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Android is an open source operating system developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. It is based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software. As of September 2013, over 1 billion Android devices have been activated and 48 billion apps have been installed from the Google Play store. Android was founded in 2003 by Andy Rubin and others and the first Android device was released in 2008.

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Android is an open source operating system developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. It is based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software. As of September 2013, over 1 billion Android devices have been activated and 48 billion apps have been installed from the Google Play store. Android was founded in 2003 by Andy Rubin and others and the first Android device was released in 2008.

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Android (/n.

drd/; AN-droyd) is a Linux-based operating system

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Android is open source and Google releases the code under the Apache License.

eight OS versions simultaneously in use.

As of May 2013, 48 billion apps have been installed from the Google Play store, [29] September 3, 2013, there have been 1 billion Android devices activated.

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and as of

Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in October 2003 by Andy Rubin (co-founder [30] [31] [32] of Danger), Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire Communications, Inc.), Nick Sears (once VP at T[1 Mobile), and Chris White (headed design and interface development at WebTV)

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This chart provides data about the relative number of devices accessing the Play Store recently and [170] running a given version of the Android platform as of September 4, 2013.

Version

Code name

Release date

API level

Distribution

4.4

KitKat

4.3

Jelly Bean

July 24, 2013

18

0%

4.2.x

Jelly Bean November 13, 2012

17

8.5%

4.1.x

Jelly Bean

July 9, 2012

16

36.6%

4.0.34.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich December 16, 2011

15

21.7%

Version

Code name

Release date

API level

Distribution

3.2

Honeycomb

July 15, 2011

13

0.1%

3.1

Honeycomb

May 10, 2011

12

0%

2.3.32.3.7

Gingerbread

February 9, 2011

10

30.7%

2.32.3.2

Gingerbread

December 6, 2010

0%

2.2

Froyo

May 20, 2010

2.4%

2.02.1

Eclair

October 26, 2009

0%

1.6

Donut September 15, 2009

0%

1.5

Cupcake

April 30, 2009

0%

Google Company / developer Open Handset Alliance Android Open Source Project

Programmed in

C (core), C++,Java (UI)[1]

OS family

Unix-like

Working state

Current

Source model

Open source[2] (with proprietary drivers)

Initial release

September 23, 2008[3]

Latest stable release

4.3 Jelly Bean / August 23, 2013; 16 days ago[4]

Marketing target

Smartphones Tablet computers

Available language(s) Multi-lingual (46 languages)

Package manager

Google Play, APK

Supported platforms

ARM, MIPS,[5] x86[6]

Kernel type

Monolithic (modified Linux kernel)

Userland

Bionic libc,[7] shellfrom NetBSD,[8] native core utilities with a few from NetBSD[9]

Default user interface Graphical (Multi-touch)

License

Apache License 2.0 Linux kernel patches under GNU GPL v2[10]

Official website

www.android.co

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