

The new Google TV also runs on Android!įor developers, Android SDK provides a rich set of tools, including debugger, libraries, a handset emulator, documentation, sample code, and tutorials. Android has now moved beyond being a platform for just mobile devices. Many versions of Android have hit the market since its inception – the most recent(as of Q3 2010) and power packed one being Froyo (v2.2). With the Apache License, vendors can add proprietary extensions without submitting those back to the open source community.

Google released most of the Android code under the Apache License. It is now owned by the Open Handset Alliance, and fully open sourced – which is the main cause of its growing popularity. It was initially developed by Android Inc., a firm later purchased by Google. It has clients for powerful IDEs such as Eclipse and Visual Studio.Īndroid™ is a mobile operating system, just like Symbian, iOS, Windows Mobile, and others in its league. IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) is a collaborative software development environment which integrates work item tracking, source control management, continuous builds, iteration planning, and a highly configurable process support to adapt to the way you want to work, enabling developers, architects, project managers, and project owners to work together effectively. Developing applications for Android™ using IBM Rational Team Concert in an agile wayĪyushman Jain, IBM Last updated: SeptemBuildbasis: Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2
