Chapter 1
Preliminary Information: Before We Get Started
This chapter introduces the Android operating system, giving you a little background information to help put things into perspective. We’ll visit just how expansive this platform has become in today’s Internet 2.0 environment of portable consumer electronic devices. Internet 2.0 here refers to the consumption of the Internet over a wide variety of different types of data networks using highly portable consumer electronic devices, including smartphones, tablets, e-book readers, and even new emerging consumer electronic products such as interactive television (iTV).
As this is an introductory book on the subject not all of the advanced new media-related areas, such as 3D and video streaming, ...
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