Next Steps
In this chapter we went from zero to sixty and learned a lot about programming native Android applications. However, unlike other introductory books on Android programming, we wrote our native application entirely using the Android device. While the future of computing is clearly moving away from a desktop-centric world to a mobile-centric one, Android is the first among its competitors to declare its ecosystem entirely post PC--enabled. I suspect that Apple and Microsoft will eventually reach a milestone when developers will be able to create applications entirely on those platforms (no OS X or Windows desktop software required), but as of today, Android is in the top slot.
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