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Google financially backed Android Inc., the initial developer of the Android software, and later acquired the company in 2005. The Open Handset Alliance, consisting of 86 companies, was founded in 2007 to advance open standards for mobile devices when Google unveiled the Android distribution. Android uses an open source model where developers in a large community write applications that extend the functionality of Android devices, primarily using a customized version of Java.

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Android

Google financially backed Android Inc., the initial developer of the Android software, and later acquired the company in 2005. The Open Handset Alliance, consisting of 86 companies, was founded in 2007 to advance open standards for mobile devices when Google unveiled the Android distribution. Android uses an open source model where developers in a large community write applications that extend the functionality of Android devices, primarily using a customized version of Java.

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ANDROID

Google financially backed the initial developer of the software, Android Inc., and later purchased it in 2005. The unveiling of the Android distribution in 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 86 hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. Google releases the Android code as opensource, under the Apache License. The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is tasked with the maintenance and further development of Android. Android has a large community of developers writing applications ("apps") that extend the functionality of the devices. Developers write primarily in a customized version of Java. Apps can be downloaded from third-party sites or through online stores such as Google Play (formerly Android Market), the app store run by Google. In June 2012, there were more than 600,000 apps available for Android, and the estimated number of applications downloaded from Google Play was 20 billion. Android became the worlds leading smartphone platform at the end of 2010. For the first quarter of 2012, Android had a 59% smartphone market share worldwide. At the half of 2012, there were 400 million devices activated and 1 million activations per day. Analysts point to the advantage to Android of being a multi-channel, multi-carrier OS.

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