The basic problem is that you've got millions of high school students and college dropouts who fancy themselves programmers, and they're all writing Android apps, hoping to come up with the next big hit. A very small number will develop into decent programmers, and an even smaller (microscopic) number will have that big hit. But a very small portion of millions is still a lot of competition.
Additionally, Android, as it's currently designed, does not have "legs". The process model and UI are both too restrictive to be extendable to the pads and other new paradigms of the future. For the near term you're better off looking for apps that you can sell to a business -- specialized apps their employees will use or apps they will distribute free to customers. Then you get your money up front, in a reasonably predictable fashion. (Here it helps to be able to write Android, iPhone, and maybe Nokia and Blackberry apps, so you can provide the customer with options.) For the far term, you need to expand outside of the Android and even the phone world, and learn other paradigms. I'd recommend, eg, Qt for desktop applications. And you need to become familiar with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, et al -- even though they are probably doomed to collapse under their own weight in another 15 years, whatever follows will no doubt draw from their basics. Finally, you should learn about servers and databases -- the general concepts will be around forever, even if the specifics change. And of course, the new big thing is "the cloud", though I'd take that with a grain of salt. On May 23, 1:11 pm, imran115 <imran.hyd...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was wondering what peoples thoughts maybe on the application that > Android are developing, that allows people with no programming > experience to create apps. I am currently learning the basics in > Android development and wanted to pursue it as a career. Is there any > point, as just about anyone will soon be able to create an app? > > The link below shows what I am talking about. > > http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ > > Will programming for Android apps no longer be a specialist skill, > hence not much of a career? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
