Features of Android

Because Android is open source and freely available to manufacturers for customization, there are no fixed hardware or software configurations.

• Storage — Uses SQLite, a lightweight relational database, for data storage.

• Messaging — Supports both SMS and MMS. Chapter 8 discusses messaging in more detail

• Media support — Includes support for the following media: H.263, H.264 (in 3GP or MP4container), MPEG-4 SP, AMR, AMR-WB (in 3GP container), AAC, HE-AAC (in MP4 or3GP container), MP3, MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and BMP

• Hardware support — Accelerometer Sensor, Camera, Digital Compass, Proximity Sensor,and GPS.

• Multi-touch — Supports multi-touch screens.

• Multi-tasking — Supports multi-tasking applications.

• Flash support — Android 2.3 supports Flash 10.1.

• Tethering — Supports sharing of Internet connections as a wired/wireless hotspot.