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Primary reasons behind the popularity of Android platform
This article is all about Android platform and its popularity reasons. Today most of the electronic gadgets like mobile phones, tablets and small laptops devices are based on the latest Android technologies. One can find many applications and games supported by Android devices and that makes the mobile and gadget experience better day by day.
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Introduction to Android Technology
Android is an operating system based on Linux and is used by current age’s Smartphones, gadgets and tablet computers. Android is being developed and led by Google with other companies. Google took over the initial developer of this Android technology in 2005 and Open Handset Alliance (OHA) was formed in 2007 to promote Android and its technology. AOSP (Android Open Source Project) is developed to promote, maintain and develop Android technology.
An android technology by Google becoming more popular day by day compared to other existing operating system like Apple OS, Symbian, Java and widely accepted everywhere in gadgets and tablets. Due to millions of mobile and tablet users, many opportunities are now emerging for all Technology and software savvy people. Android lets application developers to develop their own applications and submit for free use at Google Play, Free Android market.
Android as an open source and is now favorite of consumers and application developers and which drives more growth for the android. Android partners are moving ahead in this technology in Software and hardware side to promote/upgrade new opportunities for free users and application developers. Developers can create and build their innovative Android innovations, differentiated games and Applications with latest mobile technologies and which gives all that is needed to give best experience. Android also provides tools that help creating new applications that are amazing and also adjusts automatically its User Interfaces to see best suitability and for controlling.
Binary applications are also easy to create with this technology and also can be optimized for mobile as well as tablets.
Components Of the Android Systems :
Design component of Android
Android consists of the kernel based on Linux kernel, along with middle-ware, APIs and libraries written in C and software running on the application framework that includes a Java-compatible libraries based on Apache Harmony. Android uses Dalvik virtual machine just-in-time production run Dalvik code dex (Dalvik Executable), which is usually translated to Java byte-code.
Linux, component of Android
Android is based on Linux kernel and the kernel is even outside the typical architecture be Google about Linux kernel development cycle.Android is not a native X Window System does not support a full set of standard GNU libraries, making it difficult to port existing applications to Linux, or Android libraries.
Use of Android Technology
While Android is designed specifically for smart phones and tablets, open and customizable nature of the operating system makes it possible to use other electronics, including laptops and notebooks and Smart Book, eBook readers, and smart TVs (Google TV). In addition to niche applications in the OS has seen watches, headphones, car CD and DVD players, smart windows (Glass Project), refrigerator, car Satnav systems, home automation systems, games consoles, mirrors, cameras, portable media players player land lines and treadmills.
Applications for Android
Applications are usually developed by the Java language, using the Android Software Development Kit, but other development tools are available, including the Native Development Kit programs or extensions to C or C, the Google App Inventor, a visual environment for novice programmers, and various cross platform mobile web applications framework.
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