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This was a must-have for me because there are very few weather??apps out there that offer this feature while giving so much more information too. Also with the elite version are some pretty nice widgets. The elite widget (actually named that) is a radar map for your home-screen, so if you want to see the radar at a glance, you don't even have to open the app. Besides, you're getting all of this for a whole two dollars. If you can't spare two dollars for an awesome weather app, then what are you doing with a smartphone?

Overall

WeatherBug is quite easily my weather app of choice. Being somewhat of a perfectionist, I have tried almost every weather app out there; Even??many paid ones. With great features like animated maps (Elite), temperature overlays, alerts, pollen count, detailed forecasts and more, this weather??app sits atop the mountain while telling all the other apps what the weather is like.

WeatherBug is available on the Android Market for free. (Ad supported) You can also purchase the Elite version for $2.00 which will give you more features, and no ads.

The advent of mobile phones have made our life easier than before and thanks to the upgraded versions like that of iPhone, touch screen phones, Smartphones etc. that various mobile technologies are compiled into one device. With the high-end handsets like iPhone and touch screen Smartphones, the users can access all computing applications on the go from their mobile phones. With the introduction of Android, mobile technology has reached its next level. Mobile development for Android is mainly based on Java.

Android is the software that has introduced an operating system for mobile phones. It also comes with middleware and other key mobile applications. With its growing popularity, it is quite obvious that Android will soon surpass iPhone from marketing point of view. Developers, who want to stay in this busy and competitive market, must embrace Android mobile development. So far, more than 50000 Android mobile applications have already been developed for Android powered mobile phones.

There are three versions of Android operating systems available for different mobile applications:

• Android 1.5


• Android 2.0/2.1


• Android 1.6

Owned by Google and a group of nearly 65 mobile companies, Android offers a leeway to intervene into mobile application development. Android has given developers the facility to develop any Android mobile application on various platforms such as Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

A few things to remember: If you are an Android developer, you must keep a few points in mind before working on mobile development for Android.

• Android Apps must be incorporated with more than one application module. Generally, an Android application comes with various services, activities, broadcast receivers, and content providers.


• Each of these components should perform distinct roles.


• Each of these modules must be activated separately.


• Files should declare the components along with their requirements. For example, if the component requires a separate hardware configuration, it should be mentioned in the corresponding file.


• There are many non-code app sources such as layout, image and string files, which should be device-specific. For example, developers have to build separate layout files for various screen sizes.

Benefits of mobile development for Android: There is a trigger, called 'User-friendliness'. The mobile technology that hits the trigger, will win the crown of popularity.