Android Introduction

          Every mobile will have an Operating System. Upto now Nokia, Sony Ericsson mobiles used Symbian OS in their mobiles. Apple used its own OS by name iOS in their mobiles, iPads, iPods. Windows also released an OS for mobiles by name Windows Mobile Mango, recently by name Windows 8.
        Android, Inc. is a company started by Andy Rubin and his friends in 2003. Further it was took over by Google and with the help of differt hardware & software companies established a new group by name Open Handset Alliance. 84 hardware, software & telecommunications companies are partners in this alliance.
           Android OS was prepared on the basis of Linux Kernel. Other programming codes, libraries, API's written in C language, Apache Harmony based Java compatible libraries also used in the preparation of this OS.
          As we already have different OS's, why should we use Android? What are the extra features we get? Want to know? Read in my next post..... Thank You :-)