Android is a difficult journey worth the successful position it attains today. Although it’s encircled with several law suits and claims, Android application development sustains the most respected place among its users and application developers. Even today, Android is the fast selling and most popular operating system among smart phone buyers.

Today, Android owns one of the largest app market places in the world. Some of the best and the most useful apps are developed based on the Android application Framework, which proves the efficiency and capability of this operating system.

As technology advances, Google focuses on launching the thinnest, fastest and the best. One such device that Google recently launched is Galaxy Nexus. It’s third of the line of Google’s Nexus series, which works on the latest Android operating system-Ice Cream Sandwich. There are several things we generally expect from a phone when we spend a hefty price for it. Understanding this, Nexus almost guarantees three things: Fast access-thanks to its 1.2GHz dual-core processor and Android 4.0; Network availability-especially for areas where 4G network works; and Upgradation-which means your phone automatically upgrades itself with the latest version of operating system.

The phone is bigger and tweaked with the best hardware for upgraded performance demonstrating mobile technology at its best. This time, Google spends on what is essential   instead of full concentration on the display screen.

Further in terms of Android mobile application development, Google was the first entrant, which had close to one-fourth mobile app development share. However, due to its open source nature, there were several complaints about the application quality and malware hitting the marketplace. Recently, Google cleaned its marketplace and reassured Android users. Since then, the marketplace is under constant scrutiny and Google traces each fraudulent or malware app on its system, keeping its users harmless.

As Android addresses security fear, it also has something in treasure for Android application developers. With its 4.0 version, Google bumped its API level up to 15 calling it 4.0.3. The treasure contains some special gems such as intent selectors, UUID discovery methods and so on.

All in all, these changes go a long way in helping Android reach almost every household today. As it employs some of the finest developers, we will soon see the Android app development industry attaining no. 1 position in the global mobile marketplace.