Android Introduction

WHAT IS ANDROID?

•  Android is a mobile Operating System.

•  Based on a modified version of Linux.

•  Was originally developed by Android Inc. in 2005 before Google purchased it.

•  Android is open & free : so most of the Android code was released under the open-source Apache License.

•  Vendors can freely download the Android source code but need to add their own proprietary extensions to the software & customize it to differentiate their products from others.

•  For Android developers, a unified approach to application development is offered : developers only need to develop for Android, and their applications should be able to run on numerous devices.

•  Scale of Android is huge… Google activates One Million Android devices every day (as on June 27th 2012)!

   

  

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