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1. INTRODUCTION
Back in 2008, when the Android phone was launched, the IT world quickly recognized it as an iPhone Killer. Though the demand for iPhone didn’t decrease, the arrival of Android marked a revolution against the tyrant iPhone. Within the first 24 hours of Android market, 62 free applications were available, which is less than 10% of the number made available during the launch of Apple’s App store.
With each update, Android OS has brought new and improved quality to mobile devices and better usability. According to NPSD group survey, Android OS smart phones ranked 2nd among all smart phones in the in the first quarter of 2010.
Even if the hardware is basis of any device and those applications are designed to help people perform an activity but it is the operating system which manages both of these resources. There are plenty of operating systems available in the market for smart phones. But the one which is widely anticipated, open source operating system for mobile devices is none other than the Android Operating System.
Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.
Google Inc. purchased the initial developer of the software, Android Inc., in August, 2005, making Android Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google Inc. Android operating system is based upon a modified version of the Linux kernel, which is the most prominent examples of free and open source software. 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.
Canalys reported that in Q4 2010 the Android operating system was the world's best-selling Smartphone platform. Gartner reported that Android as an operating system grew 888.8% in 2010. Currently Android represents 31.2 percent of the U.S Smartphone market. Android has a large community of developers writing application programs. There are currently over 150,000 apps available for Android. Android Market is the online app store run by Google, though apps can also be downloaded from third party sites.
1.1FEATURES
The features of Android include:
• Application framework enabling reuse and replacement of components
• Dalvik virtual machine optimized for mobile devices
• Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine
• Optimized graphics powered by a custom 2D graphics library; 3D graphics based on the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware acceleration optional)
• SQLite for structured data storage
• Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats (MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF)
• GSM Telephony (hardware dependent)
• Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, and Wi-Fi (hardware dependent)
• Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer (hardware dependent)
• Rich development environment including a device emulator, tools for debugging, memory and performance profiling, and a plugin for the Eclipse IDE
Google is doing with Android what IBM did with the PC and MS-DOS: it's making the platform available to all manufacturers. As happened with the PC, we believe that this model will result in much wider availability of handsets and a much larger user base. So, we will be learning the details about the Android Operating System in detail in the consequent chapters
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
Android Inc. founded in 2003
Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, United States in October, 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, et al. to develop, in Rubin's words "...smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner's location and preferences." Key employees involved in the founding of Android Inc. include Andy Rubin, also the co-founder of Danger Inc., Andy McFadden, who worked with Rubin at WebTV, and Chris White, who led the design and interface of WebTV. Other crucial employees includes Richard Miner, a co-founder of Wildfire Communications, Inc. and former vice-president of Technology and innovation at Orange, and all those of whom brought considerable wireless industry experience to the company. Despite the obvious past accomplishments of the founders and early employees, Android Inc. operated secretively, admitting only that it was working on software for mobile phones.
Android Inc. acquired by Google
Google acquired Android Inc. in August, 2005, making Android Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google Inc. Key employees of Android Inc., including Andy Rubin, Rich Miner and Chris White, stayed at the company after the acquisition. Not much was known about Android Inc. at the time of the acquisition so many assumed that Google was planning to enter the mobile phone market with this move.
Development accelerates
At Google, the team led by Rubin developed a mobile device platform powered by the Linux kernel. Google marketed the platform to handset makers and carriers on the premise of providing a flexible, upgradable system. Google had lined up a series of hardware component and software partners and signaled to carriers that it was open to various degrees of cooperation on their part.
Speculation about Google's intention to enter the mobile communications market continued to build through December 2006. Reports from the BBC and The Wall Street Journal noted that Google wanted its search and applications on mobile phones and it was working hard to deliver that. Print and online media outlets soon reported rumors that Google was developing a Google-branded handset.Some speculated that as Google was defining technical specifications, it was showing prototypes to cell phone manufacturers and network operators.
In September 2007, InformationWeek covered an Evalueserve study reporting that Google had filed several patent applications in the area of mobile telephony.
