There are many operating systems that run on the devices, and Android is one the most famous. Android is an operating system which is mostly used for mobiles, but is also used in other devices. The main aim of this research paper is to identify Android, to know its history, usability, how secure it is, and to manifest its performance. Finally, Android appears to the most used OS compared to others, and it has the largest number of apps according to statistics.
Android is a powerful operating system which supports a large number of applications in Smart Phones, tablets and other devices. In dictionary it means an automaton or a robot which looks like a human being. The kernel of Android is based on Linux kernel which later was developed by Google (Karch). Its applications are written in java language as an open source code for developers. Also “Google is actively developing the platform but giving it away for free to hardware manufacturers and phone carriers who want to use Android on their devices” (Karch). The aim for creating Android and for making its source code opened was because they wanted to be sure that there won’t be any point of failure, and so no one can control the innovation of anyone else. All these things made Android different from any other operating system in many aspects like its performance, security, and usability.
In 2003, Android was founded in California, U.S. by Andy Rubin, Nick sears, Rich miner, and Chris White. Later on, Android was bought in 2005 by Google who started working on it, and released a number of versions and updates in the original version (Deleon, 2013). The first version Android 1.0 was released in Sep 2008. After that, they started to name their versions after desserts since April ...
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...ster and largely lag-free.” (2014). He also said that “Kit Kat does officially have a battery drain issue,” and this is due to a software processes (mm-qcamera-daemon) which cause the problem, and is most likely to be a bug, but Google is aware of it and is working hard to fix it.
Android is not bound to its original Operating System; anyone can customize it however it suits his needs. In addition, we can notice from the history of Android, that this is the most varied OS.
Android has grown rapidly over the past 4 years to become the most used smart phone operating system in the world. It is unique, different, distinctive and incomparable to other operating systems. It has the higher number of applications on Google play compared to any apps store for any other system. By each new version Google releases, Android becomes better, faster and more flexible to use.
Another helpful application is the DroidBox. This purpose of the DroidBox is perfrom dynamic analysis of other Android applications. The application generates many useful results. These are the results when the analysis has ended: it shows the incoming and outgoing network data. It also shows the hashes for the analyzed package, the application does file reads and write operations. It provides inform...
Summary The internet world has been going crazy for the past few days about the new Andromeda OS by none other than Google. This razzmatazz of Andromeda OS holds that it is going to be the ultimate OS from Google as the company will be fusing both Android and Chrome OS to make one single software. Now, if this is to be true, then this Andromeda OS is going to be beneficial both for the big G and the customers. If you fully want to know about all the hype about this Andromeda OS, then be sure to read below.
Google has introduced a new five inch Google smartphone in late autumn 2013 which is co-developed by Google and LG Electronics, and this is the first device run a new Android operating system (AndroidTM 4.4 named KitKat) which also the fifth smartphone in the Google Nexus series, called Google Nexus 5. Continued the success of the last Google device Google Nexus 4, Nexus 5 released on October 31st, 2013 (Mariano, 2013) with two colour black and white and it rapidly became the top hottest seller when Google had run out of this Nexus 32GB black model in just six days after its release date in the United Kingdom (UK) according to Tung (2013).
Mobile devices are being exposed to a record number of security threats with potentially alarming statistics indicating a 400 percent increase in Android malware for example, while Wi-Fi connections are also being increasingly targeted. While the conventional desktop PC will still continue to serve important functions at both consumer and professional levels, there is an expectation that mobile devices will become the predominant form for accessing both personal and professional content it is understandable that cyber criminals have begun focusing on mobile devices which have at the same time grown their user base while substantially consolidating the operating system variants which makes the surface area for a potential attack substantially larger (...
When searching for the latest device you have a choice between apple, and android. These two are similar but very different. Infact these both have two different operating systems. For instance Apple uses IOS 9, apple phones can use this software. On android the software 5.0 is used. All these phones run different programs, you need to make sure that is the right phone for you. There are many different features and styles of phones you can get. Also these all come at a price. This paper will talk about all these topics to make sure you have an idea on what device you would like to buy.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, NASDAQ: GOOGL), is an international information technology pioneer that specializes in what way individuals access and interrelate with information over a wide variety of platforms. Google has changed a lot since it first started. In 1996 Google's creators, Larry Page and Sergey Brin made BackRub, the first version of Google. It was online for a year before they renamed it Google. The company continued to change after that by releasing Google Toolbar and Google AdWords in 2000, and in 2001 Google Groups. In 2001 the image search was released, and in 2002 Google News. In 2003 Google bought Pyra, the creators of Blogger, and released Google Book Search. Then, in 2005 Google Maps, Google Earth, Gmail and Google Talk were released. In 2006 Google acquired YouTube and SketchUp, and released Picasa, Google Docs, Google Financial, Google Calendar, and Google Trends. In 2007 the sky was featured in Google Earth, and Street View was introduced for a few cities in the U .S. Google Chrome was released in 2008 and 10 more languages were added to Google Translate, making the total of supported languages 23. The ocean began being shown in Google Earth in 2009, and the Nexus One smartphone was also released. Today, Google has many more projects than those listed and seems to want to expand into almost anything it can get its hands into.
