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Elements of android OSRuggero Donida Labati,

Enrique Munoz,

Gianluca Sforza

Mobile OS

• Current platforms:

• iOS

• Android OS

• Windows phone

• Blackberry...

Android devices

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Android history

• Origins: Sidekick Phone, by Danger Inc.• Conceived by Andy Rubin

• Impressed Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google)

• Cancelled because it didn’t achieve commercial success

• In 2004 Rubin decides to create an open OS for phone manufacturers

• In 2005 the company is bought by Google

• In 2007 Android is announce together with theHandset Alliance

• In 2008 Android 1.0 is made available

Android history

http://it.affdu.com/android-versions-with-list-names.html

Android Features

• Application framework

• Dalvik virtual machine

• Integrated browser

• Optimized graphics

• SQLite

• Media support

• GSM, Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, and WiFi

• Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer

• Rich development environment

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credits

• Dr. Adam Porter, University of Maryland (USA). On-line course “Programming Mobile Applications for Android Handheld Systems” accessible athttps://www.coursera.org/course/android

• Source code of the course available athttps://github.com/aporter/coursera-android/tree/master/Examples

• Official website for android developement supporthttp://developer.android.com/training/index.html