1. INTRODUCTION
Back in 2008, when the Android phone was launched, the IT world quickly recognized it as an iPhone Killer. Though the demand for iPhone didn’t decrease, the arrival of Android marked a revolution against the tyrant iPhone. Within the first 24 hours of Android market, 62 free applications were available, which is less than 10% of the number made available during the launch of Apple’s App store.
With each update, Android OS has brought new and improved quality to mobile devices and better usability. According to NPSD group survey, Android OS smart phones ranked 2nd among all smart phones in the in the first quarter of 2010.
Even if the hardware is basis of any device and those applications are designed to help people perform an activity but it is the operating system which manages both of these resources. There are plenty of operating systems available in the market for smart phones. But the one which is widely anticipated, open source operating system for mobile devices is none other than the Android Operating System.
Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.
Google Inc. purchased the initial developer of the software, Android Inc., in August, 2005, making Android Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google Inc. Android operating system is based upon a modified version of the Linux kernel, which is the most prominent examples of free and open source software. 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.
Canalys reported that in Q4 2010 the Android operating system was the world's best-selling Smartphone platform. Gartner reported that Android as an operating system grew 888.8% in 2010. Currently Android represents 31.2 percent of the U.S Smartphone market. Android has a large community of developers writing application programs. There are currently over 150,000 apps available for Android. Android Market is the online app store run by Google, though apps can also be downloaded from third party sites.
1.1FEATURES
The features of Android include:
• Application framework enabling reuse and replacement of components
• Dalvik virtual machine optimized for mobile devices
• Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine
• Optimized graphics powered by a custom 2D graphics library; 3D graphics based on the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware acceleration optional)
• SQLite for structured data storage
• Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats (MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF)
• GSM Telephony (hardware dependent)
• Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, and Wi-Fi (hardware dependent)
• Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer (hardware dependent)
• Rich development environment including a device emulator, tools for debugging, memory and performance profiling, and a plugin for the Eclipse IDE
Google is doing with Android what IBM did with the PC and MS-DOS: it's making the platform available to all manufacturers. As happened with the PC, we believe that this model will result in much wider availability of handsets and a much larger user base. So, we will be learning the details about the Android Operating System in detail in the consequent chapters
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
Android Inc. founded in 2003
Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, United States in October, 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, et al. to develop, in Rubin's words "...smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner's location and preferences." Key employees involved in the founding of Android Inc. include Andy Rubin, also the co-founder of Danger Inc., Andy McFadden, who worked with Rubin at WebTV, and Chris White, who led the design and interface of WebTV. Other crucial employees includes Richard Miner, a co-founder of Wildfire Communications, Inc. and former vice-president of Technology and innovation at Orange, and all those of whom brought considerable wireless industry experience to the company. Despite the obvious past accomplishments of the founders and early employees, Android Inc. operated secretively, admitting only that it was working on software for mobile phones.
Android Inc. acquired by Google
Google acquired Android Inc. in August, 2005, making Android Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google Inc. Key employees of Android Inc., including Andy Rubin, Rich Miner and Chris White, stayed at the company after the acquisition. Not much was known about Android Inc. at the time of the acquisition so many assumed that Google was planning to enter the mobile phone market with this move.
Development accelerates
At Google, the team led by Rubin developed a mobile device platform powered by the Linux kernel. Google marketed the platform to handset makers and carriers on the premise of providing a flexible, upgradable system. Google had lined up a series of hardware component and software partners and signaled to carriers that it was open to various degrees of cooperation on their part.
Speculation about Google's intention to enter the mobile communications market continued to build through December 2006. Reports from the BBC and The Wall Street Journal noted that Google wanted its search and applications on mobile phones and it was working hard to deliver that. Print and online media outlets soon reported rumors that Google was developing a Google-branded handset.Some speculated that as Google was defining technical specifications, it was showing prototypes to cell phone manufacturers and network operators.
In September 2007, InformationWeek covered an Evalueserve study reporting that Google had filed several patent applications in the area of mobile telephony.
