In August 2005, it was acquired and funded by Google. In June 2007, Google and 84 hardware manufacturers, software developers and telecom operators established open handset alliance * * * to develop and improve the Android system. Then Google released the source code of Android under the authorization of Apache open source license.
The first Android smartphone was released in June 2008. Android has gradually expanded to tablet computers and other fields, such as televisions, digital cameras, game consoles and smart watches.
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Android application: Android is released together with a series of core application packages, including client, SMS short message program, calendar, map, browser, contact manager and so on. All applications are written in JAVA language.
More than 80% of mobile phones in the world are equipped with Android system. In China's mobile phone market, Android phones account for about 85%. Some domestic mobile phones claim to have their own operating system, but they are actually based on the secondary development of Android system and do not have autonomous controllability.
Baidu encyclopedia-Android system
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