History of mobile software development

 In 2003 Rich Miner, Nick Sears, Chris White, and Andy Rubin founded a company called Android Inc.The name came from Andy Rubin’s nickname when he worked at Apple. Rubin had a passion for Android robots. Henceforth, Andy became Android.

Rubin started Android so they could develop “smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner’s location and preferences”

Later in 2005 when the company is struggling to gain foothold in smartphone industry google has purchased the Android Inc.

The Android runtime also provides a set of core libraries which enable Android application developers to write Android applications using standard Java programming language.

In 2003 Rich Miner, Nick Sears, Chris White, and Andy Rubin founded a company called Android Inc.

The name came from Andy Rubin’s nickname when he worked at Apple. Rubin had a passion for Android robots. Henceforth, Andy became Android.

Rubin started Android so they could develop “smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner’s location and preferences”

Rubin and his co-founders stayed on with full access to Google’s entire lineup of products.

One of the biggest decisions made at the time of the acquisition was to use Linux as the foundation for the Android operating system.

Steve Jobs launched the modern smartphone era with his announcement of the iPhone on January 9, 2007. By June of that year, the first batch of iPhones was live in stores. The phone had become an instant sensation.

However, Google was not far behind. Then Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt admitted in November 2007 to an ambitious new Google phone and an open source OS.

Google then joined the Open Handset Alliance with HTC, Motorola, Qualcomm, T-Mobile, and Texas Instruments.

Google’s Android OS became the de facto software for numerous smartphone manufacturing companies including HTC, Motorola, and Samsung.

The Google Play store had not launched yet. Instead, they added the Android Marketplace where developers displayed their mobile apps.

Versions of android :

Code name	Version numbers	API level	Release date
No codename	1.0	1	September 23, 2008
No codename	1.1	2	February 9, 2009
Cupcake	1.5	3	April 27, 2009
Donut	1.6	4	September 15, 2009
Eclair	2.0 - 2.1	5 - 7	October 26, 2009
Froyo	2.2 - 2.2.3	8	May 20, 2010
Gingerbread	2.3 - 2.3.7	9 - 10	December 6, 2010
Honeycomb	3.0 - 3.2.6	11 - 13	February 22, 2011
Ice Cream Sandwich	4.0 - 4.0.4	14 - 15	October 18, 2011
Jelly Bean	4.1 - 4.3.1	16 - 18	July 9, 2012
KitKat	4.4 - 4.4.4	19 - 20	October 31, 2013
Lollipop	5.0 - 5.1.1	21- 22	November 12, 2014
Marshmallow	6.0 - 6.0.1	23	October 5, 2015
Nougat	7.0	24	August 22, 2016
Nougat	7.1.0 - 7.1.2	25	October 4, 2016
Oreo	8.0	26	August 21, 2017
Oreo	8.1	27	December 5, 2017
Pie	9.0	28	August 6, 2018
Android 10	10.0	29	September 3, 2019