This white paper discusses mobile operating systems and efforts toward open standards. It provides an overview of different types of mobile OS models and the battle for market share between platforms. The paper also covers how smartphones OSs are working to support open standards and third-party development to attract more developers and applications.
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Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android's user interface is mainly based on direct manipulation, using touch gestures that loosely correspond to real-world actions, such as swiping, tapping and pinching, to manipulate on-screen objects, along with a virtual keyboard for text input. In addition to touchscreen devices, Google has further developed Android TV for televisions, Android Auto for cars, and Android Wear for wrist watches, each with a specialized user interface. Variants of Android are also used on notebooks, game consoles, digital cameras, and other electronics.
Android has the largest installed base of all operating systems (OS) of any kind.Android has been the best selling OS on tablets since 2013, and on smartphones it is dominant by any metric.
Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google bought in 2005,Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance – a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.As of July 2013, the Google Play store has had over one million Android applications ("apps") published – including many "business-class apps"that rival competing mobile platforms – and over 50 billion applications downloaded.An April–May 2013 survey of mobile application developers found that 71% of developers create applications for Android,and a 2015 survey found that 40% of full-time professional developers see Android as their priority target platform, which is comparable to Apple's iOS on 37% with both platforms far above others.In September 2015, Android had 1.4 billion monthly active devices.
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Why Android Is The Most Popular Mobile Operating System In The World ?David Stoffel
Android powers hundreds of millions of mobile devices in more than 190 countries around the world.
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Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android's user interface is mainly based on direct manipulation, using touch gestures that loosely correspond to real-world actions, such as swiping, tapping and pinching, to manipulate on-screen objects, along with a virtual keyboard for text input. In addition to touchscreen devices, Google has further developed Android TV for televisions, Android Auto for cars, and Android Wear for wrist watches, each with a specialized user interface. Variants of Android are also used on notebooks, game consoles, digital cameras, and other electronics.
Android has the largest installed base of all operating systems (OS) of any kind.Android has been the best selling OS on tablets since 2013, and on smartphones it is dominant by any metric.
Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google bought in 2005,Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance – a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.As of July 2013, the Google Play store has had over one million Android applications ("apps") published – including many "business-class apps"that rival competing mobile platforms – and over 50 billion applications downloaded.An April–May 2013 survey of mobile application developers found that 71% of developers create applications for Android,and a 2015 survey found that 40% of full-time professional developers see Android as their priority target platform, which is comparable to Apple's iOS on 37% with both platforms far above others.In September 2015, Android had 1.4 billion monthly active devices.
Android's source code is released by Google under open source licenses, although most Android devices ultimately ship with a combination of open source and proprietary software, including proprietary software required for accessing Google services.Android is popular with technology companies that require a ready-made, low-cost and customizable operating system for high-tech devices.Its open nature has encouraged a large community of developers and enthusiasts to use the open-source code as a foundation for community-driven projects, which deliver updates to older devices, add new features for advanced users or bring Android to devices originally shipped with other operating systems. The success of Android has made it a target for patent (and copyright) litigation as part of the so-called "smartphone wars" between technology companies.
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2. White paper on
Mobile OS and efforts towards open standards
S.No Table of Contents
1 Executive Summary
2 Smart phone OS
3 Types of Mobile OS models
4 Battle for Market share
5 Smart OS and Open Standards
6 Support for Third-party development
7 Conclusion
8 References & Glossary
3. Executive Summary:
This paper provides an overview of Smartphone platforms standards and a discussion on development
efforts and the future of open standards.
Mobile phones are emerging from mere communicative devices to a software-intensive devices like
PCs and almost every manufacturer have stepped up to focus on creating more innovative mobile
operating platforms. The conclusive success of a platform entirely depends on its adaptability to the
third-party apps and ultimately, it constructs the global market. In the recent years, since the launch of
the Smartphone ,it has proved itself to be an end-to-end mobile communication solution for the global
mobile users. Now, with the introduction of the various Mobile operating systems, the major Smart
phone companies are creating a monopoly of securing the information system. They drive the open-
standard users and mobile phone operators to receive custom content, which are not common carrier
functions and are delivered to users as a closed set or exclusive set of information services.
