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What exactly is Android Platform ?
Android is a mobile operating system initially developed by Android Inc. In 2005, it was bought by Google. Android is based on a modified version of the Linux kernel. It has a large community of Android developers and Android programmers writing applications that extend the functionality of mobile devices. The Android Market in turn is the online application store ran by Google through which the applications can be downloaded. The Android OS software stack consists of Java applications running on a Java based object-oriented application framework on top of Java core libraries running on a Dalvik Virtual Machine. There are also libraries written in C, which includes the OpenCore media framework, SQLite, etc. Thus, Android developers who are currently writing Android applications mostly write in the Java language.
In short, the Android operating system consists of 12 million lines of code including 3 million lines of XML, 2.8 million lines of C, 2.1 millions lines of Java and 1.75 million lines of C++.
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