Over the last 10 years, Android has made a name for itself not only with its candy-themed platform updates, but also with its widespread, and unexpected, success. In its lifetime, the open-source Android operating system has added 1.4 billion active users and 80% of smartphones today run Android software and Android app development company . In 2014 alone, more than 1 billion Android phones were sold. According to Stack Overflow's 2015 Developer Survey, mobile app development is a minority in the programming community - only 9% of the world's total developers say they are focusing on mobile devices. Of these mobile developers, however, the largest group of Android developers, 44.6% identify themselves as Android developers, while 33.4% say they are building for iOS. Still, many companies struggle to find enough developers with the technical skills to complete their Android projects. This trend is likely to continue as the overall number of smartphone users - and Android users, ...