To develop Android applications, the user can employ Netbeans or Eclipse for assistance. Each Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is free and easy to maneuver.

Eclipse is an open-source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) supported by IBM. Eclipse is a popular script creator for Java application development (Java SE and Java EE) and Android apps.

Java, which Eclipse says has a developer base of 9 million, is much more widely used than languages such as C that are still common in the IoT world, said Chris Rommel, an analyst at VDC Research.