Android Features
Android is a powerful operating system competing with Apple iOS, Window OS and support great features. Few of them are listed below
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Beautiful UI | Android OS basic screen provides a beautiful and intuitive user interface. |
| Connectivity | GSM/EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LTE, NFC and WiMAX. |
| Storage | SQLite, a lightweight relational database, is used for data storage purposes |
| Media Format support | H.263, H.264, MPEG-4 SP, AMR, AMR-WB, AAC, HE-AAC, AAC 5.1, MP3, MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and BMP |
| Messaging | SMS and MMS |
| Web browser | Based on the open-source WebKit layout engine, coupled with Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine supporting HTML5 and CSS3. |
| Multi-touch | Android has native support for multi-touch which was initially made available in handsets such as the HTC Hero. |
| Multi-tasking | User can jump from one task to another and same time various application can run simultaneously. |
| Re-sizable widgets | Widgets are resizable, so users can expand them to show more content or shrink them to save space |
| Multi-Language | Support single direction and bi-directional text |
| Cloud Messaging | Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that let developers send short message data to their users on Android devices, without needing a proprietary sync solution. |
| Wi-Fi Direct | A technology that let apps discover and pair directly, over a high-bandwidth peer-to-peer connection. |
| Android Beam | A popular NFC-based technology that let users instantly share, just by touching two NFC-enabled phones together. |
