Business Insider reported in March that Android revenues are expected to overtake iOS for the first time in 2017. While Android was once considered the 'low-rent' district of app revenues, this has slowly been turning around.

Monetization: On the other hand, maybe you're going at this to make money from the start.

And hey, if you can make a couple bucks off it in the end, all the better. It could be for school or your own curiosity.

Learning: There's are few better ways to gain an understanding of a platform than to develop for it.

Without open source contributions, there would be no Linux, and without Linux there would be no Android (or at least no Android as we know it). Community: Developing something useful and making it available for free (particularly as open source) is an excellent way to participate in the Android and/or FOSS community.Maybe after looking in the Play Store for your dream app, you realize that it's something you'll need to build yourself because no one else has yet. Necessity: It's the mother of invention, after all.There are any number of reasons you'd want to create your own Android app, including:

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