What are Android ?

Android is a Linux working system for cellular gadgets reminiscent of sensible telephones and PDAs are based. It has developed the Open Handset Alliance led by Google.Google acquired the unique developer of Android Software Inc., 2005.Unveiling Android distribution in 2007, which mixes the established Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 84 hardware, software program and communications, the development of open requirements for mobile devices.Google announced the Android supply code is open beneath the Apache Open License.Android Source Challenge (AOSP) is responsible for sustaining and growing Android.Android is a big community of builders, applications ("apps") that extends the performance of devices. Developers write mostly tailor-made to Java. In October, 2011 was calculated greater than 400,000 functions for Android, and the number of functions from Android Market since December 2011, 10 billion dollars. Functions from third parties, or online shops, such as the Android Market may be downloaded, the App Store is successful in Google.Android platform is a finest-promoting smartphone on the earth 4 quarter of 2010 Canalys Android units to greater than 200 million in November 2011.In accordance Andy Rubin, Google in December 2011 over 700,000 Android gadgets use to the checklist each day.

Android platform is open supply, and all can study Android programming and can begin to develop applications.

There are several versions of the Android OS.

Android has many unique and exquisite that it is for builders and users, some of that are related:

1.     Framework that enables the trade of elements.
2. Enhanced graphics with a 2D graphics library and custom 3D graphics for OpenGL ES 1.0 specification based pushed.
3. Media assist for video, audio and fixes frequent picture formats (MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF.
4. Set Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G and Wi-Fi.
5. SQLite for storing structured knowledge.
6. Open-supply WebKit browser web-primarily based integrated.
7. Digital camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer (hardware help).
8. GSM cell phones.
9. Dalvik virtual machine optimized for cellular gadgets.
10. Complete growth surroundings that includes a device emulator, instruments for debugging, performance profiling and reminiscence and the Eclipse IDE plug-in.