Mobizent approaches each Android application with the same
project management approach that we use for building our other mobile
applications. We help our customers define their requirements for the application, design the
application and each screen and back office database, back office inerfaces, develop and
test the app, and then finally deploy the application.
Android is a Linux based open source operating system which
has JAVA library. Open Handset Alliance™, a group of 65 technology and mobile
companies including mobile operators, semiconductor companies, handset manufacturers;
software companies commercialization companies own Android. Android presents an
open market place to the third party android application developers for instant
publishing and feedback. And most importantly Android developers can provide android
application development on any platform like Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
The use of Android-based smartphones is booming, with more
than 50,000 Android apps being already developed. The Android mobile phone
market is growing at an impressive rate of 32 per cent every month, with new
handsets being released all the time. Industry experts believe the boom owes much to the
popularity of the Motorola Droid, MotoBLUR, certain HTC models, and the open-source
nature of the OS.
The advantages of Android platform include:
- GSM, EDGE, CDMA, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, EV-DO and UMTS
technologies
- Libraries for 2D and 3D graphics.
- A Wide range of libraries for image, audio and video files.
- Features of Video camera, Touchscreen, GPS, accelerometer
and magnetometer.
- Inter-process communication (IPC) message passing.
- P2P using Google Talk.
- SQLite for data storage.
- Export and signing app for publishing
Mobizent develops mobile applications for the Android
platform, either starting with an idea from our customers or migrating an existing Windows
Mobile, iPhone or web application to the Android.
Through a standardized approach, Mobizent has been extremely
successful in working with customers to migrate existing mobile applications to
the Android platform as well as develop specifically for Android using the available API
tools and Development Kit.