As it is raining Android-based tablets in the world, let us explore why Android application development is so popular with Android developers. Android application development is basically a Linux based open source operating system which has Java library. It is owned by Google and a group of 65 technology and mobile companies including mobile operators, semiconductor companies, handset manufacturers; software companies commercialization companies. This group is called Open Handset Alliance. At a time when mobile app development is a buzzword, Android OS are available in three versions such as Android 1.5, Android 2.0/2.1 and Android 1.6. Android also presents an open market place to the third party android developers for instant publishing and feedback. And most importantly Android developers can provide android application development on any platform like Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Android is the fastest growing platform as Android-based smart phones are like hot cakes and everybody wants to make a style statement by using them. Android application development has more than 50,000 Android apps being developed. The Android mobile app development is growing at an impressive rate of 32% every month as the market is constantly flooded with new handsets. According to experts the open-source nature of Android's operating system is contributing a lot in the success of Android application development.

Following Advantages of Android platform:

• It offers comprehensive libraries for 2D and 3D graphics
• Features of video camera, touch screen, GPS, accelerometer and magnetometer
• Interprocess communication (IPC) message passing
• P2P using Google Talk
• SQLite for data storage
• Export and signing app for publishing
• GSM, EDGE, CDMA, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, EV-DO and UMTS technologies to send/receive data across mobile networks
• Comprehensive libraries for 2D and 3D graphics

Among some of the popular Android applications, there are: Arcade and Action Application, Brain and Puzzle Application, Finance Android Application, Development, Health Application Development, Demo Application Development, Entertainment Android App Development, Card and Casino Android Apps etc.

Android is an open source mobile app development platform which is developed on Linux using JAVA library. Google is the founder of this free Android SDK development kit to create android apps for the Google’s android devices (smart phones). To create mobile app for the android devices, android developers need to have thorough understanding of the development tools and programming language. Android devices supports third-party apps which is the greatest advantage for android developers and end users across the globe. Mobile app development requires sound technical background thus it is wise to hire experienced and skilled android developers for the android app development.

Today, global businesses are using android app development platform as the marketing tool to win against their competitors in the market. There are so many offshore and domestic companies who are providing professional android app development services in the affordable rates. Hiring android developers from such professional mobile app development companies ensures efficient mobile app in least time. Such developers can make effective communication with the client and understand their worlds between the lines.

The main reason behind hiring expert or professional android developers is the excellent results in every aspect. To sustain in the tough competition, they offer quality development services in affordable rates. They follow specific architecture to develop any mobile application. They maintain professionalism in work and starve to win trust of their clients. Professional android developer normally have detailed understanding of the technical part and able to make potent use of the SDK kit. They work in different projects and gain experience of handing all size and type's projects.  Any kind of professional service work to deliver best result. The professional services provider companies not only develop unique design but also realize their clients' goals. They establish strong relationship with their clients and keep them updated in the IT infrastructure.

The industry of Android application development has over 200,000 applications supporting over 300 Android devices. Google product Android has 4.5 billion applications installed till date. Though, not up to Apple's iPad, Android is becoming popular day by day, and therefore, the company, as part of innovative mobile app development services, introducing newer things to attract both users and Android developers. As part of this constant innovation, the company has added five new features on Android Market – its client for new applications – to give the users unique experience of being mobile and to give the developers freedom to be creative and innovative. Those newly launched five features include: new top app charts, Editor's Choice, Tod developers, better related apps, and trending apps.

An application named as Top Developers inevitably recognizes those Android developers who have created history by making most popular applications. It is an effort by the company to give credit to the efforts of such developers. These applications will be listed and they would get special icon on company's Android Market website, appearing where the developer name is shown. Initially, there are over 150 developers whose applications are going to be recognized by the company. New top app charts is about making available fresher and country specific applications to the users.

When the users will search for applications in this category, they would get these applications with the addition of top new free, top new paid, and top grossing lists, all right on the Android Market home page. Editors' choice is about making available all the applications that are chosen by Android market staff. These will include everything from games to productivity and beyond. Better related apps would include the list of related applications in direct connection with the actual applications views by the users. This will appear on the left side of an app page. Last but not the least, as part of growing demand of Android application development is trending apps. This is a section on Android Market homepage which showcase those applications that are slowly entering the exercise of daily installs.

Android- being an open source technology – gives Android developers flexibility and ability to create and develop rich and ravishing mobile applications that give the users pleasant experience of getting into mobile app development services. Android app development is also popular with the developers because it lets them exploit the device hardware, access the information regarding location, run background services, set alarms, create status bar that is full of notifications and others. Android app development services also leverage on the application architecture which is tailored to use the components again and again. This means that when Android developers create or develop applications, the applications can publish its features and they can be used by any other applications provided they are compatible with the security constraints which are in-built in the framework. This is also true for the user as well.

Android has a set of Views that is very rich and can be extended. This can be used by Android developers to build an applications such as lists, grids, text boxes, buttons, and even an embeddable web browser. It also offers content providers application that is used to access data from other applications such as contacts or to share one's own data. Android app development services also exploit a notification manager that allows all applications to publish all custom alerts in the status bar. Other set of application and services include a resource manager that lets the Android developers access resources such as localized strings, graphics, and layout files. In order to facilitate the developers, Android has introduced new multiple APK support recently. With this new launch, consumers can now upload multiple versions of an APK for just a single product listing with each version dishing out a different subset of customers. Interestingly, these newly launched APKs are complete and not dependent upon each other. However, all of them are comprised of code and resources which aim at different Android platform versions, screen sizes, or GL texture-compression formats.

Android application development services are based on Android mobile operating system that is owned by Google and Open Handset Alliance. Android has come at a point when mobile applications are calling the shots and mobile app development has now become a booming industry. Android stands as one of the top four worldwide selling operating system. And, it is due to this popularity, Android developers are much sought after professionals delivering stunning mobile applications to all type of users. Android application development include dealing with java programming, Android Software Development Kit and Framework APIs so that world class Android-centric mobile applications can be developed. Professional software applications companies often indulge in:

• Custom Android Application Development
• Business/Office Android Applications
• Android compatible Website
• Android Game Applications
• GPS Tracking Applications
• Entertainment Android Applications
• Internet based Android Applications
• Social Networking Android Applications
• Multimedia Android development   

Also, it is possible to port applications of other platforms to Android platform. Those platforms include iPhone, Windows Mobile and Blackberry. Android application development services are now at advantage as Android has introduced several important features that intend to make it easier to find wonderful applications on Android Market on the web. As per the intention of this launch, the new market client shows top mobile applications and games in a better way. It also engages users with a better user interface and provides a faster path to downloading or buying products. This new launching of Android Market Client is like having more opportunities for the products to be showcased and purchased too. As part of this new launching, a new promotional page has the content highlighted at top. Android developers find it a page full of colorful graphics that give faster access to featured applications and games. The page also lets users find their favorite books and movies, which will help attract even more return visits to Market.