Android

INTRODUCTION
 Android is an LINUX BASED
OPERATING SYSTEM
 Primarily used for TOUCHSCREEN
mobile devices
 It is open source
 Developed by GOOGLE and later the
OPEN HANDSET ALLIANCE(OHA)

ORIGIN OF ANDRIOD
Android was founded
in Palo Alto, California in October 2003 by
ANDY RUBIN, RICH MINER, NICK SEARS and
CHRIS WHITE.
 Android, Inc. was purchased by
“GOOGLE” in AUGUST 2005.
The Open Handset Alliance was formed
on 5 NOVEMBER 2007.

OPEN HANDSET
ALLIANCE (OHA)
The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is
a consortium of 84 firms to
develop open standards for mobile
devices.
 This group of companies is allowed to
use source code of Android and develop
application.

FEATURES OF ANDROID
 Multiple apps can be run at a time.
 Android has a better APPLICATION
Market.
 Let us change the settings faster.
Gives us more options to fit in our
budget.
Supports Java, Media, Video Calling,
Multi tasking, Voice based features,
Screen capture, Camera, Bluetooth,
GPS(Global Positioning System).

Versions of Android
 Android 1.0 (Angle Cake) 23 September 2008
 Android 1.1 (Battenberg) 9 February 2009
 Android 1.5 (Cupcake) 30 April 2009
 Android 1.6 (Donut 15 September 2009
 Android 2.0 (Eclair) 26 October 2009
 Android 2.2 (Froyo) 20 May 2010
 Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) 6 December 2010
 Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) 10 May 2011
 Android 4.0 19 October 2011
(Ice Cream Sandwich)
 Android 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 13 July 2012
(Jelly Bean)
 Android 4.4 (Kitkat) 31 October 2013
 Android 5.0 (Lollipop) 12 November 2014
 Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) 5 October 2015
 Android 7.0 (Nougat) 22 August 2016

 ANDROID CUPCAKE 1.5
• Added “AUTO ROTATION” option
• “Copy” and “Paste” feature added in WEB BROWSER
• Increased performance and speed but not upto
desired level
 ANDROID DONUT 1.6
• “VOICE SEARCH” and “SEARCH BOX” were added
• Faster OS Boot time and faster Web Browsing
 ANDROID ÉCLAIR 2.0/2.1
• “BLUETOOTH” 2.1 support
• Improved typing speed on “VIRTUAL KEYBOARD”,
with smarter dictionary
• No “ADOBE FLASH” media support

 ANDROID FROYO 2.2
• Support “ADOBE FLASH 10.1”
• Improved application launcher with better
“BROWSER”
• No “INTERNET CALLING”
 ANDROID GINGERBREAD 2.3
• “INTERNET CALLING”
• Updated user interface with high
efficiency and speed
•More successful version than earlier ones
•New keyboard for faster word input
•Not support MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS
 ANDROID HONEYCOMB 3.0
• Supports “MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS”
•Ability to ENCRYPT all user data
•Only available for “TABLETS”

 ANDROID ICE CREAN SANDWICH(ICS) 4.0
•Ability to “SHUT DOWN” apps that are using data in
the background
•A new typeface family for UI, ROBOTO
 ANDROID JELLYBEAN 4.1
•Smoother “USER INTERFACE”
•Improved the features of previous versions while
improving the graphics quality
 ANDROID JELLYBEAN 4.2/4.3
•“LOCK SCREEN” improvement
•Multiple “USER ACCOUNT” (tablets only)
•Bug fixes and performance enhancement

 ANDROID KITKAT 4.4
 ANDROID LOLLIPOP 5.0
• Support for “PRINT PREVIEW”
• Recently used applications are remembered
even after restarting the device
• Updated “EMOJI”
• Addition of 15 NEW LANGUAGES : Basque,
Bengali, Burmese, Chinese(Hong Kong),
Galician, Icelandic, Kannada, Kyrgyz,
Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali,
Sinhala, Tamil and Telugu[
• “WIRELESS” printing capability
•“WI-FI” and “MOBILE DATA” activity
indicators moved to quick settings
•Optimizations for performance on devices
with lower specifications

