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Ii 1100-android development for fun and profit
The document discusses Android development for profit. It describes MoDevAcademy which offers beginner to advanced Android and iOS development courses over 1-3 days. Upcoming course include starting iOS development, expert Objective-C, and advanced Xcode development. The document also summarizes the Android market size and growth, development options in Java or other languages, issues around fragmentation, screen sizes and quality, and revenue models like ads, paid apps, in-app purchases.
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Ii 1100-android development for fun and profit
- 1. Android Development forFun & Profit Presented by Adrian Mikeliunas Adrian@Mikeliunas.com TASKMobileSolutions.com
- 2. Android Development forFun and Profit MoDevAcademy MoDevAcademy will offer professional training across platforms that include beginner, intermediate and advanced courses. The format will be one day courses that can be taken individually or paired for a multi-day experience. The Academy intended to fill a much needed void in the market for in-depth mobile developer training. 2
- 3. Upcoming Classes Schedule: •January 22nd: Starting up with iOS Development • January 23rd: Expert Objective-C • January 24th: Advanced Xcode Development Register at MoDevAcademy.com/Registration
- 4. Online Resources The referencesin this presentation, and many other resources are available at: http:// Gomodev.com/MoDevAcademyResources
- 5. Android Development forFun and Profit Agenda The "Android" name, the logo, Android™ Market and other trademarks are property of Google Inc. http://developer.android.com/ Programming Options legal.html No Programming Options All "Images, styles, etc." are in the Android Open Source Project and Android Issues are licensed under the Apache Software License. Android Stores http://developer.android.com/sdk /terms.html 5
- 6. Android Development forFun and Profit Android Market Today (Oct 2012) Android, the world's most popular mobile platform: Over 1.3 M Android Devices activated per day! 400 M Total Android devices! Over 1B Monthly apps downloaded! 25B Total! Over 675,000 apps in store! Android owns 90% of China market! 6
- 7. Android Development forFun and Profit Android Market 2013 Over 1B Total Android Devices! Over 25 B Total apps downloaded! 7
- 8. Android Development forFun and Profit Android Development Success Factors Hardware & Operating System Independent! Open, free software platform runs on Mac, Windows, Linux Supports Cloud development & even on Android! (AIDE) Lower Costs: ANY computer, free development tools and simulator! Annual developer license(*) Google $25, Amazon $0! More Java programmers than Objective-C! Multiple Hardware manufacturers compete on price! * Optional 8
- 9. Android Development forFun and Profit Android Architecture Applications Application framework Libraries Android Runtime (Dalvik VM) Linux 2.6 Kernel 9
- 10. Android Development forFun and Profit 10
- 11. Android Layers Linuxkernel provides drivers for the Android hardware, networking, file system access & inter-process-communication Libraries are mostly written in C or C++ Core Libraries are the core development kit including utility, i.o. etc Dalvik Virtual Machine is an optimized Java VM Application Framework is the API to developers Applications are user facing programs 11
- 12. Android Applications • Eachapplication runs in its own process, gets unique identifier & runs its own instance of Dalvik VM This way the processes are isolated & crash of one application does not bring down the whole system! 12
- 13. Android Language Options Compiled C++, Native ARM Java, LUA Interpreted Python, jRuby, BeanShell Javascript Web Apps HTML5/CSS 13
- 14. Android Language Options(2) Multiplatform Flash (ActionScript) Java Cross Mobile Platforms PhoneGap Titanium SDK by Appcelerator Corona SDK 14
- 15. Android Development forFun and Profit Android Java Programming Java SDK Android SDK IDE, Eclipse by default Android Plugin for Eclipse IDE = Integrated Development Environment 15
- 16. Android Development forFun and Profit NO Programming Options-Web appsgeyser.com, VA company, generates APK from URL appinventor.mit.edu Build an app from logic blocks andromo.com, generates APK from URL, many templates mobile.conduit.com, generates APK from modules android3apps.com, generates APK from modules mobilenationhq.com a new novel approach! 16
