GSM/EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LTE, NFC and WiMAX. Few of them are listed below − Sr.No.Īndroid OS basic screen provides a beautiful and intuitive user interface. Why Android ? Features of AndroidĪndroid is a powerful operating system competing with Apple 4GS and supports great features. Google publishes most of the code under the Apache License version 2.0 and the rest, Linux kernel changes, under the GNU General Public License version 2.
The source code for Android is available under free and open source software licenses. Jelly Bean is an incremental update, with the primary aim of improving the user interface, both in terms of functionality and performance. On June 27, 2012, at the Google I/O conference, Google announced the next Android version, 4.1 Jelly Bean. The first beta version of the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) was released by Google in 2007 where as the first commercial version, Android 1.0, was released in September 2008.
Android was developed by the Open Handset Alliance, led by Google, and other companies.Īndroid offers a unified approach to application development for mobile devices which means developers need only develop for Android, and their applications should be able to run on different devices powered by Android. Android is an open source and Linux-based Operating System for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.