Android operation - Research Paper Example

Technology is associated with lower production costs, better quality products and ability to develop new products through inventive and innovative ideas (Watsa, 5). It also facilitates easy flow of information that generally improves on the quality of human life. One area of technology that has recorded significant development is information and communication technology. A computer is in any device that can be programmed to ‘store, retrieve, and process data’ and the computing idea can be traced back to the thirteenth century (Golden Ink, para.1). Various developments are witnessed throughout the millennium like development of mechanical calculators in the seventeenth century up to the development of the first digital computers in the 1930s (Golden Ink, para.2-10). Further developments have been recorded from these early (primitive) forms of computer to the modern Third Generation computers.

Developments have been recorded in terms of both software and hardware. Users are often attracted to systems that are user-friendly (very interactive) and have several applications incorporated into a single suite. Software developments have been mainly in the operating systems; the programs that tell the computer what to do by defining the machine-user interface. Several operating systems have been developed by different professionals working in different institutions. Most of the present operating systems are developments of earlier operating systems.

The type of the programming language used in developing different applications also explains the different types of operating systems that are available. This paper focuses on the development of Android, an operating system that is mainly used in the mobile devices. Some of the desirable characteristics of the operating system are examined. It has been stated that significant developments have