Android Development Experience Preface On November 5, 2007, Google, together with 33 mobile phone manufacturers (including Motorola, HTC, Samsung, LG and other well-known manufacturers), mobile phone chip suppliers, software and hardware suppliers and telecom operators, jointly established the Open Handset Alliance, and released the Android open mobile phone software and hardware platform (Android has now expanded to the field of netbooks, and it is expected that there will be more forms of expansion in the future). The strength behind it is very strong, and it can be said that it has a great background. Google then released the Android development kit on November 12, 2007 for developers to download for free. It should be noted that Android is an open source project, and its underlying operating system uses the famous free software Linux, which means that mobile phone manufacturers no longer need to bear the copyright fees of mobile phone operating systems such as Windows Mobile, and it also means that more developers will be able to participate in the development of application software. Its prospects are really not to be underestimated! On September 24, 2008, T-Mobile released the first Android phone G1, and at the same time Google released Android SDK 1.0rc1. For application developers, 1.0 means that developers can use the API without worrying about major changes in the API. The current SDK version has been upgraded to 1.5rc2, which is a great improvement over the previous version. The interface is more dazzling, the operation is more user-friendly, and it also has more functions and applications. For Chinese users, there are also pinyin input methods and handwriting input methods (the latest Android phones are already on par with iPhones, and their charm can be seen). On October 21, 2008, the Open Handset Alliance made all Android source code public. In May 2009, China Mobile and Lenovo jointly released an Android-based...
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