Week 3 - Android - How the OS is Changing the World of Hand Held Devices
Android: How the OS is Changing the World of Hand-Held Devices
Student Name
CIS/207
April 15, 2013
David Syskowski
Android: How the OS is Changing the World of Hand Held Devices
Manufacturer and History
Android was developed by Android, Inc., a company specializing in in software for mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets and netbooks. It is an open-source mobile software platform that allows developers to create applications for these devices (Week, 2013). Android was purchased by Google in 2005.
Purpose
Android has many contributors writing applications (known as “apps”) that help extend the functionality of hand-held devices. It delivers a complete set of software for these devices: an operating system, middleware and other key mobile applications (“apps”) and the operating system is the world’s best-selling smart phone platform (Virki, 2011). Google released much of the code for Android under the Apache License agreement, a free software and “open source” licensing platform, which instantly pushed the software to the fore-front of mobile software development.
Features and Technologies
The platform has tremendous video capability, allowing greater pixel detail, thus giving the user more details in both imaging and video.
Data storage is limited only by the size of the internal memory capacity of the device.
Android has native support for multi-touch, which allows a user to simply “touch” the screen to carry out a command. The feature was originally disabled at the kernel level (possibly to avoid infringing on Apple’s patents on touch-screen technology at the time (Musil, 2013). Google has since released an update for the Nexus One and the Motorola Droid which allows multi-touch natively (Ziegler, 2013).
Android allows both texting and messaging with the touch of a screen. And let’s face it: texting and messaging are “it” for mobile hand-held devices.
Android supports tethering, which allows a phone to be used as a wireless/wired
Student Name
CIS/207
April 15, 2013
David Syskowski
Android: How the OS is Changing the World of Hand Held Devices
Manufacturer and History
Android was developed by Android, Inc., a company specializing in in software for mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets and netbooks. It is an open-source mobile software platform that allows developers to create applications for these devices (Week, 2013). Android was purchased by Google in 2005.
Purpose
Android has many contributors writing applications (known as “apps”) that help extend the functionality of hand-held devices. It delivers a complete set of software for these devices: an operating system, middleware and other key mobile applications (“apps”) and the operating system is the world’s best-selling smart phone platform (Virki, 2011). Google released much of the code for Android under the Apache License agreement, a free software and “open source” licensing platform, which instantly pushed the software to the fore-front of mobile software development.
Features and Technologies
The platform has tremendous video capability, allowing greater pixel detail, thus giving the user more details in both imaging and video.
Data storage is limited only by the size of the internal memory capacity of the device.
Android has native support for multi-touch, which allows a user to simply “touch” the screen to carry out a command. The feature was originally disabled at the kernel level (possibly to avoid infringing on Apple’s patents on touch-screen technology at the time (Musil, 2013). Google has since released an update for the Nexus One and the Motorola Droid which allows multi-touch natively (Ziegler, 2013).
Android allows both texting and messaging with the touch of a screen. And let’s face it: texting and messaging are “it” for mobile hand-held devices.
Android supports tethering, which allows a phone to be used as a wireless/wired
Bibliography: Bray, T. (2013, April 13). Multitasking the Android Way. Retrieved from Android Developers: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html Musil, S. (2013, April 13). Report: Apple Nixed Android’s Multi-Touch. Retrieved from C/Net News: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10161312-37.html Raphael, J. (2013, April 13). Use Your Android Phone as a Wireless Modem. Retrieved from PCWorld: http://www.pcworld.com/article/190265/use_your_android_phone_as_a_wireless_modem.html Virki, T. a. (2011, May 2011). Google Topples Symbian from Smartphones Top Spot. Retrieved from Reuters: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/01/31/oukin-uk-google-nokia-idUKTRE70U1YT20110131 Week, B. B. (2013, April 13). Private Company Information. Retrieved from Bloomberg Business Week: http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=23584687 Ziegler, C. (2013, April 13). Nexus One Gets a Software Update. Retrieved from Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/nexus-one-gets-a-software-update-enables-multitouch/