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Learning Android By Definition

Android is an open source platform for mobile devices. It is not a hardware. Its basically a software. In fact, It is a software stack as defined by Google. Encase your not familiar with the term, software stack is compose of an Operating System(OS), middle-ware & the key applications.
  • OS is by simply defined as platform between you and the hardware and where all applications run.
  • Middle-ware is/are the components and available package that allows applications to communicate to a network and to one another.
  • Key Applications is/are the actual programs or software that the phones will run
It was the product of the joint effort of Google and Open Handset Alliance(OHA). It was released November 5, 2007 which is shortly just after Apple's first generation iPhone release. Android is based on an opensource operating system called Linux.

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