Android is a powerful Operating System supporting a large number of applications in Smart Phones. These applications make life more comfortable and advanced for the users. Hardwares that support Android are mainly based on ARM architecture platform. Some of the current features and specifications of android are:
a. Application framework
b. Dalvik Virtual Machine
c. Integrated Browser
d. Optimized Graphics
e. SQLite
f. Media Support
g. GSM
h. Bluetooth, EDGE, 3-G, Wifi
i. Camera, GPS
Android applications are written in java programming language. Android is available as open source for developers to develop applications which can be further used for selling in android market. There are around 200000 applications developed for android with over 3 billion+ downloads. Android relies on Linux version 2.6 for core system services such as security, memory management, process management, network stack, and driver model. For software development, Android provides Android SDK (Software development kit).
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