3 Features for Literacy Games on Android Platform.

Mobile phone app development companies work in tandem with education institutions to create applications that use the experiential learning format to engage children as individuals and groups through activities. Android is the leading mobile operating system with over 1 billion applications in its app market, the Google Play Store. It has greater reach since the open source platform is available on smartphones, wearable device, and tablets in multiple price ranges. This gives it's market place greater reach among the target audience for the applications worldwide.

We take a look at 3 features for literacy games on the Android platform that can aid in creating a rich learning experience for kids.

1. Animation for engagement:

Animated figures with lots of colors and multimedia engage students of all age group. With older students, the trend leans towards high-quality original images and animating facts and figures so that they leap or zoom into prominence. This aids recalling the facts and also helps in understanding concepts. Background noises, music, and even recorded voice clips augment the efficacy of the visual tools.

2. Games and Interaction:

Instead of a question bank or tests with multiple choice questions, if the tests are presented as games, where user can challenge others or score themselves, like in quizzes, with prizes and levels they can cross, the entire learning session becomes interesting and engaging. The advantage of an application is students can work at their own pace and distract themselves by exploring various aspects of the application. If a game is added to the application it enables students to engage in the application and not just view it passively.

3. Use voice recordings, camera and other device feature for personalizing the experience:

The mobile device features such as mike, camera, flash etc. can be used to extend the application features and creating a personalized user experience. For instance, a student can probably record the lesson in their own voice or scribble notes with a stylus pen on the sideline while reading text on the application. They can use the camera to feed them image for characters in a game or for an animated cartoon series among other things.