What is Android? For most of us, Android is an operating system that we use on mobile devices, and possibly our television or camera. But if we want to get technical (and we do), Android is a kernel mostly based on Linux, with its middleware, libraries and assorted APIs written in C, and uses an application framework that includes Java-compatible libraries. These libraries are based on Apache Harmony, and allow software to run inside the Dalvik virtual machine, using Dalvik dex-code that has been translated from Java bytecode. Technically, Android is not a Linux distribution because it doesnt natively support the full set of GNU tools and libraries, though some people feel differently about that. Confused yet? Dont be. All that was designed to show that we can argue what Android is and often the generally accepted definition isnt the best or right one. Nerds will argue what Android is, what it was designed to do, and what it will become forever, because as nerds we love to argue about this sort of thing.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 22:01:29 +0000
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