Development environment for Android application development: An experience report

In the last decades we have witnessed an enormous increase in the end user acceptance of mobile communications. The appearance of mobile platforms based on the open source software has rapidly increased the interest into mobile applications development. In this paper, we present an approach to the Android mobile phone application development that is based on an open source software and open source development environment. The work presented here is the outcome of a student project. We outline the experiences and lessons learned.