What Is Android
What Is Android
What is Android?
Android is a software stack for mobile devices. The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language. Android delivers a complete set of software for mobile devices. The software includes an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. Middleware is computer software that connects software components or applications.
The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact.
What is Android?
In July of 2005, Google acquired Android, Inc. a small company based in California, USA. When Google took over little was known about the function of Android, Inc. the only thing that was known was that they made software for mobile phones. Today we see that Google has been very busy incorporating the use of Android to create a new mobile phone which is now available through T-mobile and many others. The very first phone to run the Android Operating System was the HTC Dream, which was released on October 22, 2008.
April 17th, 2008 Android Developer Challenge I. $5 million in total awarded to developers for great Android applications
October 21st, 2008 Android Open Source Project Source code is released
Android Architecture
This diagram shows the major components of the Android operating system.
New Features On-screen soft keyboard Works in both portrait and landscape orientation Support for user installation of 3rd party keyboards User dictionary for custom words Home screen Widgets Bundled home screen widgets include: analog clock, calendar, music player, picture frame, and search Live folders Camera & Gallery Video recording Video playback (MPEG-4 & 3GP formats) Bluetooth Stereo Bluetooth support (A2DP and AVCRP profiles) Auto-pairing Improved hands free experience
Conclusion
In conclusion, Android seems to be the future of mobile OS's and mobile software Development. In today's increasingly complicated technology this OS just adds to all of the fun, making phones cooler and development easier. It also seems as though Android could easily move its way into the market from phones to netbooks and desktops as developers become more accustomed with it, and this will only create more business.
Currently there are about 20 Android phones available on the market with more than 75 million Android handsets forecasted by 2012. This statistic is very impressive and proves that there is indeed a bright future for Android.
Conclusion
Since Android is an open source (meaning it is available to anyone) developers and handset manufacturers have full access to it. This means that developers and manufacturers all over the world are taking advantage of the Android operating system. This also means that the Business should grow very rapidly!
Go Android Go!!!!!!!!
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