Basic Understanding of Things Prior to Beginning Android App Test:
Android is the most used operating system in mobile devices globally. In this article, we will take care of fine aspects of procedure that are concerned with Android apps testing. Nearly 80 percent of all mobile phone users are of Android.
How Android got globally accepted operating system for mobile devices?
We will discuss about acceptance of Android as an operating system later first let us check some important facts of Android:
- If we check history of Android then its release date was September 23rd, 2008.
- Google own it along with Open handset alliance
- JAVA, C & C++ are used in language.
- This is an open source platform.
- Now Android is 10 years old.
- Latest release is Android Q Beta 4. June 5 2019 is release date.
- This operating system is available in more than 100 languages.
- Kernel of Android is monolithic.
This operating system started in 2008 and till 2009, it covered only 3.9 percent. It was Nokia’s Symbian in 2009 with contribution of 47 percent that was number 1 that time. Now things have completely changed as Android has covered more than 87 percent of market. In 2009, Symbian was number 1 while number 2 was Blackberry. Even iOS has more market share than Android in 2009, slowly things have completely changed for Android and iOS.
