The Leading Operating System

'ANDROID'

Android is the trend of software stack for mobile devices, that includes an operating systemm middle ware and key applications. Google Inc. purchased the initial developer of the software, Android Inc. in 2005. Android mobile operating system is based on the Linux kernel. Google and other members of the open Handset Alliance collaborated on Android's development and release. The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is tasked with the maintenance and further development of Android. The Android Operating System is currently the world's best selling smartphone platform (Android One).

Android has a large community of developers writing applications that extend the functionality of the devices. There are currently over 2,00,000+ apps available for Android. Android Market is the online app store run by Google, though apps can also be downloaded from third-party sites. Developers write primarily in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-dev Google Java libraries.

The unveiling of the Android distribution on 5 November 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 80 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. Google released most of the Android codes under the Apache License, a free software and open source license.

The Android open source software stack consists of Java applications running on a Java-based object oriented application framework on top of Java core libraries, running on a Dalvik virtual machine featuring IT compilation. Libraries written in C' include the surface manager, Open Core media framework SQLite relational database management system, OpenGl ES 2.0 3D graphics API, Webkit layout engine, SGL graphics engine, SSL, and Bionic libc. The Android operating system, including the Linux kernel, consists of roughly 12 million lines of code including 3 million lines of XML, 2.8 million lines of C' 2.1 million lines of Java, and 1.75 million lines of C++