History of Android

In this post, we will see how Android Open Source Project (AOSP) came into existence and what made google to buy an open source linux based mobile operating system.

    Android Inc. was a start-up in  Palo Alto, California founded by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White on October 2003, which was later bought by Google on August 17, 2005. Andy Rubin's intention was to make smarter mobile devices with android that are more aware of its owner's location and preferences.

Google (with Android team) first demonstrated it just a mobile OS based on Linux. Google's vision was to get it's search capabilities and LBS (Location Based Service ) onto mobile handled devices initiated the drive towards "Android - the Mobile platform".

        Later, on November 5, 2007 Open Handset Alliance, consortium of technology companies like Google, samsung, HTC, Sony, Sprint NextTel and T- Mobiles joined their hands together and announced Android operating System based on Linux kernel version 2.6.25.

   Now, Google have this revolutionary mobile operating system to compete Apple's I-Phone which comes with very scalable and flexible applications. Now system applications and third party applications can use the same resources.

  Here's a glimpse of market share between android, ios and other mobile operating system

I'm blown away after seeing this figure. 81% for Android is really huge achievement over the mobile market which makes android most dominating mobile OS.

  But one should not be ignorant to know about the revenue generated by the ios applications is more than android applications. There is always head to head competition between ios and android.