Android is a software platform and operating system for mobile devices promoted and developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. Android is used in millions of mobile devices across the globe. This is a new milestone of the Mobile application development industry. It's the biggest installed base of any mobile platform and is increasing very fast.

Android's openness made it best choice for consumers and developers, driving strong growth in app usage and development. Android users usually download more than 1.6 billion apps and games from Google each month.

It is a wonderful platform based on Java technology, for the smart phones that support various kind of application developments.

Every day millions of users start using their Android devices for the first time and start looking for digital content ,apps , games, and other.

Android helps to create innovative and dynamic applications for diversified kind of usage.Android Features

• Rich development environment
  Rich development environment including a device emulator, tools for debugging, memory and performance profiling, and a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE.
• Storage
  Android supports SQLite, a lightweight relational database, for data storage
• Connectivity
  Android supports connectivity technologies including GSM/EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LTE, NFC and WiMAX.
• Language
  Android supports multiple languages.
• Multitasking
  Multitasking of applications, with unique handling of memory allocation, is available.
• Media
  Android supports various media format like WebM, H.263 , AAC, HE-AAC, MPEG-4 SP, AMR, MP3, MIDI, FLAC, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and many more.
• Browser
  Integrated browser based on the open source Web Kit engine.