AndroidGoogle's open mobile operating system — the dominant platform for smartphones worldwide. brought JavaA portable language running on the JVM — dominant in enterprise servers, Android, and big data./KotlinA modern language from JetBrains — officially supported for Android and interoperable with Java. apps, Google Play distribution, and OEMOriginal equipment manufacturer — a company that builds devices sold under another brand's name. fragmentation to billions of phones. Developers learned Activities, GradleA build automation tool for Java, Kotlin, and Android projects using a flexible task model. builds, and Material Design; mobile web gave way to native AndroidGoogle's open mobile operating system — the dominant platform for smartphones worldwide. SDKs alongside iOSApple's mobile operating system — runs iPhone and iPad with a sandboxed app ecosystem.. It became the world's dominant smartphone OSOperating system — software that manages hardware and provides services to applications. within a few years of the first G1.

AndroidGoogle's open mobile operating system — the dominant platform for smartphones worldwide.'s announcement defined the open alternative to Apple's closed iPhoneApple's smartphone line — touch-first mobile computing and the App Store ecosystem since 2007. platform.

It created the second major mobile app ecosystem and shaped how most of the world accesses the internet.