Android developemnt Lauri Soosaar Yrgel Entertainment @ MoMo "Mobile Software Development Development - 3 years later", Tallinn 11.04.11

1. Lauri Soosaar
YRGEL ENTERTAINMENT
Tallinn 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

2. WHY DEVELOP FOR ANDROID?
Well, the real question should be “Why not?”
* Do you want your app to be available to millions of users worldwide?
(ca 115 million phones in use )
* Do you like developing on open platforms?
* Do you want to publish apps as soon as you’re done writing and testing them?
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4. ANDROID STRENGTHS
* It’s Google
* Has more than one phone
* Low-cost smartphone’s running Android
* Growing rapidly, lots of noise
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* You can develop Android applications on various operating systems (Windows, Linux,
and Mac OS X)
* Open source platform is attractive to developers
* Java is well known programming language
* Android OS is stable and flexible
* Open App Store - easy system for app publishing
* Web apps publishing is allowed
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5. ANDROID WEAKNESSES
* Phones are not as elegant as iPhone
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* Customers aren’t buying tons of software yet (different business models)
* Development environment is Java (this is great if you are a Java developer but most of the
mobile world is focused around C)
* Android emulator is slow
* Android viruses
* Apps cannot easily be tested and guaranteed across all hardware platforms
- Different screen sizes and densities
- Different Android platforms the devices are running
* In Estonia you can’t bought Android Apps
* To start selling Android Apps, we were forced to open a bank account in Finland
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6. DISTRIBUTION
* Android Market (30% Google / 70% developer)
* Third-party platforms
* Outside the market
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8. YRGEL ENTERTAINMENT
We make iOS / Android games and apps.
For game development we use Unity 3D game engine.
Unity supports three
scripting languages:
JavaScript, C#, and a
dialect of Python named
Boo.
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9. Lauri Soosaar
Yrgel Entertainment
lauri@yrgel.com
Mob: +372 51 85 404
Skype: laurisoosaar
Wednesday, April 13, 2011