 ANDROID MARSHMALLOW 6.0
•Introduction of Doze mode, which reduces
CPU speed while the screen is off in order to
save battery life
•Contextual search from keywords within apps
•Unicode 7.0 & 8.0 emoji support
 ANDROID NOUGAT 7.0
•Unicode 9.0 emoji
•Ability to screen zoom
•Daydream becomes “SCREEN SAVERS” (VR
interface)
•“MULTI-WINDOW” support
•New Data Saver mode, which can force apps
to reduce bandwidth usage
•Added the "Clear All" button in Overview
screen

FEATURES OF
ANDROID NOUGAT
 Multi Window
 Night Mode
 Doze Mode
 Notifications
 Quick Switch
 Better Encryption
 New Emoji

MULTI WINDOW SUPPORT
 Split Screen is the highlight of Android Nougat.
 Android TV gets Picture-In-Picture mode, allowing
user to continue watching their vedio in a smaller
screen while performing another task.

NIGHT MODE
 This feature allows user to have the option to
switch to a darker color scheme after sunset, if the
white color scheme is unplesant.
 There is an option to automatically switch to Night
Mode after sunset in the users area.

DOZE MODE
 Doze Mode is a way to save battery life.
This feature is activated when the screen is turned
off, saving upon more battery.

NOTIFICATIONS
 User can reply to an incoming message without
navigating from the notifications.
All messages from a specific messaging app are
bundled together.
Users can long press a notification and choose
whether to display them or to block them.

QUICK SWITCH
 Quickly jump between your two most recently used
apps with a double tap on the overview button
Overview button is the square icon on the right of
the three virtual navigation buttons at the bottom of
the screen.

BETTER ENCRYPTION
In Android Nougat each file and folder saved on the
device is encrypted and protected individually, as
opposed to being encrypted as a whole like previous
versions and other operating systems.

NEW EMOJI
 Nougat expands its emoji library to
over 1500 different characters, and let
the users change their skin tone by
tapping and holding the icon in the
Google keyboard.

 We can set any app as a
default in android
 Android just drag and drop
for syncing by using USB
cable on computer
 Android OS has Flash
support
 EMAIL NOTIFICATION
arrives as soon as it
arrives
 Google charges an Android
developer only dollar 5
 It is impossible on Iphone
 Have to click manually
 iphone syncing only with
iTunes
 Iphone only has HTML5
support
 The EMAIL system on
Apple is not as good as
Android
 Apple charges App
developer dollar 100

ANDROID WINDOWS PHONE
DEVELOPER GOOGLE MICROSOFT
PROGRAMMED IN JAVA, C++, C C++, C
OS FAMILY UNIX-LIKE WINDOWS
INITIAL RELEASE 23 SEPTEMBER 2008 21 OCTOBER 2010
APPLICATIONS CREATED BY OPEN
SOURCE COMMUNITY
OF DEVELOPERS
CREATED BY TIE UP
COMPANIES AND
MICROSOFT
SOURCE MODEL OPEN SOURCE
SOFTWARE
CLOSED SOURCE
SOFTWARE
NUMBER OF
APPLICATIONS
OVER 7,00,000
APPLICATIONS
LIMITED NUMBER OF
APPLICATIONS
UPDATES PROVIDED BY
DIFFERENT PARTIES IN
CONSORTIUM
PROVIDED BY
MICROSOFT ONLY

LIMITATIONS
 Android operating system
consumes more battery power
as compared to java and
symbian mobile phones
It has been seen that Android has “SECURITY”
related issues
Inconsistence in Design among Apps
Android is called world of Applications we
continuously need to be connected to INTERNET
which is not possible for users

PRESENTED BY :-
VAISHNAVEE
SHARMA
IT – B – G2
13ESKIT085

Android

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