Mobile Application Development
Android is an open source and Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Android was developed by the Open Handset Alliance, led by Google, and other companies.
Android offers unified approach to application development for mobile devices which means developers need only develop for Android, and their applications should be able to run on different devices powered by Android.
The first beta version of the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) was released by Google in 2007 where as the first commercial version, Android 1.0, was released in September 2008. |
On June 27, 2012, at the Google I/O conference, Google announced the next Android version, 4.1 Jelly Bean. Jelly Bean is an incremental update, with the primary aim of improving the user interface, both in terms of functionality and performance.
The source code for Android is available under free and open source software licenses. Google publishes most of the code under the Apache License version 2.0 and the rest, Linux kernel changes, under the GNU General Public License version 2. |
Features of Android:
Android is a powerful operating system competing with Apple 4GS and supports great features. Few of them are listed below − Beautiful UI Android OS basic screen provides a beautiful and intuitive user interface. Connectivity
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Features of Android:
Android is a powerful operating system competing with Apple 4GS and supports great features. Few of them are listed below − Storage SQLite, a lightweight relational database, is used for data storage purposes. Media Support
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History of Android
The code names of android ranges from A to N currently, such a:
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iOS
iOS is a mobile operating system developed and distributed by Apple Inc. It was originally released in 2007 for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV. iOS is derived from OS X, with which it shares the Darwin foundation. iOS is Apple's mobile version of the OS X operating system used in Apple computers. |
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