Android

History of android
Founded by open handset alliance (OHA) by a group in 2003 by ANDY ROBIN(danger) RICH MINER (co founder of wildfire communication) NICK SEARS (vpt-moblie) CHRIS WHITE(design and interface developed at web TV). ANDROID logo designed by California based graphic designer IRINA BLOCK. Google lacked financially and latter brought in android in 2005. GOOGLE reveled in 2007 with first mobile android powered phone which was HTC DREAM was sold in October 22nd 2008. ANDROID is a open source and Google releases the code under Apache license. October 2012 approximately 700000 apps were available for downloads. Estimated applications downloaded at Google play were 25 billion. Android took over Symbian OS in 2010. Android has world wide Smartphone market share of 75% with 500 million devices activated. 1.3 millions Activations per day. Each major release is named in alphabetical order with international bakery items names e.g. Cupcake, Ice Cream etc. Google has its own mobile named NEXUS collaborated with HTC.

 What is android

1. -

Google's Android is an open-source platform that's currently available on a wide variety of smart phones.

2. - Android is a software stack consisting: Of a part of operating system in

{Linux kernel} libraries, framework, and applications.

Getting started.
1.- Installing all necessary tools to build apps. 2.-Jdk 3.-Eclipse 4.-Adt pulgins kit 5.-New way of installing with ADT bundle which includes eclipse + Adt+ platforms.

Android architecture
The software stack is split into Four Layers:

The application layer The application framework The libraries and runtime The kernel