ANDROID

1. ANDROID & ANDROID
PHONES
SUBMITTED BY: MARIA PATRICIA D.
CASIPIT
SY1219
SUBMITTED TO: ERWIN M. GLOBIO, MSIT

2. ANDROID AND
ANDROID
PHONES

3. ANDROID

4.  Android™ delivers a complete set of software
for mobile devices: an operating system,
middleware and key mobile applications.

5.  Open
 Android was built from the ground-up to enable
developers to create compelling mobile applications
that take full advantage of all a handset has to offer. It
was built to be truly open. For example, an application
can call upon any of the phone’s core functionality such
as making calls, sending text messages, or using the
camera, allowing developers to create richer and more
cohesive experiences for users. Android is built on the
open Linux Kernel. Furthermore, it utilizes a custom
virtual machine that was designed to optimize memory
and hardware resources in a mobile environment.
Android is open source; it can be liberally extended to
incorporate new cutting edge technologies as they
emerge. The platform will continue to evolve as the
developer community works together to build
innovative mobile applications.

6.  All applications are created equal
 Android does not differentiate between the
phone’s core applications and third-party
applications. They can all be built to have
equal access to a phone’s capabilities
providing users with a broad spectrum of
applications and services. With devices built
on the Android Platform, users are able to
fully tailor the phone to their interests. They
can swap out the phone's homescreen, the
style of the dialer, or any of the applications.
They can even instruct their phones to use
their favorite photo viewing application to
handle the viewing of all photos.

7.  Breaking down application boundaries
 Android breaks down the barriers to building
new and innovative applications. For
example, a developer can combine
information from the web with data on an
individual’s mobile phone — such as the
user’s contacts, calendar, or geographic
location — to provide a more relevant user
experience. With Android, a developer can
build an application that enables users to
view the location of their friends and be
alerted when they are in the vicinity giving
them a chance to connect.

8.  Fast & easy application development
 Android provides access to a wide range of
useful libraries and tools that can be used to
build rich applications. For example, Android
enables developers to obtain the location of
the device, and allows devices to
communicate with one another enabling rich
peer–to–peer social applications. In addition,
Android includes a full set of tools that have
been built from the ground up alongside the
platform providing developers with high
productivity and deep insight into their
applications.

9. HISTORY OF ANDROID
 Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in
October 2003 by Andy Rubin (co-founder of
Danger),Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire
Communications, Inc.),Nick Sears (once VP at T-
Mobile),[25] and Chris White (headed design and
interface development at WebTV) to develop, in
Rubin's words "smarter mobile devices that are more
aware of its owner's location and preferences". Despite
the past accomplishments of the founders and early
employees, Android Inc. operated secretly, revealing
only that it was working on software for mobile phones.
That same year, Rubin ran out of money. Steve
Perlman, a close friend of Rubin, brought him $10,000
in cash in an envelope and refused a stake in the
company.

10.  Google acquired Android Inc. on August 17,
2005, making it a wholly owned subsidiary of
Google. Key employees of Android Inc.,
including Rubin, Miner and White, stayed at the
company after the acquisition. Not much was
known about Android Inc. at the time, but many
assumed that Google was planning to enter the
mobile phone market with this move. At Google,
the team led by Rubin developed a mobile
device platform powered by the Linux kernel.
Google marketed the platform to handset
makers and carriers on the promise of providing
a flexible, upgradable system. Google had lined
up a series of hardware component and software
partners and signaled to carriers that it was open
to various degrees of cooperation on their part.

11.  Speculation about Google's intention to enter
the mobile communications market continued
to build through December 2006. Reports
from the BBC and the Wall Street Journal
noted that Google wanted its search and
applications on mobile phones and it was
working hard to deliver that. Print and online
media outlets soon reported rumors that
Google was developing a Google-branded
handset. Some speculated that as Google
was defining technical specifications, it was
showing prototypes to cell phone
manufacturers and network operators. In
September 2007, InformationWeek covered
an Evalueserve study reporting that Google
had filed several patent applications in the
area of mobile telephony.

12.  On November 5, 2007, the Open Handset
Alliance, a consortium of technology
companies including Google, device
manufacturers such as HTC and Samsung,
wireless carriers such as Sprint Nextel and T-
Mobile, and chipset makers such as
Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, unveiled
itself, with a goal to develop open standards
for mobile devices.[10] That day, Android was
unveiled as its first product, a mobile device
platform built on the Linux kernel version
2.6.[10] The first commercially available
phone to run Android was the HTC Dream,
released on October 22, 2008.

