Android contains a variety of cool aspects that have initiated great opportunities for developers and users. While the operating systems still faces its challenges, which have introduced difficulties during app development and deployment, it is an ever-growing share of the mobile market. Because existing market shares using the Android platform are expanding, developers must focus on effective Android development to gain competitive advantage.

There are many issues with Android application development, which come from the diverse OS versions, devices, and screen sizes, as well as hardware crumbling, tricky software and hardware integration, tough testing, and complex security. Developers often struggle during the development process with such issues and assumptions for device usage, as 3500+ distinct Android devices in the market!

There are too many Android OS versions in market, and many Android users are running outdated operating systems. This can make it difficult to develop for everyone, especially because phone companies show little concern with keeping customers current; users were still being sold Android devices with Android 4.0.4 – ICS in November 2012 while Android 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2 and 4.2 (Jelly Bean) were already released!

Recently at AllianceTek, were developing an Android-based Bluetooth enabled application for locking & unlocking doors through hardware device integration. The app has a device pairing option through a pop – up screen, so users can enter a PIN to pair devices. During the testing phase, we encountered functionality and device related issues.

The apps functionalities were working properly with almost every phone, but pairing was not working on one particular Android device! Instead of the pop-up option appearing in the app itself, the alert was going straight to notification area of phone.

To fix this issue, our R&D team focused and worked to discover the solution. Having device’s Bluetooth discovery option ON solvef this issue, and enabled the app to run smooth as per required functionalities! We had to modify our app to accommodate this, so the app will first check for the device’s discovery mode, if it is OFF then it will first notify user to turn it ON and this fix solved this issue!

There are numerous issues that can be found during Android application development. While it has its problems, the good thing is that Android is open source, which gives developer a huge amount of flexibility. Talented developers with creative ideas and knowledge of widely adopted versions, and the oldest possible OS versions still widely in use, can build flexible and effective apps. Google is also much more liberal in allowing apps to enter the marketplace than Apple, which allows for easier deployment. Simple submissions of an app with enhanced functionality and a user friendly UI to the Android marketplace can empower your idea to reach a mass amount of people on varying Android devices.

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