From the course: Android Development Essential Training: 1 Your First App

Explore the history of Android - Android Tutorial

From the course: Android Development Essential Training: 1 Your First App

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Explore the history of Android

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- [Instructor] What comes to mind when you hear the word Android? Do you only think about an operating system for mobile devices? Well, Android is much more than that. It's an entire application framework that allows you to build custom apps for a variety of form factors. Here, we see phones, tablets, TVs, watches, auto and more. It's a truly versatile and powerful platform. These applications are developed using Android Studio, the IDE developed by Google based on the well known IntelliJ IDEA. Android Studio ships with development tools that allow you to create, test, debug and run your applications. Later on in the course, I'll show you how to install and configure it for your Android development. Over the years, there have been several versions of Android released. To see what's available in the latest version of the operating system, you can go to android.com. Here you'll have a chance to explore the latest features. In this course, we'll be working with Android 10. That is the latest stable release as of the time of this recording, it includes enhanced gesture navigation, dark theme, privacy controls and smart reply, just to name a few. Although we'll be using this version, the principles that we cover will be applicable to most other versions as well.

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