Distribution versions

January 2013

A quick explanation of this distribution :

• Froyo, Eclair and older are released more than three years ago so, they tend to disappear
• Honeycomb is the only version which is released only on tablet (February-October 2011). Now, they support the newer versions
• Gingerbread was released when Android begin to be populate, so it is very  widespread
• Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly are the youngest versions so, they tend to increase

The different versions

•1.0 : No name(1) (Fin 2007)

•
1.1 : Petit Four (October 2008)

•1.5 : Cupcake (April 2009)

•1.6 : Donut (September 2009)

•2.0 : Eclair (September 2009)

•2.2 : Froyo (May 2010)

•2.3 : Gingerbread (December 2010)

•3.0 : Honeycomb (February 2011)

•4.0 : Ice Cream Sandwich (Octobrer 2011)

•4.1 and 4.2 : Jelly Bean (July 2012 and November 2012)

•5.0 : Key Lime Pie (May 2013 ?)

(1) : informally Apple Pie

Bugdroid, a mascot

Google, with Android, has a mascot that follows from the first released : Bugdroid.
Nobody know the true origin of this mascot, but some people think that it come from an old Atari game : Gauntlet : The Third Encounter

Historic

At the beginning, in 2003, Android was a startup called Android Inc. created by Andy Rubin. At this time, Android was just a project and was not deploy on smartphone like today.

In August 2005, Google acquired Android Inc. and key employees, including Andy Rubin, stayed at the company after the acquisition.

In November 2007, the Open Hanset Alliance was created. It is a consortium of technology companies, like Google, HTC, Samsung, LG, Sony ... These companies are allow to use Android on their smartphone.

In October 2008, the first Android smartphone was created : the HTC G1. It was released with the vesrion 1.1 of Android.

Since 2008, Google has released many version of Android and the last one of them is Android 4.2, released in November 2012.

Android : what is this ?

Android is an Operating System (OS) oriented smartphone and tablet. This OS is even installed on radio or appliances (washer ...)

Android is fully based on a Linux Kernel so, it is free and open-source. The particularity of this OS is that it's developed in JAVA.

It's a "strange" choice beacause Java is quite slow because it is compiled at run-time by the system's virtual machine.

However, Java is increasingly used and it is one of the easiest languages to learn.

Android integrates the entire Google eco-system, like Gmail, Youtube, Maps, Agenda, Drive ...

Finally, Android, by Google, has an Applications store, called Play Store.

Main concurrents are Apple with iOS, Microsoft with Windows Phone 8 and Blackberry with Blackberry 10.

Welcome

Welcome to our blog !

On this website, we will talk about Android, the OS by Google, oriented smartphone.
In fact, we will see his historic, his adventage in front of his competitor (iOS, Windows Phone ...) .
We also will see the part that Android take in the wor Hope you will enjoy it !