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What is android? Android
is an operating system for
Mobile phones.
I will explain more about
this in the later part of this
slide.
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Android is one of those operating
system platforms which made it
easy for manufacturers to design
top class phones. Now we have
phones which can even access
GPS , GPRS, Wifi, NFC. and lot of
other cool and advanced features
which you cannot even imagine.
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Android is a open source platform
which can be used by any phone
manufacturers on the world.
Unlike other operating systems
for mobile phones like iOS (
Operating system by apple for
iPhone, iPad and other iDevices.).
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Android is one the hottest mobile
operating systems available today.
Samsung is the Largest
Manufacturer of android phones
and tablets. LG, HTC, Sony, are
other top manufacturers of
android phones and tablets.
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Here are some of the
Versions released by
android:
1.0 – Android beta.
1.5 – Android Cupcake.
1.6 – Android Donut.
2.0/2.1 – Eclair.
2.2.x – Froyo.
2.3.x – Gingerbread.
3.x – Honeycomb (used
mainly for tablets.)
4.0.x – Ice Cream
Sandwich (both for
phones and tablets.)
4.1/4.2 – Jelly Bean
(both for phones and
tablets.)
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• Global partnerships and large installed base
Building on the contributions of the open-source Linux community and more than 300 hardware, software, and carrier partners, Android has rapidly become the fastest-growing mobile OS.
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• Powerful development framework
Android gives you everything you need
to build best-in-class app experiences.
It gives you a single application model
that lets you deploy your apps broadly
to hundreds of millions of users
across a wide range of devices—from
phones to tablets and beyond.
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• Open marketplace for
distributing your apps
Google Play is the premier
marketplace for selling and
distributing Android apps. When
you publish an app on Google
Play, you reach the huge installed
base of Android.
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• HISTORY
Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto,
California in October 2003 by Andy Rubin
(co-founder of Danger), Rich Miner (co-
founder of Wildfire Communications,
Inc.),Nick Sears(once VP at T-Mobile),and
Chris White (headed design and interface
development at WebTV)to develop, in
Rubin's words "smarter mobile devices that
are more aware of its owner's location and
preferences".
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• Google acquired Android Inc. on August 17, 2005, making it a wholly owned subsidiary of Google. Key employees of Android Inc., 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. At Google, the team led by Rubin developed a mobile device platform powered by the Linux kernel.
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• Since 2008, Android has seen
numerous updates which have
incrementally improved the operating
system. Each major release is named
in alphabetical order after a dessert or
sugary treat; version 1.5 Cupcake, 1.6
Donut. The latest release is 4.2 Jelly
Bean.
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• In 2010, Google launched its Nexus series of devices—a line of Smartphone's and tablets running the Android operating system, and built by a manufacturer partner. HTC collaborated with Google to release the first Nexus Smartphone, the Nexus One. The series has since been updated with newer devices. Google releases the Nexus phones and tablets to act as their flagship Android devices, demonstrating Android's latest software and hardware features.
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ANDROID PHONES
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• An Android phone is a Smartphone
running on Google's open-source
Android operating system.
• Originally derived from the Linux
desktop operating system, Android is
a customizable platform that can look
and feel very different on very different
handsets.
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• All of them have touchscreens. Some
also have hardware keyboards. All
come with a desktop that is made up
of a certain number of screens that
you can customize to your liking. You
can populate screens with shortcuts
to apps or widgets that display news
headlines, search boxes, or more.
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• All Android phones also offer
access to the Android Market,
where you can download Android
apps. As of this writing, more
than 150,000 apps are available
in the Android Market.
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Historical Background• Initially, Google partnered with the High
Tech Computer Corporation (now HTC Corporation) to build the first mobile phone to run the Android™ platform, known as the G1™ in the United States. In 2008, T-Mobile premiered the G1™ Android™ phone to the American public. Since then, dozens of manufacturers have brought hundreds of phones with this operating system to market.
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SDK
• Android offers a Software
Development Kit (SDK) to help
developers create functional
applications. While some parts of the
Android operating system are
protected under the Apache License to
guard against applications that could
compromise the phones' basic
functionality.
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• The SDK includes extensive resources
and tools to facilitate this sort of
development. It is updated regularly,
together with the operating system
itself, and a priority is placed upon
supporting work on both newer and
older versions of Android.