Introduction to Android
Android was launched by Google in 2007, two years after it acquired the technology, as part of industrywide effort to establish a new mobile phone platform that was nonproprietary and open, unlike the technology that drives RIM BlackBerry and Apple iPhone. Some of the biggest names in mobile phones and technology—Google, Intel, Motorola, Nvidia, Samsung, and other companies—formed the Open Handset Alliance to promote the new platform for mutual benefit.
Google released the Android Software Development Kit (SDK), a free set of tools for developing Android apps. The first phone running Android, the T-Mobile G1, came out in June 2008.
This effort started slowly, but since early 2010 it has exploded and become a genuine rival ...
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