3. Android, the world's most popular
mobile platform
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.
4. Androidgives 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.
5. Global partnerships and large
installed bas
Building on the contributions of the
open-source Linux community and more
than 300 hardware, software, and carrier
partners, Android has rapidly become
the fastest-growing mobile OS.
6. Android’s openness has made it a favorite for
consumers and developers alike, driving strong
growth in app consumption. Android users
download more than 1.5 billion apps and games
from Google Play each month.
With it's partners, Android is continuously
pushing the boundaries of hardware and
software forward to bring new capabilities to
users and developers. For developers, Android
innovation lets you build powerful, differentiated
applications that use the latest mobile
technologies.
8. Powerful development
framework
Android gives you everything you need to
build best-in-class app experiences. It
gives you a single application model that
lets you deploy your apps broadly to
hundreds of millions of users across a
wide range of devices—from phones to
tablets and beyond.
9. Android also gives you tools for
creating apps that look great and
take advantage of the hardware
capabilities available on each
device. It automatically adapts
your UI to look it's best on each
device, while giving you as much
control as you want over your UI
on different device types.
10. Open marketplace for
distributing your apps
Google Play is the premier
marketplace for selling and
distributing Android apps. When
you publish an app on Google
Play, you reach the huge
installed base of Android.
11. 1.5 billion downloads a
month and growing. Get
your apps in front of
millions of users at
Google's scale.
13. Overview
Android was built from the ground-up to
enable developers to create compelling
mobile applications that take full advantage
of all a handset has to offer. It was built to be
truly open. For example, an application can
call upon any of the phone’s core
functionality such as making calls, sending
text messages, or using the camera, allowing
developers to create richer and more
cohesive experiences for users.
14. Android is built on the open Linux Kernel.
Furthermore, it utilizes a custom virtual
machine that was designed to optimize
memory and hardware resources in a
mobile environment. Android is open
source; it can be liberally extended to
incorporate new cutting edge technologies
as they emerge. The platform will continue
to evolve as the developer community
works together to build innovative mobile
applications.
15. Breaking down application
boundaries
Android breaks down the barriers to building
new and innovative applications. For example, a
developer can combine information from the
web with data on an individual’s mobile phone
— such as the user’s contacts, calendar, or
geographic location — to provide a more
relevant user experience. With Android, a
developer can build an application that enables
users to view the location of their friends and be
alerted when they are in the vicinity giving them
a chance to connect.
16. Fast & easy application
development
Android provides access to a wide range of useful
libraries and tools that can be used to build rich
applications. For example, Android enables
developers to obtain the location of the device,
and allows devices to communicate with one
another enabling rich peer–to–peer social
applications. In addition, Android includes a full set
of tools that have been built from the ground up
alongside the platform providing developers with
high productivity and deep insight into their
applications.
17. Creative Vision
Beauty is more than skin deep. Android apps
are sleek and aesthetically pleasing on
multiple levels. Transitions are fast and clear;
layout and typography are crisp and
meaningful. App icons are works of art in
their own right. Just like a well-made tool,
your app should strive to combine beauty,
simplicity and purpose to create a magical
experience that is effortless and powerful.
18. Issues Android phones
Steve Jobs won't be heard in the Apple-
Samsung patent infringement trial after all.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh today granted an
Apple request to ban disparaging
comments the late Apple CEO made about
Google's Android operating system, according
to a Reuters report. Apple had asked the court
to exclude any statements attributed to Jobs by
Walter Isaacson, Jobs' biographer, about
wanting to destroy Android because it's
allegedly a stolen product and his intention to
go to "thermonuclear war" to achieve that goal.
19. The disputed comments were made during
interviews with Isaacson before Jobs died last
October.
"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I
will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the
bank, to right this wrong," Jobs told his biographer.
"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen
product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on
this."
Samsung had argued in a court filing that Jobs'
"thermonuclear" comment "speaks to Apple's bias,
improper motives and its lack of belief in its own
claims in that they are a means to an end, namely
the destruction of. Android"
