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What Is Android?

Android is a software platform and operating system for mobile devices based on the Linux kernel. It allows developers to write managed code using Google-developed Java libraries. The Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of technology companies, works with Google to develop Android. Features of Android include support for touchscreens, maps, messaging, media playback, cameras, GPS and more. Android is an open source project available for use and modification by device makers.

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What Is Android?

Android is a software platform and operating system for mobile devices based on the Linux kernel. It allows developers to write managed code using Google-developed Java libraries. The Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of technology companies, works with Google to develop Android. Features of Android include support for touchscreens, maps, messaging, media playback, cameras, GPS and more. Android is an open source project available for use and modification by device makers.

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What is Android?

Android is a software platform and operating


system for mobile devices.
 Based on the Linux kernel, developed by Google
with the Open Handset Alliance.
 Allows developers to write managed code in the
Java language, controlling the device via Google-
developed Java libraries.
Android is available as open source.
Open Handset Alliance
On 5 November 2007, the Open Handset
Alliance, a consortium(group) of several
companies which include Google, HTC, Intel,
Motorola, Qualcomm, T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel
and NVIDIA, was unveiled with the goal to
develop open standards for mobile devices.
On 9 December 2008, it was announced that 14
new members would be joining the Android
project including: Sony Ericsson, Vodafone
Group Plc, ARM Holdings Plc, Asustek Computer
Inc, Toshiba Corp and Garmin.
Hardware products running Android
TOUCHSCREEN
MAPS APPLICATION
STREET VIEW
SCROLL APPS
THREADED MESSAGING
FEATURES OF ANDROID
Handset layouts The platform is adaptable to larger, VGA, 2D graphics library, 3D
graphics library based on OpenGL ES 1.0 specifications, and
traditional smartphone layouts.
Storage The Database Software SQLite is used for data storage purposes
Connectivity Android supports connectivity technologies including GSM/EDGE,
CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
Messaging SMS and MMS are available forms of messaging including threaded
text messaging.
Web browser The web browser available in Android is based on the open-source
WebKit application framework.
Media support Android supports the following audio/video/still media formats:
MPEG-4, H.264, MP3, AAC, OGG, AMR, JPEG, PNG, GIF.
Additional Android can utilize video/still cameras, touchscreens, GPS,
hardware accelerometers, and accelerated 3D graphics.
support
Multi-touch Android has unofficial native support for multi-touch .
Android Developer Challenge
• The Android Developer Challenge was a
competition for the most innovative
application for Android.
• Google offered prizes totaling 10 million US
dollars, distributed between two phases of
the competition.
OPEN SOURCE
Since 21 Oct 2008, Android has been available
as open source.
 Google opened the entire source code ,
which had previously been unavailable, under
an Apache license.

With Apache License, vendors are free to add


proprietary extensions .
CRITICISM
 Tethering (internet connectivity to a laptop
or pc via the cell phone) is forbidden by T-
Mobile USA and Google has banned such
applications for T-Mobile USA users.
Android uses a Linux kernel, but, according to
Google, it does not support the full set of
standard Linux libraries.
 Android does not use established Java
standards, i.e. Java SE and ME.

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