1. Android Husam Abdel Rahman

2. Introduction Android Operating system is most popular operating system these days with the advance in voice communications devices. Android system is a operating system that was developed for smart phone. Android was developed to have many of the features of a desktop operating system.

3. Purpose The purpose of the Android System is to provide software that allow people to make calls and send and receive mails and information Android System allow the user to develop and use application to complete certain task that the uses the hardware like take picture or edit documents

4. Brief History The first version of Android Operating System was release on 23 September 2008. The operating system is based on a version on the Linux kernel. The first phone that it was release on was the g1. Since then there have be minor release for example 2.2.2 and major release like 2.3 The upcoming 3.0 will be designed for Tablets.

5. Brief History Time line of version releases. version 1.023 September 2008 1.19 February 2009 1.530 April 2009 1.615 September 2009 2.026 October 2009 2.112 January 2010 2.220 May 2010 2.36 December 2010

6. Features Support for Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G,4G, WiFi Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer. Browser based on chrome and open source WebKit engine Multitouch support for touch screens. Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats

7. Features SQLite,a lightweight relational database, is used for data storage Optimized graphics. It has a custom 2d library and a 3d graphics based on OpenGL ES 1.0 specification Java support. The operating system run Dalvik virtual machine.

8. Android vs iOS One of Android competitors is iOS. iOS is Apple’s mobile operating system which was originally developed for the iPhone, and then extended to support other Apple devices. Features. Android and iOS have many similar feature

9. Android vs iOS Android operating system can be used by any manufacturer while the iOS is only used by apple devices. Android operating system is more popular than iOS. In Q4 2010 Android shipped more phones than iOS. Android shipped 33.3 million devices while iOS shipped 16.2 million devices

10. Android vs iOS Though the number of Android applications is growing faster than iOS applicatios, there are certain things you won't find on Android like interactive books from big publisher, this mostly because of iPhone's billing system, iOS users have iTunes accounts using credit card.

11. Future Version The next version of android that will come out is version 3.0 It will have many new features –Support for larger screens –Support for multicore processors –Many UI features –hardware acceleration for graphics

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