Android Tablet App Development: Key Skills to have

Android Tablet App Development: Key Skills to have

Along with the smartphones, tablets too are developing fast. According to eMarketer, there are more than 1 billion tablets in the world, which is double the number three years back. By 2018, this number is expected to reach at a whopping 1.43 billion, approx. 15% of the world population (wow!). This has attracted huge numbers of application developers for the android tablets. Since the android is leading OS in tablets with about 20% of the devices running on android, whereas iPad users are merely 14%, android is attracting more developers than Apple.

Many android tablet development companies are coming up in the market with different portfolios and price range. And many freelance developers are also trying to get hold of the market. But often the right skills are ignored in the tablet development, which leads to the inconsistent career growth or a flop career in the worst cases. So here is the list of must have skills in the android application development.

Java

When it comes to Android, Java is very important as android apps are written in Java. Although there are many drag and drop tools available for the app development, but they can increase the speed by reducing coding, but they cannot replace the coding as a whole. You must have the knowledge of the programming language that is used in Android.

Java is used for making Native Mobile apps. And Google has adopted a subset of Java, along with new frameworks. But if you know Java, you can learn any framework within weeks.

CSS

Stands for Cascading style sheets, they are mostly used in web designing. Together with other technologies like HTML, CSS helps in creating great looking designs. They are also involved in tablet development so as to create responsive designs. You need to have the knowledge of CSS to create apps that catches eyes with its designs, which is very important in high competition Play Store, where hundreds of apps are available for the same purpose.

HTML5

HTML5 is used in accordance with the CSS to create responsive designs. And with the rise in demands of responsive apps, the demand of HTML is also going to increase. This is the biggest part I creating highly responsive designs of the apps. Whether its mobile, or web or tablet, HTML is used everywhere to give the user a great app experience. Hence HTML5 is also a must-have for the tablet developers.

.NET

This is developed by Microsoft, for the backend integration of the apps. And with a huge number of systems using .Net for back end integration, no wonder why demand is so high for this technology. For tablet development as well it is used for connecting the app with API and other works. So .Net is also a desired skill that a tablet developer should have.

Takeaways

Besides the technologies listed above, there are many more skills that are involved in tablet development like Database Management, Hardware Integration, UI designing and Security Management. And while crafting an app for the tablets many aspects need to be taken care of such as,

• Provide multi-user facility in tablets is must because tablets are shared in the family, unlike smartphones.
• Many tablets are Wi-Fi only, therefore think twice before connectivity in apps.
• Tablet is used along with smartphones; hence it is good to provide better sync facilities between the phone and tablet apps.
• Just like smartphones, tablets are also fragmented, hence, you need to take care of different hardware capabilities and screen resolutions before designing the app.

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