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Android and

Android Phones

Ablaza, Jennifer

SY1219

http://eglobiotraining.com/androidtraining

What is android? Android

is an operating system for

Mobile phones.

I will explain more about

this in the later part of this

slide.





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.





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.).





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.







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.)





• 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.





• 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.





• 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.






• 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".





• 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.







• 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.





• 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.






ANDROID PHONES





• 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.





• 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.




• 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.




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.




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.




• 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.



Respectfully Submitted to

Prof. Erwin M. Globio,

MSIT

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