Tuesday 9 May 2017

Essential Skills to Become an Android App Developer

When you begin to think about developing websites & mobile apps at your own, you need to establish deep knowledge of programming. Better designing & developing skills can lead you to the top of developing technology. But before everything, you need to decide specific platform in which you want to develop skills, for example- Android app development. If you are approaching a new technology for the first time then you should break the learning process into different sections.
If you are already a developer and familiar with web development then many of the technologies & concepts are similar to Android mobile app development. Although, developing apps for mobile devices demands refined knowledge of different concepts.

The developer needs to be flexible with the code because mobile screens are smaller in size and availability of different manufacturers in the market. They need to develop mobile apps according to variety of user scenarios. Here’s what you need to know to become an Android app developer:


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Java
Java is most essential to begin with android development as it underpins all basic concepts for the ones’ who have coding experience in Ruby & JavaScript. While picking up the Java there can be a learning curve like Java is object oriented but at some extent it is disciplined with handling of data types. In Java, you will end up writing less code that is precise & elegant as well.

 XML
Learning and mastering XML skills are essential for Android app developers. XML stands for standard mark-up language that is sharing features similar to HTML. It was developed as a standard way to encode data for internet based applications. XML is used by Android developers to create layouts that deliver foundation UI definition for Android applications.

Android SDK
SDK, stands for software development tool kit, is a set of pre packaged code. These are Java code modules that provide access to device functionalities to developers.

Android Studio
IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is considered as Android Studio for developers. It features many functionalities of featured IDE which a programmer expects.

APIs
APIs offers a way to connect with third party services through Android apps. For example: you can use Google APIs to trace the location.

Databases
Java offers to access data outside the phone like you dot need to store everything on phone instead you can access the database through cloud services. Likely, it also supports SQL to interact with SQLite database.


You should also learn material design i.e. a set of forward thinking interface guidelines for an app. Develop an Android application that users actually find useful. 

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