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Android Technology: Hindusthan College of Engineering & Technology

This document provides an overview of the Android operating system. It discusses what Android is, its origins and development by Google, its key features including an open source platform, support for various wireless technologies and a multi-process system. The document also summarizes the different versions of Android from the initial beta release to the current KitKat version, and compares Android to other mobile operating systems. It concludes by noting Android's growing market share and potential to become the most widely used operating system worldwide.

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Android Technology: Hindusthan College of Engineering & Technology

This document provides an overview of the Android operating system. It discusses what Android is, its origins and development by Google, its key features including an open source platform, support for various wireless technologies and a multi-process system. The document also summarizes the different versions of Android from the initial beta release to the current KitKat version, and compares Android to other mobile operating systems. It concludes by noting Android's growing market share and potential to become the most widely used operating system worldwide.

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HINDUSTHAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

&
TECHNOLOGY

ANDROID
TECHNOLOGY
PRESENTED
BY

Naveen.T
(720712107029
)

INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS ANDROID?
A Software platform and operating system for mobile
Based on the Linux kernel.
Android was found way back in 2003.
It was developed in Palo Alto, California.
Android was developed by the Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears
and Chris White.
Android was purchased by the GOOGLE in AUGUST,2005 for 50
million $.

OPEN HANDSET ALLIANCE(OHA)


What is OHA?
Its consortium of several companies.
This group of companies are allowed to use
source code of Android and develop applications.
Reason for Nokia not to develop Android Mobiles
is Nokia is not part of OHA.

FEATURES OF ANDROID
Android is not a single piece of hardware.
Android supports wireless communication using

3G Networks
4G Networks
802.11 Wi-Fi Networks
Bluetooth Connectivity

Android is a multi-process system, in which each


application (and parts of the system) runs in its own
process.

Interface that is better then the previous touch screen


mobiles.
User gets millions of applications that user can not get in
any other mobile operating system
Android supports advanced audio/video/still media formats
such as

MP4 (Motion picture 4)


MP3 (MPEG Audio layer 3)
AMR(Ambulatory medical recorder)
JPEG(joint photographic experts group)
SDK(standard development kit).

COMPARISON WITH OTHER


OPERATING SYSTEMS
Other then Android there are several other mobile
operating system which is used.
Symbian, iOS, windows this are one of the most
used mobile operating systems.

SALES COMPARISON OF OS
Sales

Android os
Windows phone
iOS
Symbian Os
Blackberry os
Others

FEATURE

Ease of use
Voice to text
Gaming
Customizable
Music Player
Notification system
Google voice

ANDROID

iOS

Ios vs Android Applications


350000
300000
250000
200000
Androrid
iOs

150000
100000
50000
0
2009

iOs
2010

2011

Androrid
2012

VERSIONS OF ANDROID
Android Beta
First Version of Android.
The focus of Android beta is testing incorporating usability.
Android beta will generally have many more problems on speed and
performance.

Android Astro 1.0


First full version of android.

Released on September 23, 2008.


Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support.
Quite slow in operating.
copy and paste feature in the web browser is
not present.

Android Cupcake 1.5

Released on April 30, 2009.


Added auto-rotation option.
Copy and Paste feature added in the web browser.
Increased speed and performance but not upto
required level.

Android Donut 1.6


Released on September 15, 2009.
Voice search and Search box were
added.
Faster OS boot times and fast web
browsing experience.
Typing is quite slower.

Android clair 2.0/2.1

Released on October 26, 2009.


Bluetooth 2.1 support.
Improved typing speed on virtual
keyboard, with smarter dictionary.
no Adobe flash media support.

Android Froyo 2.2


Released on May 20, 2010.
Supportfor Adobe Flash 10.1
Improved Application launcher with better
browser

No internet calling.

Android Gingerbread 2.3

Released on December 6, 2010.


One touch word selection and copy/paste.
New keyboard for faster word input.
More successful version of Android than
previous versions.
not supports multi-core processors.

Android Honeycomb 3.0


Released on February 22, 2011.
Support for multi-core processors
Ability to encrypt all user data.
This version of android is only available
for
tablets.

Android IceCreamSandwich(ICS) 4.0

Released on November 14, 2011.


Virtual button in the UI.
A new typeface family for the UI, Roboto.
Ability to shut down apps that are using
data in the background.

Android JellyBean 4.1


Released on June 27, 2012.
Latest version of Android.
Smoother user interface.

Android Kitkat Os
The OS with the launch of Google Nexus 5
It is capable of working on mobile with 512MB ram also
Most outstanding feature of new Android 4.4 Kitkat OS.
Android 4.4 is light on memory usage.

Android lolipop Os

spanning versions between 5.0 and 5.1.1.[3] Unveiled on June 25, 2014
during theGoogle I/O conference
Android 5.0 Lollipop is without a doubt one of the biggest Android
releases to date
Nexus and select Moto X owners have had Lollipop for the last week

LIMITATIONS
Making source code available to everyone inevitably invites the
attention of hackers.
Android operating system uses more amount of battery as compared
to normal mobile phones.
As there are so many user sometimes it becomes difficult to connect
all the users.
As we call Android is world of applications we continuously need to
connected with the internet which is not possible for all the users.

CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE


Android is now stepping up in next level of mobile internet.
There are chances of Android Mobile sales becomes more then
iPhone in next two years.
There are chances of Android may become the widely used
operating system in world.

THANKYOU

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