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An Open Handset Alliance Project

This document provides an overview of the Android platform. It describes Android as an open source operating system for mobile devices that includes integrated hardware and software features. The key components of the Android architecture include the application framework, libraries, Linux kernel, and Dalvik virtual machine. The document also outlines the main Android building blocks like activities, intents, and notifications that applications use. It highlights development tools in the Android SDK like the emulator, Eclipse plugin, and DDMS for application development.

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An Open Handset Alliance Project

This document provides an overview of the Android platform. It describes Android as an open source operating system for mobile devices that includes integrated hardware and software features. The key components of the Android architecture include the application framework, libraries, Linux kernel, and Dalvik virtual machine. The document also outlines the main Android building blocks like activities, intents, and notifications that applications use. It highlights development tools in the Android SDK like the emulator, Eclipse plugin, and DDMS for application development.

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AN OPEN HANDSET ALLIANCE PROJECT

OVERVIEW
Introduction

To Android Introduction To The Platform Android Architecture Android Building Blocks Development Tools Application

Introduction To Android

WHAT IS ANDROID?
A

complete & modern embedded operating system A cutting-edge mobile user experience A world-class software stack for building applications An open platform for developers, users & industry

Why Android Was Created?


Full

phone software stack including applications Designed as a platform for software development Android is open source Android is free Community support 100% Java Phone

HISTORY
July

2005 Google acquired Android Inc. 5 Nov 2007 Open Handset Alliance formed-Google, HTC, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm,T-Mobile Android is the OHA first product 12 Nov 2007 OHA released a preview of the Android OHA

INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATFORM : ANDROID

Android Features
Software Feature Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine SQLite for relational data storage Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats (MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF) Dalvik Virtual Machine optimized for mobile devices

Hardware Feature Supported : Cellular networking : GSM, EDGE, 3G (hardware dependent) LAN : Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi (hardware dependent) Graphics Hardware Acceleration Camera, GPS and Compass (hardware dependent) Touch screen and accelerometer for motion sensing

ANDROID ARCHITECTURE

Application Framework
Content Providers Enable applications access data from other applications ,sharing Resource Manager Providing access to non-code resources Notification manager Enables all applications to display alerts in the status bar Activity Manager Manages the lifecycle of applications

Libraries
Written

in C/C++ - System C Library(libc) Display/Graphics(SGL) Media Libraries SQLite RDB engine-light weight LibWebCoreweb browser engine embeddable web view

Linux Kernel
Linux

Version 2.6 Security, Memory & Process Management Proven driver model Efficient computing resource management Stable and proven OS for mobile platform

Android Runtime
Includes

a set of core libraries that provides most of the functionality-JAVA Every Android application runs in its own process Dalvik VM executes files in the (.dex) format Device can run multiple VMs efficiently

Android Building Blocks


These are the most important parts of the Android APIs: AndroidManifest.xml -the control file-tells the system what to do with the top-level components Activities -an object that has a life cycle-is a chunk of code that does some work Views -an object that knows how to draw itself to the screen Intents -a simple message object that represents an "intention" to do something Notifications -is a small icon that appears in the status bar(SMS messages) -for alerting the user

Development Tools
The Android SDK includes a variety of custom tools that help you develop mobile applications on the Android platform. Three of the most significant tools are: Android Emulator -A virtual mobile device that runs on our computer -use to design, debug, and test our applications in an actual Android run-time environment Android Development Tools Plugin -for the Eclipse IDE - adds powerful extensions to the Eclipse integrated environment Dalvik Debug Monitor Service (DDMS) -Integrated with Dalvik -this tool let us manage processes on an emulator and assists in debugging

Applications

Android Software under Dalvik Virtual Machine

Android Device

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