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Android Architecture

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One of the unique features of the Android operating system that has allowed it to grow rapidly has been that the binaries and source code are released as open source software. You can download the entire source code of the Android operating system, and it takes up approximately 2.6 GB of disk space. In theory, this allows anyone to design and build a phone that runs Android. The idea of keeping the software open source was followed until version 3.0. Versions of Android including and higher than 3.0 are still closed source. In an interview given to Bloomberg Businessweek, Rubin said that the version 3.x code base took many shortcuts to ensure it was released to market quickly and worked with very specific hardware. If other hardware vendors adopted this version of Android, then the chances for a negative user experience would be a possibility, and Google wished to avoid this.

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: ., 2012

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1-236

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English

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978-1-4302-4063-1

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Android Architecture

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