In short, Google keeps pushing the platform wider so it includes more and more capabilities.Īndroid is incredibly popular! (see e.g., here, here, and here)

(As of 2016, this program has been superseded by the Pixel range of devices).Ģ014: Android Wear, a version of Android for wearable devices (watches) is announced.Ģ016: Daydream, a virtual reality (VR) platform for Android is announced. For comparison, the iPhone 8 Plus (2017) has: ~2.54Ghz hex-core A11 Bionic 64bit 3GB RAM 5.5' at 1920x1080 display. These are Google-developed “flagship” devices, intended to show off the capabilities of the platform. Specs: 528Mhz ARM chip 256MB memory 320x480 resolution capacitive touch slide-out keyboard! Author’s opinion: a fun little device.Ģ010: First Nexus device is released: the Nexus One.

Note this is the same year the first iPhone came out!Ģ008: First Android device is released: the HTC Dream (a.k.a. The Open Handset Alliance now (2017) includes 86 companies.

Members included phone manufacturers like HTC, Samsung, and Sony mobile carriers like T-Mobile, Sprint, and NTT DoCoMo hardware manufacturers like Broadcom and Nvidia and others. If you’re going to develop systems for Android, it’s good to have some familiarity with the platform and its history, if only to give you perspective on how and why the framework is designed the way it is:Ģ003: The platform was originally founded by a start-up “Android Inc.” which aimed to build a mobile OS operating system (similar to what Nokia’s Symbian was doing at the time)Ģ005: Android was acquired by Google, who was looking to get into mobileĢ007: Google announces the Open Handset Alliance, a group of tech companies working together to develop “open standards” for mobile platforms.

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