ANDROID OPERATING SYSTEM

ANDROID OPERATING SYSTEM

Android is a mobile operating system (OS) currently taken over by Google, based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

The founders of Android:

                                 Android,Inc. was founded in PaloAlto, California in October 2003 by Rubin Rich, Nick Sears and Chris White to develop, in Rubin's words, "smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner's location and preferences".

Android under Google:

                                      In July 2005, Google acquired Android Inc. for at least $50 million, whose key employees, including Rubin, Miner and White, stayed at the company after the acquisition. Not much was known about Android Inc. at the time, but many assumed that Google was planning to enter the mobile phone market with this move.

The reason of introducing Android Operating System:

·         Apple introduced its first IPhone in June 2007 with OS called IOS. It was a successful product and consumers were taken aback with the user experience. But it was closed source, thus other companies could not use it as operating system in their devices. 

·         Those companies also wanted to sell their mobile hardware devices, demanding rise of a new mobile operating system.

The popularity of Android:

·        It's Open Source

·        Gives you free apps.

·        Flexibility and easy to use interface.

·        Different hardware options from different manufacturers.

·        Widgets.

·        Cheaper devices.

·        Live wallpapers.

·        Options to choose different keyboards like Swift Key.

Why need to learn Android?

·        More job opportunities.

·        All tools to develop Android App is free from Google.

·        Less developer fee which is 25$ one time.

·        Mass audience use android phone thus more vast consumers for the apps thus more revenue.

·         Lot of free tutorials and textual information available on internet to learn android.

·        Basic programming skills in Java are required.

·        Cheap hardware devices like Nexus 4 could be used to test apps which require real hardware.

·          More devices like smart watch and Android Wear uses same ecosystem thus little or more changes in app could be implemented and published.

·        Hassle free publication of applications in the marketplace.

Versions of Android:

Each major release version is named after something sweet.

·        Android 1.6. Donut.

·        Android 2.1. Eclair.

·        Android 2.2. Froyo.

·        Android 2.3. Gingerbread.

·        Android 3.0. Honeycomb.

·        Android 4.0. Ice Cream Sandwich.

·        Android 4.1. Jelly Bean.

·        Android 4.4. KitKat

·        Android 5.0 Lollypop

·        Android 6.0 Marshmallow

The devices supporting Android OS:

All the smartphone manufacturing companies support android except Apple and windows phones.

Some of the famous smart phone manufacturing companies are:

·        Samsung

·        Htc

·        Sony

·        Huawei

·        LG

·        Lenovo

The other brands are Q-mobile, T mobile, haier, blu, infinix ,etc.

The market share of android: