Android's Features and Architecture
Android is not just another Linux distribution for mobile devices. While developing for Android, you're not all that likely to meet the Linux kernel itself. The developer-facing side of Android is a platform that abstracts away the underlying Linux kernel and is programmed via Java. From a high-level view, Android possesses several nice features:
- An application framework that provides a rich set of APIs for creating various types of applications. It also allows the reuse and replacement of components provided by the platform and third-party applications.
- The Dalvik virtual machine, which is responsible for running applications on Android.
- A set of graphics libraries for 2D and 3D programming.
- Media support ...
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