Saturday, December 25, 2010

Origin



Android Inc. was a small company based in Palo Alto California, founded by Andy Rubin and Rich Miner. Andy Rubin was the cofounder of danger Inc. which was later acquired by microsoft. Andy Rubin is now working with google in devoloping Android. Google acquired the company in 2005. The Open Handset Alliance was unvieled in November 2007. At the same time they unvieled their first product, Android Operating system for Mobile Platform built on the Linux Kernel version 2.6.

It is open source software whose complete code was published under the Apache Licence. Android has seen many updates since the release of the original version. It is released swiftly mainly inorder to fix the bugs and also to upgrade new features into it.

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