A New Platform for a New Personal Computer
The Android platform embraces the idea of general-purpose computing for handheld devices. It is a comprehensive platform that features a Linux-based operating system stack for managing devices, memory, and processes. Android's Java libraries cover telephony, video, speech, graphics, connectivity, UI programming, and a number of other aspects of the device.
NOTE: Although built for mobile- and tablet-based devices, the Android platform exhibits the characteristics of a full-featured desktop framework. Google makes this framework available to Java programmers through a Software Development Kit (SDK) called the Android SDK. When you are working with the Android SDK, you rarely feel that you are writing ...
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