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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.
Android is based on Linux Kernel.
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.