Android (operating system)

Android  is a mobile operating system developed by Google. It is based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software, and is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. In addition, Google has further developed Android TV for televisions, Android Auto for cars, and Wear OS for wrist watches, each with a specialized user interface. Variants of Android are also used on game consoles, digital cameras, PCs and other electronics.

At first created by Android Inc., which Google purchased in 2005, Android was revealed in 2007, with the primary business Android gadget propelled in September 2008. The working framework has since experienced numerous real discharges, with the right now stable rendition being 9 "Pie", discharged in August 2018. Google discharged the main Android Q beta on all Pixel telephones on March 13, 2019. The center Android source code is known as Android Open Source Project (AOSP), and is basically authorized under the Apache License.

Android is additionally connected with a suite of exclusive programming created by Google, called Google Mobile Services[10] (GMS) that in all respects as often as possible comes pre-introduced in gadgets, which more often than excludes the Google Chrome internet browser and Google Search and dependably incorporates center applications for administrations, for example, Gmail, just as the application store and computerized dispersion stage Google Play, and related improvement stage. These applications are authorized by makers of Android gadgets confirmed under models forced by Google, yet AOSP has been utilized as the premise of contending Android environments, for example, Amazon.com's Fire OS, which utilize their own reciprocals to GMS.

Android has been the top of the line OS worldwide on cell phones since 2011 and on tablets since 2013. As of May 2017, it has more than two billion month to month dynamic clients, the biggest introduced base of any working framework, and as of December 2018, the Google Play store includes over 2.6 million applications.

History

PC software engineer Andy Rubin picked android.com as his own site, and his partners utilized Android as his epithet at work. The name Andrew and the thing Android share the Greek root andros, which means man. That in the end turned into the name of the organization he established, and the name of the working framework they created.

Android Inc. was established in Palo Alto, California, in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White. Rubin portrayed the Android venture as "huge potential in creating more astute cell phones that are increasingly mindful of its proprietor's area and inclinations". The early aims of the organization were to build up a progressed working framework for advanced cameras, and this was the premise of its contribute to financial specialists April 2004. The organization at that point chose that the market for cameras was not sufficiently huge for its objectives, and by five months after the fact it had occupied its endeavors and was pitching Android as a handset working framework that would match Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile.