Android is an operating system for mobile phones, which was built on the kernel of Linux operating system and maintained by a consortium of hardware, software and telecommunications companies under the name of Open Handset Alliance.
Mobile application development for Android OS is performed in Java programming language, although it doesn’t fully meet the standards strongly defined by the alliance. Android operating system is an open-source software, which means that a large number of distributors deal with building applications for it. Android operating system for mobile phones uses Dalvik Virtual Machine with register-based instruction set and its own bytecode. The development of Android operating system is after its purchase ensured by Google company that prepared special Java libraries called Application Framework API for developers.
Android holds a dominant position in the market of mobile devices. The biggest server where applications for this operating system can be downloaded is Google Play, and there are more than one million applications available for download. The total number of downloaded applications has already exceeded 50 billion.
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