Smartphone OS:
The ‘Smartphone market’ has very specific requirements that make it different from the markets for
PCs and other mobile phones. Scaling down a PC-OS and to have communication capabilities within a
small and basic OS, ends in various fundamental compromises. The characteristics that build
smartphone markets is unique and calls for a comprehensively designed OS.
a. Smartphones are small & handy:
Mobile phones are both small and, by definition, mobile. The mobile phone usage environment
requires them to be able to have enough battery capacity to support long talk time without need to
change them frequently. These expectations make considerable demand on power management. Also
the devices need to be responsive in all situations, and cannot afford to go through a long boot
sequence when it is turned on. In fact, the device should never be powered down completely since it
needs to activate timed alarms or handle incoming calls. At the same time, a mobile phone must
provide many hours of operation on a single charge or a set of batteries. Meeting these contradictory
requirements can only be done ifthe whole OS is designed for efficiency.
b. Multiple, Frequent and continuous connectivity
Smartphones are occasionally connected
- To the wireless phone network locally
- To other devices
4. - To their own applications etc.
Accessing a particular data, managing Emails using an internal-client or synchronization needs
vatious types of connection. Mobility difficulties usually make a wireless connection preferable-
whether mobile network or personal area (e.g. infrared, Bluetooth). Wireless connectivity is,
sometimes patchy, with number of protocols worldwide & fade-outs, while roaming in poor coverage
area. Those kind of connectivity environment requires that operating system should be able to
maintain connection by integrating utilities to manage dropped connections, gracefully and inform the
user, immediately.
c. Products diversity
Smartphones have evolved from traditional cellular phones with main input via the keypad, to a
candybar or tablet form factor phones, operated with a styli, larger screens and small keyboards. The
changing input mechanisms and form factors sizably influence the intended primary use of mobile
deveices and hence, OS design.
d. Open platform
The platform has to be open enough to accommodate independent third party technology and should
make ways to software vendors to develop third-party applications. So as to reduce the time-to-market,
OS should provide the developers, the support of standards already available or which can be easily
coded for making the platform more open to attract more developers.
e. Limited Memory
To fit into the limited amount of memory a smartphone have, the OS must be very compact to provide
required rich set of functionalities.
Types of Smartphone OS platforms:
The Smartphone OS can be differentiated, based on the existing operating systems used by computers.
a.Real-Time Operating System (RTOS)
Real-Time Operating System which responds to inputs, immediately and generates results, instantly.
This type of system is usually used to control scientific devices and similar small instruments where
memory and resources are crucial and constricted. This type of devices have very limited or zero-end
user utilities, so more effort goes into making the OS really memory efficient and fast (less coding), so
as to minimize the execution time ,in turn saving on power as well. e.g.: 8086 etc.
5. b.Single user, single tasking operation system
This type of OS is better version of Real time OS, where one user can do effectively one thing at a
time, which means that doing more than one thing at a time is difficult in this type of OS. For instance:
The palm OS in palm hand held computer is an example of single-task OS.
c.Single user, multi tasking operating system
It allows more than one program to run concurrently like printing, scanning, word processing etc. e.g.
MS Windows and Apple’s Mac OS.
d.Multi-user operating system
It allows two or more users to run programs at the same time. Some OS permit hundreds or even
thousands of concurrent users. e.g. UNIX, and Main Frame OS.
6. The Battle for Market share:
Even though some of the major mobile manufacturers had planned to minimize the monopolistic
scenario, it's not getting perfect. Rather tearing down the situation, mobile manufacturers and
developers are trying to erect new ones. Android, Nokia, Palm, and RIM are unveiling their own
application stores over the net. While the mobile industry is flooded with ideas like comprehensive
mobile platform, the consumers prefer a simple but innovative platform. Maybe as needs grow end-
users will be gravitated towards a truly open-source platform and they’ll expand the sophistication on
their own.
