User:Maqubool Alam

WHAT IS ANDROID?
Android is a Linux-based, open-source operating system designed for use on cell phones, e-readers, tablet PCs, and other mobile devices. For users of smart phones, Android provides easy access to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube and smooth integration with Google products like Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Calendar. While it is owned by Google, it should not be confused with Google’s Chrome OS, a web-resident, thin-client operating system designed primarily for netbooks and tablets rather than for mobile devices. Android has been adopted by a number of manufacturers, including Motorola, Samsung, HTC, and Sony Ericsson. The expanding assortment of applications available on this platform suggests that Android-based phones will continue to be strong competitors in the smart-phone market.

HOW DOES IT WORKS?
As a mobile platform, Android has grown in popularity among hardware manufacturers and the general public alike in recent years. Its open market model allows registered software developers to create applications for Android mobile devices in Java and list them in Android Market without undergoing review and waiting for approval. Users can download from a growing store of smart-phone applications at Google Market, many of which connect with existing Google services. They can also download compatible Android apps from other locations. Flexible and adaptable, Android’s facility in supporting screen-based interfaces has also made it the OS of choice for many industrial and consumer electronics, including navigation devices, set-top boxes, kiosks, self checkout stands, medical equipment, netbooks, tablets, and e-readers.

WHY IS IT SIGNIFICANT?
As a free mobile OS, Android has been selected by many hardware manufacturers to run on a wide range of devices, including cell phones, tablets, e-readers, netbooks, and others. Android based phones are available from all major cellular providers in the U.S. market, meaning that most students can select a phone running Android from the vendor their friends or families already use. Consequently, Android may bring smart phone and tablet functionality to a much wider cross-section of students and faculty members. Like the iPhone, an Android device may offer intriguing possibilities with regard to context awareness. Android phones can be set up to recognize when the phone operator is in a car, causing the device to respond by reading text messages aloud and accepting only voice input. Or cell phones could silence automatically during class time if users’ calendars include class schedules. Such location-awareness could see use in campus-based learning activities like augmented reality games or could remind a student in the library pursuing an English assignment that a previously requested physics text is now available for checkout

WHERE IS IT GOING?
The Android OS may accelerate the diffusion of smart phones by providing a free operating system that can draw from more than 100,000 applications, including those that support teaching and learning. Access to the Android software development kit (SDK) suggests that the number of applications will continue to swell as professional developers provide new o�fferings. In addition, the App Inventor, which provides a web-based visual development environment for those new to this kind of programming, is meant to entice students and developers from outside the computer science department to write their own applications and thereby ensure a growing base of apps going forward. If App Inventor proves easy enough for non-developers to use, faculty members and students alike may build custom Android applications for research projects, learning challenges, and classroom use. This could engage student interest in the work they do and also in the tools they use, thereby transforming them from consumers of existing applications to creators of apps designed to meet their needs.

PROGRAMMING OF ANDROID
Android™ technology is based on Java® software applications. This technology requires the use of a special software development kit (SDK) to create applications for an Android™ device. The SDK is freely available for download from the Internet. For this reason, and because it will work on multiple operating systems, many software developers prefer Android™ technology over that used in other smart phones.Smart phones have evolved into devices that use touch screens for navigation. Android™ technology provides specific application programming interface (API) modules to developers that take advantage of this. The touch screen enables the user to select and scroll through information with the stroke of a finger.

ADVANTAGES
1.Multitasking – Yups, Android phones can run many applications, it means you can browse, Facebook while listened to the song. 2.Ease of Notification – Any SMS, Email, or even the latest articles from an RSS Reader, there will always be a notification on the Home Screen Android phone, do not miss the LED indicator is blinking, so you will not miss a single SMS, Email or even Misscall. 3.Easy access to thousands of applications via the Google Android Android App Market – When you love to install applications or games, through Google’s Android App Market, Agan can download applications for free. There are many thousands of applications and games that are ready for download on Android phones You. 4.Phone options are diverse – Talk Android phone, it will feel ‘different’ than the IOS, if the IOS is limited to the iPhone from Apple, then Android is available on mobile phones from various manufacturers, from Sony Ericsson, Motorola, HTC to Samsung. And each handset manufacturer also presents an Android phone in the style of each, such as Motorola with its Motoblur, Sony Ericsson with its Timescape. So You can freely choose the Android phone in accordance with the ‘brand’ favorite. 5.Can install a modified ROM – not satisfied with the standard view of Android, do not worry there are many custom ROM that can be used in your mobile phones Android. 6.Widget – absolutely right, with the widgets on the homescreen, You can easily access a variety of settings quickly and easily. 7.Google Maniac – If you are a loyal user of Google services ranging from Gmail to Google Reader Android phone has integrated with Google services, so you can quickly check e-mail from Gmail.

DISADVANTAGES
1.Continuous Internet connection – Yups, most Android phones require a simultaneous Internet connection alias continuously active. that means must be prepared to subscribe Agan GPRS packet that suits your needs. 2.Advertising – Application in the Android phones can indeed be obtained easily and for free, but the consequences in each of these applications, will always be ads on display, either the top or bottom of the application

VARIOUS APPLICATIONS
various apps__________ Our android application is the best alternative to the former Android Market, now known as Google Play. We have thousands of apps ready to download directly to your Android device. some of them are_- 1.WhatsApp Messenger 2.Tiny Flashlight + LED 3.Instagram 4.Google Translate 5.GO Launcher EX 6.Maps 7.Talking Tom Cat Free 8.Talking Tom Cat 2 Free 9.Advanced Task Killer 10.google search