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Android Basic Details

Let's Understand about Android


  • Android is an open source or you can say that it is Linux based Operation System specially for Mobile device.
  • Generally android was developed by OHA (Open Handset Alliance) and now it's led by Google and other companies.
  • In this blog i will teach you from basic to advance concept of Android Programming.
  • Android programming is based on JAVA programming Language so that if you have basic clear concept of JAVA programming language than you can learn Android Programming with Fun.
  • Android offers a unified approach to application development for mobile devices which means developers need only develop for Android, and their applications should be able to run on different devices powered by Android.
  • The first beta version of the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) was released by Google in 2007 where as the first commercial version, Android 1.0, was released in September 2008.
  • On June 27, 2012, at the Google I/O conference, Google announced the next Android version, 4.1 Jelly Bean. Jelly Bean is an incremental update, with the primary aim of improving the user interface, both in terms of functionality and performance.
  • The source code for Android is available under free and open source software licenses. Google publishes most of the code under the Apache License version 2.0 and the rest, Linux kernel changes, under the GNU General Public License version 2.

Why Android?


Open Source

Increased Marketing

Larger Development

Community Research

Inter Application Integration

Reduce Cost of Development

Higher Success ratio

Rich Development Environment


Feature of Android



 
   Sr.No.                            
Feature & Description
     1
Beautiful UI
Android OS basic screen provides a beautiful and intuitive user interface.

     2
Connectivity
GSM/EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LTE, NFC and WiMAX.

     3
Storage
SQLite, a lightweight relational database, is used for data storage purposes.\

     4
Media support
H.263, H.264, MPEG-4 SP, AMR, AMR-WB, AAC, HE-AAC, AAC 5.1, MP3, MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and BMP.

     5
Messaging
SMS and MMS

     6
Web browser
Based on the open-source WebKit layout engine, coupled with Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine supporting HTML5 and CSS3.

     7
Multi-touch
Android has native support for multi-touch which was initially made available in handsets such as the HTC Hero.

     8
Multi-tasking
User can jump from one task to another and same time various application can run simultaneously.

     9
Resizable widgets
Widgets are resizable, so users can expand them to show more content or shrink them to save space.

     10
Multi-Language
Supports single direction and bi-directional text.

     11
GCM
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that lets developers send short message data to their users on Android devices, without needing a proprietary sync solution.

     12
Wi-Fi Direct
A technology that lets apps discover and pair directly, over a high-bandwidth peer-to-peer connection.\

     13
Android Beam
A popular NFC-based technology that lets users instantly share, just by touching two NFC-enabled phones together.


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