5 Best Apps to do Programming on Android Platform

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Do you like to spend much time on your <a href="https://www.android.com/intl/en_in/phones/">Android Smart Phone</a> instead of your Desktop or Laptop?</span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Are you a programming lover and looking for an app to write and compile on your smartphone itself?   Below I have listed some great programming apps that will allow you to write and run code for </span><a href="http://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/2014/01/a-guide-to-several-programming-languages-available-for-web-development.html" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0b91ea; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">programming languages</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"> like C, C++, Java, C# and Python.</span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #757575; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px auto 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 656px;"><tbody style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border-top-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/5-Best-Apps-to-do-Programming-on-Android-Platform.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #0c87d3; margin: 0px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="5 Best Apps to do Programming on Android Platform" border="0" src="http://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/5-Best-Apps-to-do-Programming-on-Android-Platform.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 1px 4px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="5 Best Apps to do Programming on Android Platform" /></a></td></tr> <tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="tr-caption" style="border-top-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://videohive.net/item/young-man-typing-on-mobile-phone-shot-with-slider/1840236" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0b91ea; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Image Source</a></td></tr> </tbody></table> <h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 24px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 5 Best Apps to do Programming on Android Platform</h2> <h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.84615; margin: 24px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.n0n3m4.droidc" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0b91ea; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C4droid – C/C++ compiler & IDE</a></h3> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="C4droid - C/C++ compiler & IDE" border="0" height="200" src="http://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/C4droid-CC-compiler-IDE.png" style="border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 1px 4px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="C4droid - C/C++ compiler & IDE" width="200" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> C4droid is a very popular and user-friendly C/C++ IDE and compiler for Android platform. You can write and run C and <a href="http://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/p/cpp-programs.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0b91ea; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C++ programs</a> directly on your phone. It is a paid app and I personally used it. It is a really great application for C/C++ programmers. Some of its features are mentioned below.</div> <h4 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.84615; margin: 24px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Features</h4> <ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; list-style: square outside; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Create your own applications on android device and run them even without internet access </li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source code editor with syntax highlighting, tabs, code completion, code formatting, file association and undo/redo</li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Easily export and share your programs as APKs or native executables (for terminal apps)</li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No root access is required</li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Full ANSI C and ISO C99 support with TCC (Tiny C Compiler) + uClibc</li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Supports Git integration </li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Customize the GUI, choose where to place tabs and buttons, various themes are also supported.</li> </ul> <h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.84615; margin: 24px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.antonsmirnov.android.cppdroid" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0b91ea; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CppDroid – C/C++ IDE</a></h3> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="CppDroid - C/C++ IDE" border="0" height="200" src="http://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/CppDroid-CC-IDE.png" style="border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 1px 4px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="CppDroid - C/C++ IDE" width="200" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/2014/09/cppdroid-cc-ide-for-android-platform.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0b91ea; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CppDroid</a> is another simple C/C++ IDE and compiler for android devices. It is focused on learning programming languages and libraries. I have also used this app and it is freely available. Let's take a look on some of its main features.<div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.71429; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <h4 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.84615; margin: 24px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Features</h4> <ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; list-style: square outside; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">code complete, real-time diagnostics (warnings and errors) and fixes </li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">file and tutorial navigator (variables, methods, etc), static analysis </li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">smart syntax highlighting, auto indentation and auto pairing (configurable)</li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">compile and run C/C++ code (no root access required) </li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">works offline (no internet connection required), Dropbox support</li> </ul> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Apart from this, it also provides so many tutorials, examples, and projects that will help in <a href="http://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/p/learn-c-programming.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0b91ea; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">learning C</a> and C++ programming.