The Android Open Source Project (the underlying core Android OS components) is essentially written in Java, and best of all, it is still fully supported by Android. Java was the obvious choice as I had started with it and had a fair number of years of history with it. I had always written apps using Java, and had managed to stay fairly updated with the recent technologies that came around, be it the shift of Dalvik to ART framework, Jetpack /AndroidX libraries, or others. Up until a couple of years back, I strictly did not have a single Apple product in my life or work. In all fairness, I have been a big fan of Android all through. Over the last decade, I have written and published over 10 apps on the Google PlayStore with varying levels of success, and many more for other commercial platforms. I had people from all around the world using the app which I had built sitting at home, and they were using it on a daily basis. I had not seen anything similar until then, and the sheer adrenaline I got out of the realization was immense. I could write a small app sitting on my couch at home, and then thousands of people around the world would just get to use it for free. The app had to be signed with a key that I had to carry around on a hard drive because if lost, I would not be able to publish new versions of it to the PlayStore.īut the experience was exhilarating, to say the least. After writing my code, compiling and installing it on the phone took about the same time as brewing a fresh cup of coffee. It was built and tested on an Xperia Z1, which by the way, was a smartphone and still had physical buttons. I built and published my first app on Android 2.3.5.
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