Interesting facts about AndroidGoogle did not start Android
Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White founded Android, Inc. in Palo Alto, California in October 2003. Google bought Android in August 2005 for $50 million. Android officially launched in 2007 Google officially launched the operating system in November 2007. Android has over a billion activations Android had a worldwide Smartphone market share of 64% during 2013. As of September 2013, one billion Android devices had been activated. Naming With the exceptions of Android 1.0 and 1.1, all other Android versions have been named after sweet treats. Naming Order Android versions have been following an alphabetical order in their naming. Android Astro was followed by Bender followed by Cupcake. Then there was Donut, Éclair, Froyo, and Gingerbread. This was followed by Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean. KitKat was released on December 9, 2013. First Smartphone The first ever mobile handset to run Android was the HTC Dream. It featured a slide-up screen that revealed a keyboard and it appeared in late 2008. It was followed by the Motorola Droid, which came out a year later. Google did finally release its own mobile phone in 2010, although it was made by HTC. Android is open source Google is a member of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), which gives users or interested party access to modify the source code of the operating system. About the code The Android operating system consists of 12 million lines of code including 3 million lines of XML, 2.8 million lines of C, 2.1 million lines of Java, and 1.75 million lines of C++. |