Java familiarity is key to developers being able to build apps a bit quicker for Google's Android mobile platform than for the rival Apple iOS or Microsoft's Windows Phone platforms, Evans Data said this week.
The company surveyed 464 developers worldwide as part of its semi-annual Mobile Development Survey. Forty-one percent of respondents targeting Android said a typical Android app was finished in month or less. This compared to 36 percent who said the same about iOS and 34 percent who said this about Windows Phone.
Evans attributes Android's advantage to Java development skills, which are leveraged by Android application-builders. The less-familiar Objective-C language is used for iOS applications, although this language is growing in popularity. Windows Phone applications use languages like C# and Visual Basic, which have been prominent.
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