Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google that is based on the Linux kernel. It uses a touchscreen interface designed for smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, cars, and watches. As of 2015, Android has the largest installed base of any operating system and over one billion monthly active users. It allows users to download apps from the Google Play store, which has over one million apps available. Most mobile app developers prioritize creating apps for the Android platform.
Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google that is based on the Linux kernel. It uses a touchscreen interface designed for smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, cars, and watches. As of 2015, Android has the largest installed base of any operating system and over one billion monthly active users. It allows users to download apps from the Google Play store, which has over one million apps available. Most mobile app developers prioritize creating apps for the Android platform.
Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google that is based on the Linux kernel. It uses a touchscreen interface designed for smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, cars, and watches. As of 2015, Android has the largest installed base of any operating system and over one billion monthly active users. It allows users to download apps from the Google Play store, which has over one million apps available. Most mobile app developers prioritize creating apps for the Android platform.
Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google that is based on the Linux kernel. It uses a touchscreen interface designed for smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, cars, and watches. As of 2015, Android has the largest installed base of any operating system and over one billion monthly active users. It allows users to download apps from the Google Play store, which has over one million apps available. Most mobile app developers prioritize creating apps for the Android platform.
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Android (operating system)
Android
Android 5.0 home screen
Developer
Google Open Handset Alliance
Written in
C (core), C++, Java (UI)[1]
OS family
Unix-like
Working state
Current
Source model
Open source[2] and in most devices
with proprietarycomponents[3]
Initial release
September 23, 2008; 6 years ago[4]
Latest release
5.1.1 "Lollipop" / April 21, 2015; 4
months ago
Latest preview
6.0 "Marshmallow" (developer preview
3) / August 17, 2015; 27 days ago
Marketing target
Smartphones, tablet computers,TVs, cars and wearable devices
Available in
70 languages[a]
Package manager
Google Play, APK
Platforms
32- and 64-bit: ARM architectures, x86,
[5]
x86-64,MIPS[6] and MIPS64[b]
Kernel type
Monolithic (modified Linux kernel)
Userland
Bionic libc,[7] mksh shell,[8]native core
utilities with a few from NetBSD[9]
Default user interface Graphical (Multi-touch)
License
Apache License 2.0
GNU GPL v2 for the Linux kernel modifications[10]
Official website
www.android.com
Android is a mobile operating system (OS) based on the Linux kerneland currently developed by Google. With a user interface based ondirect manipulation, Android is designed primarily for touchscreenmobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, with specialized user interfaces for televisions (Android TV), cars (Android Auto), and wrist watches (Android Wear). The OS uses touch inputs that loosely correspond to real-world actions, like swiping, tapping, pinching, and reverse pinching to manipulate on-screen objects, and avirtual keyboard. Despite being primarily designed for touchscreen input, it has also been used in game consoles, digital cameras, regularPCs, and other electronics. As of 2015, Android has the largestinstalled base of all operating systems.[11] As of July 2013, the Google Play store has had over one million Android applications ("apps") published, and over 50 billion applications downloaded. [12] An AprilMay 2013 survey of mobile application developers found that 71% of them create applications for Android;[13] another 2015 survey, found that 40% of full-time professional developers see Android as the "priority" target platform, which is more than iOS (37%) or other platforms.[14] At Google I/O2014, the company revealed that there were over one billion active monthly Android users, up from 538 million in June 2013.[15]
