

In the early stages of its accelerated development, Android had a very aggressive release schedule. Developers were first focused on devices that could be in users’ possession at all times, determine location by GPS, and automatically adjust to a person’s needs. The first version of the OS, Android 1.0 l, was released in 1008, but its history began five years earlier, in 2003 when Andy Rubin gathered a team to create a mobile operating system and incorporated Android Inc. Not only phones, tablets, and computers run on this operating system, but also televisions and even refrigerators. Today, Android is no longer just an operating system for a smartphone, but an entire infrastructure. Its rapidly growing popularity makes it one of the major competitors on the mobile device market. Android is a Linux-based software platform used in smartphones and tablets.
