Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge Chapters: Symbian Os, Android, Cyanogenmod, Symbian Platform, Samsung I7500, Ophone, Bada, Funambol, Stable Hybrid Release, Ofono, Symbian Excerpt: Android is an operating озкюс system and software stack for mobile devices that includes middleware and key applications, and uses a modified version of the Linux kernel It was initially developed by Android Inc , a firm later purchased by Google , and lately by the Open Handset Alliance It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language , controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries The unveiling of the Android distribution on 5 November 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance , a consortium of 65 hardware , software , and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices Google released most of the Android code under the Apache License , a free software and open source license On 13 May 2010 Google announced that 65,000 cell phones with Android were being shipped every day According to NPD Group , unit sales for Android OS smartphones ranked second among all smartphone OS handsets sold in the U S in the first quarter of 2010 BlackBerry OS and the Android OS ranked first and second respectively History Android at Googleplex In July 2005, Google acquired Android, Inc , a small startup company based in Palo Alto, California, USA Android's co-founders who went to work at Google included Andy Rubin (co-founder of Danger ), Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire Communications, Inc ), Nick Sears (once VP at T-Mobile ), and Chris White (headed design and interface development at WebTV ) At the time, little was known about the functions of Android, Inc other than that they made software for mobile phones This began rumors that Google was planning to enter the mobi.  Laborat2010 г Мягкая обложка, 78 стр ISBN 115671656X.