Pro Android with Kotlin: Developing Modern Mobile Apps

© Peter Späth 2018

Peter SpäthPro Android with Kotlinhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3820-2_1

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Peter Späth¹ 

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Leipzig, Germany

 

The Android OS was born as the child of the Android Inc. company in 2003 and was later acquired by Google LLC in 2005. The first device running Android came on the market in 2008. Since then it has had numerous updates, with the latest version number at the beginning of 2018 reading 8.1.

Ever since its first build, the market share of the Android OS has been constantly increasing, and by 2018 it is said to be greater than 80 percent. Even though the numbers vary with the sources you use, the success of the Android OS is surely undeniable. This victory partly has its roots in Google LLC being a clever player in ...