- 17. Android Development forFun and Profit NO Programming Options: Outsource Larger talent pool for Java/Android than IOS! Android developers get paid less than iOS developers. http:techpinions.com/android-v-ios-part-4-developers/9535 www.getacoder.com www.freelancer.com/work/android-developer-rate-pay 17
- 18. Android Development forFun and Profit Application Screen Prototype Online tools to build the Graphical User Interface (GUI) www.mobjectify.com www.fluidui.com www.droiddraw.org 18
- 19. Android Development forFun and Profit Android Issues - Fragmentation Almost 70% of Android on 2.1 to 2.3 versions! 25 % on Android 4.0.3+ Source: http://developer.android.com/ about/dashboards/index.html 19
- 20. Android Development forFun and Profit Android Issues – Screen Sizes A set of four generalized sizes: small, normal, large, and xlarge A set of four generalized densities: ldpi (low), mdpi (medium), hdpi (high), and xhdpi (extra high) 20
- 21. Android Development forFun and Profit Android Issues – App Quality Quantity <> Quality! 21
- 22. Android Development forFun and Profit Android Issues – Malware Android malware, FUD, and the FBI: “A badly written FBI warning about Android malware has been taken to be about Android's security, when it's really about idiot users” By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols from ZDNet www.zdnet.com/android-malware-fud-and-the-fbi- 7000005874/ Real issues Google is finally stopping these real threats Rooted devices can be vulnerable 3rd party Markets/Stores not checking for malware! 22
- 23. Android Development forFun and Profit Android Issues – Many Companies Too many cooks in Android kitchen! Google, makers of the OS Hardware Manufactures Telephone Companies “Value Added” Software Responsible for security updates! Retailers App developers! 23
- 24. Android Development forFun and Profit Android Stores Play.Google.com 30% Cut! www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b?node=2350149011 apps.opera.com www.getjar.com www.appbrain.com Many foreign markets… 24
- 25. Android Development forFun and Profit Android Revenue Models Ads in application Paid apps Freemium Notifications In apps purchases Pay per download 25
- 26. Android Development forFun and Profit Android for Fun and Profit Q& A 26
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- #2 "Images, styles, etc." are also in the Android Open Source Project and are licensed under the Apache Software License
- #6 http://modeveast2012.busyconf.com/schedule/fullThis session will give attendees an overview of what they need to do in order to get started as Android developers. Even if you are a web developer you can build apps for Android! From zero programming effort to programming right on your Android device using AIDE. It will cover the tools and skills needed, as well as providing an overview of the different Android OS versions, and the market-share of each platform and OS combination. It will also give an introduction to the many app stores besides Amazon and Google available for selling applications for the Android platform
- #7 http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2012/09/26/android-reaches-25-billion-app-downloads-675000-total-apps-available/http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/06/android-market-10-billion-apps-served-so-far-and-another-1-billion-each-month/http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/09/04/android-southeast-asia-ericsson-report/http://www.techinasia.com/android-market-share-china-2012/CHART SOURCE:http://developer.android.com/about/index.html
- #8 http://bgr.com/2012/09/Worldwide annual unit shipments of Android phones will rise to 451 million in 2013, up from 357 million in 2012, according to an IHS iSuppli Wireless Communications Smartphone Report from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS). These massive totals will mean that combined shipments for every year since the first smartphone using Android shipped in 2008 will reach 1.1 billion by the end of 2013, as presented in the figure below. In contrast, the No. 2 smartphone operating system, Apple Inc.’s iOS, will amount to 527 million in cumulative shipments in 2013 and won’t reach the 1 billion level until 2015.12/android-cumulative-shipments-2013-1-billion-units/http://www.uistencils.com/collections/frontpage/products/android-stencil-kit
- #10 Source http://developer.android.com/images/system-architecture.jpg
- #14 http://ruboto.org/http://code.google.com/p/android-ruby/
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