Overview of Android for User Applications

Abstract

This paper presents the requirements to develop the applications on the Android Operating System. Mobiles are the hot cakes in now-a-days market. Features of mobile depend on software. As mobiles are the low-powered devices that uses battery to run and it is a rechargeable one, so the operating system for mobiles has played a crucial role. Necessity for developing applications that could run on mobiles increases at current days. In order to fulfill that features Google introduced Android. Dalvik Virtual Machine facilitates run time environment. Android components are necessary to develop the applications. Android operating system first developed by Google later Open Handset Alliance. Android Operating system provides flexible environment for writing applications in java language. This operating system is free, robust and user friendly.