Android is a portable working framework created by Google, in view of a changed rendition of the Linux part and other open source programming and planned essentially for touchscreen cell phones, for example, cell phones and tablets. What's more, Google has additionally created Android TV for TVs, Android Auto for autos, and Wear OS for wrist watches, each with a specific UI. Variations of Android are additionally utilized on amusement reassures, computerized cameras, PCs and different gadgets.
At first created by Android Inc., which Google purchased in 2005, Android was disclosed in 2007, with the principal business Android gadget propelled in September 2008. The working framework has since experienced various significant discharges, with the present form being 8.1 "Oreo", discharged in December 2017. The center Android source code is known as Android Open Source Project (AOSP), and is principally authorized under the Apache License.
Android is additionally connected with a suite of exclusive programming created by Google, including center applications for administrations, for example, Gmail and Google Search, and in addition the application store and advanced circulation stage Google Play, and related improvement stage. These applications are authorized by producers of Android gadgets guaranteed under guidelines forced by Google, yet AOSP has been utilized as the premise of contending Android biological systems, for example, Amazon.com's Fire OS, which use its own counterparts to these Google Mobile Services.
Android has been the top of the line OS worldwide on cell phones since 2011 and on tablets since 2013. As of May 2017, it has more than two billion month to month dynamic clients, the biggest introduced base of any working framework, and starting at 2017, the Google Play store includes more than 3.5 million applications
