Android applications are Prominent in Mobile Application Development

As mobile telephony and internet usage is expanding rapidly day by day, it becomes apparent that the mobile application development has also to keep pace with its rapid development. Mobile app development is focusing primarily on mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDA); personal digital assistant etc. mobile is a perfectly convenient mobile devices on which you can many a functions of laptop while on the move on a small handheld device. It is useful for both business and personal use. We are discussing here a few of these mobile operating systems.

Android: It is the leading mobile operating system. Mobiles based on android are the latest rage in the market. This system has pushed other mobile OS like Symbian in the background. Android is a great platform for developing mobile apps. The android SDK provides the tool and APIs for bringing in new applications. Android based mobile devices have apps on email client, sms program, calendar, map, browser, contacts and schedules programs.

Prominent features of android development are GSM, telephony,Wifi,3G,edge,Blutooth,graphics,application framework, rich development environs,accelorameter,compass,GPS,camera,Dalvik virtual machines,SQLite,and integrated browser. Like other leading mobile OS viz; Windows, Linux, Mac, android development can be done on almost any platform. Important components of android mobile application development are Google Android library, architecture o android application framework. You can access a lot of Google games on your mobile with the help o android application based on games and sports.

Android Tablet app development is a portable entertainment system having dynamic features.

Android is a boon for Tabloid developer. This OS is so powerful with its set of software and strong operating system for the mobile devices. It is highly user friendly as he can download thousands of mobile e app from android market, paid or free from android market.

Android Applications Need Protection from Hacking

The real world is full of threats for Android apps users. They have to face threat in software piracy and the need of the hour is to protect the application from various threats like obfuscation, verification of license, and other means.

A paid application is also not safe these days. It may be stolen, copied and made public from different locations worldwide. On the contrary, a free application might be damaged and can even damage the brand leveraging valuable product resources like server bandwidth. This malicious hardware can occur anytime and the need of the hour is to protect the system from hacking. The problem is that the opposition is continuously improving the negative activities launched by the attacker. Then it is must to draft a hard target which is hard to break.

There is good news for android app developers and android app users. There are many ways to protect Android applications from hacking and malfunctioning:

Obfuscate the binary code of Smartphone with ProGuard.

Use License Verification Library. Must when android application is purchased from Android application market.

Use SSL to protect Android network communications.

ProGuard or open-source tool is used to compact and obfuscate compiled Java code. The resulting binary files are harder but can be reverse-engineered if the need arises. In fact the newly developed android apps have default ProGuard configuration for protection. The configuration file is configured automatically but will not work for all applications.

Android applications can be saved from hacking with a little careful approach.