Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005,Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance: a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. The first Android-powered phone was sold in October 2008. Android is open source and Google releases the code under the Apache License. This open source
code and permissive licensing allows the software to be freely modified and distributed by device manufacturers,wireless carriers and enthusiast developers. Additionally, Android has a large community of developers writing applications ("apps") that extend the functionality of devices, written primarily in a customized version of the Java programming language.In October 2012, there were approximately 700,000 apps available for Android, and the estimated number of applications downloaded from Google Play, Android's primary app store, was 25 billion.
These factors have allowed Android to become the world's most widely used smartphone platform,overtaking Symbian in the fourth quarter of 2010, and the software of choice for technology companies who require a low-cost, customizable, lightweight operating system for high tech devices without developing one from scratch. As a result, despite being primarily designed for phones and tablets, it has seen additional applications on televisions, games consoles, digital cameras and other electronics. Android's open nature has further encouraged a large community of developers and enthusiasts to use the open source code as a foundation for community-driven projects, which add new features for advanced users or bring Android to devices which were officially released running other operating systems.
Android had a worldwide smartphone market share of 75% during the third quarter of 2012, with 500 million devices activated in total and 1.3 million activations per day. The operating system's success hasmade it a target for patent litigation as part of the so-called "smartphone wars" between technology companies
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The Android operating system has too much force on the market today, but was not always this way. Go back to the year 2008 to see the birth of Android, version 1.0.Arrived as the robots that has revolutionized the mobile market after the omnipresence of Apple with its best-selling iPhone. Surely many of you know the evolution of Android, however, it is difficult to know the differences between the different versions. For this reason I leave you with an infographic created by H@R! and showing in detail all changes in Android APIs and improvements from version 1.0 to version 5.0: The Evolution of Android with Different versions from Starting state to till now.
i.e From Android ( 1.0 -- 5.0 )
The 1st Android version of 1.0
Android 1.5 version Cupcake
Android 1.6 version Donut
Android 2.0,2.1 version Eclair
Android 2.2 version Froyo
Android 2.3 version Gingerbread
Android 3.0 version Honeycomb
Android 4.0 version Ice cream sandwich
Android 4.1 version Jellybean
Android 5.0 version Key Lime Pie
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