Android is a portable working framework created by Google, in view of an altered adaptation of the Linux piece and other open source programming and planned essentially for touchscreen cell phones, for example, cell phones and tablets. Moreover, Google has additionally created Android TV for TVs, Android Auto for autos, and Wear OS for wrist watches, each with a particular UI. Variations of Android are additionally utilized on amusement supports, advanced cameras, PCs and different hardware.

At first created by Android Inc., which Google purchased in 2005, Android was disclosed in 2007, with the main business Android gadget propelled in September 2008. The working framework has since experienced different significant discharges, with the present rendition being 9.0 "Pie", discharged in August 2018. The center Android source code is known as Android Open Source Project (AOSP), and is basically authorized under the Apache License.

Android is additionally connected with a suite of exclusive programming created by Google, called Google Mobile Services[10] (GMS) that as often as possible comes pre-introduced in gadgets, which for the most part incorporates the Google Chrome internet browser and Google Search and dependably incorporates center applications for administrations, for example, Gmail, and in addition the application store and computerized appropriation stage Google Play, and related improvement stage. These applications are authorized by producers of Android gadgets confirmed under models forced by Google, however AOSP has been utilized as the premise of contending Android biological systems, for example, Amazon.com's Fire OS, which utilize their very own reciprocals to GMS.

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 as of June 2018, the Google Play store includes more than 3.3 million apps.[11]

The name Andrew and the thing Android share the Greek root andros, which implies man. Andy Rubin picked android.com as his own site, and his partners utilized Android as his epithet at work. That in the long run turned into the name of the organization he established, and the name of the working framework they developed.[12]

The "Sooner" model phone,[13] running a pre-discharge rendition of Android

Android Inc. was established in Palo Alto, California, in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White.[14][15] Rubin portrayed the Android venture as "gigantic potential in creating more brilliant cell phones that are more mindful of its proprietor's area and preferences".[15] The early expectations of the organization were to build up a progressed working framework for computerized cameras, and this was the premise of its contribute to financial specialists April 2004.[16] The organization at that point chose that the market for cameras was not sufficiently vast for its objectives, and by five months after the fact it had occupied its endeavors and was pitching Android as a handset working framework that would equal Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile.[16][17]

Rubin experienced issues drawing in financial specialists right off the bat, and Android was confronting ousting from its office space. Steve Perlman, a dear companion of Rubin, brought him $10,000 in trade out an envelope, and presently wired an undisclosed sum as seed subsidizing. Perlman declined a stake in the organization, and has expressed "I did it since I had faith in the thing, and I needed to encourage Andy."[18][19]