Technology has become a huge part of everyday life, and people seem to have one great debate and are fighting over which is the best phone, iPhone or Android. The Apple iPhone is a cellular smartphone that was created and is maintained by Apple Inc. Android is another type of smartphone that is accessible to consumers, but the operating system is powered by Google and many different companies produce Android devices. The different operating systems and interfaces have created a long and carried out debate to which was superior. iPhone is the better phone and there are many reasons as to why it is superior to its rival, Android. The iPhone’s sleek and beautiful design has users’ hands fondling the device and never putting it down. The operating system is very distinct, but is straightforward with its functionality. People who purchase the iPhone believe that they have received their money’s worth and more when owning and iPhone. The iPhone is better than Android when compared because of the beautiful design and attractive display, the operating system and its functionality, and the device’s personal worth is definitely worth the money spent to own one.
...g two competitor, Apple, and Google. IOS and Windows Phone have ideal applications for entertainment and working, while Android has a wide range of apps which give a many choices for users. Besides, Android is still the most popular mobile operating system in the world.
Have you ever wanted a phone that is personalized for you? Android was released in 2008, a year after the iPhone. In 2015, there are 2.5 billion Android users worldwide, compared to roughly one billion iPhone users. Android is better than iPhone because of customization, variety, and design. Firstly, Android is vastly customizable.
Google is the technology that has come up with the fruitful results. It has made the life of many people easier by providing lots of information for free. It has created its own reputation all around the world. It's one of the growing technology and has provided at various products to attract its users, which makes them to win lots of awards. It has maximized the profits, roved the better service, introduced the latest technology and development, deal with the weakness and increase its strength. Has issues like copyright and patent issues.
According to Reed (2010), smartphones were first brought to the attention of the public in 1993 by IBM and BellSouth. When the first smartphone was produced, it was called "Simon". Even though the technology was nowhere near what it is today, "Simon" utilized a touch screen and was able send faxes and access e-mail. The use of the touch screen foreshadowed what would come 14 years later, the iPhone. The next smartphone to be invented was the Nokia 9110 Communicator in 1998. This phone resembled the look of toda...
Android is an operating system which is used in smart phones. It is an open source software. That is the code is available under the apache license freely for moderation and distribution by device manufacturer. As we know android is the open source software so manufacture modifies it according to their needs and requirements of the user perspective. In 2007 first time android was intended and first time it was...
The most important part for smartphone is operation system and which gives the smartphone a “life”. The better operation system can make better features for smartphones. For example,
If we pay attention to our surroundings, we can see smartphone everywhere. On office, school, home, whatever people are doing smartphone always there in their hand. In this 21th century, it is really hard for people to live without smartphone. A surprising fact is how fast the growth of smartphone user. Heggestuen (2013) said that their research shows surprising number of growths, one of them is by the end of 2013, global smartphone penetration will have exploded from 5% of the global population in 2009, to 22%. That's an increase of nearly 1.3 billion smartphones in four years. Smartphone is a cellular telephone with built-in applications and Internet access. In addition to digital voice service, modern smartphones provide text messaging, e-mail, Web browsing, still and video cameras, MP3 player and video playback and calling. In addition to their built-in functions, smartphones run myriad free and paid applications, turning the once single-minded cell phone into a mobile personal computer (pcmag, 2014). By that definition. We can see how convenient a smartphone can be. However few studies suggest that smartphone has more drawbacks than benefit.
Mobile application is a very aggressive market, there are hundreds of platforms to choose from when designing applications. There are several platforms that currently dominate over other platforms. The Android platform is very popular, it’s one of the most preferred platforms for building applications. Most of its applications are built using JAVA software, but there are others software that are just as equal or greater. Java software is free and offer a free software development kit. The kit consists of sample applications, source codes, developer tools, and emulators...