Most Features of Android

Features of Android

As Android is open source and freely available to manufacturers for customization, there are no fixed hardware and software configurations. However, Android itself supports the following features:

➤➤ Storage — Uses SQLite, a lightweight relational database, for data storage. Chapter 6 discusses data storage in more detail.

➤➤ Connectivity — Supports GSM/EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth (includes A2DP and AVRCP), WiFi, LTE, and WiMAX. Chapter 8 discusses networking in more detail.

➤➤ Messaging — Supports both SMS and MMS. Chapter 8 discusses messaging in more detail.

➤➤ Web browser — Based on the open-source WebKit, together with Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine

➤➤ Media support — Includes support for the following media: H.263, H.264 (in 3GP or MP4 container), MPEG-4 SP, AMR, AMR-WB (in 3GP container), AAC, HE-AAC (in MP4 or
3GP container), MP3, MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and BMP

➤➤ Hardware support — Accelerometer Sensor, Camera, Digital Compass, Proximity Sensor, and GPS

➤➤ Multi-touch — Supports multi-touch screens

➤➤ Multi-tasking — Supports multi-tasking applications

➤➤ Flash support — Android 2.3 supports Flash 10.1.

➤➤ Tethering — Supports sharing of Internet connections as a wired/wireless hotspot