Excellent Time to be an Android Developer

So, Google I/O just ended and here are the things Google announced

1. Android L for your phones and tablets (some OEMs will also put it in laptop and hybrid form factors)
2. Android Wear for your smartwatch
3. Android TV for your TVs or set-top boxes
4. Android Auto for your car
5. Android apps on Chrome OS

They even showed a roadmap for the evolution of their platform at around 47 minutes and 43 seconds in the Google IO 2014 Keynote

It shows everything mentioned above plus one more: home. Yes, Android@Home is still alive and kicking. Here is a recent interview of Sundar Pichai from WIRED in which Pichai said Google is committed to supporting a smart connected home from an Android standpoint and he will have more to talk about their efforts later this year.

I believe you can see where I am going with this. Android is going to be everywhere, Android development is going to be huge and good Android developers are going to be in great demand. More great news included the fact that Android now has 1 billion active users per 30 days, 1 BILLION!!! thats 1/7th of the people in the world. Android based tablets accounted for 64% of the total global shipments and 46% of YouTube views in the past 30 days. When you consider the Android One that was announced, a line of phones with standardised hardware along with software direct from Google costing less than $100 for the developing markets and bringing the rest of the world online, you can tell that the market of Android is going to explode.

So if you are an Android developer or have ideas for an app for phones, tablets, smart-watches, TVs or cars, start developing. You have a huge market to exploit.