A Short Programming Tutorial on Android (HISTORY)

A Short Programming Tutorial on Android

Contents at a glance

1.   Android history

2.   Introduction

3.   Setup

4.   Create the first project

5.   Add UI elements

A bit of History

 

Andy Rubin led a small startup team sometime in 2003. They were building a software that could power a smart phone. Google took notice of it and acquired Android Inc. The first attempts of Android were not very impressive but phone manufacturers took notice and jumped into the bandwagon.

Shortly thereafer, 200,000 android devices were being activated on a daily basis (at the time of writing, over half million android devices are activated each day). The small-ish mobile phone software began to make waves.

Android's snowball noticeably gained momentum sometime in 2008 - 2009---this is the time they began using sweet snack monikers on each version of Android; it has been unstoppable since then.

§  2003 - Android Inc., was founded by Andy Rubin

§  2005 - Android Inc was Acquired by Google

§  2008 - Android v1.0

§  2009 - Android v1.1

§  2009 - v1.5 (CupCake), v1.6 (Donut)

§  2009 - v2.0/2.1 (Eclair)

§  2010 - v2.2 (Froyo), v2.3 (GingerBread)

§  2011 - v3.0 (HoneyComb)

§  2011 - v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)

An article about Andy Rubin and Android, titled Android Invasion appeared on a NewsWeek article sometime in 2010. Follow the link if you want to know a bit more about Android's history.