2. Android is a Linux-based operating system designed for
touch screen mobile devices such as smart phones and
tablet, computers. Initially developed by android but
Google bought android in 2005.The first Android powered
phone was sold in Oct 2008.
Android has a large community of developers for writing
applications that extend the functionality of the devices, it
is a customized version of the Java programming
language.
In Oct 2012, approx 700,000 applications available for
android, this is the estimated number of application
downloaded from Google Play. A developer survey
conduct in April - May 2013 and we found that android is
the most popular platform for the developers.
"Android was founded in California in Oct 2003, by
Andy Rubin"