CAPABILITIES OF ANDROID

In the year 2008, The Open Handset Alliance introduced the android platform and a beta program for developers was announced.

            Since the introduction of android, there has been a lot of improvement on it and a lot of functions and capabilities have been introduced to the world market. Some of android capabilities include :

ABILITY TO USE CONTACTS APPLICATION PROGRAMING INTERFACE

The enhance contact API of the platform of android allows the management and integration of contacts from several accounts and from other sources of data. To avoid mixing up of data from several sources, there is an arrangement and presentation of contacts that belong to same group as a single entity.

            In contact application programming interface, data is divided into contact, raw contacts and data. . This gives room for simplicity of storage and management of a particular contact from various contacts.

            Data is made up of table that contain all data point that has to do with a raw contacts. A particular row comprises of the same set of data. Each row is MIME type labeled. This shows the data that can be found in a particular row. E.g if the type of data a row can contain is photo.content_ITEM_TYPE , it means the column only keep a record of photo. On the other hand, each row in a raw contacts table contains information about an object and it is associated with a single contact source. E.g a row can contain a person’s twitter followers or hub pages followers.

A row in contact table contains group of one or several raw contact pointing to a particular object.

FASTER SCREEN ORIENTATION CHANGE
 Android is built to operate effectively on different array of device , that has a different configuration of hardware.

            Process of changes in configuration is automatically done by Android system. The current process will be reloaded with the new configuration.

DRAWABLE MUTATION