Hour 7. Android and Google TV

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• What is Android

• How to work in the development environment

• How to test your apps

• How to set up an Android project in Eclipse

Android is the operating system for Google TV. When we run web apps on the Chrome browser, the browser is running on the Android operating system. Android was created as a smartphone operating system and was intended to support many types and sizes of phones. With Android 3.0, known as Honeycomb, Android provided support for tablets. Honeycomb is the basis for Google TV. After Honeycomb, the Android 4.0 release is known as Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). JellyBean follows Ice Cream Sandwich and was released as version 4.1.2 in July 2012. Version 4.2 is also ...

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