Android Inc History and Development

Brief History - Android :

• Android Inc  was founded at Palo Alto in oct-2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner , Nick Sears and Chris White to develop Operating System for Digital Cameras.
• Later they diverted their efforts towards produce a smart phone operating system due to less market for digital cameras.
• Google acquired 'Android Inc' on August-2005 .
• On 2007 Google established a 'Open Handset Alliance (OHA)' , is a association of hardware , software, telecommunication companies to develop open standards for mobile operating system.
• First commercially available phone to run on Android was 'HTC Dream' on 2008.

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Environment - Android:

• Android SDK 
• Eclipse IDE 
• Java SDK 

Android SDK setup : 

• Install Java SDK
• Download Eclipse IDE
• Install ADT plugin for Eclipse  (https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/)
• Download Android SDK. (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html)
• Update SDKManager (Double Click on SDK Manager.exe )