Introduction oduction to And Android

Sean Sullivan October 27,2008

What is Android? And

Android is a software stack sta for mobile devices that includes an operating ating system, middleware and key applications

And Android
Google G1 and theAndroid Market Android platform Developer tools Android programming ogramming

Googles master plan

re accessible make the cloud mor pe keep connectivity pervasive re powerful make the client mor

Googles master plan

Google buys Android

August 2005

Open Handset Alliance

Android oid SDK

November ember 2007

T-Mobile Mobile G1

September 2008

G1 technical specs

ROM 256 MB RAM 192 MB 4.60 in x 2.16 in x 0.62 in 158 grams

Qualcomm MSM7201A, 52

Lithium Ion battery,1150 m

G1 technical specs

3G (HSDPA) QWERTY keyboard 3.2 megapixel camera microSD expansion slot

touch screen,HVGA 320x4

GPS,compass,acceleromete

Android applications pplications

pplications,running simultaneously multiple applications, bet running applicatio user may switch between vices background services copy and paste

Android oid Market

System Architectu rchitecture

Open sour rce project

oid.com http://source.android.com Apache 2.0 and GPL v2 Git repository

Android emulator

Android emulator

Emulator limitations

No support for placing or receiving actual phone calls No support for camera/video capture (input) No support for audio input No support for determining connected state No support for determining battery charge level No support for Bluetooth

Application building blocks

AndroidManifest.xml Activities Views Layouts

Intents & IntentReceivers Services Notifications ContentProviders

Additional ditional topics

Threading Security model Internationalization Power management

AIDL -Android IDL Data synchronization WiFiAPI BluetoothAPI

Whats Next
(Moto ...) more phones (Motorola, multi-touch? virtual keyboard BluetoothA2DP enterprise features (Exchange support?)

Android resources r
.com/android/ http://code.google.com/and elopers.blogspot.com http://android-developers.blogspot.com .com/p/apps-for-android/ http://code.google.com/p/ .com/site/io/ http://sites.google.com/site/io/ .openhandsetalliance.com/ http://www.openhandsetallianc http://source.android.com oid.com

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