- Android is an opensource operating system based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices.
- Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005.
- Unveiled in 2007
- The first publicly available smartphone running Android, the HTC Dream, was released on October 22, 2008
- Android Evolution;
- Android 0.9 is the first version(beta) and has no name.
- Version 1.0 is named as Apple pie, and Version 1.1 as Banana Bread