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    Android (operating system) - Wikipedia

    History

    Android Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, in October 2003 by Andy Rubin and Chris White, with Rich Miner and Nick Sears joining later. Rubin and White started out build an Operating System for digital cameras viz … 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

    Hardware

    The main hardware platform for Android is ARM (i.e. the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture and previously 32-bit such as ARMv7), and x86 and x86-64 architectures were once also officially supported in later versions of Android. Th… 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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