The evolution of android and its various stages. Read more!

1. A throwback to the android timeline
The evolution of android and its various stages. Read more!
Android becoming the largest mobile ecosystem today suggests that open source
software governed by a strong team of developers can do wonders. There are
numerous open source projects that have failed in the due course of time. Not due
to lesser creativity of the developer community but mostly due to improper
channeling of efforts coupled with bad timing and strategies with updates etc.
Android, under the leadership of google surpassed these challenges. It made an
average app development company to treat android as one of the major platforms.
After its first release, the popular mobile operating system has undergone a myriad
of changes that were centred on improvising the performance of the OS. Lets look
at some of the critical events from its inception to becoming the largest mobile
ecosystem.
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2. • Founded in 2003 android was eventually acquired by google in 2005.
• The first android device was an HTC dream that ran the android 1.0 version
which was upgradable to android 1.6, also named as froyo.
• Being an opensource software that had the potential to draw a large number
of OEMs, android gave itself a strong symbolic identity and named it
successive versions derived from food.
• Android launched 2 successive updates to its first major versions in 2008 V
1.4 and 1.6 respectively.
• The next major change came with gingerbread that focused on larger
resolution, speedy touch navigations, support VoIP and SIP, more sensor
support, extended web video format support and various other advancement.
Gingerbread went on to become the most stable for android developer india
and other countries and has recently been outnumbered by jellybean.
• Gingerbread was followed by the third major release, honeycomb. Android
developers india and developers from other countries did not see much
affinity towards this release. During its launch in feb 2001, most of the
leading devices were manufactured by samsung and the upgrade brought a
lot of issues with network connectivity. However honey comb was important
for android as it was the first android version to support dual core
processors.
• Honeycomb was remained dormant and made way for ICS that successively
captured a large market share, finally breaking the monopoly of gingerbread.
ICS was hailed for its noticeable battery life and camera performance over
Gingerbread. ICSs propagation can also be credited to the huge sales for
galaxy s3 that registered record breaking sales.
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3. • Just when ICS stood as a stable android version at the beginning of 2012,
google launched another major upgrade that focused on a consistent frame
rate of 60fps that gave a buttery feeling while navigating any touch action.
Stock android browser was replaced by a mobile version of chrome. Jelly
bean went for 3 major version upgrades. The latest is 4.3 and it runs on
almost 9% of the total android devices.
• The latest major update that followed after JB was Kitkat. Kit kat was
targeted to solve the sticky challenge of fragmentation and hence Kitkat is
optimal for low RAM devices and supports zram too.
Android is highly valuable for an app development company and its successive
development reinforces the fact that android is going to hold its ground strong to
remain a dominant player in the market.
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