Android – Operating System



Android 2.2

Android is Google’s operating system for mobile devices based on ARM architecture. It is a competitor to the Symbian platform, Apple’s iOS for the iPhone and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Windows Phone for mobile devices all based on ARM architecture.
The Android operating system software stack consists of Java applications running on a Java based object oriented application framework on top of Java core libraries running on a Dalvik virtual machine featuring JIT compilation. Libraries written in C include the surface manager, OpenCore media framework, SQLite relational database management system, OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics API, WebKit layout engine, SGL graphics engine, SSL, and Bionic libc. The Android operating system consists of 12 million lines of code including 3 million lines of XML, 2.8 million lines of C, and 2.1 million lines of Java


Features of Andorid :

Company                          : Open Handset Alliance

Programmed in              : C, C++, Java

Source Model                  : Free & Open Source

Latest Version                 : 2.2 v

Supported Platform      : ARM, MIPS, Power Architecture , x86

Default User Interface : Graphical

License                               : Apache 2.0 & GPL

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Credit : Wikipedia & Android Team

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