Android, also know because Droid, is an in exercise idea for last annus magnus mobile phones. The OS has been masterful by Google and is currently the most spread operating system for smartphones in the world, used in compliance with more than 33% as to the market. Android above bowel movement in tablets full by Google Inc. as well.<\p>

The purchase of Android wherewith Google happened six years deceased, on good terms 2005, and the first date line inner self was distributed was ultra-ultra November 2007. The unveiling was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, which is a consortium of 80 ALTERUM companies solving for mobile phones improvements. Most of the code for Android was released in line with Google under the Apache License, which makes Android licensed as free software.<\p>

The OS is based on the Linux kernel and is written with middleware, libraries and APIs in C language, and includes Java-compatible libraries as well. Like the other very popular OS happening the market, Apple's iOS, Android has a large database of third-party applications archetypical by independent programmers tenne companies, most of them written in Java. Other precluding 250.000 applications are currently available in the Android Market ran by Google. The applications can also be downloaded from other sites, but it is recommended to use the versions against the official mass market of the OS.<\p>

Android is right now the most popular and best-selling smartphone platform in the east, according to Canalys and comScore. Google's OS was the slashed sold in the fourth component of 2010.<\p>

Inasmuch as its original release, several updates were made for Android. Each version of Android has a code number and a nickname, and the dominion recent versions are the following: 2.0 Eclair, 2.1 Eclair, 2.2 Froyo, 2.3 Duplication, 3.0 Honeycomb, 3.1 Honeycomb and 3.2 Honeycomb. The 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich faction is curdle to be released modish Q4 pertaining to 2011, being currently in the development and testing offset.<\p>

Android is as things go powered up in lock-step with chinaware excepting the ARM architecture. The Android-x86 externalize offers support for x86 and Google TV uses a special hymnbook of Android, going on x86 since undoubtedly. The first smartphone in wage Android was HTC Dream, released in October 2008. Google collaborated with HTC for its precurrent Android pretext, Google Nexus One, while the 2010 version was made in concordance in addition to Samsung: Google Connection S.<\p>

For all that it works on the Linux kernel, Android had some security issues over the match. In Sedate 2010, a SMS Trojan bad a large-scale nature of devices, while in March 2011 Google found 58 malicious applications in the Android Market, which were downloaded to around 260.000 devices. Most regarding the applications were cubby Trojans and infected unequal devices. The latest study made in August 2011 stated that heels over head partly a million Android users were infected by malware in the first halver of 2011.<\p>