Android

Contents
 Developers
 Partners
 What is Android?
 How does Android works?
 Who’s doing it?
 How Android looks unique?
 What are the Disadvantages?
 Where’s Android going?
 ANDROID SDK

Contents continued..
 DESIGN
 Features of ANDROID
 SECURITY
 WHAT MAKES ANDROID SPECIAL?
 ANDROID MARKET
 Various versions and its distribution
 CONCLUSION

DEVELOPERS
 ANDY RUBEN
 RICH MINER
 CHRIS WHITE
 NICK SEARS

PARTNERS
 IN 2008 a large team of experts belonging to various
companies joined it
 They are HUAWEI,SONY
ERICCSON,TOSHIBA,VODAFONE

Android
What is Android?

-Android is Linux Based OS
-Designed for smart mobile phones,tablet,and other devices
-Android provides easy access to social networking sites.
-Android has been adopted by a number of manufacturers.
-Thousands of Applications Available in Google Market.
-Android-based phones will continue to be strong competitors in the
smart-phone market.

How does Android work?
 Its open market model allows registered software
developers
to create applications for Android
- Listing of Applications in Android Market
 Users can download from a growing store of
smart-phone applications at Google Market
 Download compatible Android apps from other locations

Who’s doing it?
 Computer science departments at numerous colleges
and
universities are embracing development for the Android
platform.
 Engineering doctoral students from the University of
Washington work at Google’s Seattle offices to refine
the Open
Data Kit that they created
- Using Android in Industrial Automation

HOW ANDROID looks
nique?
 Android has been selected by many hardware
manufacturers to run on a wide range of devices.
 Android based phones are available from all major
cellular providers.
 Android may bring smart phone and tablet functionality
to a much wider cross-section of students.
 Android is a User Friendly OS.

Can assume that most have
Android 2.2 or 2.33

Usage of ANDROID by recent
surveys

What are the disadvantages of
Android?
New application which have been release might not work
in previous versions
 Platform fragmentation is an issue for Android OS
devices.
For developers, the variety of device types and form
factors that use
Android make development more expensive.

Where is Android going?
 The Android OS may accelerate the introduction of
smart
phones by providing a free OS.
 Due to its arrival JAVA, SYMBIAN, gone down.
 Transforming them from consumers of existing
applications to creators of apps designed to meet their
needs..
 Android is the Biggest selling OS in the World on Mobile
Computing.

ANDROID SDK

Android software development is the
process by which new applications are
created for the Android operating
system.

Applications are usually developed in
the Java programming language using
the Android Software Development Kit.

DESIGN
 Android is based on the Linux kernel,
with middleware, libraries and APIs written
in C and application software running on
an application framework which includes
Java-compatible libraries based on Apache
Harmony.

HARDWARE FEAUTURES
 Cellular networking : GSM, EDGE, 3G
 LAN : Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi
 Graphics Hardware Acceleration
 Camera, GPS and Compass
 Touch screen and accelerometer for
motion sensing

SECURITY

 Android applications run in a sandbox, an
isolated area of the operating system that
does not have access to the rest of the
system's resources, unless access
permissions are granted by the user when
the application is installed.

WHAT MAKES ANDROID SPECIAL?

 Open source – Free development platform
 Built in components can be improved
 Built in services like GPS,SQL Database,
browser and maps
 Management of process life cycle
 High quality graphics and sound
 Portability across current and future hardware
 Component-based architecture and reusable,
replaceable modules
 Multi-layer isolation of programs

ANDROID MARKET
 Google Play, formerly Android Market, is
the online software store developed by
Google for Android devices
 Market. As of October 2011 there were
more than 300,000 apps available for
Android, and the estimated number of
applications downloaded from the
Android Market as of December 2011
exceeded 10 billion.

Various versions and its
distribution

CONCLUSION
 Android is open to all: industry, developers
and users

 Participating in many of the successful
open source projects

 Aims to be as easy to build for as the web.

 Google Android is stepping into the next
level of Mobile Internet

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