Android App Development

Sold at less than two hundred dollars, Amazon’s Kindle Fire is the retail giant’s first full color touch tablet. With a very attractive price point compared to Apple’s iPad, this has become a major attraction for tablet lovers.

When Kindle Fire was introduced in the market with a less than $200 price point, it suddenly became of the most popular tablet in its category. This is also one of the reasons why a lot of Kindle Fire users are looking for ways to root their Android based devices and install it with client ROM and forego the Amazon default user interface that comes with the Kindle tablet. So if ever you own a Kindle Fire tablet and you finally become bored of its default user interface, you can choose to root your tablet and install one of those custom ROM available online. And for all Kindle Fire owners who never really liked Amazon’s default, here comes good news from MIUI 4.0.

With Kindle Fire’s success, is Amazon aiming at the gaming industry for tablet. Recently, Los Angeles Times reported about Amazon’s under the radar recruitment of game developers and several job postings have been posted on the site. The sudden interest of the company in game design could be something else. The founder of Digital World Research, P.J.

In order to give app developers better opportunity, Google has finally launched the official Google+ page solely for Android Developers. The open community is for developers to be fully motivated in participating and setting up collaborative efforts among developers in creating Android apps in line with the current consumer demand in the market. The objective of Google is to provide an improved and unified experience while using the Android platform when creating apps both for third party app developers and manufacturers.

Although a lot of people particularly Kindle Fire owners awaited for the long overdue Kindle update from Amazon, it actually did more than update the tablet and improve its interface. The Kindle Fire 6.2.1 Update ruined the one click rooting method which developers introduced at the XDA Developer’s Forum. Although Kindle Fire users can still keep their root by blocking the online update which Amazon started to push last week, those who have unwittingly updated their tablets may have to invest some effort to re – root their tablets.

Last October, Google introduced the Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich for Android based smart phones and tablets. The new Android platform from Google has two purposes and these are to improve the tablet user experience and to have unified software for tablet and smart phone devices. Before Android 4.0, majority of Google tablets ran on Honeycomb version (Android 3.0) but Google’s attempts seemed to be hurried and imperfect in their aim to compete with Apple’s iPad.

Android app developers face big changes in writing apps for Android. Google android blog provides valuable resources for Android app developers. Android Design is where all Android app developers gather together and according to Christian Robertson, the Android Design is more like "the place to learn about principles, building blocks, and patterns for creating world-class Android user interfaces.

The Kindle Fire from Amazon is definitely a legitimate platform that will certainly drive app downloads to the ceiling based on an enhanced version of the new Android OS. There was an overwhelming response from Kindle Fire users supported by the number of app downloads just this holiday. And while the Kindle Fire only has a smaller market share yet compared to iPhone/iPad and other Android devices, it enjoyed an impressive seventeen percent of new Kindle Fire users just a day after Christmas and an overall 12.5% of all Kindle Fire devices that were registered on the 25^th of December.