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.84615; margin: 24px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0b91ea; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">AIDE- IDE for Android Java C++</a></h3> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="AIDE- IDE for Android Java C++" border="0" height="200" src="http://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/AIDE-IDE-for-Android-Java-C-.png" style="border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 1px 4px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="AIDE- IDE for Android Java C++" width="200" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> AIDE is an IDE for developing real Android apps directly on Android device. If you are an android or java developer then AIDE is a great app for you. It also allows C and C++ development. In short it is an all in one IDE which allows you to develop Android, Java, C and C++ projects on your mobile. AIDE also provide lessons that will help to learn Android app development and <a href="http://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/p/java.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0b91ea; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Java programming</a>. Below I have mentioned some of its important features.<div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.71429; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <h4 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.84615; margin: 24px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Features</h4> <ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; list-style: square outside; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Interactive lessons for Android, Java, and Game development </li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit, compile and run code with a single click. No root access is required. </li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Debug Android Java apps and Java Console apps </li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Real-time error checking, Code Refactoring </li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Code completion and syntax highlighting, Dropbox integration</li> </ul> <h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.84615; margin: 24px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gregshackles.csharptogo" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0b91ea; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C# To Go</a></h3> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="C# To Go" border="0" height="200" src="http://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/C-To-Go.png" style="border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 1px 4px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="C# To Go" width="200" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> If you love C# programming so much then C# To Go app will let you do C# programming anywhere on your mobile. It is like having a mini C# compiler in your pocket. C# To Go provides various features like code completion, syntax highlighting, etc. It is also a free app which can be downloaded from google play store freely.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.84615; margin: 24px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hipipal.qpyplus" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #0b91ea; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">QPython – Python for Android</a> </h3> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="QPython - Python for Android " border="0" height="200" src="http://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/QPython-Python-for-Android.png" style="border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 1px 4px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="QPython - Python for Android " width="200" /> </div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> QPython is a script engine that runs Python scripts and projects on android devices. It contains the Python interpreter, console, editor, and the SL4A Library for Android. It offers a great development kit which lets you easily develop Python projects and scripts on your phone.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> If you know about some other good apps that allow doing programming on the android platform then please mention it by commenting below. I will try to include them in this list. Also, share your experience with using above apps.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Ubuntu, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Happy Coding!! <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/simple-smile.png" style="background: none !important; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; display: inline !important; height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.07em !important; margin-right: 0.07em !important; margin-top: 0px; max-height: 1em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/simple-smile.png" style="background: none !important; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; display: inline !important; height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.07em !important; margin-right: 0.07em !important; margin-top: 0px; max-height: 1em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div> </div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: 14px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjw-aWtM1qgQQJnoAlO94X_i1GWn6G9t02K8eURFD4RhB_yLR-kdEZm-lIhzzYLZKV9uIuPqhvOpmPc0m9wx2ZUMEySzDIOU2GQO0m6shyPSHnyWMJr7CFI_2SPwADoNNU7-DZy-WhIpJ1/s1600/ANDROID.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjw-aWtM1qgQQJnoAlO94X_i1GWn6G9t02K8eURFD4RhB_yLR-kdEZm-lIhzzYLZKV9uIuPqhvOpmPc0m9wx2ZUMEySzDIOU2GQO0m6shyPSHnyWMJr7CFI_2SPwADoNNU7-DZy-WhIpJ1/s200/ANDROID.png" width="200" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you have a extraordinary idea for a Android app but confused which programming language and tools should you adopt? <b>Well NO WORRIES..!!</b> This article gives you an overview of the key programming languages used in <a href="http://developer.android.com/index.html" target="_blank">Android Development</a></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">  There are several numbers of programming languages, IDE's, and frameworks that make the development process more and more flexible, easier, and efficient.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">  The most popular languages are C++, Java, C# and HTML 5. <span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">This diversity provides a low entry barrier for programmers to become a part of the Android industry and attracts new resources.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">  Let’s talk about each of them, their working principles, suitable frameworks, and IDE's.</div> <h2 style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 29px; font-weight: 200; margin: 20px 0px 11px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> C++</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <img height="107px" src="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/android/1075862/what-programming-lang-fig-04-c-plus-plus-logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;" width="200px" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> C++ is one of the most powerful languages in the world. There is an endless list of software that can be written on it: Adobe Photoshop*, Illustrator*, Windows OS*, and other Microsoft products like Office*, Visual Studio, and Internet Explorer*, as well as Mozilla Firefox* and some OS X parts.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> C/C++ Android development traditionally represents a way to build native apps. Native means the compiler transforms a program code into hardware-specified binaries. So native code must be built for each particular device. It is quite difficult, but these types of apps are known as the fastest. Moreover native apps have direct access to the camera, GPS, or address book and other features of the OS and device.