Android Application Development ? Designing and Building new applications for mobile market

Android Application Development ‘a new wave’ in the mobile market is predicted to be a crowning point in the mobile world. Android Application Development helps you to develop innovative and dynamic applications for mobile users.

Now a days, mobile users want more functions and features in their mobile phones. The mobile developers want to meet the user demands by designing and building powerful mobile applications. Android Application Development is the best suitable option for them as Android is a powerful and instinctive platform to develop mobile applications. It contains a real power to completely change the look and feel, as well as the functions of a mobile device.

Using Android, the developers can create powerful and innovative mobile applications very easily and quickly.  Android is a mobile software platform as well as operating system designed on the Linux Kernel. It is open source software, which is developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance.

As it is open source, the developers can do OS level customization at a minimal cost. Android provides support for Java to develop mobile applications. Therefore, the mobile application developers can create third party applications using Java and Android Framework.

Android offers various features to create inventive and modern mobile applications:

GSM, EDGE, CDMA, Bluetooth, WI-Fi, EV-DO, and UMTS technologies to send and receive data across mobile networks. Comprehensive libraries for 2D and 3D graphics. A wide range of libraries for image, video, and audio files, which includes MPEG4, H.263, H.264, AMR, AMR-WB, MP3, AAC, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, WAV, and MIDI formats. Features of Video camera, touchscreens, GPS, accelerometer, and magnetometer. Interprocess communication (IPC) message passing P2P using Google Talk. SQLite for data storage

Android includes a SDK that provides a wide range of libraries and tools for Android Application Development. The SDK provides a complete set of tools to design the UI for an application and to develop and debug application code.

The SDK includes multiple versions of Android platform (For example, Android 1.1, and Android 1.5) that you can use for Android Application Development. For each version, the SDK provides a fully compliant Android library and system image.

Android SDK includes some core applications:

An e-mail client compatible with Gmail An SMS program A Personal Information Management (PIM) program including a calendar and contact list A Google Map Application A web browser A music player A picture viewer The Android Marketplace client to download third-party application The Amazon MP3 store client to purchase DRM free music

Android Application Development is based on four basic components:

Activities: A UI component that corresponds to display screens. Each activity displays one screen to the user. When the activity is not running, the operating system can kill it to save memory space. Broadcast Receiver: Is a reaction to an event. For example, phone ringing. Services: The tasks that run in the background. For example, an MP3 players running in the background while the user has gone to use other application on mobile device. Content Provider: Shares data with other activities and services.

Android Application Development is a grooming business among software development companies now a days. The developers have leveraging skills and expertise in Android Application Development. It has opened up new path for the incredible growth of Outsourcing Android services and expertise. The companies involved in business of Outsourcing Android services and expertise are providing cost-effective and feature-rich solutions to its client.

How to watch DVDs on popular Android phone: HTC Hero/Dream/Magic/Droid Eris?

It’s been a year since Google released Android OS, a completely open-source smartphone operating system widely perceived as the killer of Apple’s iPhone in the long run. Over the past year, Android handset, from HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1), the first Android phone, to Motorola Droid, the hottest smartphone in the United States at the moment, is gaining.

Whether you are already Android handset owners, or you are Android handset enthusiasts, willing be of the next Android phone holder, the following tip will be your Android phone assistant to help you get more fun to watch DVD movies on your Android handset, such as HTC Hero/Dream/Magic/Droid Eris.

Part 1: Can I watch DVD movies on Android phone?

A lot of Android fans have such doubt about whether it is possible to watch DVD movies on Android phone’s big screen. That’s absolutely possible. But first, we should be clear about the video format supported by Android phone.

As we know that Android phone only supports playing certain kinds of videos such as MP4 videos, therefore you need to convert DVD movies to Android MP4 videos. Usually, DVDs has some protections like CSS or region code protection, so you need an additional DVD ripping tool to convert DVDs to Android MP4 video. Here below I will introduce you an easy-to-use DVD to Android phone Converter to convert DVD to Android phone with only 3 steps.

Part 2: How to watch DVD movies on Android phone?

The tool we are going to use is Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum which can  convert DVD to Android phone. Now let ’s check how to make it.

Step 1:

Click “File” in menu list or “Add” button, you can load DVDs from DVD Rom/Folder(data DVD)/IFO/ISO  files respectively.

Step 2:

You can select MP4 format from the categorized output formats list in “Profile” drop-down list and specify the output directory to save your converted files in “Output” drop-down list. This DVD to Android Phone Converter support a lot of Android phones, such as HTC Hero, HTC Magic, HTC Droid Eris, Motorola Droid/ CLIQ, and Samsung phone etc. So you can select the corresponding format according to your Android phone.

Step 3:

The last step will be conversion. Click “Start” button, and all the tasks will be done quickly.

OK, now you can transfer your favorite DVD movies to your Android phone through cable and you can watch DVD movies freely to keep you from getting bored on a long flight or enjoy more fun. Whether you aren’t sure about switching to an Android phone in the near future, it is believed that Android phone will witness big growth in the smart phone market, and you can find more fun with Android phone.