Presentation on

Android

Presented By Vishav Nath Bansal

Gurbinder SinghAanchal Nohria

Content• Introduction

• History

• Google Acquistion

• Open Handset Alliance

• Android Version History

• Features

• Uses

• Google play

• Advantages and Disadvantages

•

Introduction

• Android is a Linux-based operating system

• Primarily designed for mobile devices such as

smartphones and tablet computers utilizing ARM

processors

• Most embedded applications are for ARM based devices

• Google TV devices use Intel chips with the x86

version of Android

• Developed by the Open Handset Alliance, led by Google

• Apps can be downloaded from third-party sites or through

online stores such as Google Play

• In June 2012, there were more than 600,000 apps

available for Android, and the estimated number of

applications downloaded from Google Play was 20 billion.

• world’s leading smartphone platform at the end of 2010

• Android had a 59% smartphone market share worldwide

• 400 million devices activated and 1 million activations

per day

Logo of Android

• The Android logo, featuring a stylized green robot

History

• Founded in Palo Alto, California, United States in

October 2003 by Andy Rubin (co-founder of Danger),

Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire Communications, Inc.)

Google Acquistion

• Google acquired Android Inc. on August 17, 2005

• Google was planning to enter the mobile phone market

with this move

• Key employees of Android Inc. stayed at the company

after the acquisition• At Google, the team led by Rubin developed a mobile

device platform powered by the Linux kernel

Open Handset Alliance

• On November 5, 2007, the Open Handset Alliance, a

group of several companies unveiled itself

• goal of the Open Handset Alliance is to develop open

standards for mobile devices

• Open Handset Alliance also unveiled their first product,

Android, a mobile device platform built on the Linux kernl

version 2.6

Android version history

Version Release date

4.1.x Jelly Bean July 10, 2012

4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich October 19, 2011

3.x.x Honeycomb February 22, 2011

2.3.x Gingerbread December 6, 2010

2.2 Froyo May 20, 2010

2.0, 2.1 Eclair October 26,2009

1.6 Donut September 15, 2009

1.5 Cupcake April 30, 2009

Android 1.1 February 9, 2009

Android 1.0 September 23, 2008

Android beta November 5, 2007

Features

• Handset layouts

• Storage

• Connectivity

• Messaging

• Multiple language support

• Web browser

•Java support

•Media support

•Additional hardware support

•Multi-touch

•Bluetooth

• Multitasking

• Video calling

• Voice based features

• Tethering

• Screen capture

• External storage

Uses

• designed primarily for smartphones, tablets and many

other electronics devices, including laptops and

netbooks, smartbooks, ebook readers, and smart TVs

• OS has seen special applications on wristwatches,

headphones, car CD and DVD players, games consoles,

cameras, portable media players landlines etc

Google Play

• online software store developed by Google for Android

devices

• application program called "Play Store”

• more than 600,000 apps available for Android

• offers many free applications in the Play Store including

Google Voice, Google Goggles, Gesture Search, Google

Translate, Google Shopper, Listen and My Tracks

Advantages

• Multitasking

• Ease of Notification 

• Easy access to thousands of applications via the Google

Android App Market

• Phone options are diverse 

• Can install a modified ROM 

• Widget

Disadvantages

• Continuous Internet connection 

• Advertising

• The lack of compatibility

04/13/23 18

QUERIES QUERIES PLEASEPLEASE