Android

Android is a Linux-based smartphone software platform announced by Google and the other members of the Open Handset Alliance in November 2007, after months of rumours that Google was going to release a mobile phone product, tentatively known as the Google Phone or gPhone. Parts of the Android platform are free software available under the Apache open source licence. The release of the Android platform was combined with the announcement of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 34 hardware, software and telecoms companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.

Android™ will deliver a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. This will be released On November 12, for an early look at the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) to allow developers to build rich mobile applications.