Strengths and Weaknesses of Android Based Applications

The Android world has registered as well as recognized an appreciative change and development in terms of user base and applications. Some of the Android application and programming businesses and companies have evidently developed some awesome applications on this platform. When compared to iOS, Android is the most widely used operating system and is the next best thing. But many of the concepts and features that are offered are relatively new in this operating system and the developed applications are easily vulnerable to attacks and https defects. Where there is light there is also darkness, so there are many advantages or strengths and disadvantages or weaknesses of Android-based applications.

Strengths or Advantages of Android based Applications

Multitasking: Android based application are designed and developed to facilitate multitasking by the user. There is a feature that allows the user to interact with two different applications simultaneously. So a user is easily able to use two or more than two applications at the same time. This makes browsing through the social media accounts as well as listening to songs possible. This feature is yet to be developed in iOS so android takes the lead in here as far as the ecosystem is concerned.

Alerts and notifications: There is no way that allows or causes an Android application to miss any news update. The reason and the objective that is behind is that notifications fall directly on the home screen. The missed calls and important updates are displayed as a part of the home screen and are easily notified by the notification led

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Open source applications: The Android world and the community or platform is full of lakhs of applications and most of them are absolutely free. Thousands of games as well as major entertainment apps are available to the user for free in the Android world.

More smartphones functioning on Android: Big smartphone giants, i.e., Samsung, LG, Xiaomi are using the Android applications and its ecosystem to develop the operating system for their smartphone hardware. The user can freely use the Android smartphone and do whatever he wants as per his choice. Whereas, iOS is only limited and is exclusive to Apple only.

Simple to use functionalities: The ROM or the operating system can be easily installed, customized as per the users choice, modified into different behavior and designs. All this is possible because of the flexibility of the Android-based smartphones. Besides the availability of customized ROM from different manufacturers, it has been much easy to use functionality in Android. Moreover, the Android operating systems interface that is provided to the users is quite simple when you compare it to other operating systems.

Widgets: The widgets help in accessing a variety of settings without opening any apps from the home screen. This makes the ergonomics and the user handling ability to maneuver the smartphone very strong.

Availability of Google services: Google provides an array of services and products for use such as Google Reader, Gmail, Docs, Google Drive, which come as a part of the Android operating system and is easy to use. So reading emails, as well as checking documents becomes a breeze.

So this were the strength of android app development or

Android Based Applications.

Weakness or Disadvantages of Android

There are also many people and users who don’t agree and prefer other operating systems with the notion that the Android services are not better than iOS.

Uninterrupted Internet Connection is required: In order to use major of the apps, an uninterrupted data connection or internet connection is required. The Android applications might be cost effective, but they need a continuous uninterrupted internet or data connection. A lot of money is spent on buying data or network packs.

Advertisements: Being on open source platform has some downsides and disadvantages too. Too many ads are posted on the play store, and there are apps that show ads to the user. This can annoy users. It also further slows down the pace and performance of this operating system.

Battery Zapper: It is always been a major concern for Android based operating system and apps, a lot of processes running in the background consume a lot of energy. The Android-based smartphones as well as apps that are designed face a lot of criticism for this battery consuming and zapping weakness.

Infectious Applications: An opens source operating system, the system is prone and vulnerable to a lot of attacks. The Android operating system is notoriously famous for having malicious apps as well as virus threats. Users must rely on the integrity of the PLAY STORE to verify and remove malicious apps.