Make Your First Android App! Here Is How

In the past few years, app development has become an extremely booming industry. Mobile apps have become an extremely important key factor in our daily lives. Be it from texting your friend on WhatsApp, to ordering groceries, apps have become an indispensable part of our lives. This makes app development the hottest grossing skill, the employers are looking for!

It is estimated by Google that, the global number of smartphone users will rise to 4.5 billion throughout 2022. The market for these apps is about as big as they come. If we looked at it in terms of devices, there are more connected mobile devices in the world (7.94 billion) than there are people.

In fact, according to Apple, in 2013 1.25 million apps were registered in the Apple app store. Android users have even more apps from which to choose, with 2.56 million available through the Google Play Store. It was accounted for over 50 billion downloads and $5 billion paid to developers.

With these types of industry numbers, it soon becomes clear that mobile app development is a key factor for business success and a very profitable skill to learn! Creating an online presence of a business is extremely important in today’s digital age, regardless of the niche. Also, this makes app development, the hottest in-demand skill. You can either freelance and be your own boss, or work full time as an app developer for your clients.

If you are looking for a job, here are some profiles you may get:

1. Front End Developers
2. Back-end developers
3. Web Application developers.
4. Mobile App developers
5. Web analyst
6. UI Designer

Web and Mobile App development covers all the people who plan, build and manage the application or website. You can be a team member of an entry-level developer. You can be the team leader as well as project manager depending on your work history and experience.

Here are a few entry-level salary insights. Glassdoor is a website where employees and former employees, anonymously review companies and their management. According to Glassdoor giants like TCS, Cognizant pays up to Rs. 1.6 Million /Annum to the web developer. While Accenture and Infosys pay up to Rs.6,50,000/A. According to Glassdoor, the average salary for a web developer in India is Rs.3,79,215/A, where in the US, it is $88,488/A. You can get a decent amount of salary if you are highly skilled. You need to be updated with recent ongoing technologies and or sometimes you need to be reskilled.

Apart from all these, you can also develop games. With an explosive growth in the smartphone market and users, the game market is also increasing. It is not all about how much experience you have, you must have an engaging product. You can get a good job with a fat paycheck in gaming companies. Some of the companies even share their profit with their employees. You can design your own game and earn a lot by introducing it to App stores. The income in this field depends upon the number of downloads and advertisements you are running.

About Android Studio:

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Android Studio is the official integrated development environment (IDE) for Google’s Android operating system, built on JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA software and designed specifically for Android development. It is available for download on Windows, macOS and Linux based operating systems or as a subscription-based service in 2020. It is a replacement for the Eclipse Android Development Tools (E-ADT) as the primary IDE for native Android application development. It offers even more features that enhance your productivity when building Android apps.

Here are a few pros of using Android Studio as a developer:

1. No need to pay, a completely free of charge product.
2. Android Studio can be used to develop quality applications in Android devices such as Phones, Tablets, Wearables, TV and Android Auto.
3. It has a user-friendly interface.
4. Updates with the latest Android libraries and technologies.
5. Debug mode is excellent.
6. It supports a big community of other android developers.
7. Provides Java to Kotlin code auto translation.
8. Supports Gradle instead of Maven.
9. It is very lightweight and resource management is done pretty well in this IDE.
10. It boots up very fast as compared to other development IDEs.
11. Comes with Emulator facilities.
12. Support for C/ C++ code using Android NDK.
13. It comes with 24x7 Google support and JetBrains support to resolve problems.
14. Android Studio is very handy for Android development due to its self-creating or destroying coding enhancing techniques.