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Legal issues. Other uses. Mascot. See also. References. External links. Android (operating system) Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
- List of Android Smartphones
This is a list of devices that run on the Android operating...
- Android Version History
Android "Nougat" (codenamed N in-development) is the seventh...
- Mobile Operating System
A mobile operating system is an operating system used for...
- HTC Dream
The HTC Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1 in the United...
- Samsung Galaxy Store
The Galaxy Store (Korean: 갤럭시 스토어) is an app store offering...
- Steve Perlman
In 1983 and 1984, Perlman designed a parallel-processing...
- Foldable Phones
A foldable smartphone (also known as a foldable phone or...
- Features
Android does not support native video calling, but some...
- Open Handset Alliance
History. The OHA was established on November 5, 2007, led by...
- Android Pie
Android Pie (codenamed Android P during development), also...
- List of Android Smartphones
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The release was internally codenamed "New York Cheesecake". On March 9, 2016, ahead of the Google I/O developer conference, Google released the first alpha version of Android "N" as part of a new "Android Beta Program" intended for testing by developers and enthusiasts before official its release "this summer". The developer preview builds were com...
User experience
Nougat redesigns the notification shade, which now features a smaller row of icons for settings, replacing notification cards with a new "sheet" design, and allowing inline replies for notifications. Multiple notifications from a single app can also be "bundled",and there is greater per-app control over notifications. A split-screendisplay mode was introduced for phones, in which two apps can be snapped to occupy halves of the screen. An experimental multi-window mode is also available as a h...
Platform
In December 2015, Google announced that Android Nougat would switch its Java Runtime Environment from the defunct Apache Harmony to OpenJDK—the official open source implementation of the Java platform maintained by Oracle Corporation and the Java community. The Android Runtime (ART) now incorporates a profile-guided compilation system, utilizing a JIT compiler and profiling alongside its current ahead-of-time compilerto further optimize apps for a device's hardware and other conditions in the...
Security
In response to the Stagefright family of bugs disclosed and fixed in 2015, several changes were made to harden the media stack against future vulnerabilities. Runtime integer overflow detection was implemented, preventing the majority of Stagefright-like programming bugs from becoming vulnerabilities, in addition to helping fix and prevent such bugs. Android's monolithic MediaServer process was redesigned to better adhere to the principle of least privilege. MediaServer is now split into seve...
Dieter Bohn of The Verge praised the new multitasking interface in Android Nougat, calling it "long overdue" for Android tablets. Although he initially found the implementation "confusing", he wrote that it worked well once he understood it properly, though he noted that "some apps don't fully support split screen, while others work fine but pop up...
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Dec 1, 2023 · Version 7.0 of Google’s mobile operating system launched in the fall of 2016. Before the reveal of Nougat, Google internally called Android N “New York Cheesecake.”
Apr 19, 2024 · Android, operating system for cellular telephones and tablet computers that was debuted by Google in 2007. In 2012 Android became the most popular operating system for mobile devices, surpassing Apple’s iOS, and as of 2020 about 75 percent of mobile devices run Android.
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Android is a mobile operating system (32-bit and 64-bit) based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
Android is an operating system used in mobile devices. It is mostly used for smartphones, like Google's own Google Pixel, as well as by other phone manufacturers like HTC and Samsung. It has also been used for tablets such as the Motorola, Xoom and Amazon Kindle. A modified Linux kernel is used as Android's kernel.