Android is announced as the name of the mobile phone operating system which is developed on the Linux-based platform by Google on November 5, 2007.This new platform is consisted of operating system ,middleware, user interface and the application software, which is claimed to be the first open and complete mobile software which is truly created for mobile terminals. At present, the latest versions are Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Android 3.0 Honeycomb.
For the mobile developer, Android has a number of benefits over other platforms. Android is an open-source platform and the SDK and basic development tools are freely available. You'll be able to use your favorite Java development environment. Plug-ins for Android project development are already available for the popular Eclipse environment. The development tools are all available for Linux, Mac, and Windows PCs.
Android operating system adopts the software stack structure and is divided into three parts. The underlying Linux kernel only provides the basic functionality while other application software is developed by the companies themselves, some of the procedures are written in Java.
