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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.
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ANDROID VERSION RELEASE DATE CODENAME
- 1.5 30 April 2009 Cupcake
- 1.6 15 September 2009 Donut
- 2.0/2.1 26 October 2009 Eclair
- 2.3 6 December 2010 Gingerbread
- 3.0/3.1/3.2 22 February 2011 Honeycomb
- 4.0 19 October 2011 Ice Cream Sandwich
- 4.1.x 9 July 2012,Jelly Bean
- 4.2.x 13 November 2012 Jelly Bean
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- Android is a mobile operating system that is based on a modifi ed version of Linux.
- It was originally developed by a startup of the same name, Android, Inc. In 2005.
- It was originally developed by a startup of the same name, Android, Inc. In 2005.
- Google purchased Android and took over its development work.
- Google wanted Android to be open and free; hence, most of the Android code was released under the open source Apache License.
- The main advantage of adopting Android is that it offers a unified approach to application development.
- Developers need only develop for Android, and their applications should be able to run on numerous different devices, as long as the devices are powered using Android.
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