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Android Was Developed By Android Inc In 2003 By:

Rich MinerAndy Rubin

Google Purchased Android Inc in 2005 for $50 million.

Google announced Android as a mobile platform on

November 5th 2007.

Android is based on Linux Kernel.

Android has been

available as open source

since 21 October

2008.

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++

Google released most of the Android code under the Apache License, a free software and open source license.

The updates for Android are named after Pastries.

The past releases were named:

Cupcake

Donut

Eclair

Froyo

Gingerbread

The first phone to run on Android OS was HTC Dream and was released on 22 October 2008.

Android 1.1 was launched on 9th February 2009

Android 1.1 internally known as Petit Four

Android 1.5 named as Cupcake was launched on 30th April 2009 and was based on Linux Kernel 2.6.27Android 1.5 also known as

Cupcake

Android 1.6 named as Donut was launched on 15th September 2009 and was based on Linux Kernel 2.6.29

Android 1.6 also known as Donut

Android 2.1 named as Eclair was launched on  12th January 2010 and was based on Linux Kernel 2.6.29Android 2.1 also known as

Eclair

Android 2.2 named as Froyo (Frozen Yoghurt) was launched on 20th May 2010 and was based on Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Android 2.2 also known as

Froyo

Android 3.0 named as Gingerbread on December 2010.

Android 3.0 also known as Gingerbread

The first publicly available application was the Snake

game.