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Android operating system by Google is a mobile phone platform that is currently available on a wide variety of mobile handsets. It uses a modified version of the Linux Kernel and all of its applications would be written using java. The operating system is resting upon three main pillars that makes Android phones what they currently are. They are the operating system, the middleware and the applications. Operating system is the basic platform on which everything runs, the middleware acts as a chain of communication between application and network allowing them to communicate with one another and finally the applications are the different programs that the phone will actually run. It is basically an open source platform which means anyone can write an application for Android. The fact that it is an open source platform invites plenty of developers towards it and just like Apple’s app store there would be a ton of applications for the Android handset users. Unlike the Apple’s iphone an Android phone can run on any network without the complicated process of jail-breaking and retaining the warranty of the handset.
The Android platform is adaptable to larger, VGA, 2D graphics library, 3D graphics library based on OpenGL ES 1.0 specifications, and traditional Smartphone layouts. SQlite database software is used for the storage purposes. Connectivity technologies supported by Android are GSM/EDGE, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Wimax. Web browser available is based on the open-source Web Kit application framework. Android phones can support almost all of the media formats which are supported by other handsets. All Android smartphones are touch-screen devices but some not all have hardware keyboards, too. The desktop is made of certain number of screens which vary among different models which are further customizable according to the users’ specific liking. Apps and widgets can be dragged to the home screen that may provide news updates and/or search boxes. Users can access menus in different ways among different handsets. Although the software varies from mobile to mobile but it fails to provide a sleek interface unlike its rivals iPhone Os and Palm’s webOS. Still an effort is being done to improve that and a lot has changed since the release of the first version of the platform.
Not all of the available applications are compatible with all versions of Android platform which creates a little confusion and secondly different versions of the platform offer different features. The bottom line is the although Android phones lack the elegance its rival provide it has the advantage as it comes in various handsets and offers customization that its rivals cannot compete with.