Android Husam Abdel Rahman Introduction Android Operating system

Android Husam Abdel Rahman

Introduction Android Operating system is most popular operating system these days with the advance in voice communications devices. • Android system is a operating system that was developed for smart phone. • Android was developed to have many of the features of a desktop operating system.

Purpose • The purpose of the Android System is to provide software that allow people to make calls and send and receive mails and information • Android System allow the user to develop and use application to complete certain task that the uses the hardware like take picture or edit documents

Brief History • The first version of Android Operating System was release on 23 September 2008. The operating system is based on a version on the Linux kernel. The first phone that it was release on was the g 1. • Since then there have be minor release for example 2. 2. 2 and major release like 2. 3 • The upcoming 3. 0 will be designed for Tablets.

Brief History Time line of version releases. version 1. 0 23 September 2008 1. 1 9 February 2009 1. 5 30 April 2009 1. 6 15 September 2009 2. 0 26 October 2009 2. 1 12 January 2010 2. 2 20 May 2010 2. 3 6 December 2010

Features • Support for Bluetooth, EDGE, 3 G, 4 G, Wi. Fi Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer. • Browser based on chrome and open source Web. Kit engine • Multitouch support for touch screens. • Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats

Features • SQLite , a lightweight relational database, is used for data storage • Optimized graphics. It has a custom 2 d library and a 3 d graphics based on Open. GL ES 1. 0 specification • Java support. The operating system run Dalvik virtual machine.

Android vs i. OS • One of Android competitors is i. OS is Apple’s mobile operating system which was originally developed for the i. Phone, and then extended to support other Apple devices. • Features. Android and i. OS have many similar feature

Android vs i. OS • Android operating system can be used by any manufacturer while the i. OS is only used by apple devices. • Android operating system is more popular than i. OS. In Q 4 2010 Android shipped more phones than i. OS. Android shipped 33. 3 million devices while i. OS shipped 16. 2 million devices

Android vs i. OS Though the number of Android applications is growing faster than i. OS applicatios, there are certain things you won't find on Android like interactive books from big publisher, this mostly because of i. Phone's billing system, i. OS users have i. Tunes accounts using credit card.

Future Version • The next version of android that will come out is version 3. 0 • It will have many new features – Support for larger screens – Support for multicore processors – Many UI features – hardware acceleration for graphics

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