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WHAT IS ANDROID WHY ANDROID WAS CREATEDANDROID FEATURESCORE ANDROID APPLICATIONSANDROID VERSIONSADVANTAGESCONCLUSIONREFERENCES
WHAT IS ANDROID?
Android is an operating system based on Linux with a Java programming interface
Designed primarily for touch screen mobile devices Android SDK provides all necessary tools to develop
Android applications Android is currently primarily developed by Google
WHY ANDROID WAS CREATED? Full phone software stack including
applications Android is open Android is free Community support 100% Java Phone
ANDROID FEATURES: Software Features:
Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine
SQLite for relational data storage Media support for common audio, video and still image
formats(MPEG4, MP3, JPG, PNG, GIF)
Hardware Features Supported: Cellular networking: GSM, EDGE(hardware dependent) LAN: Bluetooth and Wi-Fi (hardware dependent) Camera and GPS (hardware dependent)
CORE ANDROID APPLICATIONS: Desk Clock Browser Calendar Calculator Camera Contacts Email Gallery LivePicker(Live Wallpaper Picker) Messaging(SMS as well as MMS) Music Phone Settings Sound Recorders Google Maps
ANDROID VERSIONS:
Android Beta: First version of Android Focus was testing incorporating usability Problems on speed and performance
Android Astro 1.0 : First full version of Android Released on September 23, 2008 Camera support Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support Quite slow in operating Copy and paste feature in the web browser was 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 up to 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 was quite slower
Android Froyo 2.2 : Released on May 20, 2010 Support adobe flash 10.1 No internet calling Support installing applications to the expandable memory
Android Éclair 2.0/2.1 : Released on October 26, 2009 Improved Google maps Improved typing speed with virtual keyword Addition live wallpaper No flash player support
Android Honeycomb 3.0 : Released on September 22, 2011 Supports Joysticks and gamepads Improved flash support in browser Improved ability of apps to access file in the SD card
Android Gingerbread 2.3 : Released on December 6, 2010 Internet calling One touch word selection and copy/paste More successful version of Android than previous versions Supports voice and video chat using Google Talk
Android Ice-cream Sandwich(ICS) 4.0 : Released on October 19, 2011 Smooth screen rotation Ability to shut down apps that are using data in the
background Built in Photo editor
Android Jelly Bean 4.1 : Released on July 9, 2012 Latest version of Android Smoother user interface Bluetooth data transfer with android beam
ADVANTAGES:
Free and open source A free market for application Inexpensive development tools Freely available Software Development Tools Enabling development of powerful applications
CONCLUSION: Android is open to all: industry, developers
and users Participating in many of the successful open
source projects Google android is stepping into the next level
of mobile internet
REFERENCES:
http://www.android.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android http://www.vogella.com/articles/Android/
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