Android is surely an operating-system using the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen cellular devices for example smartphones and tablet pc's. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005,[13] Android was unveiled in 2007 and also the founding from the Open Handset Alliance—a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies about advancing open standards for cellular devices. The very first freely available smartphone running Android, the HTC Dream, was published on October 22, 2008.

 

Android props up following audio/video/still media formats: 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, BMP.