Android development

Abstract

The IT industry has reached its peak growth in this century and continues to grow exponentially with the perpetual rise in demand for better and unique accessible products and services throughout the entire globe. This has forced researchers and developers of profit-making firms to pay keen interest in maximizing profit particularly with the supply of mobile devices for its ever-increasing customer base. Large supply even with a marginal profit led to huge gains in revenue and this economic philosophy is openly and widely implemented by the continuous development of smartphones. With such a rapidly growing industry, developing smartphone apps has become a new phenomenon in the IT sector and Google’s Android operating devices on mobile handsets continue to reign the maximum number of users of the target population. Such potential is indeed grasped by like-minded people and this has led to this internship to follow through. The objective is to master the basics of a programming language (Java), a framework to make development easier and compact (Android) and implementation of the newest and robust User Experience and Performance libraries that Google has already provided for exchange of no expense or monetary value. This brought many challenges that made me spend hours on a single feature/ bug during my internship. The 6 months that I spent during my internship happens to be one of the best learning experiences that I ever had and I continue to cherish those moments that led me become a software engineer in the present.