What is Android - Features of Android - Android History
What is Android - Features of Android - Android History : Currently, Android platform is only used in mobile phones or tablets, it is not. Actually Android platform is an operating system developed for small devices like Mobile like Windows, Linux, Unix, MacOS, which can be used as a platform in any digital device. That is why not only Mobile Phones and Tablet PCs based on Android Platform are coming, but Google has also started adding it to Set-Top Boxes and TVs, which is known as Google TV. Similarly, Android platform is being used as the main platform in various other digital devices such as Cars, Airplanes and Robots. Nevertheless, the Android platform was originally developed only for small screen devices that do not have the same keyboard-like hardware input device as they do with computer systems, rather these devices for data input. In using their Touch Screens only, the virtual keyboard is made on it. So it can be believed that the Android platform is going to be developed in future also for small screen devices such as Smart-Phones and this situation is also an advantage for us as an Android developer and also a drawback. The present day Android based Smart-Phones are quite attractive but in the mid 1990s there was a need to use Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML) to provide Internet services on mobile devices and the Internet services provided by this HDML Capabilities were also quite limited. Read the full article
