Introduction to Android

Android

• Android is an Operating System Mainly for smartphones.
• But now you can find Android in your Tab, Television, TV Set top Box, Watches and even in your Car.
• Android is a rich application Framework that allows you to develop innovative apps and Games for your Mobile devices.

• Java is the  official development language for android, but in Google I/O 2017 Google introduce another language Kotlin as an Official language.
• Now we have two programming languages for Android development, Java & Kotlin.
• In this blog We are going to use Java for the App development.
• Android is developed by Open Handset Alliance led by Google
• Android uses Linux as its Kernel.
• Android is open source Operating System.
• Anyone can be an App developer and the tools needed for the App development is freely available on the web.
• Android uses a special virtual machine for run your apps called Dalvik virtual machine.
• You can develop Android apps and make it available for users through Google Play Store.
• You can earn money from your apps through in App purchases and by placing Ads on your App.
• Every year Google Release a New version of Android.
• This Android series use a (Version 8.0, API Level 26)

Android Stack