What I am going to Discuss .....

1. What is Android ?2. Versions History Of Android 3. Features Of Android

WHAT IS ANDROID ????

Android is a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers

Designed primarily for touch screen mobile devices

Android SDK provides all necessary tools to develop Android applications

More than 1,100,000 applications available in Google Play Store

Actually belongs to Android Inc and was developed by Andy Rubin

Android in space : Android based satelite Word Android carries a gender factor in it It is an open source : Source code can be

changed by any user The logo of Android was taken from an

Atari game “ Gauntlet ”

FACTS :

VERSIONS HISTORY OF ANDROID

Android 1.0 (Astro) 23 September 2008Android 1.1 (Bender) 9 February 2009 Android 1.5 (Cupcake) 30 April 2009Android 1.6 (Donut) 15 September 2009 Android 2.0 (Éclair) 26 October 2009 Android 2.2 (Froyo) 20 May 2010Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) 6 December 2010Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) 10 May 2011Android 4.0 (Ice cream sandwich) 19 October 2011Android 4.1,2 (Jelly Bean) 13 July 2012Android 4.4 (Kit Kat) 22 November 2013

FEATURESMedia support Android supports the following audio/video/still media

formats: MP3,MPEG-4, WMV,AVI,AAC, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP etc.

Multi-touchAndroid has native support for multi-touch.

MultitaskingMultitasking of applications, with unique handling of memory allocation, is available

Screen captureAndroid supports capturing a screenshot by pressing the

power and volume-down buttons at the same time.

External storageMost Android devices include micro SD slot and can read micro SD cards formatted with FAT32, Ext3 or Ext4 file system.

TetheringAndroid supports tethering, which allows a phone to be used as a wireless Wi-Fi hotspot. Before Android 2.2 this was supported by third-party applications or customizations

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