Picture source: Canalys
According to the UK-based market research and comsulting firm, Wireless Expertise, the global sales
of smartphones will increase from around 165.2 million in 2009 to 422.96 million in 2013, and
wscalating the total number of smartphone using community to 1.6 billion. The firms market research
also forecasted that the global market for smartphone applications and games is worth $4.66 billion in
2009, which will rose to $16.60 billion, in 2013. Currently, nobiles outnumber the PCs bty 4:1, which
represents, even bigger chances for mobile industry. In future, Mobile service providers will release
APIs which will be addressing fragmentational issues and will grow to create multiple channel
application services, retail mobile content with payment module integration. And according to Gartner,
apart from the Smart phone OS battle, Windows OS , Linux OS, and Mac OS X are the significant
contenders in the ongoing PC OS battle to gain the major market share within the estimated 250 million
to 275 million each year. And summing up an another 50 million to 70 million servers gives you the
Total Available Market (TAM) of OS's every year. And when we consider the potential markets such
as the computer markets in underdeveloped and developing countries, could even account for an
another 200 million PC's per year by 2012.
7. Smartphones OS and Open Standards:
The rapid growth and surmounting requirement for advanced mobile communication devices has
triggered a mad competition among Communication and Information Technology corporations, like
Apple, Blackberry, Palm, Microsoft and Nokia, to captivate the Lion's share of the industry.
Surprisingly, Symbian, a London-based software developing company leads the market by about 50%,
especially in PDAs and Smartphones. Some other important mobile devices manufacturers like
Research In Motion (RIM), Sony, Ericsson and Palm are also playing a vital role in Mobile devices
market. On 5th November, 2007, Open-Handset Alliance, a business alliance was established and
which was led by Google with 50 members. Most of the significant major global mobile handset
makers, mobile application developers, some mobile carriers and chip makers volunteered the alliance.
Surprisingly, vital players like Nokia, AT&T and Verizon Wireless were not ready to volunteer the
alliance. Android, the flagship mobile platform of the OHA, is a Linux-based platform which has been
unveiled on few devices and is getting ready for a wider-launch like its competitors like the Iphone OS,
Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, Palm OS, and RIM Blackberry OS.
Usually, Smartphone OS were designed to accommodate third-party applications and tools. Users
require more facilities and to do more than making a phone call, play videos and do SMS. The
introduction of Web-browsing featured the mini-browsers and more or less, the ongoing OS war will be
based on delivering a full-featured online and multimedia environment. Its obvious that, Microsoft
turns billions via its PC OS than its Windows Mobile division. The manufacturer who is capable of
8. providing the better OS for smartphones could be the series market player than the PC Operating
system vendors. The reason is a very obvious one, since the chances for smartphone market boom
which will transform them to a major medium online and offline specialized business services. And in
the other way, one who delivers the best platform, gets a lion's share in the revenue throughout the life
of the smartphone market. If we work out the numbers, then its is clear, why this smartphone OS war is
so important. From the other point of view, Users consider the smartphones as a pure and easier
computing platform. While the computers needed an OS, SDKs, and other third-party ingredients to
thrive in the market and smartphones are much easier.
Support for third-party developments:
Recently, AT&T had allowed some VoIP applications to work on the network, which is when installed
on iPhone. The VoIP apps were forced by the carriers for the sole reason, that is due to the increase in
data cost of the network, yet voice over telephony cannot be charged more. Following that, Verizon
wireless has came forward to market their own mobile devices and it is expected to be based on
Android, and Google has lit green lights over the usage of its Voice-over application on that device.
Building a one-fits-all platform is a dream, right now. It is difficult using native code while using
HTML, Java, and CSS, it might deliver a native look and feel, and obviously will cover all of the top
platforms. But when we talk about the enhancements like accelerometer, GPS, and others, it will work
only on native applications. And when we want to create native apps, we will have to make a deep
study over the choices of end-users, devices, and tools -- exactly, the entire marketing system of the
bigger vendors.
