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    Android (operating system) - Wikipedia

    • Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen-based mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android has historically been developed by a consortium of developers known as the Open Handset Alliance, but its most widely used … See more

    History

    Android Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White. Rubin described the Android project as having "tremendous potential in developing smarter mo… See more

    Features

    Android's default user interface is mainly based on direct manipulation, using touch inputs that loosely correspond to real-world actions, like swiping, tapping, pinching, and reverse pinching to manipulate on-screen objects, alo… See more

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    Hardware

    The main hardware platform for Android is ARM (the ARMv7 and ARMv8-A architectures), with x86 and x86-64 architectures also officially supported in later versions of Android. The unofficial Android-x86 project … See more

    Development

    Android is developed by Google until the latest changes and updates are ready to be released, at which point the source code is made available to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), an open source initiative led by Goo… See more

    Security and privacy

    In 2020, Google launched the Android Partner Vulnerability Initiative to improve the security of Android. They also formed an Android security team.
    Research from security company Trend Micro lists … See more

    Criticism and controversy

    In 2019, Google was fined €50 Million by the French CNIL for a lack of information regarding their users.
    Two years later, in 2021, researcher Douglas Leith, using a sort of data interception, showed tha… See more

    Licensing

    The source code for Android is open-source: it is developed in private by Google, with the source code released publicly when a new version of Android is released. Google publishes most of the code (including network an… See more

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