An Introduction To Android OS

edited February 2012 in Mobile Phones
Until Android gained the wide spectrum of mobile consumers it has today, Apple’s iOS and BlackBerry OS were the major operating systems used to run Smartphones. In early 2012, one could safely conclude that Android has not only moved ahead of BlackBerry OSW but is also more widely used than iOS devices. Thus, app developers have a lot to gain if they learned how to develop applications for Android devices. <br /><br />Introducing Android Environment to App Developers<br /><br />Android is based on Linux V2.6 kernel and is a complete OS ecosystem. While initially it was meant to be a low-cost OS for smartphones and flip-phone devices, it has grown into a mobile OS juggernaut that has practically gobbled a huge market share. Android offers rich functional support and a full range of computing services which allow devices that run on Android to do much more than stripped down-versions of mobile operating systems. More at http://www.mappfia.com<br /><br />Android Can Play Both Ways: Consumer and Enterprise-centric Devices<br /><br />Android has the capacity to please both consumers who like to play and enterprise users who need a lot of work done efficiently and securely. The first smartphone to run on Android was G1, manufactured by HTC with T-Mobile serving as the carrier. The Android platform is much more complicated than iOS and features layered environment built upon Linux kernel.<br /><br />Read more at http://www.mappfia.com
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