Biggest challenges that developers face in Android platform
With every passing day, users are leaning towards portable computer machines like smart phones and tablets; because, industry understands the importance of efficiency and user friendly over hardware size. So, there is a tremendous growth in the hand held computer devices in recent period and the same trend will continue in future as well. Understanding the fact, top IT giants like Microsoft, Google and Apple have already been in the market with their products i.e., Windows8.1, Android and iOS. Among these, Google’s Android is the industry leader due to its cost effective and efficient nature. Moreover, both the users as well as developers love Android due to its huge volume in the industry. When there is a demand we must have to consider about the supply. It is really a tough task for the Android developers to fulfil the demand of such a huge size users in the enterprise. Let us see, what are the major challenges, that our Android developers are facing in the industry.
Challenges related to Software and OS: Well Android is already an established brand in the smart phone market. So there is a heavy pressure on the web developer or Android developer to fulfil the demands of the Android user. The most difficult task for the Android developer is to develop a common application which can run on different versions of Android platform i.e., starting from version 1 to the latest 4.4 Android Kitkat or even recent Android Lollypop. Though it is extremely difficult to deal with all the versions of Android but the developer must have to consider at least some of the latest versions which are still exist in the Android devices.
Challenges related to Hardware: Due to open source and low cost of ownership, Android is the first choice for the smart phone manufacturers. Mobile manufacturers try to bring more number of customers with low cost Android devices in the industry. Due to the same, there is a tight competition among the manufacturers to provide better and better hardware for their smart phones. As a result, the industry is flooded with a huge number of Android devices with variety of hardware specifications. It creates an unbalanced eco-system in the smart phone market and that really gives a lots of pain to the Android developer; because, he has to develop an application which can run on a wide range of hardware without any issue.
Challenges due to software-hardware combo effect: Just imagine when there is a wide range of hardware coupled with different Android versions; it creates a horrible situation for the developer to deal with such a peculiar environment. Sometimes the Android developer develops an application which can run on different versions of Android but that leads to fatal error while projected to a low hardware specification device. The vice-versa situation can also trouble the Android developer while dealing with the development process.
Most importantly, its Open Source!! Due to open source nature of Android, the smart phone manufactures get the permission to customise the operating system as per their wish to give better user experience. Manufacturers like Samsung, Lenovo, Micromax, HTC etc usually, makes some changes in the operating system to suite their device controls and to give better user experience to their users. This also creates trouble for the Android developers to handle these customized Android operating systems by the smart phone manufacturers.
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