By-:Amitoj Singh

Founders of Android

July 2005-Google acquired Android Inc

5 Nov 2007-Open HandSet Alliance formed-Google, HTC,INTEL,MOTOROLA,T-MOBILE.

12 Nov 2007-OHA released a preview of the Android OHA

HISTORY

WHAT IS AN ANDROID?

OPEN HANDSET ALLIANCE(OHA)

FEATURES OF ANDROID

● Cellular networking

● LAN

● Camera,GPS,compass(hardware dependent)

● Touch screen and accelerometer for motion sensing

● Graphics hardware aceleration

HARDWARE

Software

● Media support for common audio, video and still image formats (MPEG4,H.264,MP3, AAC, AMR,JPG,PNG,GIF)

● Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine

● The SQL database (SQLite )for relational data storage

● Dalvik virtual machine optimized for mobile devices

ANDROID ARCHITECTURE

APPLICATION FRAMEWORK

LIBRARIES

● Written in C/C++ - System C Library(libc)

● Display/Graphics(SGL)

● Media Libraries

● SQLite –RDB engine-light weight

● LibWebCore–web browser engine–embeddable

Web view

Android runtime

● Includes a set of core libraries that provides most ofthe functionality-JAVA

● Every Android application runs in its own process

● Dalvik VM executes files in the (.dex) format

● Device can run multiple VMs efficiently

Linux kernel

Android versions