13.  Since 2008, Android has seen numerous updates
which have incrementally improved the operating
system, adding new features and fixing bugs in
previous releases. Each major release is named in
alphabetical order after a dessert or sugary treat; for
example, version 1.5 Cupcake was followed by 1.6
Donut. The latest release is 4.2 Jelly Bean. In 2010,
Google launched its Nexus series of devices—a line of
smartphones and tablets running the Android operating
system, and built by a manufacturer partner. HTC
collaborated with Google to release the first Nexus
smartphone, the Nexus One. The series has since
been updated with newer devices, such as the Nexus 4
phone and Nexus 10 tablet, made by LG and
Samsung, respectively. Google releases the Nexus
phones and tablets to act as their flagship Android
devices, demonstrating Android's latest software and
hardware features.

14. ANDROID
VERSIONS

15. ANDROID CUPCAKE
 V1.5 or Cupcake was realesed in April
2009. It had several new approvments.
Among the new features were
 Widgets for embeded small apps
 Contacts improvements invluding the
pictures added to ever contact
 Animations for smooth scrolling and
screen changes
 Blutooth support update for audio
pairing and sharing

17. ANDROID DONUT
 V1.6 or Donut was realesed in
Septemeber of 2009 and had many
improvements
 Voice and Text Improvements
 Touch Screen improvments
 Multi select for photos
 Camara access improvments and faster
access
 Search Option for faster access

19. ANDROID ECLAIR
 V2.0/2.0.1/2.1 or Eclair was released in Oct 2009 and
had several improvments and looks remarkably simular
to todays Android versions.
 Blutooth 2.1 support
 Hardware and U.I. improvments
 Calender improvements for date and not settings
 Account Sinc improvements allow user to sinc
multiable account on one phone
 Multi Touch improvements to allow better multitouch
support
 Screen size and contrast improvements. Include
bigger screens and better contrast ratios

21. ANDROID FROYO
 Android 2.2/2.2.1/2.2.2/2.2.3 or Frozen Yogurt(Froyo)
was released May of 2010 and improved on many
features. There were many key features in this version
of Android including
 Adobe Flash support for rich web content
 Speed and memory improvements
 Cloud messaging support
 USB tethering
 Multi Language support
 Bluetooth dock and car support
 WiFi hotspots support
 JIT Compilation for application speed improvements

23. ANDROID GINGERBREAD
 2.3/2.3./2.3.3./2.3.4 or Gingerbread was released in
December of 2010 and as of the time of this writing has
become the most widely used Android version. Some of the
new features included
 U.I. or Interface improvements gave it a more simple but
quicker interface
 Virtual Keyboard updated and improved for a better and
faster layout.
 copy/paste enhancements where a user could just press
and hold
 New Codec support for more audio/video formats
 Power Management enhancements
 gyroscope/barometers support
 input enhancements for game developers

25. ANDROID HONEYCOMB
 V 3.0/3.1/3.2 or Honeycomb was released in Feb of 2011
and was a tablet(and later Google TV) only release. Some of
its features included
 Holographic interface that was optimized for a tablet U.I.
 Improved keyboard support for larger screens
 Multi Core processor support
 Hardware acceleration for faster hardware
 view gallery in full screen interface
 System bar for better multitasking that allows you to switch
from one app to another.
 Resizable homescreen widgets(3.1+)
 external keyboard/mouse support (3.1+)
 FLAC audio codec support (3.1+)

27. ANDROID ICE CREAM
SANDWICH
 Android 4.0/4.01 was first released in Oct 2011 and was a
major improvment upon both 2.x and 3.x. It blended both
interfaces and had full support for both phones and tablets.
Some of the notable features included
 Folder system improvements making easier to create.
 Launcher improved to be customizable
 Tabbed Browsing improved to allow up to 16 tabs
 facial recognition support to locking/unlocking phone
 photo editor built in to Android 4.x
 Android Beam support to share contacts and files
 Crome Bookmark sync support
 WiFi direct support to connect with other users without
access point
 User Interface hardware acceleration for faster access.

29. ANDROID JELLYBEAN
 Android 4.1 Android Jellybean saw full release in early
2012 and improved on Android 4.0 in many ways. It
took the common features of Android 4.0 and made it
more fluid.some features include:
 Browser has improved performance, CPU and
memory efficiency
 Full HTML 5 support to bring Android up to new web
standards
 Calendar is improved and has features blend with one
another
 bidirectional text means more input languages to
make the platform accessible to more people around
the world.
 dictionaries are now more accurate and more relevant

31. ANDROID KEY LIME PIE

32. Respecfully submitted to
Prof. Erwin M. Globio,
MSIT