Android
About Android
Android is an open-source platform for mobile devices that
includes an operating system, middleware and key applications
(e-mail, browser, media player and the like). It is currently
developed by Google.
The operating system kernel is based on a heavily modified version
of Linux. Google no longer maintains the code they previously
contributed to the Linux kernel: as a consequence, the Android
kernel can be considered a fork of Linux.
On top of the kernel, Google has developed a rich set of libraries
to handle all the basic needs of modern mobile systems: fonts, 2D
and 3D graphics, data storage, communication over the web and over
cellular networks, and more.
