WHAT IS ANDROID?
ANDROID Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using Java Programming language. FEATURES Application framework enabling reuse and replacement of components. Dalvik virtual Machine optimized for mobile devices. [...]
GOOGLE DEMANDS ORDER IN ANDROID LAND
: admin – Apr• 01•11 How open is open? Google is reportedly tightening access to its open source Android mobile operating system, as well as being more restrictive about the sort of tweaks manufacturers can make to the OS, multiple executives tell Businessweek. That seems to go against Android’s open source nature. When Google first [...]
HTC PYRAMID SEEN LIVE AGAIN, RUNNING ANDROID 2.3
HTC’s flagship Pyramid has been spotted again in a scoop that has shown it running and also put to rest some rumors. Despite claims it would use Android 3.0, a source showed XDA-Developers proof it was still using Android 2.3, much like the closely related Evo 3D. The confusion likely came from HTC’s use of [...]
ANDROID BECOMES THE NUMBER ONE SMARTPHONE OS 3/31/2011 – THE LEAKERS
Android have become the number one smartphone OS, according to a study by market research company Canalys. With shipments of 32.9 million during the fourth quarter of 2010, Android is ahead of both Symbian and iOS. Overall, Androids market share grew from 8.4 percent to a staggering 32.5 percent in 2010. Android have seen massive [...]
GOOGLE ANDROID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Google Android application development uses the Google Android operating system. The Google Android operating system is known for its intuitive design, support for multiple networks and the ability for framing various applications. Android applications are written in Java – a relatively easy to learn, friendly language for new developers. In this generation of mobile technology, [...]
ANDROID 45%, IOS 19% OF SMARTPHONE MARKET BY 2016, RESEARCH SAYS
Google’s Android operating system is expected to dominate 45 per cent of the smartphone market by 2016, new research has claimed. According to the latest smartphone market research conducted by ABI Research, Google Android, which was on 69 million smartphones that shipped in 2010, will continue to rise in popularity across the world and control [...]
SONY ANDROID 3.0 TABLET TO HIT THE US THIS SUMMER (AND SONY KIND OF CONFIRMS IT)
Japan’s biggest business daily The Nikkei reported some vague news today about a new tablet Sony is supposedly planning. According to the article (which has now been deleted on the newspaper’s Japanese website), Sony CEO Howard Stringer has said that his company is ready to launch an Android 3.0 tablet “this summer”. Stringer was also [...]
WEBROOT RELEASES MOBILE SECURITY APP FOR ANDROID
Webroot, one of the first internet security firms that came into being with the boom of the internet, has released “Webroot Mobile Security” for Android devices. There are two versions of the app, a limited free version which you can get from the Android Market, and a paid version available for $14.99 at Best Buy [...]
GOOGLE ANDROID TIGHT POLICY ADVANTAGES WINDOWS PHONE 7 AND IOS
Apr 05 First hitting the market, Google’s Android brought a lot of offerings to distract smartphone developers from Apple’s iOS. Android was known as an open source with license free, and flexible to be modified based on the developers or carriers needs. However, Google thinks about platform fragmentation to compete with Apple’s highly developed software [...]
HTC EVO VIEW 4G DEFINITELY AN ANDROID 3.0 HONEYCOMB TABLET
(Credit:Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) If there was any doubt about that chronicle of a Android handling complement a HTC Evo View 4G will lift when thetablet finally hits store shelves, Sprint’s Web site dispels it. One CNET reader speckled a spec for a Android 3.0 Honeycomb handling complement on this Sprint page. The final we [...]