because the emulator is extremely slow - Since all the applications need to be developed from scratch, as there is no template available, SDK is not suitable and requires use of various 3rd party libraries that provide ready to use APIs. - Developing apps based on GPS, video camera, location, etc. cannot be very easily tested on the emulator and require an actual device.

Other Advice:

A very good mobile app development platform with support for developing on various platforms like Wiindows, Linux, Mac, etc. Very good support for integrating 3rd party libraries. Development of apps based on camera, location, maps, etc. requires an actual device to test the app and the supplied emulator cannot be relied on completely.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

Jul 17 2012

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Developer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Android SDK is very useful because it allows programmers to develop Android applications that they can run, test, profile and debug using the emulator and the other included tools. As a pro, the development language is Java, this is the reason why SDK has multiple platform support, as you already mentioned. I also like at this SDK that it has many external libraries available which the programmers can use to develop Android applications.
On my opinion, the main con is that the programmer cannot change easily to different screen sizes in order to adapt to different resolutions of Android devices.

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