There are a huge number of companies who have moved on to mobile application development by landing up with Android apps development projects as android is busy conquering the mobile application development market. The popularity is growing steadily and there are many mobile application developers who are trying to make the best use of the mobile platform as the popularity is increasing day by day. It is easy for the startups to take up Android-based development projects for meeting customers' demands as most of the startups in the field of mobile app development rely on free app development tools and technologies.

Mainly though the Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) is used consistently for writing applications in Python, Perl and other environments mobile developers who create Android apps rely on Java language. The developers obtained an opportunity to start development of apps in Android as the latest versions support Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR technologies with the recent developments in the platform with Android 2.3 and Android 4.0.

Along with the environment for writing, testing and debugging mobile apps android SDK is provided to developers for the app development process. For a quick and easy Android application development process the Eclipse IDE is helpful. Using the Android Development Tools Plugin which helps in enhancing the quality and quantity of Android mobile applications, one can customize it.

For creating an environment which stimulates the features of the OS as well as the mobile devices, Android Emulator ensures that the testing and debugging process using Android device-emulators is done smoothly which helps developers. Android framework APIs are utilized by the Android app developers for taking advantage of a plethora of C/C++ libraries. The libraries include System C library, SQlite, SGL graphics engine, 3D libraries and some others technologies.

Mobile app developers who work for Android app development can sell off their mobile solutions in the Android Market and even publicize it via a website. Basically Android Marketplace is an application store which was launched by Google for Android-based apps distribution. The store now boasts of more than 200,000 Android apps which prove that it is second to the iOS and is fast catching up in popularity as the apps are created and distributed by developers worldwide.

The Android platform has extensively expanded its wings in the mobile app development market and has gained substantially too for tablet PCs too. The mobile market has vouched for outsourcing of the process which has resulted in drastic returns in productivity and costs with the advent of the offshore software development market.