You probably need a fairly decent PC (with 8GB RAM) and 10GB of free disk space to run the Android emulator!!! Running on 'actual' Android phone/tablet requires much lesser resources. It takes times - from 30 minutes to n hours to forever - depending on your luck, your programming knowledge, and your PC. Installing Android software is probably the most challenging part of this project. Installing 'Android Studio IDE' and 'Android SDK'

For programmers and developers, visit to download the SDK, Android Training, API Guides and API documentation. Kotlin will not be discussed in this article. As you are familiar with Java, you probably should start in Java (many of the examples out there are written in Java), and then move into Kotlin. In May 2017, Google announced support for a new Kotlin programming language. However, they run on Android's own Java Virtual Machine, called Dalvik Virtual Machine (DVM) (instead of JDK's JVM) which is optimized to operate on the small and mobile devices. Android applications are written in Java. Android PlatformĪndroid is based on Linux with a set of native core C/C++ libraries.

The latest Android supports Phone/Tablet, TV, Wear (watch and glass), Automobile and Internet of things (IoT). Android competes with Apple's iOS (for iPhone/iPad), Microsoft's Windows Phone, and many other proprietary mobile OSes. Android is an Operating System for mobile devices developed by Google in 2007, which is built upon a Linux kernel.

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