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The Android mobile platform
by
Benjamin Speckmann
A Review Paper Submitted to the
Eastern Michigan University
Department of Computer Science
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements forthe
Master of Science
in Computer Science
Approved at Ypsilanti, Michigan on April 16th , 2008
Professor Matthew Evett
Professor Krish Narayanan
Professor Elsa Valeroso Poh
ABSTRACT
Thethesis is a review paper that gives an introduction to the new mobile platform Android as well as
a comparative evaluation with regard to other mobile operating systems.
The key topic of this thesisis the categorization of Android.
Therefore it first gives a historical introduction to cell phones and mobile operating systems.
Then it describes the main features of Android for a betterunderstanding of this platform.
In the following theoretical part Android will be compared to the mobile operating systems Symbian
OS and Windows Mobile. Features and criteria defined in this part willbe considered and included
in the comparison of these systems.
The practical part contains a comparison of the Software Development Kits (SDK) from Android
and Symbian OS. In this context asimple application implementation on both systems is realized to
support this comparison.
Finally an outlook and a conclusion complete this elaboration.
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Table of content
List of Figures.................................................................................................................................... v
List of Listings................................................................................................................................. vi
Chapter 1 :Introduction................................................................................................................ 1
Section 1.1 : Motivation ...................................................................................................... 2
Section 1.2 : General problem...