The intensity of all the commercial activity surrounding Android applications development is both wonderful and ironic, because the project is open source. The market has grown so fast that Google's OS now enables one-third of all mobile phones being shipped out. But it's the future that's even more thrilling, because its market share is still growing at a fast clip.
No surprise that the cream of talented developers is focused on developing these apps on a corporate level. But it's probably best to begin with the basics. This smart phone OS is Linux-based, and the code for the apps is written in Java.
Java is, obviously, a pre-requisite for developers. If nothing else, a developer at least needs to be able to understand programming logic and then pick up the syntax required for the apps. Apart from this, all that is needed is to get the tools necessary and use them.
No surprise that the cream of talented developers is focused on developing these apps on a corporate level. But it's probably best to begin with the basics. This smart phone OS is Linux-based, and the code for the apps is written in Java.
Java is, obviously, a pre-requisite for developers. If nothing else, a developer at least needs to be able to understand programming logic and then pick up the syntax required for the apps. Apart from this, all that is needed is to get the tools necessary and use them.