24 Developer Tools
Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers.
—Steve Ballmer, Microsoft1
One of the reasons behind Android’s growth is the developer ecosystem that was created along the way, enabling thousands (now millions) of applications for people to find, download, and use.
But this kind of ecosystem doesn’t just happen automatically, especially for a new platform with no market share. In order to lower the barrier to entry for application developers, to make it easier for them to write and publish their applications, Android needed to provide tools for developers.
A determined developer could write code and ...
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