Features Of Android

Android is now more popular than IOS or the Windows Phone. The OS tends to garner rave reviews for its ease of use and open source, but many IOS or Windows phone users argue that their preferred operating system can do just as much. Android supports great features. Few of them are listed below.

Beautiful User Interface:

• Android OS basic screen provides a beautiful and intuitive user interface.

Screen Capture:

• Android supports capturing a screenshot.

Media Support:

• H.263, H.264, MPEG-4 SP, AMR, AMR-WB, AAC, HE-AAC 5.1, MP3, MIDI, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and BMP, etc.

Storage:

• SQLite, a light weight relational database is used for data storage purposes.

Connectivity:

• Bluetooth, WI-FI GSM/EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, LTE, NFC and WiMAX.

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 applications can run simultaneously.

Messaging:

• SMS and MMS.

GCM:

• Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that lets developers send short message data to their users on Android devices, without needing a proprietary sync solution.

Multi-Language:

• Supports single direction and bi-directional text.

Web Browser:

• Based on the open-source WebKit layout engine, coupled with Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine supporting HTML5 and CSS.

WI-FI Direct:

• A technology that lets apps discover and pair directly, over a high-bandwidth peer-to-peer connection.

Video Calling:

• Android does not support native video calling, but some handsets have a customized version of the operating system that supports it.

Automation:

• The Tasker app lets you not only control app permission but also automate them.

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