What is Android?
Android is a software stack for mobile devices which includes an operating system, middleware, and key applications. Since its official public release, Android has captured the interest from companies, developers, and the general audience. From that time up to now, this software platform has been constantly improved either in terms of features or supported hardware and, at the same time, extended to new types of devices different from the originally intended mobile ones. Google entered the
mobile market not as a handset manufacturer, but by launching a mobile platform called as
“Android” for mobile devices such as Smartphones, PDA, and netbooks on 5th November
2007. Google has a vision that Android-based. the cell phone will have all the functions available in the latest PC. In order to make this effort possible, Google launched the Open Handset
Alliance.
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| Illustrate of Android |
Google introduced Android as an OS which runs the powerful applications and gives
the users a choice to select their applications and their carriers. The Android platform is made by
keeping in mind various sets of users who can use the available capacity within Android at
different levels. Android is gaining strength both in the mobile industry and in other
industries with different hardware architectures. The increasing interest from the industry arises
from two core aspects: its open-source nature and its architectural model.
Being an open source project, Android allows us to fully analyze and understand it, which enables feature comprehension, bug fixing, further improvements regarding new functionalities and finally, porting to new hardware. On the other hand, it's Linux kernel-based architecture model also adds the use of Linux to the mobile industry, allowing to take advantage of the knowledge and features offered by Linux. The Android platform consists of several layers which provide a complete software stack. Android applications are Java-based and this factor entails the use of a virtual machine VM environment, with its advantages. Android uses its own VM called Dalvik, which interprets and executes portable Java-style bytecode after transforming it, which is optimized to operate on the mobile platform. All of these aspects make Android an appealing target to be used in other types of environments.
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