1. -Ravi Vyas

2. Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, United States in October, 2003 Google acquired Android Inc. in August, 2005 On the November 5, 2007 the Open Handset Alliance(OHA), a consortium of several companies unveiled itself.

3. Market share has been growing at an incredible pace. Market share jumped from 4.7% in Q42009 to 44% in Q2 2011 As of Nov 2011 Android Market Share in USA is 43% (Among smartphone). Android Device activations grew from 60,000 device activations/day in Feb 2010 to 350,000 devices in March 2011 to 576000 in Oct. Android is now the worlds second largest OS after windows

4. 1.5 Cupcake 1.6 Donut 2.1 Eclair 2.2 Froyo 2.3 GingerbreadApr 2009 Sep 2009 Oct 2009 May 2010 Dec 2010 3.0 Honeycomb 4.0 ICS Feb 2011 Oct 2011

5. 1.0 : Released 23 September 2008 1.1 : On 9 February 2009, Android 1.1 update for Android was released for T-Mobile G1 1.5 (Cupcake) : 30 April 2009. Ability to record and watch videos through camcorder mode, New widgets and folders that can populate the Home screens. 1.6 (Donut) : 15 September 2009 . Support for WVGA screen resolutions. Google free turn-by-turn navigation. 2.1 (Eclair) : 26 October 2009. New Browser UI and HTML5 support. Exchange ActiveSync 2.5 support. Live Wallpapers 2.2 (Froyo) : 20 May 2010. USB tethering and Wi-Fi hotspot functionality, Adobe Flash support. 2.3 (Gingerbread) : Native support for SIP VoIP telephony, NFC. 3.0 (Honeycomb) : 22 February 2011. Tablet support.

6. Android is a [open source] software stack for mobile devices thatincludes an operating system, middleware and key applications.The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begindeveloping applications on the Android platform using the Javaprogramming language.

7. Android is not Linux.Android does not have a windowing system.Does not have all the Linux utilities.

8. source.android.com/source/download.html [bit.ly/SrcAnd] License : Apache 2.0 & GPL v2 Git repositories.

9. Features: GSM Telephony (hardware dependent) Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, and WiFi (hardware dependent) Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer (hardware dependent) Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine Optimized graphics powered by a custom 2D graphics library; 3D graphics based on the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware acceleration optional) Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats (MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF)

10. Features: Rich development environment including a device emulator, tools for debugging, memory and performance profiling, and a plugin for the Eclipse IDE Application framework enabling reuse and replacement of components Dalvik virtual machine optimized for mobile devices SQLite for structured data storage

11. It is a virtual machine to o run on a slow CPU o with relatively little RAM o on an OS without swap spaceEach App runs on its own instance of the VM

12. Applications are written in the Java programming language.Android SDK tools compile the codealong with any data andresource filesinto an Android package, an archive file with an.apk suffix.Android system implements the principle of least privilege.

13. Activity An activity represents a single screen with a user interface. Launched in different ways : Launcher , Intents .Services A service is a component that runs in the background. Used to perform long-running operations or to perform work for remote processes.Content Providers A content provider manages a shared set of application data. Allows applications to share data.Broadcast receivers A broadcast receiver is a component that responds to system- wide broadcast announcements.

14. Lets the system know what components exist in the applicationIdentifies required user permissions ( e.g. read contacts ,internet access )Declares the minimum API versionDeclare the hardware and software features used ( e.g.Camera, GPS )Declares application info ( e.g. name , version )

15. Projectsrc res assets gen Android Android Manifest. drawabl xml e-ldpi drawabl e-mdpi drawabl e-hdpi layouts values

16. Android Different Screen Sizes Low density Medium High density (120), ldpi density (240), hdpi (160), mdpiSmall screen QVGA (240x320)Normal screen WQVGA400 HVGA WVGA800 (240x400) (320x480) (480x800) WQVGA432 WVGA854 (240x432) (480x854)Large screen WVGA800* (480x800) WVGA854* (480x854)

17. Android Tools to get our hands dirty Eclipse Android ADT plug-in for eclipse Android SDK

18. Android Hello World

19. Android Resources meetup.com/blrdroid/ Bangalore based Android group , 800+ members, 8th largest Android Meetup group. developer.android.com android-developers.blogspot.com stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android twitter.com/romannurik/android

20. Android Questions?

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