Monday 15 July 2013

Top Four Android Development Tools to Use

Android Development Tools

by Jason Stewart

Android is a highly popular mobile operating system that especially designed for touch-screen mobile devices like tablet computers and smart-phones. Today, Android is the buzz word in the market with the share of 42% across various devices globally.
Most of the people have interest of using android based smart-phones because of their incomparable features and functionalities. With increasing demand for Android smart-phones, the demand for Android applications is also increasing as users are looking to enjoy some exceptional and quality android applications that boost the productivity of their device.

The important and highly demanded tools that are required to develop android apps are obtainable free, so developers do not have to purchase those special tools. There are various Android tools that can be used to develop amazing android applications.
Below given are top Android Development tools that are obtainable free to use:

Native Development Kit (NDK):

The Native Development Kit is the best android tool that enables android programmers to implement parts of their application with the help of native-code languages like C++, C and more. In recent times, NDK is an extremely useful tool that helps developers to reuse existing code libraries written in these languages. Android programmers need to be careful while balancing its gain as the native code not always increasing the performance, but also increase the complexity. Developers also have to make sure that they prefer NDK when it is needed in their application.

Hyper Next Android Creator:

When it comes to talk about HyperNext Android Creator (HAC), it is one of the best software creation systems that can be used. It enables all the android users to quickly start developing their own android applications that work. Applications that are developed on HAC support on different devices amazingly. HyperNext is major programming language that used in HAC and this language is very similar to English, making it easy-to-use to learn and implement. HAC operating is based on HyperCard that takes software as a heap of cards.

Android SDK:

Android SDK (Software Development Kit) offers you with excellent API libraries and developer tools, test, debug and build applications for Android platform. Currently, it is one of the most widely used SDK that used for Android. To quickly start developing applications, aspiring new android developers can download the ADT Bundle that includes lots of Android SDK components and a version of the Eclipse IDE with built-in ADT. Below mentioned are essential components of ADT Bundle:



  • Android SDK Tools

  • Eclipse+ ADT plugin

  • Current Version of the Android Platform

  • Android Platform-tools

  • Current Version of the Android system image for the emulator

Titanium Mobile SDK:

The Titanium SDK offers community developers an ability to develop quality native, mobile web and rich hybrid applications for all platforms from a single code base with the help of JavaScript. Titanium enables developers to offer users an immersive user experience on time when it compares to traditional native platforms. However, the tool also has some drawbacks like flexibility limitations, complexity issues, user-friendly issues and more. But the tool stands out from other tools in terms of popularity.

So, these are the top Android development tools that can be used to develop exceptional and quality android applications. By using these tools, it becomes easy for developers to develop any type and kind of application with numerous features.



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