Saturday, 20 October 2012

ANDROID

Operating systems are the hearts of the computer systems world wide, without these master software hardware is of no use to human or any machine. Different kinds of software’s are available in the market but the most famous one was windows because of the features that are provided time to time by the Microsoft. They are so smooth and competent s compared to the other available operating systems in the markets. but now android are the latest operating system software that are up to the mark as windows by Microsoft .they are getting fame day by day because of the excellent serving feature for the users.

Windows is the dominant operating system series created by Microsoft. It is the best Programming operating system series above Linux. It is an easy operating system to use, if not hacked unknowingly.Although Windows 7 Starter is a solid operating system (OS), it has a number of drawbacks like High resource requirements ,Poor security,Virus susceptibility,Outrageous license agreements and errors.


Few of Microsoft's support staff truly understand security or high-end enterprise issues, and even less have access to or understand any of the source code. Extremely high-volume accounts get special treatment, but for others the odds of getting good support on truly difficult problems are extremely poor. To make matters worse, the free technical support provided to end-users has been dramatically reduced over the years. Various companies provide the technical support to the Windows computers. 




Both of the operating system is best for the mobile and PC users. The world has gone crazy about their mobile phones. And Android app developers are doing their bit to add fuel to the fire. Android developers around the world are shaping the Smartphone application development and by doing this they have set the bar high for iPhone app development.

Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, developed by Google in conjunction with the Open Handset Alliance. Google releases the Android code as open source, under the
Apache License. The Android Open Source Project (AOSP), led by Google, is tasked with the maintenance and further development of Android.

The first Android-powered phone was sold in October 2008, and by the end of 2010 Android had become the world's leading smartphone platform.

FEATURES OF ANDROID

Largest Computing- Android offers the large range of applications and smart phone application to its users. it provide specific installations and setups for the Google chromes that Microsoft windows doesn't According to the review android ahs the largest computing capability with totally graphical user interfaces to its users with diverse application purposes.
Google and Microsoft has the huge competitions with the product that supports the related operating systems such as Apple(AAPL.0) and Nokia (NOKIV.HE).



Applications-Applications are usually developed in the Java language using the Android Software Development Kit, but other development tools are available, including a Native Development Kit for applications or extensions in C or C++, Google App Inventor, a visual environment for novice programmers and various cross platform mobile web applications frameworks.

Applications can be acquired by end-users either through an app store such as Google Play or the Amazon Appstore, or by downloading and installing the application's APK file from a third-party site.

Multitasking-Multitasking was improved with the release of Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich". When users hold down a device's home button or press the multitasking button on available devices, a task manager with a list of recently-opened apps appear, which users may select to resume use of the application in the status it was last accessed at

Popularity-Android powers hundreds of millions of mobile devices in more than 190 countries around the world. It's the largest installed base of any mobile platform and growing fast—every day another million users power up their Android devices for the first time and start looking for apps, games, and other digital content.Android gives you a world-class platform for creating apps and games for Android users everywhere, as well as an open marketplace for distributing to them instantly.




ANDROID-SYSTEM-ARCHITECTURE-

Android consists of a kernel based on the Linux kernel 2.6 and Linux Kernel 3.x (Android 4.0 onwards), with middleware, libraries and APIs written in Cand application software running on an application framework which includes Java-compatible libraries based on Apache Harmony. Android uses theDalvik virtual machine with just-in-time compilation to run Dalvik dex-code (Dalvik Executable), which is usually translated from Java bytecode. The main hardware platform for Android is the ARM architecture. There is support for x86 from the Android x86 project, and Google TV uses a special x86 version of Android.

Android-System-architecture

Linux Kernel : 

Android uses Linux as a hardware abstraction layer and use the powerful of Linux kernel and the wide range of hardware drivers it supports, android uses Linux also for memory management , Networking , managing processes, however you programs will not make Linux calls directly , you always use the Dalvik(Android Virtual Machine).

CONCLUSION-

Android has seen unparalleled growth in the recent history of technology. With its “desert names” for various versions and a cute bot for the logo, it sure has managed to win many hearts. People have loved the interface offered by Android, and along with Flash it has surely created magic in the world of technology.



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