The Advantages of Android OS

Nowadays there are a lot of operating systems for mobile devices including iOS, Android, WebOS, Windows Phone, Symbian, FirefoxOS, Tizen, and Jolla. Each mobile operating system has its own unique advantages. But for now it can be said that Android is still the leader among its competitors. Android mobile platform is hailed as the first complete, open and free. Here are the advantages of Android when compared with its competitors.

1. Full Platform.

The designer can perform a comprehensive approach when they are developing Android platform. Android is an operating system that is safe and provides a lot of tools in building software or application and allow another development opportunities.

2. Open platform.

Android platform is provided through an open source license. Because Android code is open source, software developers can freely develop applications. Similarly, mobile device manufacturers can easily design tailored to Android devices made by them.

3. Free Platform.

Android was developed based on the Linux kernel. Android platform is completely free to be developed by anyone. No license or royalty fees for development. There is no membership fee. Not required testing costs. No contract required. Applications for Android can be distributed and traded in any form.

Android is a new generation mobile platform, a platform that provides developers with ease to make a development as they wish. The underlying of Android operating system is licensed under the GNU General Public License or Version 2 (GPLv2), which is often known as copyleft license. With copyleft license, any changes made to a third party must remain under the GNU license. Android is distributed under the Apache Software License (ASL / Apache2), which allows to distribute a second time and so on. Commercialization of developers (especially hardware manufacturers) can choose to raise the platform without having to provide their source code improvements to the open source community. Instead developers can actually benefit from the enhancements such as repair and redistribute their work under any license they want. The Android application developers are allowed to distribute their applications under the licensing scheme whatever they want.

Developers have several options when creating applications based on Android. Most developers using Eclipse that is freely available to design and develop Android applications. Eclipse is a most popular IDE for Android development because it has a plugin for Android. This plugin is useful to facilitate the development of Android applications. In addition, Eclipse also received direct support from Google to become the Android application development IDE. This is evidenced by the addition of plugins for Eclipse to easily create an android which source software project is taken directly from the official website of Google. Nevertheless, it is possible to use other IDEs like Netbeans from Oracle. All that Android development IDE can be run on Windows operating systems, Mac OS, and Linux.

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