About Android OS
Android is an open source platform designed for mobile devices, it is developed by Google. The goal of Android is "increased creativity on mobile devices, gives users a richer, more attractive and less expensive than using mobile".
Android are revolutionizing the mobile space, it is a truly open platform separates hardware and software running on it. It allows one application to run on multiple mobile mobile device, it creates a rich environment for programmers and consumers.
Android is a comprehensive platform, which means it is a complete software for mobile devices. For developers, Android provides all of the tools and frameworks for the Android application development easily and quickly. Android SDK is all you need to develop a mobile application, you do not even need a phone.
For consumers, Android brings a new trend of mobile usage, they can customize the phone easily.
For manufacturers, it is a complete solution for running their facilities, not the specific hardware control, Android provides everything to make their devices work.
The latest Android OS version as of this article is 6.0 (
Marshmallow), this is it's sample Home screen:
Android OS Versions
Like any software, Android is improving over time:
Platforms usage to this writing time:
Development Invironment and Develope Tool
The official IDE for Android developer is
Android Studio, based on
IntelliJ IDEA. You can download at it's
Home page and installing easily to your computer like other normal softwears. It has versions for Windows, Linux and Mac. Before installing it, make sure that you have
JAVA Development Kit already.
When launching Android at the first time, it show a Dialog like this:
Select
Configure -->
SDK Manager to adding SDK packages, because by default, the Android SDK does not include everything you need to start developing. The SDK separates tools, platforms, and other components into packages you can download as needed using the Android SDK Manager. So before you can start, there are a few packages you should add to your Android SDK. Select packages
recommended by Google after this dialog showing:
Download and install them, restart Android Studio then, the installation work is done. From now on, you can start coding Android project! Up to next post, I will present the first Android program/project in this development environment. For further details, you can see
official guides from Google. Moreover, Android developers still can use
Eclipse with
ADT integration, other choice for developing Android!
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