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> The described native application development has its own pros and cons. It is important to understand the app you are going to create. Is it a 3D game or simple notebook or an app for calling a cab? If the app needs intensive CPU or GPU computations, C++ coding might be a good idea. But it’s important to keep things simple, instead of making them complicated when they don’t need to be.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> If you are 100-percent sure that native featured development can increase performance, you’ll need the <a href="https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/index.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Native Development Kit</a> (NDK).</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> However, completely native Android apps are rare. Usually they have parts written on other languages. For this reason Java provides <a href="http://developer.android.com/training/articles/perf-jni.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Java Native Interface</a> (JNI), which calls native functions from Java VM.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; float: left; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="floatLeft" src="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/android/1075862/what-programming-lang-fig-05-unity-logo.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Many game engines or other frameworks are aimed to simplify C/C++ Android development. Here are some of them: <a href="http://unity3d.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Unity</a>*,<a href="https://www.unrealengine.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Unreal Engine</a>*, <a href="http://www.projectanarchy.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Project Anarchy</a>*, <a href="https://www.madewithmarmalade.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Marmalade</a>*, <a href="http://www.cocos2d-x.org/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Cocos2D-X</a>*.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Intel provides two tools for optimization and improving performance of Android native apps: <a href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/gpa" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers</a> (Intel® GPA) and Intel® <a href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-vtune-amplifier-xe" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">VTune™ Amplifier</a> for Android. Intel GPA consists of three parts: System Analyzer, Platform Analyzer, and Frame Analyzer, which help detect and solve difficulties in your GPU-bound app. <a href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/gpa/details" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Here</a> are details about each one. In the case of a CPU-bound app, Intel VTune Amplifier will be irreplaceable for finding and fixing hotspots and bottlenecks. Look at the <a href="https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/hotspots_amplxe_iss_and_win.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">tutorial</a> to get more information.</div> <h2 style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 29px; font-weight: 200; margin: 20px 0px 11px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> Java</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="floatRight" src="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/android/1075862/what-programming-lang-fig-01-java-logo.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Java first appeared in 1995 as a language for Internet applications. But today it is used in different development areas like games, navigation, business solutions, and certainly in the mobile industry.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Java is a classical language for Android development. Naturally Java is an interpreted language. This feature makes it cross-platform: to run Java code, a Java VM is needed. In the case of Android, ART or Dalvik* (in KitKat* and older Android versions) plays the VM’s role. But ART uses a quite different approach: it compiles the Java dex bytecode at the app installation phase transforming it into executables for target devices. <a href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/android/articles/art-vs-dalvik-introducing-the-new-android-x86-runtime" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Here</a> is a detailed explanation of ART’s main features and compilation principles in comparison with Dalvik*.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Google provides a powerful Java infrastructure: Android SDK has an enriched Java API. You can download the SDK tools only or <a href="http://developer.android.com/tools/studio/index.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Android Studio</a>—the official Android IDE based on <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">IntelliJ* IDEA</a> including Android SDK tools, platforms, and emulators. It can be installed on Windows*, Mac OS X*, and Linux*. The SDK 6.0 Marshmallow with new features and technologies is already available!</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> If you prefer to use some of the usual and universal tools you can get the <a href="http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/eclipse-adt.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Android Development Tools (ADT)</a> and integrate it into Eclipse* IDE.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Besides SDKs and IDEs, there are a lot of frameworks that help developers, for example, <a href="http://box2d.org/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Box2D</a>*, <a href="https://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LibGDX</a>*, and<a href="http://www.b4x.com/b4a.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Basic4Android</a>*.</div> <h2 style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 29px; font-weight: 200; margin: 20px 0px 11px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> C#</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="floatRight" src="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/android/1075862/what-programming-lang-fig-02-ms-dot-net-logo.gif" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> C# is known as an object-oriented, Java-alternative language by Microsoft. It is associated with .NET Framework, a Windows* component including Common Language Runtime (CLR) needed to run C# code and class libraries.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> In the case of Android, <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mono</a>* plays the role of .NET in Windows. Mono is an open source project supported by <a href="https://xamarin.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Xamarin</a> based on the ECMA standards for C# and the CLR.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Mono comprises four main parts: C# compiler, Mono runtime, Base Class Library, and Mono Class Library (classes for Gtk+*, Zip* files, LDAP*, OpenGL*, Cairo*, POSIX*, and so on).</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; float: left; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="floatLeft" src="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/android/1075862/what-programming-lang-fig-03-xamarin-logo.