Smartphones have become common. Apps have changed how we work, socialize, buy products, read news and get entertained, and the market for mobile devices consume more and more of the dwindling PC market.   Therefore, it’s no surprise that more and more people are considering becoming app developers, and with the trend still on the rise, perhaps now is not a bad time to jump on board.   One can get far in application development on their own, there are many self-taught app developers currently working as in-house developers around the world without formal education.   Only in recent years have universities and other schools begun to create app-specific educations, and because of this many employers are looking for the self taught programmers who initially got in the game because…