Android: How Google Conquered the Smartphone Industry

Android is a cellular working system developed by Google, primarily based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen cellular units equivalent to smartphones and tablets. Android’s consumer interface is principally primarily based on direct manipulation, utilizing contact gestures that loosely correspond to real-world actions, equivalent to swiping, tapping and pinching, to govern on-screen objects, together with a digital keyboard for textual content enter. Along with touchscreen units, Google has additional developed Android TV for televisions, Android Auto for vehicles, and Android Put on for wrist watches, every with a specialised consumer interface. Variants of Android are additionally used on sport consoles, digital cameras, PCs and different electronics.

Initially developed by Android Inc., which Google purchased in 2005, Android was unveiled in 2007, together with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance – a consortium of {hardware}, software program, and telecommunication firms dedicated to advancing open requirements for cellular units. Starting with the primary business Android machine in September 2008, the working system has gone by a number of main releases, with the present model being 8.0 “Oreo”, launched in August 2017. Android functions (“apps”) might be downloaded from the Google Play retailer, which options over 2.7 million apps as of February 2017. Android has been the best-selling OS on tablets since 2013, and runs on the overwhelming majority of smartphones. As of Could 2017, Android has two billion month-to-month lively customers, and it has the biggest put in base of any working system.

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