Google’s Android holds 86% of the smartphone market share.

According to a press release, the worldwide smartphone shipment crosses 300 million units in August 2014. Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android were on more than 96% of the devices, shipped to the customers. However, Google’s Android has been the main operating system used in nearly 255 million units out of those 300 million. It is not strange that Google’s Android has 85% of the smartphones market share.

If people are buying more Android based smartphones, it means that Google Play would be swarmed by more users for new apps. Thus, resulting in great demand for new apps on a regular basis. Which means that there will be a great amount of work to be done by the Android app development companies to meet that need. The top Android app makers will be really interested in developing great apps for Android based devices.

Google Play developers will be required to deploy top notch app development for Android. World’s leading Android app development companies will be looking for top quality Google Play developers who can work under pressure and help those companies to offer best Android application development services to their clients.

Most people think that Android phone app development is as same as iPhone application development, which is not true. There may be similar stages in the app development life cycle for both types of development, but still both platforms require different approach. An Android application developer may need to work on a different type of user experience while developing an app for the Android based devices, while an iPhone app developer ends up developing a totally different user experience.

It is essential to note that the demand for top Android app maker is on the rise. As every other Android app development company is looking to build best Android application development departments, rather than using iPhone app developers for Android app development.

13 questions you should ask to your web application development company

The world of web apps has changed a lot since smartphone inception and it is likely to change more as gadgets like smart watches are just around the corner.It is very difficult to find a web application development company that could offer you web application development services which matches your requirements and budget.
Any web developer agency these days could produce almost every element of your digital presence, such web design firm works as a creative design agency. They normally work with different brands and businesses, and help you build your digital presence.
Web application software development needs a team of PHP web developers, capable of creating a web based solution for different brands and businesses. Web app development is not an easy task by any means, therefore it requires extensive hard work, learning and a problem solving mind to become a PHP web developer. A web application developer needs to look web application development process as a problem solving process. Almost every business and brand requires customized web application development services. Therefore,a web application development company must look into each problem as a new problem and try to offer a solution based on new web app development techniques and platforms.
Following are 13 questions you should ask before hiring a web application development company offering you customized
web application development services:

• 1. Will I own the full copyrights to the final program code?
• 2. Will I be able to take my final program code to any other web app development company for future updates?
• 3. To facilitate migration and scalability, does the code come with a proper documentation?
• 4. Will there be any copyright issues attached to the code written by someone else?
• 5. Do your PHP web developers add comments in the code for better readability and migration by any other developer?
• 6. Do you place coding guidelines and conventions in their respective places?
• 7. If you say yes to the above question, do you provide these guidelines and convention in a document format?
• 8. Do you use a structured and web application framework?
• 9. Will you provide a sample of a live project’s folder structure with programming files in it? *
• 10. Do you utilize MVC Architecture?
• 11. What kind of Quality Assurance (QA) testing do you use for bug testing and fixing?
• 12. What kind of security methods and testing do you use to settle any risk?
• 13. Do you use a stress test and any other method to check site’s scalability and tolerance for huge traffic?

These questions are not equivalent to the “Ten Commandments” of hiring a web application development company, yet it could serve you as a head start for your next hiring. Hope to hear from you more about the topic, add your valuable feedback in the comments section.
* Ask to see a sample of the project's folder structure with programming files in it. This should show how organized and useful their programming would be to other programmers. Make sure that the file structure matches a live project. You don't want to look at a fake file and folder structure.