Android Mobile Operating System

Rukba Firdose

BCA 2nd Year E2

Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system the Android

open source project (AOSP) is tasked with the maintenance and further development of

android. The android operating system is the world’s best-selling smart phone platform.

Android has a large community of developers writing applications (“apps”) that extend the

functionality of the devices. There are currently over 2,50,000 apps available for android.

Android market is the online app store run by google. The unveiling of the android distribution

on 5 th November 2007 was announced with the founding of the open handset. The android

open-source software stark consists of java applications running on a java based object

oriented applications framework on top of java core, libraries written in C include the surface

manager, SQlite relational database management system, the android operating system

includes the linux kernel 2.8 millon lines of C, 2.1 million lines of java and 1.75 million lines of

C++.