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Android

Android is a software bundle comprising not only an operating system but also middleware and key applications. Our resources have extensive experience developing applications for the Android platform and its devices.

A phone and tablet running a native application connected to a cloud back end providing sync, push notifications and secure APIs.
A native app is only half the job — the cloud back end behind it is the other half.

Background

Mobile operating systems have developed enormously. Starting from black and white handsets and arriving at today’s smartphones — effectively pocket computers — mobile platforms have come a long way, from Palm OS in 1996, through Windows Pocket PC, BlackBerry OS and on to Android.

Android Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White in 2003, and was acquired by Google in 2005. Since its original release there have been many updates to the platform, and it is now one of the most widely used mobile operating systems in the world.

Platform capabilities we build with

Messaging

SMS and MMS are available forms of messaging, including threaded text messaging, alongside Google’s cloud messaging services which underpin modern push notification delivery.

Voice-based features

Search by voice has been available since the platform’s initial release, and voice actions for calling, texting and navigation are supported. The platform can respond to spoken commands and read answers back to the user.

Web content

The browser and embedded web views available in Android are based on the open-source Blink layout engine, coupled with Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine — which means web content rendered inside an app behaves consistently with the browser.

Interaction and multitasking

Multi-touch input, multitasking of applications with unique handling of memory allocation, screen capture and multiple language support are all part of the platform.

Streaming media support

RTP and RTSP streaming, progressive download via the HTML5 video element, and HTTP live streaming are supported by the operating system.

How we build today

Current Android work at BONITS is built with Kotlin and the modern Android toolchain, with cloud back ends, offline-first data handling and, where it fits, on-device machine learning models for vision and text tasks.

  • Kotlin
  • Java
  • Android SDK
  • REST & GraphQL APIs
  • On-device ML
  • Cloud back ends