2. A n d ro i d Wa s D eve l o p e d B y
A n d ro i d I n c I n 2 0 0 3 B y :
Andy Rubin Rich Miner

3. Google
Purchased
Android Inc in
2005 for $50
million.

4. Google announced Android
as a mobile platform on
November 5th 2007.

5. Android is
based on
Linux Kernel.

6. Android has
been
available as
open source
since 21
October 2008.

7. The Android operating system
consists of 12 million lines of code
including 3 million lines of XML, 2.8
million lines of C, 2.1 million lines of
Java, and 1.75 million lines of C++

8. Google released
most of the
Android code
under the Apache
License, a free
software and open
source license.

9. The updates for Android are
named after Pastries.

10. The past releases
were named:

11. Cupcake

12. Donut

13. Eclair

14. Froyo

15. Gingerbrea
d

16. The first phone
to run on
Android OS
was HTC
Dream and was
released on 22
October 2008.

17. Android 1.1 was launched on 9th
February 2009
Android 1.1 internally known as Petit Four

18. Android 1.5
named as
Cupcake was
launched on 30th
April 2009 and
was based on
Linux Kernel
Android 1.5 also known as Cupcake
2.6.27

19. Android 1.6
named as Donut
was launched on
15th September
2009 and was
based on Linux
Kernel 2.6.29
Android 1.6 also known as Donut

20. Android 2.1
named as Eclair
was launched
on 12th
January 2010
and was based
Android 2.1 also known as Eclair on Linux Kernel
2.6.29

21. Android 2.2
named as Froyo
(Frozen Yoghurt)
was launched on
20th May 2010
and was based on
Linux Kernel
2.6.32 Android 2.2 also known as Froyo

22. Android 3.0
named as
Gingerbread on
December 2010.
Android 3.0 also known as Gingerbread

23. The first publicly available
application was the Snake
game.