What is Android?

What is Android?

Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005.

The Android Software Development Kit (Android SDK) provides all necessary tools to develop Android applications. This includes a compiler, debugger and a device emulator, as well as its own virtual machine to run Android programs.

Android allows background processing, provides a rich user interface library, supports 2-D and 3-D graphics using the OpenGL libraries, access to the file system and provides an embedded SQLite database.

WHY ANDROID ?

Simple and Powerfull SDK

No licensing,distribution,or development fees

Development over many platform

Linux,Mac OS,Windows

Excellent documentation

  For us

  Java-based, easy to import 3 rd party Java library

  Job opportunity

ANDROID SDK FEATURE

 GSM, EDGE, and 3G networks, WiFi , Bluetooth

 API Support for Bluetoothe , WiFi Ad hoc mode

Libraries

Media, SQLite , WebKit, SSL

Hardware control:

Accelerometer, compass, microphone, camera, GPS

touch screen, power Location-based service, map (Google API)

Google Play (Android Market)

Google offers the Google Play service in which programmers can offer their Android application to Android users. Google phones include the Google Play application which allows to install applications.

Google Play also offers an update service, e.g. if a programmer uploads a new version of his application to Google Play, this service will notify existing users that an update is available and allow to install it.

Google Play used to be called Android Market.