If everything goes as planned, Google's Project Ara has the
potential to change the way we know about mobile. Already gaining a
considerable amount of interest because of it's innovative step towards
modularity, backed up by it's environmental cause of reducing electronic waste;
Project Ara definitely seems like something we can all get behind.
Every year, a huge amount of electronic waste is created
because of the non-modular approach to device creation, wherein if a part of
the device is damaged or made unusable, then the entire thing needs to be put
in the dustbin more often than not.
This is where a modular design comes in handy. This ensures that only the damaged or unusable part of the device needs to be replaced, thereby bringing down the cost, considerably. But this can turn up to be a challenge for Android App Development India professionals, in the way of a different type of fragmentation.
Developers would need to have to deal with the different
sets of configurations that a customer would choose. After all, Project Ara is
also all about customization and individuality. It's bareboned initial offering
of course is going to be pretty low, under $100, which users can then add on
modules to, according to their needs and requirements. Android
Application Development India will now have to make amends in their software
to perform additional checks that would get it data about whether their app
will be able to run in a stable way.
There's also another aspect that might cause issues for Android
Application Development India developers with the otherwise
brilliant plan. That is testing. Well, it's not as if Android developers are
plagued with testing problems now, because of the huge fragmentation in the
operating systems from Android, with a whole part of the users still using a
considerably old version of the OS.
But Ara poses a new kind of problem, one which if atleast is
regulated from the point of view of the OS, can face set backs in the form of
hardware combinations.
But the other aspect that is worth noting is the general
acceptance of a project such as this. Because as we can see a lot of the people
around the world seem to not be interested in getting their hands dirty with a
DIY project when they can just choose to travel the normal path of buying a
ready to use product that all they have to do is turn on.
Especially, the people in the developing economies. This
might stop Android
App Development India professionals to put as much time and effort as
they should or can to develop for the project with a relatively low userbase
which points at lesser revenue.
But all in all, Project Ara is a revolutionary way of going mobile,
and can bring about positive changes.
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