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Xamarin also proposes a range of instruments for mobile developers: <a href="https://xamarin.com/platform" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Xamarin Platform</a> for building cross-platform C# apps with native interfaces, Xamarin <a href="https://xamarin.com/test-cloud" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Test Cloud</a> for measuring the validity on a real device that you don’t have, <a href="https://xamarin.com/insights" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Xamarin Insights</a> for real-time monitoring on how users interact with your app, and <a href="https://xamarin.com/university" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Xamarin University</a> online and offline classes to learn about mobile development. Xamarin framework easily integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio*.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> The following frameworks are available for C# programming: <a href="http://unity3d.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Unity</a>*, <a href="http://monocross.net/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Monocross</a>*, and <a href="http://www.cocos2dxna.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Cocos2D-XNA</a>*.</div> <h2 style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 29px; font-weight: 200; margin: 20px 0px 11px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> </h2> <h2 style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 29px; font-weight: 200; margin: 20px 0px 11px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> HTML5</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="floatRight" src="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/android/1075862/what-programming-lang-fig-06-html-5-logo.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> HTML5 is a markup language standard for structuring and presenting web content. Generally HTML5 markup is used with the other key web instruments: JavaScript* programming language and CSS3 (Cascading Style Sheets). The combination allows you to create very complex web applications.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> But the World Wide Web is not the only place where HTML5 is used. Nowadays it is widely used in mobile development for creating hybrid applications. So if you are an experienced web programmer and want to work on Android apps, you won’t need to spend time learning a completely new language.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; float: left; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="floatLeft" src="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/android/1075862/what-programming-lang-fig-07-javascript-logo.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> What does “hybrid app” mean? There is a classification that divides all apps into three types: native, web, and hybrid, that is, putting together web features and native UI elements. On the one hand a hybrid app is run by <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/webview.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WebView</a> – an extension of Android View class that enables you to insert web pages in Android apps. It gives the app the ability to connect with the needed hardware capabilities. On the other hand you can’t visually see the difference between a hybrid app and a native one!<br /> Many engines or SDKs are focused on the HTML5 standard: <a href="https://www.madewithmarmalade.com/products/web-marmalade" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Marmalade Web</a>,<a href="https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Platforms/HTML5/GettingStarted/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Unreal Engine</a>, <a href="http://www.cocos2d-x.org/wiki/Cocos2d-JS" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Cocos2D-JS</a>, <a href="https://cordova.apache.org/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Cordova</a>*, and others.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="floatRight" src="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/android/1075862/what-programming-lang-fig-08-apache-cordova-logo.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> To cost effectively create hybrid Android apps try <a href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-xdk" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Intel® XDK</a>, a development environment that provide tools for each development stage—from design to sharing at app stores. It includes an intuitive GUI layout editor called <a href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/xdk/docs/app-designer-overview" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">App Designer</a> and a<a href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/xdk/docs/using-the-editor-in-the-develop-tab" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Built-in Code Editor</a> that accelerate the development process. Enjoy app testing with <a href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/xdk/docs/using-live-development" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Live Development Tasks</a>. For more information about these and other Intel XDK features read the <a href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/xdk/docs/intel-xdk-guided-tutorial" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Getting Started Tutorial</a>.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Intel® XDK has a special service for 2D game development. Game Asset Manager helps to easily access, manage, and manipulate game assets. A lot of frameworks support and Apache Cordova plugins and APIs are also included. To get started with Intel XDK game development, see <a href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/xdk/docs/getstarted-gamedev" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Getting</a> Started with HTML5 Game Development.</div> <h2 style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 29px; font-weight: 200; margin: 20px 0px 11px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> Conclusion</h2> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> This article gave an overview of the most widespread program languages and their place in the Android industry. The main takeaway is that you should define the app concept before finding the appropriate program language. You should ask yourself a question: what the app will be? If it will be a simple calculator you can choose between classical Java, C#, or modern HTML5. But if you’re going to launch a 3D game product with rich graphics, try to realize the native power of C++ or C#.</div> <h2 style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 29px; font-weight: 200; margin: 20px 0px 11px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> References</h2> <div> <ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://developer.android.com/index.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Android Developers</a></li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.oracle.com/java/index.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Oracle Java</a></li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://isocpp.org/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">C++ standard</a></li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-334.htm" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">C# language specification</a></li> <li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">HTML5 - World Wide Web Consortium</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>

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