Android Application Development Expertise

Focussed approach to a new and exciting platform

Google and Open Handset Alliance, a group of 65 technology and mobile companies have come together to accelerate innovation in mobile and offer consumers a richer, less expensive, and better mobile experience, a new revolutionary platform launched  i.e. Android. This feature rich platform & device has potential to play at both ends of the mobile-phone spectrum and perhaps even bridge the gulf between work and play.

The Android mobile phone market is growing at an impressive rate of 32 per cent every month, with new handsets being released all the time.

Android boasts a healthy array of connectivity options, including WiFi, Bluetooth, and wireless data over a cellular connection (for example, GPRS, EDGE, and 3G). This cutting edge platform provides smooth integration with Google Maps to display an address directly within an application. Support for location-based services (such as GPS) and accelerometers is also available in the Android software stack.

Advantages of Android platform

• 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.
• A wide range of libraries for image, audio and video files.
• Features of Video camera, Touchscreen, GPS, accelerometer and magnetometer.
• Interprocess communication (IPC) message passing.
• P2P using Google Talk.
• SQLite for data storage.
• Export and signing app for publishing
• Custom control development.
• Interaction between background threads and the UI thread using Handlers.
• Creating Rich UI based applications using android xml layouts

Android Technology Expertise

• Offer complete customization at OS level
• Create activity user interface with Android Widget Toolbox
• Follow Android techniques for data storage, retrieval and sharing
• Familiarity with Linux Kernel Security for advanced application
• Good knowledge on AIDL for creating IPC