Android becomes a 5-year-old on Tuesday, and the app development community deserves almost as much credit as Google for making the OS such a smashing success.
Without apps, your smartphone couldn't identify the name of that song playing in the coffee shop, almost as if by magic. Nor could it stream the latest episode of House of Cards. It couldn't Instagram something. Or "like." Or tweet. Without apps, your handset basically becomes a dumbphone.
Indeed, Android has become one of the most successful operating systems of all time largely on the strength of its app ecosystem.
Since the app developers are the ones working hands-on with Android, we figured we'd pick their brains about what it's been like developing for the Android platform over its first half-decade, and what they predict for the future of Android.
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