Android

What Is Android?

Android is the name of the mobile operating system made by the American Company name GOOGLE Inc. Now a days mostly mobile company using this operating system. That is mostly used in touch screen mobiles. In android different type of applications can be installed from google play store. Google play store contains a thousand of apps for android according to the android version. You can also play games on android operating system. It’s first version was released in September 23,2008. It’s source code is written in C, C++ and Java. It is available in more than 60 languages. It is fast, simple and efficient operating system for android phones. From It’s different apps peoples can do their office works on mobile easily. Synchronization plays an important role in android operating system. With synchronization people can save their personal and important data. Now android has 1.4 billion daily active users globally. With the passing of time, Android is upgrading day by day and making a faster, more simple and more efficient. Different types of changes are done by the developers of android. Android contains different types of features that are given below:

Features:

Messaging:

Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending brief, electronic messages between two or more mobile phones, or fixed or portable devices over a phone network. The term originally referred to messages sent using the Short Message Service (SMS).

Web-Browsing:

Web-Browsing is the feature of android. With Web-Browsing user can access to the internet and search different types of queries/do their task on the internet.

Voiced Based Features:

Google search through voice has been available since initial release. Voice actions for calling, texting, navigation, etc. are supported on Android 2.2 onwards. As of Android 4.1, Google has expanded Voice Actions with ability to talk back and read answers from Google's Knowledge Graph when queried with specific commands. The ability to control hardware has not yet been implemented.

Multi Touch:

The touch screen devices who use android operating system have a features of multi-touch. Multi-touch means touch screen from more than one fingers. Device who not use android operating haven’t ability of multi-touches.

Multi-Tasking:

Multi-tasking is the great feature of Android. User can do different types of task at one time. Many apps run in background process.

Screen Capture:

Android supports capturing a screenshot by pressing the power and home-screen buttons at the same time. Prior to Android 4.0, the only methods of capturing a screenshot were through manufacturer and third-party customization (apps), or otherwise by using a PC connection (DDMS developer's tool). These alternative methods are still available with the latest Android.

Video Calling:

Video Calling is also the feature of the Android. Software use for video calling are: Skype, Hangout, Tango and Viber. Mostly these software are using now a day.

Multi Language Support:

Android Supports more than 60 languages. If android doesn’t contain language feature, then it will be valuable for the user because mostly user understand the language that is according to their region/country.

Accessibility:

Built-in text-to-speech is provided by TalkBack for people with low or no vision. Enhancements for people with hearing difficulties are available, as are other aids.

Wi-Fi/Edge/LTE:

This is the main feature of android. Without it’s android is failure operating system in the world. These features are mostly using daily.

Bluetooth:

Bluetooth is use to share the files/apps from one device to another. This is also the best feature of android. Mostly external devices (keyboard, joystick) use Bluetooth for connecting.

Tethering:

Android supports tethering, which allows a phone to be used as a wireless/wired Wi-Fi hotspot. Before Android 2.2 this was supported by third-party applications or manufacturer customizations.

Streaming Media Support:

Android supports the live streaming and videos on the internet. Adobe Flash Streaming (RTMP) and HTTP Dynamic Streaming are supported by the Flash plugin.

Media Support:

Android supports different formats of video (MP4, 3GP, FLV, WebM, H.263, H.264) audio formats (AAC, MP3, AMR, WAVE, FLAC, MP2) and image formats (JPG,JPEG, GIFF, PNG, BMP, WebP ).

External Storage:

Android support external SD card for more storage and keep it files save.

Android Versions:

Hope, you read all the features of android. But features are not everything. Android version also have an importance. New version contains more features and speed from the last one. Mostly Bugs and Errors fix in the new version that speed up the android. New Version is the according to the new technology that is changing every day. Now see the versions of the android.

Android (1):

Android, the first version of android was released on September 23th ,2008.