I’ve recently got myself a new phone sporting the Android operating system. It’s a great little device and sparked my interest in developing for the platform.

To ease myself into it, I’ve developed a simple unit conversion app to help teach me the core features of the Android SDK whilst providing something that I can publish on the Android Market that only took a few days to develop!

At the moment, it supports simple units and conversions such as area, length, and volume but I’m currently expanding to include density, memory sizes, and currency.

Currency provides an exiting challenge in that I will be able to pull live exchange rates to the app where an internet connection is available for highly accurate conversions. I could even use GPS to detect which currency the user will currently be using based on the country that they are in.

Such a simple premise for an application has and will be able to teach me a lot about the Android SDK and provide an excellent grounding for future apps!

Head on over to the Android Market or AppBrain and download my modest little app!