Facts about Android

1. Android was developed byAndroid Inc in 2003 byAndyRubin and Rich Miner
2. Google Purchased Android Inc in 2005 for $50 million
3. 000gle announced Android as a mobile platform on November 5th 2007
4. Open HandsetAlliance, a consortium of 71 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices and for collaborative development ofAndroid was formed in Novemebr 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 ofXML, 2.8 million lines of C, 2.1 million lines ofJava, and 1.75 million lines of C++
8. 000gle released most ofthe Android code underthe Apache License, a free software and open source license.With the Apache License, vendors can add proprietary extensions without submitting those back to the open source community.
9. The updates for Android are named after Pastries
10. The past releases were named as Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, with Gingerbread going to be launched
11. The first phone to run on Android OS was HTC Dream and was released on 22 October 2008
12. Android 1.1 was launched on 9th February 2009
13. Android 1.5 named as Cupcake was launched on 30th April 2009 and was based on Linux Kernel 2.6.27
14. Android 1.6 named as Donutwas launched on 15th September 2009 and was based on Linux Kernel 2.6.29
15. Android 2.1 named as Eclairwas launched on 12th January2010 and was based on Linux Kernel 2.6.29
16. Android 2.2 named as Froyo (Frozen Yoghurt) was launched on 20th May 201 0 and was based on Linux Kernel
2.6.32
1 7. Android 3.0 named as Gingerbread is planned for released during October end 2010
‘18. The firstAndroid SDKwas released on 12th November2007
19. Android marketwas announced on 28th August 2008
20. Android 1.0 SDK was released on 23rd September2008 aiding for developers to develop applications for Android
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