9. Apple iPhone OS:
Apple iPhone's development chain, from the beginning Xcode to the App store, is finely polished again
and again. Apple has alrady started positioning as amjor market player and has edge over other
competitors. Undoutedly, Apple has created a PC-grade Operating system for a smartphone. So, Apple
Iphone OS is considered by many experts as gold standard for a smartphone OS and which is forcing
other smart market players to playdown the costs to grab a decent matket share.
Of course, Microsoft's Windows mobile edition has the biggest chance to be a vital player. Microsoft's
decision to design a mobile OS (Windows Mobile) aimed mostly at immediate business which may be
a purely good short-strategy, but it must design an OS like OS X and deliver it to a wider consumer
market.
Another strong but less-famous marketer is Palm, and it was reported that Palm is working on a
comprehensive OS for smartphones. We can eve spot some unsual versions of Linux emerging from
various amrketers. Apart from Android OS, Google designing a Google-phone on its own, and the main
advantages focused in it were said to be a OS tied with Web-based search and other child services.
Google Android
Google's Android is undoubtedly similar to the iPhone OS in almost every way. It has Accelerometer,
Application store, OpenGL for graphics, GPS and more utilities similar to Iphone. Eventhough the first
Android phone came with a keyboard, since the keypress events are just like an Apple iPhone.
Surprisingly, there are several differences like , when we talk about graphics and User-Interface,
Apple's Iphone could lead with floating point values than Androids. The strongest differences could be
in the developing language, since Google choose Java, a well-known language for most of the
developers. So the programmers can easily programe an application with Eclipse and simulate the
application running on the phone in an another Java process. The Java-based tools are very cheap and
sometimes it comes at no cost and it takes less time to develop an applocation to up and running.
Symbian OS
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lower-end phones with less memory attributes that will not offer a pure web-browsing experience, GPS
utilities, OpenGL for graphics, or other handy applications, but luckily it installs and runs Java ME
(Micro Edition) applications and plays the puppets in the market at a dramatically lower-price.
Symbian struggles sometimes to work with the challenges in developing for a sizably wide range of
platform like it.. There are several symbian smartphones that costs several hundreds dollars which
shows video at 19fps. The main reason for the victory for Symbain is the easily affordable cost
RIM BlackBerry
RIM BlackBerry knows that the people choose them because they're are hyped as the prestigious option
for business players. RIM's market mainly belongs to the enterprise development. Using the
BlackBerry widget APIs, developers can, create seamless applications. For instance, the application
interaction between a widget and the BlackBerry's Email client applications, delivers ability to view or
edit the files and documents on the memory or even it enables location-based services or the media
10. player, and more at a time. RIM Blackberry developers can take advantages of its uniquepush
technology, which enables dynamic widgets to run in the background and which provides some pro-
active alerts to users in an appropriate manner.
Conclusion
Traditional monolithic mobile operating systems have conceptually remained almost
unchanged like its forefather, the UNIX. Several experimental mobile operating systems from the
research community have been based on alternative paradigms. The new operational environment
needed for a new DNA of a Mobile Operating System is possible when targeted towards robust
operating systems that are strong in system integrity, connectivity and enhanced power management.
And the days are nearing to witness them.
11. References:
• OS Market share Picture source: Canalys
• Smartphone sales report picture source : www.gartner.com
• PC sales estimated figures source: www.gartner.com
• Smartphones estimated figures source: Wireless Expertise
Glossary:
• OS – Operating System
• PC – Personal Computer
• TAM – Total Available Market
• RIM – Research In Motion
• RTOS - Real-Time Operating System
• DNA – Deoxy Nucleic Acid (Not relational to topic)
• VoIP – Voice over Internet Telephony
• PDA – Personal Digital Assitant
• UNIX – A computer operating system