Android


It is a portable working framework dependent on an adjusted rendition of the Linux bit and other open source programming, planned basically for touchscreen cell phones, for example, cell phones and tablets. Android is created by a consortium of engineers known as the Open Handset Alliance and financially supported by Google. It was disclosed in November 2007, with the principal business Android gadget, the HTC Dream, being sent off in September 2008.


It is free and open-source programming; its source code is known as Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which is principally authorized under the Apache License. Anyway most Android gadgets transport with extra exclusive programming pre-installed,[14] most quite Google Mobile Services (GMS)[15] which incorporates center applications, for example, Google Chrome, the computerized dissemination stage Google Play, and related Google Play Services advancement stage.


More than 70% of Android cell phones run Google's environment; some with merchant modified UI and programming suite, like TouchWiz and later One UI by Samsung, and HTC Sense.[16] Competing Android biological systems and forks incorporate Fire OS (created by Amazon) or LineageOS. Anyway the "Android" name and logo are brand names of Google which forces guidelines to confine the utilization of Android marking by "uncertified" gadgets outside their ecosystem.[17][18]


The source code has been utilized to foster variations of Android on a scope of other gadgets, like game control center, advanced cameras, convenient media players, PCs, each with a specific UI. Some notable subordinates incorporate Android TV for TVs and Wear OS for wearables, both created by Google. Programming bundles on Android, which utilize the APK design, are by and large dispersed through restrictive application stores like Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore (counting for Windows 11), Samsung Galaxy Store, Huawei AppGallery, Cafe Bazaar, and GetJar, or open source stages like Aptoide or F-Droid.


Android has been the top rated OS worldwide on cell phones starting around 2011 and on tablets starting around 2013. As of May 2021, it has more than three billion month to month dynamic clients, the biggest introduced base of any working framework, and as of January 2021, the Google Play Store highlights north of 3 million apps.[19] Android 12, delivered on October 4, 2021, is the most recent version.


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Fourth Android logotype (2019–present)

Android Inc. was established in Palo Alto, California, in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White.[20][21] Rubin portrayed the Android project as having "enormous potential in creating more astute cell phones that are more mindful of its proprietor's area and preferences".[21] The early expectations of the organization were to foster a high level working framework for advanced cameras, and this was the premise of its contribute to financial backers April 2004.[22] The organization then, at that point, concluded that the market for cameras was not huge enough for its objectives, and after five months it had redirected its endeavors and was pitching Android as a handset working framework that would match Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile.[22][23]


Rubin experienced issues drawing in financial backers almost immediately, and Android was confronting expulsion from its office space. Steve Perlman, a dear companion of Rubin, brought him $10,000 in real money in an envelope, and presently wired an undisclosed sum as seed financing. Perlman rejected a stake in the organization, and has expressed "I did this is on the grounds that I trusted in the thing, and I needed to help Andy."[24][25]




In 2005, Rubin attempted to arrange manages Samsung[26] and HTC.[27] Shortly thereafter, Google procured the organization in July of that year for at minimum $50 million;[21][28] this was Google's "best arrangement of all time" as per Google's then-VP of corporate turn of events, David Lawee, in 2010.[26] Android's key workers, including Rubin, Miner, Sears, and White, joined Google as a component of the acquisition.[21] Not much was been aware of the cryptic Android Inc. at that point, with the organization having given not many subtleties other than that it was making programming for portable phones.[21] At Google, the group drove by Rubin fostered a cell phone stage controlled by the Linux piece. Google showcased the stage to handset creators and transporters on the guarantee of giving an adaptable, upgradeable system.[29] Google had "arranged a progression of equipment parts and programming accomplices and motioned to transporters that it was available to different levels of cooperation".[attribution needed][30]


Theory about Google's aim to enter the portable correspondences market kept on working through December 2006.[31] An early model had a nearby likeness to a BlackBerry telephone, with no touchscreen and an actual QWERTY console, yet the appearance of 2007's Apple iPhone implied that Android "needed to return to the drawing board".[32][33] Google later changed its Android particular records to express that "Touchscreens will be upheld", albeit "the Product was planned with the presence of discrete actual buttons as a presumption, along these lines a touchscreen can't totally supplant physical buttons".[34] By 2008, the two Nokia and BlackBerry reported touch-based cell phones to match the iPhone 3G, and Android's concentrate in the end changed to simply touchscreens. The first monetarily accessible cell phone running Android was the HTC Dream, otherwise called T-Mobile G1, declared on September 23, 2008.[35][36]


HTC Dream or T-Mobile G1, the main economically delivered gadget running Android (2008)

On November 5, 2007, the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of innovation organizations including Google, gadget producers, for example, HTC, Motorola and Samsung, remote transporters like Sprint and T-Mobile, and chipset creators like Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, revealed itself, with an objective to create "the principal genuinely open and thorough stage for versatile devices".[37][38][39] Within a year, the Open Handset Alliance confronted two other open source contenders, the Symbian Foundation and the LiMo Foundation, the last option additionally fostering a Linux-based portable working framework like Google. In September 2007, InformationWeek covered an Evalueserve concentrate on announcing that Google had documented a few patent applications in the space of versatile telephony.[40][41]


Beginning around 2008, Android has seen various updates which have steadily worked on the working framework, adding new elements and fixing bugs in past discharges. Each significant delivery is named in sequential request after a pastry or sweet treat, with the initial not many Android variants being designated "Cupcake", "Doughnut", "Eclair", and "Froyo", in a specific order. During its declaration of Android KitKat in 2013, Google clarified that "Since these gadgets make our lives so sweet, every Android adaptation is named after a pastry", albeit a Google representative told CNN in a meeting that "It's similar to an interior group thing, and we like to be a smidgen — how could I say — somewhat vague regarding the present situation, I'll say".[42]


In 2010, Google sent off its Nexus series of gadgets, an arrangement in which Google collaborated with various gadget makers to deliver new gadgets and present new Android forms. The series was portrayed as having "assumed a significant part in Android's set of experiences by presenting new programming cycles and equipment norms no matter how you look at it", and became known for its "bulge free" programming with "convenient ... updates".[43] At its engineer meeting in May 2013, Google declared an exceptional rendition of the Samsung Galaxy S4, where, rather than utilizing Samsung's own Android customization, the telephone ran "stock Android" and was guaranteed to get new framework refreshes fast.[44] The gadget would turn into the beginning of the Google Play release program, and was trailed by different gadgets, including the HTC One Google Play edition,[45] and Moto G Google Play edition.[46] In 2015, Ars Technica composed that "Recently, the remainder of the Google Play version Android telephones in Google's online customer facing facade were recorded "as of now not ready to move" and that "Presently they're completely gone, and it looks a ton like the program has wrapped up.


Eric Schmidt, Andy Rubin and Hugo Barra at a 2012 question and answer session declaring Google's Nexus 7 tablet

From 2008 to 2013, Hugo Barra filled in as item representative, addressing Android at question and answer sessions and Google I/O, Google's yearly designer centered meeting. He left Google in August 2013 to join Chinese telephone creator Xiaomi.[49][50] Less than a half year sooner, Google's then-CEO Larry Page declared in a blog entry that Andy Rubin had moved from the Android division to take on new ventures at Google, and that Sundar Pichai would turn into the new Android lead. Pichai himself would ultimately switch positions,