Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. Google Inc. purchased the initial developer of the software, Android Inc., in 2005. Android's mobile operating system is based on the Linux kernel. Google and other members of the Open Handset Alliance collaborated on Android's development and release. The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is tasked with the maintenance and further development of Android. Android the world's best-selling smartphone platform
Android is an operating system mainly developed for mobile devices but also has been seen on different internet tablets. This OS is built using the Linux kernel and is totally open source. It has been at first developed by Android Inc. but Google has purchased it and continued the development later on.
Android has a large community of developers writing applications ("apps") that extend the functionality of the devices. There are currently over 150,000 apps available for Android. Android Market is the online app store run by Google, though apps can also be downloaded from third-party sites. Developers write primarily in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.
The collaboration of a huge community worldwide, bugs tracking and continuous updates and fixes are the main pillars that supported such an open source idea to become what we see right now. Open source can and will succeed at the very end.
Android OS is an unbridled success in the mobile market. Even with the iPhone continuing to sell well and Apple overcoming those iPhone 4 antenna critics, Google’s operating system has been able to overtake all competitors in 2010 including contenders such as Apple and Research In Motion that had years-long head starts. Worst of all for Apple, Android’s success will likely only continue in the coming months and years as more vendors and consumers jump on the Android bandwagon. But Google’s success in the mobile market didn’t come easily. The company was forced to work diligently, follow the right strategies and get to what people really wanted in order for it enjoy the success it does today. Google took risks, made sound business decisions and perhaps most importantly, delivered outstanding products to get to where it is today.
Major mobile manufacturers have chosen Android just because of the simple fact that it's open source, they can download the source code, manipulate it and do further developments and totally make it their own, and then simply put it on their mobiles. HTC has done it first and then other major players joined; Samsung and Motorola. Sony Ericsson shall also join as well pretty soon. Motorola has been losing money for a while and, Android has saved them from taking more damage. They released couple of handsets which operate on Android and are receiving huge attention.
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