Android 1.0 (Apple Pie)

Icon Android 1.0 Apple Pie

Review of the mobile operating system Android 1.0.
Codename: Apple Pie.
API level/NDK release: 1.

Android 1.0

 

The Android platform was to be a long and bumpy ride to the rank of the most stable and easy mobile operating system in the world. Version succeeded each other at different intervals, with revolutionary for its time functions. But not many modern users may remember, How do you actually begin the process of becoming Android to its current state. As an independent product release "green robot" happened just ten years ago, and it was just a couple of years after the scandalous acquisitions the company Google Android. You will be surprised, but the latest – nothing more than another startup, software giant bought and transformed by the efforts of its developers in the "candy" in a radiant face.

In 2007 saw the release of the first large-scale edition of Android, coupled with the emulator, with demonstration of the capabilities of the platform from HTC AIO under Snap Office. Among other things, at about the same time Apple announced iPhone debut. Google quickly realized, that may miss the imminent revolution in the field of mobile technologies, and chosen for its OS "sensory channel evolution, forever abandoning push-button devices BlackBerry type.

 

Android 1.0

 

Ordinary user-oriented modification, the designation of Milestone 3, used in the work of the touch capabilities of the display. And through a series of Beta versions on stage the first stable release – Android 1.0 Apple Pie, and it happened 23 Sep 2008. Really, official sales of the device on this platform (HTC Dream) started in the United States later – 22 Oct 2008.

New mobile phone includes all the key features of Smart gadgets of the era: touch-enabled screen information, QWERTY keyboard, horizontal orientation, global positioning system (GPS). By the way, Unlike all the same iPhone, not encumbered with unnecessary physical controls, The HTC Dream was its absolute opposite — physical buttons on the Panel was much more.

Android 1.0

 

Already at that time were laid out many of the basic features of "green robot" – the so-called "blind", demonstrating the device coming to notice, shortcuts and widgets applications to dekstopa, integration with Gmail services, virtual store Android Market. Recall, that the first Android interface created in tandem with the startup of The Astonishing Tribe (Sweden), Canadian telecommunications company later absorbed by BlackBerry.

Android 1.0

 

Initially, the new platform was named Astroboy, and only then to prevent potential lawsuits name was changed to Apple Pie, a tradition of naming Android releases treats different rooted, as you can see, looking at the entire list of updates from the beginning up to the present time.

Reviewer:
Translation: Captain Droid
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